1995 saw the NME cover many of these new bands and saw many of these bands play the NME Stage at that year's Glastonbury Festival where the paper had been sponsoring the second stage at the festival since 1993.

They also performed at T in the Park 2010 on the NME Stage on the Friday July 9 and Oxegen in Kildare, Ireland on Saturday July 10 on the Vodafone stage.

The band also played the Radio 1 / NME Stage at Reading and Leeds Festival in August 2011.

Having headlined the NME Stage at The Glastonbury Festival in 1992, the band spent the next couple of years on a worldwide tour, releasing a mop-up compilation of older non-album material and two new tracks called " 0. 522 " in 1994 before decamping to Wales to record their final album, Brainbloodvolume.

NME Stage: Ash, The Bluetones, Mansun, Gene, The Divine Comedy, Longpigs, Monaco, Echo & the Bunnymen, Symposium, Geneva, Silver Sun, Veruca Salt, Embrace, Hurricane # 1, ac acoustics, Stereophonics, The Driven, Radish

NME Stage: Underworld, Fun Lovin Criminals, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Ian Brown, Catatonia, PJ Harvey, Saint Etienne, Morcheeba, Lo Fidelity Allstars, Republica, Gomez, The Dandy Warhols, The Montrose Avenue, theaudience, Midget, One Lady Owner, Superstar, The Smiles

NME Stage: James Brown, Massive Attack, Super Furry Animals, Mercury Rev, Shed Seven, DJ Shadow, Travis, Gay Dad, dEUS, Red Snapper, A, Death In Vegas, Dot Allison, Eve 6, Liz Horman, YY29, Medal, One Lady Owner

NME Stage: Feeder, Underworld, Turin Brakes, The Coral, Killing Joke, Tim Burgess, Athlete, Evan Dando, Damien Rice, The Distillers, The Bees Shack, The Basement, Spearhead, Martin Grech, Haven, Futureheads, The Stands, Rachel Mari Kimber, The Zutons

NME Stage, Kings of Leon, Massive Attack, Embrace, Starsailor, Elbow, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Keane, Scissor Sisters, Dashboard Confessional, The Zutons, All American Rejects, Fountains of Wayne, The Killers, Mull Historical Society, Hal, Goldie Lookin Chain, Thirteen Senses, Chikinki, 10, 000 Things, Kasabian, Blacklight

Nine Black Alps played on the NME Stage at Reading and Leeds Festival and Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, Invernesshire, in August 2007.

James Bourne placed adverts in publications such as NME and The Stage and Topper ( comic ) in order to recruit potential band members for his new project.

The NME still covered the Indie scene and was involved with a war of words with a new band called Manic Street Preachers who were criticising the NME for what they saw as an elitist view of bands they would champion.

In 1991, Lamacq was unwittingly involved in one of the most infamous events in British rock music of recent times during a post-gig interview at the Norwich Arts Centre with Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers for the NME.

Also in 2008, the ceremony was followed by the NME Big Gig at the adjacent O2 Arena, where The Cribs performed with Johnny Marr, followed by Klaxons, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, and Manic Street Preachers, who also performed with Tom Clarke of The Enemy and Cerys Matthews.

** During a Manic Street Preachers interview by NME journalist Steve Lamacq, Richey Edwards carved the words " 4 Real " into his arm with a razor blade to prove the band's sincerity in music.

Street later said in the NME: " Pete wasn ’ t in a very good state for the first couple of weeks of making the record for the reasons that people know about.

Doherty told the NME that Street gave the band an ultimatum of " if you carry on like this, I ’ m going home " in reference to Pete's drug addiction at the time.

" Ian Watson of NME wrote: "' The Scientist ' is a song inexorably linked with the endless night sky and the secret hopes and regrets of a hundred thousand strangers.

Brown was voted ' Top UK Vocal Personality ' in the 1962 NME magazine poll.

At the 2006 NME awards, Brown was presented with the " Godlike Genius " award and in 2007 was given the Q " Legend " Award.

In January 1974, the British music magazine, NME reported that Stan Webb was joining Savoy Brown, following the break-up of Chicken Shack.

* Len Brown ( 1976 ) NME journalist, television producer and author

The group won four NME Readers poll awards that year ; Band of the Year, Best New Band, Single of the Year ( for " Fools Gold ") and Album of the Year ( for their debut album ).

In November 1974 NME music magazine reported that The Rubettes, The Glitter Band and Mud were among the UK bands who had roles in a new film titled Never Too Young To Rock.

The Hives won " Best International Band " and " Best Dressed Band " at the 2003 NME awards.

* Best Band of 1996 – NME Awards

* Best Band of 1999 – NME Awards

* Readers ' Band of 1996 ( Runner Up ) and Writers ' Album of 1996 ( Everything Must Go ) – NME

* Writers ' Best Live Band of 1996 – NME Brat Award

They won Best New Band at the NME Awards for that year and Barât moved out of The Albion Rooms.

In early 2004, The Libertines won Best Band at the NME Awards, despite the fact that " Don't Look Back Into The Sun " was their only official release during the preceding year.

In 2005, The Killers were nominated for three Grammy Awards ; Hot Fuss was nominated for Best Rock Album while " Somebody Told Me " was nominated for two awards including Best Rock Song, in the UK they won an NME Award for Best International Band.

In 2008 the band picked up two awards in the first NME Awards USA, including " Best Band " and " Best Track " for " Tranquilize ".

The Killers have won four NME Awards: " Best International Band " in 2005, 2008 and 2009 and Best Video for " Bones " in 2006.

They have also received two awards in the first NME Awards USA in 2008 for " Best Band " and " Best Track " for " Tranquilize ".

In 2006, Bloc Party were nominated for another NME Award, this time in the ' Best British Band ' category.

They were also nominated for two NME Brit Awards for ' Best Band ' and ' Best Album '.

After 2004 ’ s constant touring Borrell was placed at No. 4 in the NME ’ s Cool List and Razorlight won Best New Act at 2004 ’ s Q Awards and the Best New Band category at the NME Awards In Feb 2005.

Furthermore, the NME described the band as " The Next Big Thing " and featured the band on the front cover describing them as " The Band That Will Change Your Life ".

Huge popularity quickly followed and Heath's Band and his musicians were regular Poll Winners in the Melody Maker and the NME ( New Musical Express ) – Britain ’ s leading music newspapers.

2008 began with The Cribs being nominated for 4 awards at the annual NME awards ceremony ( Best British Band, Best Live Band, Best Track and Hero of the Year for Ryan Jarman ).