brit awards

I went to the website to read the nominations and the fucking thing played Kaiser Chiefs at me.

wow. that's major dissing, dude. don't let them get away with that !

Why isn't it chieves, like 'thieves'?

British Male Solo Artist : James Blunt
British Female Solo Artist: KT Tunstall
British Group: Kaiser Chiefs
British Album: Coldplay - X&Y
British Single:Coldplay - Speed of Sound
British Breakthrough Act: Arctic Monkeys
British Urban Act: Lemar
British Rock Act: Kaiser Chiefs
British Live Act: Kaiser Chiefs
Pop Act: James Blunt
International Male Solo Artist: Kanye West
International Female Solo Artist: Madonna
International Group: Green Day
International Album: Green Day - American Idiot
International Breakthrough Act - Jack Johnson
Outstanding Contribution to Music - Paul Weller

(nothing to see here)

Prince isn't playing is he? I heard some near hysterical Radio 1 personage near wetting theirselves about it and then saying he wasn't. Very irritating.

And what a depressing list - but who ever looks to The Brits for inspiration? For he who does shall be sorely disappointed.

It's horrid though.
Kaiser Queefs! Gah!
James Blunt? What a...

KT Tunstell said she wanted to share her award with Kate Bush, which at least shows some humility.

I'll tune in for Prince. Thankfully he's right at the start, so I can turn off afterwards.

But it shows how uninteresting these acts are that we don't even want to talk about them from, say, a cultural viewpoint.

In fact I feel I'm wasting precious typing time already.

Added: Thursday, 16 February, 2006, 08:54 GMT 08:54 UK

I think its been a good year for British music and some of the better artists were awarded with gongs. Whatever you think about Coldplay or James Blunt (I really like the former and can see the quality of a song like 'You're Beautiful' by the latter) at least they are involved in their own songwriting and music. Thank God the likes of Westlife didn't make an appearance.
I was particularly happy to see Jack Johnson win the International Breakthrough award. He has been producing really good quality music for years and 'In Between Dreams' is brilliant. Shame Arcade Fire didn't win one though!

Clive, Sheffield

here's audio of his performance

http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3QRP27324D18A01OUW7L6CH9AH
gotta say his new songs (the first two obviously) are a tad on the corny side. the second one is sub-carlos santana FM rock type stuff that id expect bon jovi to come out with (and in 2006 those synths are corny as anything). he kills with the other two tracks though.

Don't really care overmuch abt the brit awards, you might have guessed, eh.

Brit Awards: Coldplay are to quit the music scene for up to two years after their album X&Y was named best of the year at the Brits. Chris Martin dropped the bombshell that they are to "go into hiding", saying "people are fed up with us"...

What a perceptive chap!

Further confirmation that Lemar exists so that the Brits don't have to give best Urban to a grime artist

Haha, last year he was beaten by the truly urban, erm, Joss Stone.

I liked all the cuts to crappy British acts looking inadequate in the presence of the Wee Purple One.

Can I stop watching now? There's a shite football match on the other side.

Goal in shite football match now. You missed Coldplay live.

No, some bloke from the Arctic Monkeys is a right plooky wee oik. James Blunt is now on. He has the same smile as Tom Cruise.

James Blunt has a very annoying voice (speaking, not singing, though that's annoying too). I take it they spent all the budget on Prince, hence the rest of the live acts being fairly mundane home-grown acts (honourable exception = Kelly Clarkson)

I didn't see. I was too busy facepalming over the general shiny-yet-insubstantial-ness of it all.

oh just someone beat Peter Kay

"assume the mantle of the people's band" excuse me WTF? Kasabian are equal parts Free and Oasis with any kind of excitement removed.

Well, one of them nearly crashed into Peter Kay, so...

Well, so far just the one wrong.

nice video message from the assistant manager of the Holborn branch of Nat West there...

Twitter's going nuts, what did Jonathan Ross just do?

Ha, Lily Allen's walk muted!

(Someone obviously played the uncensored version of "the Fear")

JRoss came out dresed like one of Run DMC.

But now I hear Lady Gaga killed it.

Maybe it's because I don't watch ITV anymore, but are these ads bloody insulting? John Lennon says buy a Citroen DS3!

That Pixies one for Visa was a bit of a headfuck.

dope performance this, and apparently the mp3 of this is already #14 on the itunes chart

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDCy7iKc_nw

god that was horrible
her voice is just horrible
at least it is on that cover
like shes trying to sound like shes out of control or delirious but it just sounds shit
totally the wrong song for her
award show mashups = almost always shite
id have preferred if she just sung dirty cash with dizzee or something

gaga was the best thing on the whole show, only person who wasnt a boring bland popstar, also the only person who seems a bit scary or weird these days

ok, theres also lilly allen but the fear is shite, and all those synths just make her sound like every other fucking thing on the radio

kasabian are just fucking awful and tepid - how on earth have they gotten so big?

peter kay - i couldnt figure out if he really was bored, or if he thought acting like he was bored the whole night would be funny.

that said i dont see much music on tv anymore so i was still kinda excited just to see this.

that jls song is actually one of the best things to come out of x factor - shame about the ballady single.

woah kasabian had a #1 record?

That Lennon ad was very weird, he came back to life just to slag Liam Gallagher off...

GaGa >>> Alicia/Jay-Z >>> Dizzee/Flo > Kasabian > Lily > JLS >>> Cheryl Cole. (Robbie Williams? tl;dw)

Robbie was annoying - he changed the lyrics at the beginning of the first number of his set to "oh I'm looking at this Brit award what I've just won" or something.

Seemed very weird having Williams as the headline act- does anyone actually care about him any more?

Also, Lady Gaga looked like a gigantic piece of cauliflower cheese.

Robbie? Probably because of getting the lifetime achievement, which is how they usually end the proceedings.

royal blood might be the worst band ever? not watching this horseshit obv, heard about 2 mins of their music last year

taking the no way sna on the chin here, fully deserved obv

thoroughly unremarkable show in every respect so far, which instantly makes it 1000000000 better than the aggressively unwatchable corden-hosted debacles of the past few years

Paloma Faith just won best UK female ahead of Jessie Ware and FKA twigs. At least George Era hasn't shown up yet.

Can't even be arsed correcting that.

Possibly the most feeble Brit awards I've ever seen. Can't decide who was worst between Lewis Hamilton & Ellie Goulding, Sam Smith, Paloma Faith, Royal Blood or Jimmy Carr.

oh shit

would not like to be in her presence right now

but fair play .. she carried on.
she looked very shaken.

can't wait to review that on Google PlayTM

We're watching on catch up, wardrobe malfunction or what?

obviously genuine, but that'll be the front pages for sure.

Sorry, Sam.

Don't have much interest in Madonna but ... there's something shit about delighting in that fall (Not here, more The Guardian's live blog coverage which seems to be saying "At least something interesting happened" and much of Twitter).

People saying this has been the most feeble brits have short memories, its been pretty feeble for a few years now.

The Edna "No Capes" thing was fair enough and fairly swift

Whilst you're correct in asserting I must have a short memory, I do it's shocking, I'm aware the Brit has p much always been a shitfest. This was real bottom of the barrel stuff though. I mean who is it that actually listens to Paloma Faith? She seems like a trick that's being played on the public.

totally ridiculous how madonna falling over has gotten all the attention, when kanye is the one who made that evening and actually did/made/performed something interesting.

the people who listen to PF are people who miss amy winehouse (but dont/cant tell what made amy better)

(did feel sorry for madonna btw)

People saying this has been the most feeble brits have short memories, its been pretty feeble for a few years now.

― Mark G, Wednesday, February 25, 2015 11:07 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM.

Although I'm really struggling to think of the exact moment it became feeble. 1996 was the last truly memorable one, for me at least.

Was the KLF year the last good one? Not just because the KLF were on.. Possibly because the organisers let them, even after finding out what they were going to do.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/fionarutherford/people-are-calling-out-the-brit-awards-for-being-so-white#.oadDQ9mo

Protesters shouted slogans such as "Down with the Brits" and "Justice, power, freedom: Our state is Palestinian".

Dave’s performance just now, ending with the Jack Merritt shoutout. Wow.

https://twitter.com/holliej2193/status/1229872797318602755 his best friend 😭 song already packed a punch but wow

truth

Um, this year's show, its pretty great! How/when did that happen?