Suede will be honoured with the Godlike Genius Award at the NME Awards 2015, held in association with Austin, Texas.

The band have released six studio albums in a career spanning 25 years and are widely credited with kick-starting the Britpop revolution. They will accept the award and perform live at the ceremony at London's O2 Academy Brixton on Wednesday, February 18.

"Suede fundamentally altered the course of alternative music in the 90s, tying disparate strands of influence into one definitive British ...