The annual NME Awards Tour is taking place from 29th January 2016 till 12th February. This brief but intense tour promises to be hugely eventful and exciting.
The NME Awards Tour is a UK based tour which celebrates the NME Awards (Could have guessed that!). The NME Awards cover a wide range of trophies to win; voting for Best British Band is currently being undertaken now (vote here), the current nominees are:
The Libertines
Foals
Wolf Alice
The 1975
Catfish and The Bottlemen
The Maccabees
NME took to twitter to announce the details of the tour:
BBC Sound of 2016 shortlister @RatBoy on NME Awards Tour with Austin, Texas in Jan. Tickets https://t.co/I2xOkMJMGb pic.twitter.com/Clnnf92aax
— NME (@NME) December 22, 2015
Bloc Party, who are set to headline, in particular are enjoying somewhat of a resurgence in mainstream music; having initially exploded onto the scene in 2005 with ‘Silent Alarm’, however their fifth album ‘Hymns’ is set to be released on January 29th 2016 to much anticipation.
Full details on the tour can be found here, and dates and locations can be found below:
29th Jan – Cardiff – Great Hall
30th Jan – Southampton – 02 Guildhall
1st Feb – Bristol – 02 Academy
2nd Feb – Nottingham – Rock City
4th Feb – Newcastle – 02 Academy
5th Feb – Glasgow – Barrowland
6th Feb – Manchester – Academy
8th Feb – Leeds – 02 Academy
9th Feb – Cambridge – Corn Exchange
11th Feb – London – 02 Academy Brixton
12th Feb – Birmingham – 02 Academy