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Funeral For A Friend Headline NME Awards Tour
Mike_Diver by Mike Diver November 26th, 2003
DiS favourites Funeral For A Friend will headline the annual NME Awards tour in January and February next year. Appearing alongside the Welsh wunderkids will be The Rapture, The Von Bondies and ace Domino signings Franz Ferdinand.

Funeral vocalist Matt Davies said: "There's gonna be a lot of energy... we're just rocking it really. There's a little bit of balls there. Balls hanging out everywhere!"

The dates are as follows:

JANUARY 2004

25th Northumbria University
26th Glasgow Academy
27th Birmingham Academy
29th Sheffield University
30th Liverpool University
31st Manchester University

FEBRUARY 2004

2nd Leeds University
3rd Nottingham Rock City
4th Norwich UEA
6th Portsmouth Pyramid
7th London Brixton Academy
8th Cardiff University



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