Rebecca Ferguson and Melanie Chisholm with Elinor Phillips at the 2012 Liverpool Music Awards. Photograph by Ian D. Hall

Originally published by Liverpool Live. The Liverpool Music Awards have been months in the planning and years in the making. As Janice Long, one of the legends of British broadcasting took to the stage at The Dome on Renshaw Street, the waiting was finally over and a room packed with great and the good of local music started to enjoy the celebration of what makes Liverpool undoubtedly the world capital of music.