Shockwaves NME Awards Tour Lineup & Tickets Announced
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Written by Saard
The Shockwaves NME Awards Tour is gelling its hair into immaculate rock coiffeurs, ready for its impressive line up of bands to board the tour bus. Indie soon-to-be-superstars, The Maccabees will headline the NME’s annual rock-out with Bombay Bicycle Club, The Big Pink and The Drums completing the stellar line-up that kicks off in Newcastle on 4 February 2010. Click here to get your tickets now thank to our pre-sale team up with See Tickets.
Big things are sure to happen for the bands on the NME tour; previous tours have paved the way into the mainstream for bands such as Ting Tings, Klaxons, Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, Coldplay, The Cribs, Bloc Party and The Killers.
This year’s cream of the rock music crop, are hotly tipped art-rockers The Maccabees, Bombay Bicycle Club’s folky punk-rock, electric rock duo The Big Pink and, finally, The Drums with their updated take on 50’s surf-rock. Rockularly-speaking, there should be something for everyone.
Felix White, Lead singer of The Maccabees, who are headlining, said: "We understand the legacy of this tour....The old NME tours years ago, if I missed one I'd think shit, I'm never going to see that again. So that's a nice thing to be a part of. It looks like a good tour to me... we're as lucky as anyone to be on it. As far as upping our game, we understand the kind of bands who have headlined before. The kind of calibre those groups are, we've got to reach that".
The tour visits:
Feb 04 – Newcastle O2 Academy
Feb 05 – Glasgow Barrowland
Feb 06 – Manchester Academy
Feb 07 – Leeds O2 Academy
Feb 09 – Nottingham Rock City
Feb 10 – Norwich UEA
Feb 11 – Birmingham O2 Academy
Feb 13 – Cardiff University
Feb 14 – Bristol O2 Academy
Feb 15 – Brighton Dome
Feb 16 – Bournemouth O2 Academy
Feb 18 – Portsmouth Pyramid
Feb 19 – Cambridge Corn Exchange
Feb 20 – Brixton O2 Academy
We don't run any advertising! Our editorial content is solely funded by lovely people like yourself using Stereoboard's listings when buying tickets for live events. To keep supporting us, next time you're looking for concert, festival, sport or theatre tickets, please search for "Stereoboard". It costs you nothing, you may find a better price than the usual outlets, and save yourself from waiting in an endless queue on Friday mornings as we list ALL available sellers!
