The Maccabees
This years Shockwaves NME Awards tour will feature 3 British and one Brooklyn based US indie band. Hitting the road for the 2010 UK tour will be The Maccabees, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Big Pink and The Drums.
The Maccabees’ Felix White recalls being an audience member back in 2005: “I remember me and Hugo [White, guitarist], went to the Bloc Party, Futureheads, Kaiser Chiefs tour [ which also featured The Killers]. We were like, ‘Shit, that’s how it’s done’.
I remember being ridiculously excited about The Futureheads. That was a time when the possibility of what you could do with your mates and guitars, realising how you did that and it being achievable, became real. Those tours put that in front of you.”
All dates are in February and start in Newcastle and will end on in London:
February
4 Newcastle O2 Academy
5 Glasgow Barrowland
6 Manchester Academy
7 Leeds O2 Academy
9 Nottingham Rock City
10 Norwich UEA
11 Birmingham O2 Academy
13 Cardiff University
14 Bristol O2 Academy
15 Brighton Dome
16 Bournemouth O2 Academy
18 Portsmouth Pyramids Centre
19 Cambridge Corn Exchange
20 Brixton O2 Academy