Maccabees, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Big Pink and The Drums for NME tour
Look busy - NME is back
Remember when the NME tours used to all be abut new bands and mixing up genres? Yeah, they were rubbish. The headliners were always some terrible metal-lite band that the mag had cringily fastened onto the week before, and inevitably the only good act would be second on. Much better just plonk somebody people actually want to see in the top slot and fluff it up with some nice, safe indie filler. Next year's edition continues the money-in-the-bank trend with lovable Arcade Fire impressionists The Maccabees in the top slot, plus support from less lovable Interpol imitators Bombay Bicycle Club, faux-gay shoegazers The Big Pink and token up-and-comers The Drums. Yum!
FEBRUARY
4 O2 Academy Newcastle
5 Glasgow Barrowland
6 Manchester Academy
7 O2 Academy Leeds
9 Nottingham Rock City
10 Norwich UEA
11 O2 Academy Birmingham
13 Cardiff University
14 O2 Academy Bristol
15 Brighton Dome
16 O2 Academy Bournemouth
18 Portsmouth Pyramids Centre
19 Cambridge Corn Exchange
20 O2 Academy Brixton
Priority Tickets for O2 customers to see Shockwaves NME Awards Tour at O2 venues are now sold out. Make sure you register for Priority Tickets so you find out first.
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