Brit Awards 2011

How splendid that a graduate of the BRITS SCHOOL should win the Critics' Choice award at the BRITS!

― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 11:18 (2 years ago)

*cough*

Brit Awards tip Jessie J for top

How interesting that the only way anyone gets *censored* at the Brits now, is when you (or, say, the Arctic Monkeys) have a sarcastic dig at all the Brit Schooled popstars present in the building...

oh joy...
James Corden to host 2011 Brit awards

last year's BRITS crits choice winner (ellie goulding), like this year's was also the winner of the BBC poll. i mean.. what variety!

I am glad that we have a Brits thread every year as so many ILMoes are big fans of the Brits and always enjoy it so much and get such pleasure from thinking about it and talking about it.

It's really more about the two hours of watching ITV1 and posting 'fuck that's awful' repeatedly.

Not been the same since the halcyon days of DJ Martian.

I can moan about Merzbow not getting nommed for Best International Artist if it'll take you back.

Brits thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mercury threads because the former is 90% contained to posting on the night rather than one month/five trillion posts of yelling at clouds

Yelling at clouds vs Yelling at James Corden.

UK urban artist Tinie Tempah leads the charge at this year's Brit Awards with four nominations.

The 22-year-old is up for best British male, best breakthrough act, best single for Pass Out and and album of the year for Disc-Overy.

Rapper Plan B and folk band Mumford And Sons and The xx all have three nominations and band Take That are up for two prizes.

This year's ceremony will be hosted by comedian James Corden in February.
Cole versus Cardle

Tempah's debut album, Disc-Overy, went straight to number one last October. He has also had two number one singles.

In the prestigious album category he will compete against Plan B, Take That, Mumford & Sons and The xx (xx).

Veteran rock star Robert Plant picks up his first ever Brit award.

The former Led Zeppelin frontman will compete for the best male prize against Tempah, Mark Ronson and Paul Weller.

X Factor dominates the best single shortlist with X Factor judge Cheryl Cole vying against former winners Matt Cardle and Alexandra Burke.

Olly Murs, who came second in the sixth series, has also been nominated, along with Florence & The Machine, Scouting For Girls, Taio Cruz and The Wanted.

Last year's critics' choice award winner Ellie Goulding will take on Cole, Laura Marling, Paloma Faith and Rumer in the best female artist category.

As well as best album, Mumford & Sons, who released their debut album Sigh No More in 2009, are also up for best breakthrough act and best British band.

The prize of best international album will be fought out between Arcade Fire, Cee Lo Green, Eminem, Kings of Leon and Katy Perry.

This year's Brits, which will be broadcast live on 15 February, will take place at London's O2 arena for the first time in the awards' 30-year history.

A special nominations show is to follow on ITV2 on Friday, which will feature performances from Tempah, Goulding and this years critics' choice winner Jessie J.

Designer Dame Vivienne Westwood has been invited to create a new version of the iconic Brit award for this year's event.

the xx was out in 2009 ffs

Tinie, Plan B and the xx - that's three chances not to award Mumford & Sons. Not a bad line-up by Brits standards.

but Plan B is an inhuman monster.

the xx was out in 2009 ffs

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, January 13, 2011 9:11 PM (1 hour ago)

It didn't start selling well till 2010 though which means to the judges it didn't exist until this year.

Interesting to see Matt Cardle nominated for best single, wonder why his version was picked over the Biffy Clyro's which came out earlier in the year. He must have done something really special to the song to make the judges take notice.

Added a key change.

Renamed it.

Not been Biffy Fucking Clyro.

Prediction, Tinie Tempah will win none of his awards and Mumford & Sons will win all of them.

That will not happen.

I agree. I think Tinie has too much goodwill behind him - he hasn't put a step wrong all year. The Brits are calculated enough to recognise that he's just a more charming and exciting poster boy for British music than the Mumfords. It would be nice to see Plan B do well but I'm not sure.

the xx was out in 2009 ffs

Yeah, and bluddy "You got the love" Florence and the Machine was out in 2008 for very fs.

On tonight at 8PM, for those wishing to shout* at clouds James Corden.

(* , shout, let it all out, here's a 'comedian' I can do without)

Oh what a surprise, it's Take That...

Mark Owen as Osw4ld M0seley

suddenly hate this country

Re-designed Brit Award trophy looks like something from your nan's mantlepiece.
Corden less obnoxious than usual though.

This Adele performance is so good I might have to rapidshare her album later on for a listen

OK Corden's faked sincerity beginning to grate severely now.

and speaking of faked sincerity... it's Scumfuck & Sons

woah Corden sounds like he's grooming Bieber

that face touching made me sick in my mouth

the only thing that could possibly be worse than corden -- fearne cotton

i have this on mute on the tv behind me, and turning around to witness creepy fat guy paedophilia was not what i expected.

This whole evening is just going to be a massive anti-climax and ever-deepening disappointment after that Take That opening, isn't it?

xp oh you should have heard what Corden was saying "mmmm you smell amazing..." WTF?

Rihanna might be looking good but this would be so much better if she mimed

I love that ILX can't even muster up enough vitriol for this shower of shit

my sporadic having a look at the screen suggests that Arcade Fire are winning everything. RIP pop music :'(.

fucking hell @ the mumford sons

Never want to hear this Plan B song ever again. Especially the line "just like that song by The Zutons Valerie" ffs

He's like a Marks & Spencer version of Eminem.

Given how unimpressed the audience looked just then, Plan B could have gone on stage, dropped his trousers, and pretty much got the same response.

what's this here, an album that came out 18 months ago up for something?

"We are the Ting Tings. This drum is priceless. Meanwhile, we're fucking worthless."

First genuine cheer from the crowd this evening for Boy George.

James Corden bullying a child, and this is a televisual and musical highlight? #thisfuckingcountry

Rihanna appears to be wearing a large tablecloth.

Rihanna's victory lap was amazing, someone needs to make a GIF of it pronto

This performance is basically 'Tinie Tempah jumps around shouting while other people fill in for him'.

Btw, fuck you guys for foisting Mumford & Sons on us. They've been steadily building up steam over here, but I feel like their performance at the Grammys is going to make it even worse now. "Mumford & sons are awesome!" has been the second most overheard sentence this week about the Grammys, right behind "why the hell are Arcade Fire?"/

Or, also, "who the hell are Arcade Fire?".

Based on their Brits performance, they're what you get if you play a Cure record and an REM record at the same time.

More like 'Defecation of Strickland's Pants'...

Every little factette that vouceover woman gives us about Scum'n'Co makes me hate them even more.

And it looks like Cee-Lo Green is auditioning for the role of Boss Hogg in the reboot of Dukes of Hazzard.

I feel so guilty about my country now, that was not worth missing Pikey Weddings for

Don't know if our attention has been drawn to http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com/page/1 but it made me laugh.

Haha, what is Cee-Lo wearing for this show? Does he have Gwenyth and the Muppets?

more like Bumfluff and Runs AMIRITE

Btw, fuck you guys for foisting Mumford & Sons on us. They've been steadily building up steam over here, but I feel like their performance at the Grammys is going to make it even worse now. "Mumford & sons are awesome!" has been the second most overheard sentence this week about the Grammys, right behind "why the hell are Arcade Fire?"/

Honestly this is the worst thing we've done to you guys since the American War of Independence.

Everyone on this so eager to please (except Cee-Lo and Daltrey). I don't want that. I want pop stars to be difficult, single minded, "here's some music, take it or leave it". Not this thin gruel and weak sauce served with an apologetic smile and a faltering tone.

this was the first time i've knowingly heard the mumfords... honestly worse than i expected. worse than the levellers.

I honestly can't imagine a more appropriate band for the Cameron era.

true indeed. they were saying something about brotherly togetherness or whatever? dead giveaway.

Rihanna's costume during the actual music was pretty wtf Grandma tan-flesh suit UNsexy

(Adele's.... gorgeous)

the mumfs are vermin and need to be fed to gennaro gattuso and his large impoverished sicilian family

They sound like a wedding band who can't be arsed and won't be getting any tips.

Rihanna's costume

Thought to myself "This is supposed to be sexually exciting? A 1940's swimsuit? Does James Corden get off on this? Or expect us to get off on this? Ewwww...."

But you are not alone in this
And you are not alone in this
As brothers we will stand and we'll hold your hand
Hold your hand

And you are the mother
The mother of your baby child
The one to whom you gave life
And you have your choices
And these are what make man great [via riding michael gove-waves]

xpost

rihanna can get it tho, come on
His ladder to the stars

Hm, not exacly a "2000 post commentary" this year, but after watching it, it's only fair.

The XX and their "we had a really good idea as to what we wanted to do in the studio before we went in" oh really shock horror goodness...

Mumford & Sons hold about as much brotherly appeal for me as a weepy game of soggy biscuit.

That Scumford song sounds like it's got a creepy Fundy pro-life subtext going on surprise surprise

After getting flak every time I slag off Mumford and Sons on Twitter, ILX is like a warm bath of sanity.

if this has done anything at all for music it's that they make the Levellers sound not so bad in comparison.

And the Coral.

(i quite liked the first coral album)

Someone played me some new stuff by the Coral and it was alright actually!

at least they had some hooks and a sort of madness-esque sillyness to them. or so I remember.
out of the unholy trinity of Cast / Coral / Zutons they clearly win.

Oh I wasn't slagging them off, far from it.

xpost Never put those three bands together in my mind, but yeah I think they just came out at a time when the UK was more interested in retro rock, not baggy-style psychedelia.

More thinking "If M&S made a song I really liked, it'd sound like The Coral maybe"

And I'm not a massive fan of the Coral, just...

Never put those three bands together in my mind, but yeah I think they just came out at a time when the UK was more interested in retro rock, not baggy-style psychedelia.

The Coral were pretty popular though. More so than the Vines or the Datsuns or whoever was being hyped around then. Probably more popular than the Libertines the first time round as well.

Also, they WERE retro rock. Through and through.

Bigger than the Libertines and the Vines? Not round my way. They had a retro feel, but they had a more ambitious, Merseystyle sound than any of those reductivist four-chord bands.

The Coral seemed to actually have fans, as opposed to people hired in to look keen.

Yeah, the Libs also. Don't know about the Vines in that respect.

CAn't see the Coral connection. Mumford are more like Athlete starring in an Innocent Smoothies ad.

"Shadows Fall" is probably as close as it gets.

Yeah but Doglatin "round your way" is not really a particularly representative sample. The first Coral album went platinum and was top five in the charts. The first Libertines album peaked at #35 and has still only gone gold. The Vines only went gold as well and every album after their debut performed underwhelmingly. Around 2002-2004 The Coral were bigger than all of them.

Anyway Mumford & Cunts are Britain's Kings of Leon really. Arena rock with folksy touches and a ridiculous fake homespun aesthetic.

Yeah, they've both got that beardy inbred look going on too.

Don't see the Coral connection either - they were Wirral stoners into Beefheart and psychedelia. I can't imagine Geoff Barrow ever producing a Mumford & Sons album. I think looking back at 00s indie, the Coral's stuff will age better than most.

The first Libertines album peaked at #35 and has still only gone gold

huh this is surprising, they seemed to have a kind of omnipresence and all-pervading influence not seen since um I dunno when. It seemed like every teen who was a bit alternative was a Libertines acolyte.

They were also stealing it off the internet.

(The second one went in at #1 and was massive though)