NME Awards Tour Tickets

Over the years it has featured a variety of then-unknown bands who would later explode into the mainstream and have a huge effect on popular music – such bands include Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, Stereophonics, Bloc Party and more. So attending a show on the NME Awards Tour is a great way to witness some bands that could be destined for great things and getting hold of tickets for the show is a must.

NME Awards Tour tickets provide a great opportunity to see a range of high quality bands in one setting, whilst also seeing them in a relatively small venue compared to the stages that the bands might play in the future. 2010 saw The Maccabees, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Big Pink and The Drums take to stages across the country, arriving on the back of previous years that featured Glasvegas, Friendly Fires, White Lies and Florence + the Machine (2009) as well as The Cribs, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, The Ting Tings (2008) and more.

The NME Awards have been running since 1995, though it has gone by very different names over this period; beginning as the Brat Bus Tour and eventually taking the form of the ShockWaves NME Awards Tour today. It is one of many tours operated by the music magazine New Musical Express (NME), who have been printed a popular music magazine since the early 1950s, with an awards show appearing since the beginning of its publication.

The awards show itself has featured some high-profile winners, with various bands taking home awards on numerous occasions, with the Manic Street Preachers, Oasis, Blue, MGMT, Arctic Monkeys and others holding this distinction.

So it is safe to say that getting hold of NME Awards tickets is a great way to witness some high quality bands in a live setting. With previous names going on to achieve widespread success, it is a great way of catching these musicians before they go on to play bigger venues.