Brit awards mania 2002

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It says here. Hmm.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So who is this Frank Skinner clown again?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sounds a lot better and saucier than any American awards show. Yes, I wrote saucy.

― Todd Burns, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You're only saying that because of Kylie's outfit. Perhaps. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

IT WILL SUX0R. IT /-\L\/\//-\YS DOES. BEST EVER BR!T AWARDZ = THEE DEBACLE ONE WSAM PHOX0R & MIX0R PHL33T\/\/00D

― NORMAN PHAY, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Brit awards beat US MTV awards every year because Brit awards have such a hype crowd...everyone's jumping and going buck.....in the US it's like they corrall 50 knucklehead dancers into the pen right in front of the stage and everyone else is boring skrewfaced rich kids that stay seated and just CLAP....hosts are never any good....presenters are wack, never funny or charming.....it's so depressing....I think I recall the recent brit awards being hosted by that super polite gentlemanly guy I just loved, and then Ali G......no contest.

― Ramosi, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I may be thinking of the Euro MTV awards....

― Ramosi, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So this Fox/Fleetwood deal. Exactly what happened, anyway?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/brit_awards/sammick.htm

― Venga, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"... Destiny's Child won best international group, while other winners included The Strokes (best international group ...)"

*Hmmm*.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish the tabloids and Brits adverts would be eliminated, so I wouldn't have developed a sadly predictable intense need to have sex with Kylie

― dave q, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

For the record: Strokes won best international newcomer, mark s is inconsolable re westlife win over hear'say (I told you to get texting mark!), anastasia had worst dress of the night.

Did anyone see Newsnight: Elton John vs. Simon Cowell? Not worth it's own thread, but maybe a brief diversion on this one. Would have been good if they'd actually debated face to face. As it was, Cowell had had time to prepare his rebuttal.

― Jeff W, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah- elton wanted to breastfeed will young or summat - cowell said we all know last year was awful for music - ????????????

― a-33, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

From the newsnight piece and brief interview on Breakfast News this morning itto me that Cowell is using his fifteen minutes to set himself up as a pantomime villain of pop. "Its all about the money and the profits" is what he says and we know he is right up to a point. But the very fact that someone is saying this so openly I think is designed to cause a backlash - is Cowell sacrificing himself for the good of popkind?

Or is he really that arrogant and dim?

― Pete, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

SINKER TO THREAD!

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I could be wrong but I sense that Simon Cowell has realised he *likes* being famous (he was successful before but not famous), and that he has decided to pump up the aspects of his public persona that got him where he is now (in order to keep him there). So not dim in my view.

― David Inglesfield, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I read somewhere that Max Clifford is now 'handling' Cowell's press.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

he waz on gloria hunneyford banging on about juice bars in his polo neck - i like that he played triangle on westlife songs to get extra dosh - chap!

― a-33, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

we have heard about the local gig ov a+d with krocodile jim and heeleetim when they tore into wr popidols - how the mask dropped

― a-33, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

gorillaz - areet filum, alig an shaggy - shite, so solid an kylie - etchellente , tha strurkza wr boring, mizteeqq - karnt like that choon but firin, sting and dido - if theyre leek tha warst stuff on brits - things have improved top bifta - an tha yanks have muddy puddle ov shite an weezar AHFCKNHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― A-33, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The show started well - Gorillaz and Kylie. But then, oh my God. SKinner and Ba[die]ll were just dreadful.

"Next up, So Solid Crew fill the stage and best British female Dido." What??? Do they get 21 seconds each?

Apparently, the mix of Blue Monday and CGYOOMH will be released as a B-side.

- David

― David Sim, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kylie was the best thing about it by far. Thank god she was on first. The rest was boring, boring, boring.

The Strokes looked completely out of place and rather cool but sadly weren't as exciting as they should have been given the position they have been elevated to by those desperate for something to happen in the field of white boys and guitars.

Pretty much what i expected then.

― mms, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Them Strokes always play so slow, they never get the tempo right.

― tav, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sorry i missed the WHOLE ENTIRE lot (including the bulk of pop idol which didn't much interest me) and thus have nuffink to say (how does one tel, u cry!?)

except haha i wuz bigging up kylie before it was popular OR profitable (=1988)

actually it could have been profitable except being an idiot i did in the new statesman!¡!

― mark s, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

B-B-B-But, she was absolutely shite then.

― tav, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"So Solid Crew fill the stage and best British female Dido."

Fucking hell, they must have cut that out! Would've taken a bit more than 21 seconds! Is this a last chapter of Last Exit To Brooklyn- type deal or something?

East Street Market for pirate vids URGENT AND KEY!

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

surely that proves my prescient genius!?! i saw thru the evanescent now to the inner whatevah within yay me!

― mark s, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kylie at her PEAK in 1988, you Travis Hun anagram you. Away back to your food fight.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That band's got a lot to answer for, apart from their work with Tony Blair's government (Tony has sponsored them to keep as many people as possible in a ketamine-like stupor, for as long as possible. He's giving them a castle back for each million-seller).

― tav, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm lost: so solid crew gangbang dido and get given castles by blair?!? BEST BRITS EVER AND I WAS IN THE PUB!?!

― mark s, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

so solid crew gangbang dido

Hello, future googlers!

― Nicole, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can someone explain the inexplicable phenomenon that is 'Robbie Williams' to me? Why is everyone in Britain so into this guy? Wasn't he in 'Take That'? I just don't understand.

― geeta, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Didn't Martin O'Neill semi-drunkenly sum it up at some sort of World Cup 98 show? Said something to Williams like "You're crap but you make the best of what you have?"

*googles around*

Ah, here we go:

"'You can't sing, you can't really dance - but you've made something out of what little talent you've got, becoming the most successful of all the fellas in Take That, brilliant'."

See, there you go -- Robbie is the triumph of the mediocre.

Alternately, there's what his former manager Tim Abbott said -- "I thought I was getting the next George Michael. Instead I got the next George Formby."

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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