Lil Brot Awards 2009 Zong Thread : (Search terms: Brit awards 2009)

Fearne Cotton will announce the nominees at the ceremony in Camden

The nominations for this year's Brit Awards are to be revealed later at a London ceremony.

Kings of Leon, Take That and Duffy are expected to be among the acts nominated for the UK's leading music accolade.

Radio 1 presenter Fearne Cotton will announce who is in the running at the Roundhouse in Camden.

Kylie Minogue will present the main awards ceremony on 18 February, alongside Gavin and Stacey stars James Corden and Mathew Horne.

However, two acts that have received some of the biggest critical acclaim over the past 12 months have been made ineligible for nominations because of a change in award rules.

Previously artists were eligible to be nominated if they have had a single or album in the UK top 75, but this year it has been changed to the top 40.

This means that Mercury Prize-nominated Laura Marling, who would have been in the running, will fail to get a mention as her album Alas I Cannot Swim only peaked at number 45.

Similarly, US singer Bon Iver, who featured in HMV's top 10 end of year poll of polls, reached number 42 with For Emma, Forever Ago and will also miss out.

I heard about the top 40 artists only thing. Was Pete Waterman behind it?

I dunno, but that would make him ineligible, wouldn't it?

Mind you, top 75 would have, also, right?

Actually, B&S had had top 40 hits when they won theirs...

In that year?

nme brat awards probably have the same rules since there's no difference in them these days.

Coldplay and Duffy get 4 nominations each yaaaaaaaaaaaaawn

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7839505.stm

Ian Brown nomination based on an album released in September 2007, earlier than Craig David's last. even if Lemar's recent album had got in the top 40 (it peaked at #41) they probably would've ignored him too.

Oasis, Keane, The Verve and Kaiser Chiefs surprisingly/re-assuringly ignored.

xposts:

Yeah, just checked: Fold yr arms went top 20 the year before (i.e. qualifying)

Nice full easy to pick from list from Sky News...

:: MasterCard British Album

Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Duffy - Rockferry
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing

:: British Group

Coldplay
Elbow
Girls Aloud
Radiohead
Take That

:: British Single

Top 10 British singles by airplay and sales in calendar year. Top 5 selected by UK Commercial Radio listeners. Winner chosen by live public vote on awards night.

Adele - Chasing Pavements
Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Dizzee Rascal featuring Calvin Harris and Chrome - Dance Wiv Me
Duffy - Mercy
Estelle ft Kanye West - American Boy
Girls Aloud - The Promise
Leona Lewis - Better in Time
Scouting for Girls - Heartbeat
The X Factor Finalists - Hero

:: British Male Solo Artist

Ian Brown
James Morrison
Paul Weller
The Streets
Will Young

:: British Female Solo Artist

Adele
Beth Rowley
Duffy
Estelle
M.I.A.

:: British Breakthrough Act

Winner chosen by BBC Radio One listeners.

Adele
Duffy
The Last Shadow Puppets
Scouting For Girls
The Ting Tings

:: British Live Act

Nominees chosen by a panel of live music experts under the chairmanship of Tony
Wadsworth of The BPI. Winner chosen by BBC Radio Two listeners.

Coldplay
Iron Maiden
Scouting For Girls
The Verve

:: International Album

AC / DC - Black Ice
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
The Killers - Day & Age
Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

:: International Group
AC / DC
Fleet Foxes
The Killers
Kings of Leon
MGMT

:: International Male Solo Artist

Beck
Neil Diamond
Jay-Z
Kanye West
Seasick Steve

:: International Female Solo Artist

Beyonce
Gabriella Cilmi
Katy Perry
Pink
Santogold

:: Critics' Choice Award

WINNER - Florence & The Machine
Little Boots
White Lies

:: British Producer of the Year

Nominees chosen by members of the Music Producers Guild with winner chosen by MPG judging panel under the chairmanship of Robin Miller. Brit Award to be presented to British Producer of the Year at MPG Awards (12th February, Cafe de Paris).

Bernard Butler
Brian Eno
Steve Mac

:: Outstanding Contribution to music

WINNER - Pet Shop Boys

Alas I Cannot Swim For I Am Not a Marlin.

now I will go to bed.

My Winner/Prob Winner

:: MasterCard British Album

Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing

:: British Group

Coldplay
Radiohead

:: British Single

Adele - Chasing Pavements
Coldplay - Viva La Vida

:: British Male Solo Artist

Paul Weller
Poor selection this year.

:: British Female Solo Artist

Again, pretty poor list: Adele the classic one song wonder? Duffy is way too boring, but she'll get it prob.

:: British Breakthrough Act

The Ting Tings
The last shads are hardly a 'breakthrough', being an arcs sideproj.

:: British Live Act

I think we should see this list in full again. And marvel.
Coldplay
Iron Maiden
Scouting For Girls
The Verve
Yeah, Coldplay will get it. Marvel at how SFG can be inthe same categ as IronMaiden! Best "making up the numbers" since "PJ and Duncan" were in the Best New Act list along with Oasis, back in the day.

:: International Album

Wot no Vampire Weekend? um, KOL will win, none of these I would pick though

:: International Group
Ditto.

:: International Male Solo Artist (or "Mention Beck each year award")

Jay-Z
or Kanye West

:: International Female Solo Artist

Katy Perry, just for wanting it.

:: British Producer of the Year

Bernard Butler
Brian Eno
Steve Mac
um, they had a good year? Pass.

It's hardly even getting annoyed about now - it's just boring. A tedious promotional exercise to sell backrooms of otherwise unshiftable over-ordered CDs to fifty-year-old white CD buyers. The ceremony will have zero entertainment value (apart from the PSBs closing the show but they should have been given the gong back in about 1993) and no one will watch it on TV.

Florence/White/Boots - dull dull dull crap hyped up by PR employees turned music scribblers bigging up their old mates.

The British music industry - as opposed to British music - isn't worth saving.

Couldn't even five acts for best live act ey?

album:....um, radiohead?
band: girls aloud for the fourth yr running (diminishing returns but)
single: american bwoy
brit male: er let's not bother then, this year
brit fem: estelle or m.i.a. both on the back of one tune each
breakthrough: oh ffs
live: dunno, prob iron maiden
inter lp: mgmt
inter artist: mgmt (don't particularly like but look at the competition, jeez)
inter male: kanye
inter female: beyonce for single ladies alone
critics choice: leave it to them
producer: i don't know
outstanding contribution: YES!!!!!!

BREAKING NEWS: BRIT AWARDS=LAST

comment on mgmt applies to artist & album noms btw.

brit male: er let's not bother then, this year

Well there's Giggs, Wiley, Tinchy Stryder, Skepta and Kano (for starters) if they were really serious about furthering the cause of British music but we all know the reasons for that.

racism

Staggered at the inclusion of The Verve under Best Live Act, as they played one of the worst gigs I've ever seen at the back end of 2007; hundreds of people left early, and we had an unprecedented number of angry comments on the newspaper website.

The whole thing is the desperate last ditch act of an industry about to freefall into extinction. An industry which preferred to bully to protect its own interests, rather than embrace the new when they had the opportunity. Which opted for the old, tried and tested, outdated way of doing business and wonders why it's now crashing into the wall.

Running a business on the basis of fear rather than love or enthusiasm is always fatal.

I wouldn't be surprised if this year's Brits turned out to be the last.

nah, the industry loves it's sauce and pop and dressup do's.

Especially with the "punters" being able to get tickets to the event.

Where they get to stand (or sit, whatever) behind the bigwigs....

Am I alone in thinking the "osbournes" presentation show was more of a disaster than the SamFox/MickFleetwood show?

And, er, what's the point of having separate categories for International Album and International Group, when the nominees are identical?

Because the best IA might have been one by an international solo artist?

(hey, Beck made an album. Didn't he? I dunno...)

and so, so WRONG! (xp)

predicted

album: Coldplay (maaaybe Duffy tho as it has probably sold more)
group: Coldplay
single: Duffy
male: James Morrison
female: Duffy
breakthrough: Ting Tings
live: Scouting For Girls (possible lolvote hijack)
int album and group: Kings Of Leon
int male: Kanye
int female: Katy Perry

take that will win best british band

pretty sure there's a rule against awards for best group and best album going to different acts

In 2006 it was Kaiser Chiefs and Coldplay respectively.

heady days

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7851608.stm

Oasis have notched up an impressive seven nominations at the 2009 NME awards, including best and worst band.

The band are up for best live band, best album and the coveted best British band - which they won in 2003.

Noel Gallagher has picked up a couple of individual nods for hero of the year and in the best dressed category.

Kings of Leon are up for four of the awards, including best international band and best track for the UK number one Sex On Fire.

Oasis' last NME award came in 2006 for best video.

Noel Gallagher said: "Seven nominations, you say? Is that all? I always knew my time would come in the best dressed man in the world category."

Muse, the winners of last year's best British band, go up against Oasis, Radiohead, Bloc Party and The Last Shadow Puppets to retain their title.

The Devonshire rockers are also in the running for best live band and DVD.

The Brats

The NME awards show, also known as the Brats, has enjoyed its fair share of controversy over the years but has faced recent criticisms of becoming mainstream.

Since 2003, lighter awards such as sexiest male and female, best and worst dressed and best haircut have floated in and out of the nominated categories.

Former US President George W Bush has been named villain of the year for the past four years running and this year will battle it out with former presidential candidate John McCain and Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

The newly inaugurated US President Barack Obama has been shortlisted for hero of the year.

Despite their haul at the Brit nominations, Coldplay's album Viva La Vida (Or Death And All His Friends) has been nominated for worst album.

It is up against Slipway Fires by Razorlight, whose self-titled debut album was also nominated in 2007 but lost out to Robbie Williams' Rudebox.

Singer Johnny Borrell also shares the dubious honour of worst dressed alongside Amy Winehouse, Pete Doherty, Katy Perry and The Killers' Brandon Flowers.

The Cure will accept NME's godlike genius award, the equivalent to an outstanding contribution, and join past honourees including Manic Street Preachers, Primal Scream and Ian Brown.

Winners will be announced at London's Brixton Academy on 25 February.

Giggs is mildly less deserving of an award than Paul Weller, the Ting Tings and some shambolic local band from Nottingham.

"It's all been downhill since Dickie Valentine"

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00025/victor_25669t.jpg

The Cure will accept NME's godlike genius award, the equivalent to an outstanding contribution, and join past honourees including Manic Street Preachers, Primal Scream and Ian Brown.

Fat Boab in good company there

Past honourees honour Cap'n Bob earlier today:

http://www.scgt.nsw.gov.au/ignitionsuite/uploads/images/IgnitionSuite_Image(1046).jpg

This is on tonight on ITV1 at 8PM...

7PM if you canna wait to see Celebs, on ITV2.

Oh it's U2 opening...

Ooh look it's Kasabian,.

And co-incidentally my first migraine in months just kicked off...

Is it just me or is this even more of a shambles than usual?

It's not going well. Girls Aloud have basically got an open goal here, though this fan-based nonsense is not really helping. Bloody hell, though, has Nicola Roberts always sounded that good?

Fearne Cotton is in a caravan! Can she make Duffy look like she gives a shit?

Never mind that, can Fearne look as though she gives a shit?

Also doesn't help that the crowd noise appears to be set to constant squall. So there's no reaction to anything at all. It's an exceedingly weird viewing experience.

Alex James looking totally lost there. Looks like they're still serving booze backstage even after last year's swear-a-thon

Duffy not boring? blimey...

..nope, she is.

Coldplay in "as good as it's gonna get" shockah.

Enjoy that freeze-frame of Guy Garvey's face? Well, here it is again!

Course, that might just be in Yorkshire.

MAIDEN!

Are not there.

Curses.

and now they're nicking my posts and saying them in funny voices!

I wish they would cut to Guy Garvey's face now.

Hasselhoff: wahayyyy I#ve had a drinkie1!!!!!

Shite.

(xpost) No he's always like that...

blimey, theyre old...

See, this is what I mean by piped in crowd noise - it's plainly obvious that no-one in the audience is even applauding!

Stage set by Jewson...

The fuck has this cunt got against Craig David exactly?

Does Matthew know no-one's laffing?

"AUDIO MUTED". Hmm.

xpost it's because Avid Merrion got loads of laffs with Craig David jokes, back in the seventies...

(xxpost) Maybe the sound guy hates him and refuses to pipe in the "audience laughter" track

I turn away for 30 seconds, now WTF is Gok Wan doing?

Announcement of Seasick Steve's name reveals none of audience can receive BBC 4.

Seasick Steve is actually in the audience, so it might make a change for an international winner to be there...
oh fuck no it's Kanye
"Barack is the best interracial male" did he really say that? Why is he dressed like a character in a Lenny Henry sketch?

This isn't quite working, is it?

And now it's somehow getting worse.

C'mon estelle, keep up...

Well my migraine's gone, but this is what it was looking and sounding like about an hour ago...

"Let's hear the WHOLE ALBUMS!!"

yeah, why not!

Gotta love ITN's priorities: "helicopter ditches in North Sea, Brit Awards, and, oh, possibly, some other news, maybe..."

"very addermirable"

I liked Brandon Flowers' wee speech. Was that Aguilera doing the Dusty bits for What Have I Done To Deserve This?

Oh hang on, it's Lady GaGa. Oh.

British Female Solo Artist: Duffy

International Female Solo Artist: Katy Perry

British Breakthrough Act: Duffy

International Group: Kings of Leon

British Male Solo Artist: Paul Weller

International Album: Kings of Leon, Only By The Night

British Live Act: Iron Maiden

British Group: Elbow

Critics' Choice: Florence and The Machine

International Male Solo Artist: Kanye West

British Single: Girls Aloud, The Promise

British Album: Duffy, Rockferry

Outstanding Contribution to Music: Pet Shop Boys

Kings of Krap Leon - best mundane band in the world as decided by Absolute Radio listeners and Q readers

Duffy rolling out her patented technique of replacing her vowels with other, less relevant vowels instead.

I'd never seen Duffy perform before and had been led to believe she was 'alright' and 'could sing' - that was awful. Really awful.

paninaro/go west mashup. god bless those guys.

Duffy in "not exactly surprised" with the awards.

and a very odd Diet Coke ad afterwards...

It'll be down soon enough, but here's the PSB bit for now.

Coldplay go away for zilch brit awards - gives chris martin something to whine about

Norway a country with a population of under 5 million once again trumps the crappy Brits, more categories and better music represented, e.g Lindstrom and Enslaved

Norwegian Grammys …winners announced
January 26th, 2009

FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Maria Mena - Cause and Effect

MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Thom Hell - God if I Saw Her Now

POP ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Real Ones - All for the Neighbourhood

ELECTRONICA ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too

ROCK ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Luketar - Lake Toba

NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR
Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart

MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Madcon - Liar

HIT OF THE YEAR
The Blacksheeps – Oro Jaska Beana

METAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Enslaved – Vertebrae

HIP-HOP ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Karpe Diem - Fire Vegger

OPEN CLASS
Farmers Market - Surfin’ USSR

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Henning Kraggerud - Eugéne Ysaye: Six Sonatas for Solo Violin

COUNTRY ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Ida Jenshus - Color of the Sun

JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Helge Lien Trio - Hello Troll

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Ellen Ugelvik - George Crumb: Makrokosmos I-II

BLUES ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Orbo & the Longshots - High Roller

FOLK DANCING
Gjermund Larsen Trio – Ankomst

POPULAR MUSIC COMPOSER OF THE YEAR ÅRETS POPULÆRKOMPONIST
Thom Hell - “Darling” (From the album God If I Saw Her Now)

SELLEMANN OF THE YEAR
Espen Lind

EXPORT AWARD
MadCon

INDUSTRY AWARD
Audun Tylden

CHART HIT OF ALL TIME
A-HA - Take On Me

FOLK / DANCE ORCHESTRA
Ingemars - I Finnskogens Rike

VISER
Halvdan Sivertsen - Mellom Oss

CHILDREN’S MUSIC
Trondheim Sinfonietta - Så Rart…!

LYRICIST OF THE YEAR
Odd Børretzen - “Paradise Bay” (From the album Syv Sørgelige Sanger og Tre Triste)

CONTEMPORARY COMPOSER OF THE YEAR
Risto Holopainen - Garbage Collection

I'm sorry, but this photo is like an optical illusion to me.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/02/18/article-1149225-0391BAFA000005DC-559_634x588.jpg

How many Norwegian Grammies have Ulver won?

Some thoughts:

U2 - always start the show with a huge hit not a new song.
Duffy - more than enough already. I know the Brits are little more than a glorified prizegiving ceremony now but "soul singer" my arse (actually, judging by her "performance" last night, delete the word "soul" from that)
Justified wins for Coldplay and Kanye and a deserved one for Weller; the rest can go hang themselves
Get peer musicians and skilled broadcasters to compere the show not fifth-rate "comedians"
Take That doing AA Gill impressions in a balloon - was my mind supposed to be boggled by the "spectacle"?
PSBs predictably far and away the best thing about the show.
Even though, as always, I wanted to shoot the business execs pretending to like them when in 1986 they would have stuck their noses up and listened to Huey Lewis & the News
And, of course, all the winners were/are major label priorities.

Maybe they should hire the KLF to produce next year's show.

Justified wins for Coldplay

Coldplay didn't win anything I thought. Are you thinking of Iron Maiden?

re: u2, yes, but if the new track is megafant, then go for it.

That song sounded like "Apollo 9" at live aid.

They didn't, did they? (xp) I suppose their "Viva La Vida" towered so naturally over the dross surrounding it that I automatically assumed they'd won something but of course duff Duffy needed a sales boost.

Duffy: I just don't see it at all!

nice enough, and some of the songs seem quite grandiose for a 'soul' type singer.

Still, though: Best album of the year? I can imagine those business execs loving it, so, points for honesty.

Something else I noticed about the programme; too much boring, long shot camerawork.

Are ITV so scuppered by their pension plan commitments that they can only afford YTS trainees to work the cameras and produce shows?

I thought that "audio muted" moment was quite telling...

Seemingly desperate to avoid any kind of interruptions/unscripted moments, even though *that*'s what theye compile into those 'best of the brits' compilations after the event.

What did happen, anyway? Florence looked around distracted for a moment, then carried on with the speech.

(a bit like last years moment when the Arctic Monkeys said something sarcastic (but not sweary afaik about the Brits school people, and they immediately cut to backstage)

In her speech Duffy said something like: "It's not trucking easy. It's hard, it's really, really hard."

I thought she was going to go into a cover of the title track of the 1982 album by the Who but no such luck.

"However much I booze"...

I was watching Florence's lips, and I think she effed. Maybe that's all if was?

Maybe they should hire the KLF to produce next year's show.

Instead of this year's producer: none other than Helen "soul passion & honesty" Terry!

ah right. Must have been two such moments then, going by Marc's comment.

Award for most embarrasingly awful moment goes to Hasselhoff's drunken perving over Fearne Cotton. Joe Calzaghe ran him close though.

This was terrible. I tuned in briefly, I thought it would be fun.

It's amazing how many early-80s holdovers and ex-library-music session pros are high up in the Brits and PRS heirarchies. (x-p)

I agree about the preponderance of very wide, long shots of the cavernous hall they'd rented, with the candle-lit tables down below. No doubt the producer saw this shot in rehearsals, was transfixed, and demanded that it be cut to nonstop. "Oh it's just beautiful!" No it's not. On iTV's standard-def Freeview it was like taking a break every three or four minutes to study a piece of blurry black calico.