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Preview - NME preview tour


2/ 2/2007

BACK in the old days, the NME tour was ostensibly a chance for the indie underground to peer over the barricades, a yearly showcase for the weekly music paper to tout the new indie talent they'd tipped for the12 months ahead.

But how that's changed. With alternative guitar music more a part of the mainstream than ever, this year's NME tour amounts to a mini-celebration of how vibrant and exciting new British guitar music currently is, while firmly underlining its rampant commercial success.

Two of the bands appearing this year can already claim top 10 success: Welsh pop-metallers The Automatic and the much-hyped Scots band The View, who rocketed to the top of the album charts last weekend faster than you could say "the new Arctic Monkeys'' (which they certainly are).

Perhaps less well known, but sure to make their mark in the coming months are opening act Mumm-Ra and the already notorious The Horrors, famed as much for their appearance (they are five Russell Brand lookalikes) as they are for their murky, death-fixated goth-rock.

Indie, it seems, is taking over the world, and if you can't beat it, better just to join the party.

DAVID SUE


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