Dave Grohl

Dave Grohl

We are so excited to announce that the NME Awards have announced the winner of its prestigious NME Godlike Genius Award: front man of multi-platinum-selling rock band Foo Fighters and US rock legend, Dave Grohl.

Grohl will pick up the NME Godlike Genius Award in person – and perform with Foo Fighters – at the exclusive Shockwaves NME Awards 2011 ceremony at the O2 Academy Brixton on Wednesday February 23rd.

Dave Grohl says: “It's really flattering and really good company to be in. It's a nice thing to be acknowledge for doing something that you love to do, but in truth I don't consider it a body of work because I don't consider it work, I just consider it this incredible luxury that I get to play music and travel the world and feed my kids. It's pretty great. Awards and lists can get silly sometimes but I'm very appreciative of this. It's really cool to be called a godlike genius!”

From Nirvana to Foo Fighters; from heavy metal side-project Probot to drumming duties for Queens of the Stone Age and super group Them Crooked Vultures, Dave Grohl has never been far from NME’s headlines, establishing himself as a bona fide rock n roll genius. 


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