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1996: The Bluetones, The Cardigans, Heavy Stereo, Fluffy.1997: Geneva, Symposium, Tiger, Three Colours Red.1998: Stereophonics, Asian Dub Foundation, The Warm Jets, Theaudience.1999: UNKLE, Idlewild, Delakota, Llama Farmers.2000: Shack, Les Rythmes Digitales, Campag Velocet, Coldplay.2002: Andrew W.K., Lostprophets, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Coral.2003: The Datsuns, The Polyphonic Spree, Interpol, The Thrills.2004: Funeral for a Friend, The Rapture, The Von Bondies, Franz Ferdinand.2005: The Killers, The Futureheads, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs.2006: Maxïmo Park, Arctic Monkeys, We Are Scientists, Mystery Jets.ShockWaves NME Indie Rave Tour: Klaxons, CSS, The Sunshine Underground, New Young Pony Club.ShockWaves NME Indie Rock Tour: The Automatic, The View, The Horrors, Mumm-Ra.2008: The Cribs, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, The Ting Tings.2009: Glasvegas, Friendly Fires, White Lies, Florence and the Machine.2010: The Maccabees, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Big Pink, The Drums.2011: Crystal Castles, Magnetic Man, Everything Everything, The Vaccines.2012: Two Door Cinema Club, Metronomy, Tribes, Azealia Banks.2013: Django Django, Miles Kane, Palma Violets, Peace.

2014: Interpol, Temples, Royal Blood, Circa Waves.

2015: Palma Violets, Fat White Family, Slaves, The Wytches.

2016: Bloc Party, Drenge, Ratboy, Bugzy Malone.

Though NME are yet to make a statement about the cancellation of the tour, they have run articles about the demise of the Warped Tour on their website. In 2018, for the first time in 23 years, an NME sponsored tour did not take place.

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In 2017, rather than organise a tour themselves, NME sponsored a series of previously announced headline dates by the band Blossoms. This format was kept for one year, before reverting to one tour in 2008. The tours were played in a number of intertwined dates at the same time. NME editor Conor McNicholas stated that the reason for the tour split was to allow more fans to gain tickets to the Awards tour, and allow them to display more bands at the one time. The second tour, the ShockWaves NME Indie Rave Tour, displays the small number of bands currently associated with the new rave music genre. The first tour, the ShockWaves NME Indie Rock Tour was created to reflect the growing indie rock scene in Britain throughout 2006-2007. In 2007, the main NME Awards tour was split into two different tours of four bands each. Since 2005, the tour has been sponsored by unisex hair product company ShockWaves. A number of previous support acts on the tour have gone on to become very successful commercially, such as Arctic Monkeys (support act in 2006) and Franz Ferdinand (who played the opening slot in 2004). The tour normally showcasts the main protagonists of the independent alternative rock scene, with a number of relatively unheard of bands usually supporting more mainstream acts. The tour has been known to sell out in just a matter of hours. The ShockWaves NME Awards Tours (known without sponsorship as the NME Awards Tour before 1999, and the Brat Bus Tour before 1998) normally takes place in the lead up to the official NME Awards themselves. ShockWaves NME Awards Tours Logo of the 2006 NME Awards Tour. The tours are titled to reflect the genre and type of bands playing on them. Throughout the year, NME sponsors numerous tours of the United Kingdom by various up-and-coming and established bands in a variety of formats. The NME Tours consist of a variety of tours organised by British music industry publication NME.

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