Boy Kill Boy, The Automatic, Forward, Russia! and The Long Blondes have all been confirmed for NME's 2006 New Music Tour. Chris Peck of headliners Boy Kill Boy says "It's fucking great to be on the tour. We're all made up about it. It should be a good atmosphere, it's going to be wicked."
The dates of the tour are as follows:
6 May: Bristol University (minus Long Blondes)
7 May: Cardiff University (minus Long Blondes)
8 May: Wolverhampton Wulfrun (minus Long Blondes)
10 May: Glasgow QMU
11 May: Middlesbrough Empire
12 May: Manchester University
14 May: Portsmouth Pyramid
15 May: Leicester University
16 May: Cambridge Junction
18 May: Norwich UEA
19 May: Sheffield Leadmill (minus Forward Russia!)
20 May: Liverpool Carling Academy
23 May: Oxford Brookes University
24 May: London Electric Ballroom