Django Django to headline NME tour
Strange choice of supports... I can't imagine Django Django headlining Brixton. I mean they're good, but...?!
NME AWARDS TOUR 2013
LINE-UP ANNOUNCED FOR NME’S LEGENDARY TOUR
DJANGO DJANGO
MILES KANE
PALMA VIOLETS
PEACE
STARTS IN NEWCASTLE ON 7 FEBRUARY 2013
WWW.NME.COM/AWARDS
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London, Monday 26 November 2012: DJANGO DJANGO, MILES KANE, PALMA VIOLETS and PEACE are today announced for the legendary NME Awards Tour 2013, which kicks off at Newcastle’s
O2 Academy on 7 February 2013 and ends at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on 23 February. Tickets go on pre-sale on Wednesday 28 November and are available at www.nme.com.
One of the most important events in the music calendar, the NME Awards Tour has been instrumental in launching the careers of some of the biggest acts in music today, including Arctic Monkeys, The Killers and Florence + the Machine, and 2013 is set to be one of the best years yet.
Critically acclaimed Django Django will headline the NME Awards Tour 2013. The band’s self-titled debut album has been widely praised and was nominated for the 2012 Mercury Prize, and they’re ready to bring their modern psychedlia to the masses.
One of the stars of 2012, Miles Kane takes the main support slot on the NME Awards Tour, bringing his boundless energy and charisma to the stage in advance of his forthcoming second album. Having made a huge name for himself in the past year, Miles has established himself as a tour de force in the live arena, performing tracks from his Top 20 debut, ‘Colour of The Trap’, including singles ‘Rearrange’, ‘Come Closer’ & the frenzy-inducing ‘Inhaler’.
South London’s Palma Violets emerged from nowhere in 2012 to become one of themost hyped and exciting new bands in a decade, and after a few shows in their basement and fewer on the road, they’ve proved that they’re worth it. Singles ‘Best of Friends’ and ‘Last of the Summer Wine’ are taken from the band’s forthcoming album, which is currently being recorded with Pulp bassist Steve Mackey.
Taking the prestigious NME Awards Tour opening slot are Birmingham’s Peace. The band gained high praise for clever, confident and ambitious debut EP Delicious, and have recently toured with Manic Street Preachers and The Mystery Jets. The band’s brand new single ‘Wraith’ is released on Columbia Records on 13 January.
NME editor, Mike Williams says: “2012 has been an incredible year for music, and 2013 promises to be even better, not least for Django Django, Miles Kane, Palma Violets and Peace, the four amazing bands heading up the NME Awards Tour 2013. This is undoubtedly one of the strongest and most exciting bills we’ve ever put together, and I can’t wait for it all to get started!”
The first leg of the NME Awards Tour 2013 begins at O2 Academy Newcastle on 7 February and runs until 23 February travelling to Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Nottingham, Liverpool, Norwich, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, Bournemouth, Brighton before ending at London’s O2 Academy Brixton.
Four of the hottest acts in one incredible tour! Exclusive ticket pre-sale begins at 9am on Wednesday 28 November at NME.com/tickets . Tickets go on general sale at 9am on Friday 30 November.
TOUR DATES:
Day Show Date Venue Name
Thu 07 Feb 13 Newcastle O2 Academy
Fri 08 Feb 13 Manchester Academy 1
Sat 09 Feb 13 Leeds O2 Academy
Mon 11 Feb 13 Glasgow O2 Academy
Tue 12 Feb 13 Nottingham Rock City
Wed 13 Feb 13 Liverpool O2 Academy
Fri 15 Feb 13 Norwich UEA
Sat 16 Feb 13 Birmingham O2 Academy
Sun 17 Feb 13 Cardiff Uni Great Hall
Tue 19 Feb 13 Bristol O2 Academy
Wed 20 Feb 13 Bournemouth O2 Academy
Thu 21 Feb 13 Brighton Dome
Sat 23 Feb 13 London O2 Academy Brixton
Visit www.NME.com for more details.
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Ticket Information
Exclusive ticket pre-sale begins at 9am on Wednesday, 28th November at NME.com/tickets.
Tickets go on general sale at 9am on Friday 30th November.
Tickets available from:
www.NME.com/tickets or 0844 858 6765
www.gigsandtours.com
www.ticketmaster.co.uk
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Maximum four per person.
An SJM Concerts presentation in association with DF Concerts and Metropolis Music.
All tickets include a 50p donation to Teenage Cancer Trust (Registered Charity 1062559 in England and Wales, SC039757 in Scotland)
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this always used to be worth going to.
the line-up was never completely to everyones tastes, sure, but you normally got 2/4 decent bands, and occasionally the odd eye-opener.
recently, though, jesus christ, it's just been exclusively shite.
i wouldn't pay a fiver to see any of those.
Django were terrific on the DiS stage at Summer Sundae
I'm just surprised they're headlining the tour (or maybe I'm reading it wrong)
Peace are pretty great too to be fair.
I've seen them twice, not sure I 'get' the fuss. Seems a bit King Adora via The Verve... weirdly 90s, although maybe they'll pick up all those Wu Lyf fans?!
To be honest, I wasn't really conscious of music in the '90s
(I was born in 1991) so I don't really have anything against people sounding '90s if that makes sense. I just think they write good songs. Also, in the interests of full disclosure, I'm friends with them so watch your mouth, yeah?
Next headline London gig for them is the Shepherd Bush Empire,
so quite a big jump up, especially when you consider the fact that headliners on the last few tours have been large enough to headline Brixton in their own right beforehand.
that's sold out
still too soon for them to realistically sell many tickets in their own right for brixton 2 months later.
BUT WHAT DO I KNOW, EH
if i had £1 for every year someone's complained about the nme awards tour line-up, i'd have £17
So which of the 18 previous years
didn't illicit a complaint? ;)
indie rave tour doesn't count
But my answer would've been 1997. Obviously.
I went to that
I miss Three Colours Red. And I don't especially miss Symposium's music but they were ace live. I've just remembered that you've put Wojtek on some of your bills...
yes
he pulled out of the last one though because he had to play with Bjorn Again.
tbf, a 'DiS awards tour' for next year would probably look something like
Sharon Van Etten
Chromatics
Blondes
Foe
and would probably not sell out venues outside of London, so I appreciate it's a fine balance for NME to do something that works across the UK, it just feels quite a long way from the days of Andrew WK, Amen, Franz, Bloc Party, Killers and Kaisers... or even Futureheads headlining a few years back, after their Kate Bush cover blew-up... maybe Django Django will pick up all the album of the year plaudits and enter 2013 at a different level?
even two years ago...
they did something like Crystal Castles, Maccabees, Katy B, Bombay Bicycle Club, and as much as pathetic needy friendess virgins on here will pretend those aren't good bands, the gigs all sold out and the ones i went to were pretty decent.
Don't think the Futureheads headlined the NME tour.
They played with Block Party, and Kaiser Chiefs with The Killers headlining.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NME_Tours
You went to the bother of looking that up and linking it and still spelt Bloc Party wrong.
How embarrassing.
Auto correct on Bloc.
I went to the newcastle show - I knew the order of the show without looking it up.
ah yes, I'm confusing The Cribs and Futureheads
Trip down memory lane
Here are all the past NME Tour line ups:
2012: Two Door Cinema Club, Metronomy, Tribes, Azealia Banks
2011: Crystal Castles, Magnetic Man, Everything Everything, The Vaccines[3]
2010: The Maccabees, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Big Pink, The Drums[4]
2009: Glasvegas, Friendly Fires, White Lies, Florence and the Machine[5]
2008: The Cribs, Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, The Ting Tings[6]
2007:
ShockWaves NME Indie Rock Tour: The Automatic, The View, The Horrors, Mumm-Ra
ShockWaves NME Indie Rave Tour: Klaxons, CSS, The Sunshine Underground, New Young Pony Club[2]
2006: Maxïmo Park, Arctic Monkeys, We Are Scientists, Mystery Jets[7]
2005: The Killers, The Futureheads, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs[8]
2004: Funeral for a Friend, The Rapture, The Von Bondies, Franz Ferdinand[9]
2003: The Datsuns, The Polyphonic Spree, Interpol, The Thrills
2002: Andrew W.K., Lostprophets, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Coral
2001: Amen, JJ72, Alfie, Starsailor
2000: Shack, Les Rythmes Digitales, Campag Velocet, Coldplay
1999: UNKLE, Idlewild, Delakota, Llama Farmers
1998: Stereophonics, Asian Dub Foundation, The Warm Jets, Theaudience
1997: Geneva, Symposium, Tiger, Three Colours Red
1996: The Bluetones, The Cardigans, Heavy Stereo, Fluffy
1995: Veruca Salt, Marion, Skunk Anansie, 60_Ft._Dolls
some fucking terrible lineups there, tbh.
I went in 07, 10 & 11.
The only other one i'd have gone to, at the time, was 2005.
Ah the memories....
So what's the ones then that I saw with The Strokes and At the Drive In? I thought they were NME tours at the Astoria.
A part from the tours, they also put on a handful of special gigs in London early part of each year.
Astoria
Yeah, the last stop on the tour was always the Astoria and they would have loads of other gigs on that week
Fluffy!
Remember them? I actually couldn't name a single song
HE DOESN'T LIKE THE COLOUR OF YOUR HAIR...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsJyLYCXhWk
i miss 2006
:(
Oh Yes! The year when a good half of the audience walked out before the headliner took to the stage.
2004 was much more marked for that.
Myself and a mate stayed for the first couple of songs of Funeral For A Friend's set - and we must have been the only people over the age of 15 to do even that.
I remember that, in Cardiff
Felt so awkward for Maximo Park
2004 - ridiculous mismatch of 'headline' to 'support'.
After lurking at the back of the venue where lots of people were bouncing along to Franz, Von Bondies, and The Rapture, a small crew of children in black hoodies shuffled past the other 80% of the people there who were either shifted to the back of the room to get a beer, have a piss, or just leave for the after party.
Hadn't seen such a big exodus since V98 (albeit the other way around), when the second stage crowd watching buggered off after Catatonia to watch the Verve, leaving about 15 people watching Jesus and Mary Chain.
The Mary Chain
Ah yes, it is hard to imagine now, but it is quite shocking to think about how much people people really didn't give a shit about the Mary Chain in 1998 when they were touring Munki around the festivals.
still not sure it's as mismatched as the 2001 bill
I saw the 2006 one - remember being distinctly underwhelmed by the Arctic Monkeys.
And the Indie Rave tour was one of my first jobs in music journalism, interviewing the Sunshine Underground backstage. They were quite pleasant.
ah yes
great memories of writing about one of these and getting shouted at because the band 'don't want to be associated with the NME'. what a clusterfuck headline that was.
I went in (deep breath)
1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 (both) and 2012.
2013 sounds decent enough to attend, for Django Django at the very least.
Went to the 2009 one
to see Glasvegas. They were awful. The other three were all good turns. Florence played to a room that was maybe a third full at a push.
a brixton you mean? Yeah, that was weird. Was the first time (having seen her twice before that) that I realised she'd stopped doing a Kills-ish thing and had gone full-on foghorn pop.
Yeah I went to the Cribs one
The Ting Tings played to a near-empty room and were number one a couple of weeks later. They were fucking ace too, I know it's not cool to say it but idgaf. Listened to their first album a couple of weeks ago for the first time in ages and it's still great
comfortably the 'weakest' bill so far (even if you look at it from a November [year before tour] announcement standpoint)
tbh Miles Kane is realistically bigger than Django, right?
definitely
yeah Miles Kane is definitely bigger
but don't you reckon NME are trying to engineer a kind of change of image/change to the sort of music that the magazine covers? Miles Kane has been riding Arctic Monkeys coat tails since the start, and is only really fashionable amongst teenage boys in polo shirts. He'll draw crowds in, but maybe putting Django Django as headliners is trying to make a bit of a statement as to what the magazine is all about these days?
Always feel nostalgic about these tours but only ever went in 2006
It was the Newcastle gig, so everyone stayed to see Maximo Park (unlike the other gigs on that tour, or so they say). it was really good, that and the 2005 shows were definitely the strongest line ups.
I dunno why people are saying that this is a bad line up- I think the majority of them have been pretty shakey. Miles Kanes is the sore thumb, feels like he's the token 'old style' indie act to draw a bigger crowd, as NME try to usher in the new generation of guitar bands with Palma Violets and Peace. Django Django don't exactly seem suitable for the target audience of an NME tour? They're good though. Peace are awful, like a watered down version of Foals that your mam would like.
I'd definitely go to this, if I got a free ticket.
I was at that Newcastle gig too, it was great.
It was the same day Arctic Monkeys' album went to No 1 and they didn't look massively happy about it I seem to remember.
Agree with your Peace comments too, really don't get what the fuss is about. They're shit.
Also, when did Krissi Murison stop being editor?
She didn't last long, did she?
LME
pardon?
...
LME stands for the three stages of masturbation. The 1st stage which is L, stands for Lubricate. The 2nd stage M, for Masturbate and the Final stage E, for Ejaculate.
Lush!
LME.
London Metropolitan Elite, of course!
Well they didn't do very well- the new editor of NME is Welsh
She left to go to the Sunday Times magazine back in the spring.
She was there for three years, which is longer than most.
Mike Williams is the editor now (he used to edit Kruger).
three year??
oh wow, times flies, thought she'd been there like 18 months or something.
Never came across Kruger, don't remember seeing it in Newcastle, looks like it was a good magazine though. Maybe NME are on the up!
^thising that it didn't seem she'd been there long
Kruger is good, last time i read NME it didn't seem as good as when Krissi Murison was ed
Kruger folded, I thought.
That rings a bell
I remember them doing a big push for their website coz they were stopping the mag
I went in 03, 06 and 10
I left after 10 minutes of the headline acts twice, you have to give them a chance. I may go next year. As you were.
I think it's a decent enough line-up
No better or worse than most of the previous ones. Looking at the list of previous line-ups I realise to my surprise I've been to them all bar three, but they were the last three! Probably gave up on NME around the same time. Three of these four already played last month at Swn Festival too
Last year was the first time I had been in five
Pretty decent. Love Metronomy, and although Two Door Cinema Club are a bit samey (for me) on record they're an entertaining enough live act...
2000
Coldplay bottom of the bill, the mighty Shack headlining. For one brief moment the stars were correctly aligned.
Les Rythmes Digitales were brilliant.
Peace
Are they any good? Never heard of them
How much are tickets?
Might go if they're £22 or less.
£22.01
Fuck that
Fuck me.
I've never even heard of Miles Kane. Saw Django Django at Heaven last week and that felt like a stretch too far for them.
Nothing will ever beat 2001
JJ72 in their absolute pomp. Wonderful memories
aside
from the horrors, the 2007 indie rock tour looks like a disaster.
This band are properly shit
Saw them in a packed out big-ish place in Amsterdam the other week (I went to see Eaux who were supporting), and they are unbelievably popular in Europe - dudes all getting pictures with them at the end and dancing and stuff... They're probably headlining on the back of that popularity... It makes sense for the NME anyway.
Anyway, they are a horrible pound shop Franz Ferdinand, five new media account managers at least two of which look capable of date rape.
bands often headline Brixton Academy because of their popularity
;____;
I thought their popularity was the matter in question...
And the doubt thereof.
Still crap.
It seems like they failed to get Alt-J, so had to settle for Djangos
probably because...
alt-j have their own tour of the same size in may which has been announced for months
I listened again to the Django Django album last night
Totally don't get it still, leaves me cold