Watch Hozier give unreleased song ‘Nobody’s Soldier’ its live debut and call for a ceasefire in Gaza at Lollapalooza 2024

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Hozier gave his unreleased song ‘Nobody’s Soldier’ its live debut at Lollapalooza 2024 and called for a ceasefire in Gaza.Last night (August 1), the Irish singer took over the Bud Light stage as one of the headliners for day one of the annual Chicagoan festival.

Before jumping into the second song of his set, Hozier took a moment to acknowledge the 1960s civil rights movement in the US – how it had directly inspired a similar movement for civil rights in Ireland and how he’s been singing the track ‘Nobody’s Soldier’ in solidarity with those who have protested the violence in Rafa and Gaza.“The civil rights movement that took place here in the United States directly inspired the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland, very shortly afterwards in a time and place where not every single person was guaranteed the right to vote,” he began..@Hozier calling for a ceasefire while performing at @lollapalooza tonight before singing ‘Nobody’s Soldier’ pic.twitter.com/zzxYmtCM0j— NME (@NME) August 2, 2024“We’ve been singing this song in solidarity with anybody who has contacted their representatives or put their feet on the street in honest goodwill and human witness of the lived experience of other people on the other side of the world that say ‘We wouldn’t want to see any human be subject to the kind of violence that we have been witnessing on our TV screens in Rafa.

We wouldn’t want to see any human being subject to the kind of violence we’ve been seeing in Gaza over these last eight or nine months,'” he continues.“It doesn’t matter who you are, it doesn’t matter where you come from.

It doesn’t matter if you are an Israeli citizen or Palestinian citizen – you wouldn’t want to see any human being be subject to the kind of terror.