Liam Gallagher to win BandLab NME Awards 2022 Music Moment Of The Year

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Liam Gallagher will be picking up this year’s Music Moment Of The Year Award at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 – in honour of the free concert he played for NHS workers at London’s O2 Arena.The wildest night in music will return to London’s O2 Academy Brixton on Wednesday, March 2 to celebrate the best in music and entertainment from around the globe.

Tickets to the event are on sale now and available here.Joining the talent in the room on the night, former Oasis frontman and previous Godlike Genius recipient Liam Gallagher will be honoured with Music Moment Of The Year for his stellar gig at London’s O2 on August 17, 2021 – where he and Primal Scream welcomed the return of live music and thanked NHS staff for their hard work through the pandemic by performing a free show for healthcare workers.Responding to the win, Gallagher told NME: “I’d like to thank NME for the Music Moment Of The Year award and would like to dedicate it to all the NHS and care workers and all the people that give a shit in general.

LG x”In a five-star review of Liam’s O2 show for NHS workers, NME hailed it as “a life-affirming, era-defining show”, adding: “You have not seen joy until you’ve seen thousands of NHS workers leg it back across the O2 Arena, belting out the lyrics to one of the greatest anthems of all time, a song about relying on one another and literally being someone’s saviour.

After all this time, Liam wasn’t wrong when he told the audience: ‘It’s good to see your lovely faces and hear your lovely voices’.”Following the release of the Dave Grohl co-written new single ‘Everything’s Electric’, Gallagher’s third solo album ‘C’Mon You Know’ will arrive on May 27.Today also sees the announcement that Neneh Cherry will be picking up this.