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Live Review: NME Awards Tour Featuring Two Door Cinema Club, Metronomy, Tribes and Azealia Banks at Newcastle Academy – 10th February 2012

Live Review: NME Awards Tour Featuring Two Door Cinema Club, Metronomy, Tribes and Azealia Banks at Newcastle Academy – 10th February 2012 Although the NME Awards Tour ’s main purpose is to publicise the NME Awards themselves, with which this tour climaxes on 29 February, it is also a showcase for acts which the NME considers worthy summarisers of the state of the nation’s contemporary music scene. Looking back over the years, the Tour has had more than its fair share of fertile years, roughly every five attempts having a really standout lineup (2000, 2005, 2009); and surprisingly few misses - Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, anyone? Despite the copious amounts of [...]