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NME’s showcase of top talent
REVIEW: SHOCKWAVES NME AWARDS TOUR
Various venues
by Andy Dangerfield, Roisin Gadelrab and Sonia zhuravlyova
FOR an otherwise grim few weeks in February The Shockwaves NME Awards tour came to town to showcase the music bible’s hottest new bands.
This year for the first time two tours were promoted – the Rock Tour showcasing new bands of the moment, including The View and The Horrors, and a Rave Tour headlined by acts like the Klaxons riding high on the current new rave hysteria. Grooves went to some of the shows to see if the bands lived up to their hype.
The Young Knives are one of the tightest three pieces around who play a set of deftly crafted songs bursting with pop punk guitar energy and catchy, witty lyrics – but their set barely lasted an hour. More next time please.
Meanwhile The Rapture showed New Rave’s pretenders how to party at their NME show. With messy hair and funky T-shirts the quartet looked like they’d just come from Camden Market rather than NYC. Their songs are ideal for a live setting as they fuse crashing guitars and mellifluous sax with thumping beats.
Pop intellectuals The Shins brought their magical tour to the Astoria on Sunday to spread the love with their third album. They treated a devoted crowd to a sprinkling of old and new including tracks from their US number two album Wincing the Night Away.
Meanwhile Newcastle’s Maximo Park previewed their forthcoming album Our Earthly Pleasures, leaving the crowd in raptures.
This five-piece ball of energy deliver melodious rocky love songs which make you want to jump and swoon at the same time and the new songs have lost none of their harmony.
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