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Nominees Wolf Alice have hit out at the BRIT Awards for 'criminally overlooking' grime music at this year's ceremony.
Tonight sees the band go head to head with Catfish and The Bottlemen, James Bay, Jess Glynne and Years & Years in the British Breakthrough category, but now they've joined the likes of Lily Allen and Stormzy in slamming the BRITs lack of diversity and for ignoring grime in their nominations.
Taking to Twitter, the band protested: "Grime music has been criminally overlooked this year at the Brits," the short statement begins. "It has dominated the charts, the media and the word on everyone's lips. No doubt they don't need a nomination nor any award to keep running the UK music scene and eventualy the world, but would have been sick to walk down the red carpet with the likes of BBK or Stormzy and feel how exciting 2016 in the UK is gonna be!"
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— wolf alice (@wolfalicemusic) February 24, 2016
This comes after Stormzy said that it was a 'shame' for Grime to not be recognised, before Lily Allen took offence, adding that the lack of grime nominees showed that the BRITs 'do not care about music'.
Wolf Alice's full upcoming tour dates are below. Tickets are on sale now, and are availabl here.
Fri March 04 2016 - BELFAST Mandela Hall
Sat March 05 2016 - DUBLIN Olympia
Mon March 07 2016 - STOKE Keele University
Thu March 10 2016 - MANCHESTER Academy
Fri March 11 2016 - NORWICH UEA
Sun March 13 2016 - OXFORD O2 Academy Oxford
Mon March 14 2016 - PORTSMOUTH Portsmouth Pyramids
Wed March 16 2016 - GLASGOW Barrowland
Thu March 17 2016 - YORK Barbican
Sat March 19 2016 - LEEDS O2 Academy Leeds
Mon March 21 2016 - FOLKESTONE Leas Cliff Hall
Tue March 22 2016 - BRIGHTON Dome
Wed March 23 2016 - NOTTINGHAM Rock City
Thu March 24 2016 - CARDIFF Cardiff University Students Union
Sat March 26 2016 - LONDON O2 Forum
Sun March 27 2016 - LONDON O2 Forum
Mon March 28 2016 - LONDON O2 Forum
Tue March 29 2016 - LONDON O2 Forum
