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Royal Blood , Paloma Faith and George Ezra will perform at this year’s Brit Awards, organisers have confirmed.
The three British acts will join Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith on stage during the ceremony in February.
The nominations for the 2015 Brit Awards will be announced on Thursday.
Royal Blood are tipped to be nominated for the British album of the year after their self-titled first album became the fastest-selling British rock debut in three years.
George Ezra rose to worldwide recognition in 2014 with his hit single “Budapest”. His debut album Wanted on Voyage also topped the UK album charts and it is thought he could be nominated for British Breakthrough Act.
Show all 5 1 /5Rock and pop highlights of 2015 Rock and pop highlights of 2015 Mark Lanegan Band - touring from 20 January The most intriguing performance prospect of a fairly docile January is the arrival of the Mark Lanegan Band for a clutch of shows in support of the recent masterly album Phantom Radio. Expect soul-ravaged blues fatalism as Lanegan confronts dark memories and apocalyptic visions with apparent sangfroid, his baritone croon traversing soundscapes of chugging electropop, spiralling guitars and courtly pop melancholy.
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Rock and pop highlights of 2015 Bob Dylan - Shadows in the Night released 2 February An album on which Dylan sings Sinatra, a performer in whose voice he claimed to hear "death, God, the universe, everything". He's eschewing the usual swaddling orchestrations in favour of relaxed small-combo versions, recorded with his own band. They're not cover versions, he explains: "They've been covered enough. Buried, as a matter of fact. What me and my band are basically doing is uncovering them. Lifting them out of the grave and bringing them into the light of day."
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Rock and pop highlights of 2015 The War on Drugs - touring from 16 February 2014's breakout US indie band will arrive for a string of British dates. Songwriter/frontman Adam Granduciel's blending of Dylanesque vocals, stadium-pop melodies and guitar drones should appeal to fans of Neil Young and My Bloody Valentine alike, and these shows offer the perfect opportunity to check whether they’re as loud and overbearing as Sun Kil Moon's Mark Kozelek claims in his amusing song "War on Drugs: Suck My Cock". Thankfully, music is big enough to accommodate both.
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Rock and pop highlights of 2015 The Jesus and Mary Chain - touring from 16 February Having bowed to the demand to perform their debut Psychocandy in its entirety – a move that places them firmly in the rock-heritage classicist ranks, rather than the punk-nihilist cadre of their original 1980s inception – the re-formed Mary Chain take their sweet white whine around the country. Expect: great tunes; loud feedback. Don’t expect: a revolution.
Rock and pop highlights of 2015 Nicki Minaj - touring from 28 March Initial reaction to Nicki Minaj's new album The Pinkprint is mixed, but however its more assertively autobiographical songs transfer to the live arena, bangers like "Want Some More" and "Anaconda" suggest that her upcoming shows should pack some punch. And the flamboyant diva can surely be relied on to put on a show. But what will be the colour-scheme? Think pink.
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Paloma Faith last performed at the Brit Awards in 2011 with Cee-Lo Green. The Hackney-born singer’s third album A Perfect Contradiction entered the album charts at number two in 2014, becoming her fastest-selling album to date.
Ant and Dec will take over from James Corden to host the ceremony at London’s O2 Arena on 25 February.
Jessie Ware, FKA Twigs, Clean Bandit and this year’s Critics’ Choice winner James Bay will perform during the special broadcast of the Brit Award nominations unveiling on Thursday 15 January at 10.40pm on ITV.
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