Editing New wave of new wave (section)

==History==
The associated bands generally played guitar-based [[rock music]] often accompanied by [[keyboard instruments|keyboards]]. The movement was short-lived, and several of the bands involved were later linked with the more commercially successful [[Britpop]], which it immediately preceded, and the NWONW was described by [[John Harris (critic)|John Harris]] of ''[[The Guardian]]'' (one of the journalists who first coined the term)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/17/romo-skunk-rock-shroomadelica-music-genres |title=Romo, skunk rock, shroomadelica … the music genres that never made it |last1=Allen |first1=Jeremy|date=17 March 2014 |website=[[theguardian.com]]|access-date=19 March 2014}}</ref> as "Britpop without the good bits".<ref name="Harris">Harris, John (2006) [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/oct/13/electronicmusic.popandrock "The new wave of old rubbish"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 13 October 2006.</ref> The ''[[NME]]'' played a major part in promoting and covering the genre, and promoted the "On" event, which featured many of the bands they had labelled NWONW.<ref name="Larkin">Larkin, Colin (2006) ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'', Oxford University Press.</ref>