Brit Awards 2014 Nominations

British Male Solo Artist

David Bowie
Jake Bugg
James Blake
John Newman
Tom Odell

British Female Solo Artist

Birdy
Ellie Goulding
Jessie J
Laura Marling
Laura Mvula

British Breakthrough Act

Bastille
Disclosure
Laura Mvula
London Grammar
Tom Odell

British Group

Arctic Monkeys
Bastille
Disclosure
One Direction
Rudimental

British Single

Bastille - Pompeii
Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding - I Need Your Love
Disclosure ft AlunaGeorge - White Noise
Ellie Goulding - Burn
John Newman - Love Me Again
Naughty Boy ft Sam Smith - La La La
Olly Murs - Dear Darling
One Direction - One Way Or Another
Passenger - Let Her Go
Rudimental ft Ella Eyre - Waiting All Night

[b]British Album of the Year

Arctic Monkeys - AM
Bastille - Bad Blood
David Bowie - The Next Day
Disclosure - Settle
Rudimental - Home

International Male Solo Artist

Bruno Mars
Drake
Eminem
John Grant
Justin Timberlake

International Female Solo Artist]/b]

Janelle Monae
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga
Lorde
Pink
[b]
International Group

Arcade Fire
Daft Punk
Haim
Kings of Leon
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

British Producer

Ethan Johns
Flood and Alan Moulder
Paul Epworth

Critics' Choice

Winner: Sam Smith

Also nominated: Ella Eyre, Chloe Howl

Winners will be announced at the Brits ceremony on 19 February.

just shows the quality are country has avaylable x

Pop acts Bastille and Disclosure lead the nominations at the 2014 Brit Awards, in a field that leans heavily towards new bands.

Both acts have four nominations, followed closely by pop star Ellie Goulding and dance collective Rudimental, who have three each.

Two-time Brit winner David Bowie is up for best British male and best album, while Arctic Monkeys also get two nods.

The Sheffield band will open the awards ceremony on 19 February.

Other acts scheduled to perform at the show include Ellie Goulding, Bruno Mars, up for best international male, and Katy Perry, listed in the international female category.

"The Brits has always showcased the music that I love and am influenced by," said Perry, whose single Roar was a global hit last year.

"It's an honour to play at such a prestigious event where musicality shines at its brightest."

New artists feature strongly on this year's longlist, with London Grammar, John Newman, Lorde, Drake and Haim all receiving their first nominations.

London four-piece Bastille, who met at university in Leeds, are up for best single, best British group, breakthrough artist and best album for their debut Bad Blood.

Featuring the catchy, triumphant hit singles Pompeii and Things We Lost In The Fire, it went straight to the top of the UK charts in March and ended up the year's 11th best-selling album.

Disclosure, who are nominated in the same four categories, are brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence from Surrey.

Combining soul melodies with deep house and UK garage, their album, Settle, featured guest vocals from fellow Brit nominees Sam Smith and London Grammar, and was a number one in June.

Ellie Goulding is nominated twice in the best single category, for the dance-pop anthem Burn and her collaboration with DJ Calvin Harris, I Need Your Love.

She is also up for female solo artist, where her competition includes Birdy, Jessie J, Laura Marling and Laura Mvula.

David Bowie is a strong contender for best British male, after emerging from a 10-year hiatus and rumoured health problems last year.

The star, who celebrated his 67th birthday on Wednesday, is old enough to be the grandfather of his fellow nominees: Jake Bugg, Tom Odell, John Newman and Mercury Prize winner James Blake.

He is also up for best British album - deemed the night's main award - for The Next Day, where he must see off Bastille, Disclosure, Arctic Monkeys, for their lascivious fifth album AM, and Rudimental, for the euphoric club record Home.

If Bowie wins either award, he will receive his first Brit statuette since being honoured with the outstanding contribution award 18 years ago.
Bowie has only won two Brits - for best male in 1984 and outstanding contribution in 1996.

For the second year running, there will be no outstanding contribution award in 2014.

However, the best British video category is being resurrected for the first time since 2002, when it was won by So Solid Crew's 21 Seconds.

Nominations for the prize have yet to be announced, but the winner will be decided on the night by fans using social media.

That makes One Direction, whose fanbase are particularly ardent, the likely winners. Harry, Zayn, Louis, Liam and Niall are also expected to lift the "global success award", which recognises overseas record sales.

With nominations for best British group and best single, the boyband could be the night's big winners.
Notable omissions

Some major artists have been overlooked - including Vampire Weekend, Robbie Williams, Kanye West and Beyonce, whose self-titled album arrived slightly too late for the eligibility period.

Robin Thicke and Miley Cyrus were also missing - perhaps a reaction to the controversy over their sexually-charged music videos.

The nominations were revealed by BBC Radio 1 breakfast show DJ Nick Grimshaw at a ceremony in central London.

The trophies, designed by Philip Treacy, will be handed out at London's O2 arena on 19 February, with comedian James Corden presiding over the ceremony for the third and final time.

Organisers will be hoping the show packs more of a punch than last year's, which many felt had fallen flat.

Robbie Williams was among those who criticised the event, saying the audience contained too many industry guests sitting at tables.

"I got on stage and turned around and looked at a dead hall," he said. "It's not their fault, but maybe they should have some punters in."

Jessie J, nominated for the fourth year in a row in 2014 agreed, "last year it felt a little slow".

She said she was hoping for more of the "bad behaviour" which marked previous Brit ceremonies - such as Jarvis Cocker's stage invasion in 1996, or Adele's two-finger gesture two years ago.

Rudimental's Kesi Dryden added: "Last year, we had label guys on our table saying 'don't do this, don't do that'.

"But if we win this time, it's going to go off!"

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/09/brit-awards-nominations-announced-full-list

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09 January 2014 7:52pm
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Nope, haven't heard any of the singles of the year. I feel like Homer browsing Suicide Notes record shop (formerly Good Vibrations).

More like the shit awards amirite

"It's an honour to play at such a prestigious event where musicality shines at its brightest."

Jesus Christ.

"the organizers hope that an appearance by Prince and a performance by the Arctic Monkeys will liven things up"

choked on toast laughing

Andy Partridge of XTC once remarked that the pain of a burst eardrum was not unlike "shoving a thermometer up the hole in your penis and slowly bending it until it snaps", an activity I find preferable to having anything to do with the fucking Brit Awards.

Slick PR, guys (Mods please amend thread title to include @MasterCardUK and #PricelessSurprises as per instructions)

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/journalists-seeking-accreditation-brit-awards-asked-gaurantee-coverage-sponsor-mastercard

It'd be pretty funny if everyone just pulled out and/or was turned away from entering.

Out of interest, what would would be the likely consequence of going but not complying with those terms?

wait don't tell me, a pricey surprise amirite?

No one other than the most spineless n00b is going to comply with those terms.

you dont get in next year

No one other than the most spineless n00b is going to comply with those terms.

i'm assuming no one will now, but it's depressing that anyone would acquiesce in the first place

Someone pointed out that press go through a different PR company so this is just for blaggers who aren't covering it for a publication. It's still ridiculous though so let's point and laugh.

The thought of wanting to blag the Brits makes me shudder.

seriously! even with yoncé there. you'd have to pay me to sit through the rest of it. (is the food even that nice?)

maybe Borat will show up, and Slash will do a guitar solo during Ellie Goulding's "Burn" #PricelessSurprises

I only went one year and sat in the press room live-blogging which wasn't much fun but I never for a second wished I was down on the floor

seriously though, if there's a story of the last 12 months of British pop music it's been the inexorable rise of the house bubbler (Duke Dumont, Storm Queen, Rudimental, Clean Bandit, Gorgon City, etc etc); i'm assuming this goes entirely unremarked tonight?

i really need someone to explain ellie goulding to me at some point? what on earth is interesting about her.

she has a very large head?

kylie minogue ‏@kylieminogue 2m

Hey @MastercardUK….can't wait for everyone to see my #pricelesssurprises tonight at the @BRITAwards

:-(

she's just teasing

Would love it if Kylie was trolling the PR

i still love her but be real, Kylie has never knowingly gone off message in her life

I wouldn't mind if her new single wasn't such a bore

lol she fucked up the hashtag though

oh wait no she didn't :(

i like the idea of "priceless surprises" being a euphemism though

"excuse me i need to drop off a few priceless surprises in the gents'"

#JamesCordenIsATwunt

See, I was excited for a second, because Prince is presenting the first award, but then Corden butts in.

please tell me prince gave corden the dead eye look ..

Is Prince performing at this?

OMG US MAPLE

xp Not unless you can get into the aftershow and maybe not even then.

No one other than the most spineless n00b is going to comply with those terms.

lol Lorde did it in her acceptance speech

Also lol at David Bowie (via Kate Moss) being the only person in Britain to follow Cameron's instructions to tell his scottish chums to vote no

Anyway I've now switched over to Greggs: More Than Meets the Pie on channel 11. I think it's genuinely more glam than the brits.

The lovely hypocrisy of the British public, desperate for Brits “moments,” moaning about boring ceremonies and then when Alex Turner takes them up on it they moan about “standards.” Make up your minds, tadpoles, you can’t have both.

Granted, Turner muttered his speech and looked somewhat embarrassed, as if somebody had told him to do it, but the people wanting Mick & Sam back are largely the same people who in 1989 moaned about the shambles of Mick & Sam and wondering when they were going to get a decent awards ceremony. I watched it at the time. It was abysmal.

nothing says rock n'roll badass like having a few shandies before you accept your Brit award

incidentally i agree - what kind of prannet gives a fuck about "controversy" at an industry awards ceremony?

"Where oh where were the PRICELESS MOMENTS in this limp biscuit of a Benefits Street ceremony?": Stephen Glover writes.

i appear to have been blissfully unaware of the existence of Stephen Glover until you just did that. thanks :(

Alex Turner came across as the biiiiggest prick on that. somehow even more smarmy than Corden.

It's terrible. All these people wanting rock stars to be mad and wacky and memorable, and then Alex Turner comes on and the same people say how dare he, why can't he be like nice Ellie Goulding, if National Service hadn't been abolished he'd have learned manners, etc.

I'm not saying he was mad and wacky and memorable but you know.

Did anyone notice Bruno Mars' band, at least when they announced one of the categories, were nearly all wearing punk t-shirts? I spotted Black Flag, CBGB, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, and one I couldn't make out. I'd like to think they're super geeky punk fans who would dig on eBay for an old Voidoids shirt, but given the whole coordinated feel and matching flannels, sadly it was probably just a stylist's choice?

tragically

heart-rendingly

NI: You don't seem to like an awful lot of anything, do you? I imagine you get angry at anything you don't understand or agree with, and it therefore follows that you get angry most of the time.

What do you mean by "dead wrong"? "Lumpen tock style"? Have you actually listened to a second of AM? "Cowardly"? Is that because he was up there and you weren't, and you can't stand seeing other people who are more talented and successful than you?

Meanwhile, Lorde is one of those "dumb pop brats," is she? So you're a misogynist and a classist as well. Overall, you're a pretty nasty little piece of work, aren't you? I'm really glad you're not my husband or my father.

What Marcello said. Except the last two lines.

Yes, that was a bit too Jon Gaunt there, but I was annoyed.

NI, your post sums up what I found depressing about a lot of the tweets during the Brits - delight in thinking the worst and never giving anyone the benefit of the doubt, a desire to see Turner as an arrogant rockist wanker and Lorde as a vacuous shill, despite ample evidence that neither is the case. I think the Brits is horrible and has always been horrible but getting angry about two incidences of sarcasm, even if you don't think they worked, instead of, say, James Corden or Jimmy Carr is fighting the wrong battles.

All I can say is, for a spur of the moment mic-drop, the sound guy sure muted that microphone pretty quickly so you couldn't hear the thud.

http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/alex-turners-brits-speech-was-everything-rocknroll-is-meant-to-be?recache=1&t=1231313

based entirely on the URL because i'm fucked if i'm clicking that, lolololololololol @ nme

You might want to try reading the piece. The guy's got a point.

some posters here seem to be straight out of the music comment section on the Guardian.

and I'm immediately going to turn myself into a hypocrite, but all the derision needs to be placed on people like Carr and Corden - the latter of whom reminds me of myself at 15 - desperately trying to be funny by doing "wacky, spontaneous things" and telling shit jokes.

though he did get to present award shows and as for me... *shrugs*.

Yes. The thin line between "I'm not falling for this shit" and "All modern pop music is crap, what happened to the good old days?"

One guy on Twitter was saying the ceremony made him miss the 90s and bands like, I shit you not, Sleeper, Shed Seven and the Longpigs as if those bands were ever (a) good or (b) relevant to Britsworld. It's reactionary nostalgia masquerading as rebellion.

Corden is awful but no more awful than any of the likely replacements. It's an awful job.

I liked some Shed Seven singles but I doubt even Richard Hawley has any time for the Longpigs these days.

What just gets me is how people state their opinion as unassailable fact and anyone else who likes popular bands like the Arctic Monkeys is just uneducated. "pah, listen to THIS obscure band which is much better and validates me as a person."

Twitter should be renamed kneejerk.com.

Fair enough re: Corden, it seems like he was uncomfortable; the selfie with Prince was just embarrassing though and above and beyond what he *had* to do as a host.

And yes, all your points are OTM. My post also should be preceded with IMO too. ;)

I wasn't nostalgic for any bands or anything, but while watching Corden I did find myself becoming a little nostalgic for the year Sharon Osbourne presented it. Especially the car crash bit with Vic Reeves.

i believe it's possible to think the Monkeys are tawdry retro crap and not hate modern music or pop music or music in general tbh

but i don't have to take responsibility for or belong to the same camp as every buffoon who expresses dislike for something i dislike

Do you really “believe” they are “tawdry retro crap” or do you think that such an opinion makes you look better in the eyes of people who believe that they are “tawdry retro crap”?

i believe what i said MC, tho i accept it's a blunt generalization of my dislike. i'm not really in the biz of trying to score cool points.

now i am thinking about the difference between "retro" and "not futurist", because i don't really believe that music progresses or that it's possible or desirable to be relentlessly NOW in any intrinsic way. and i guess when i say retro i'm thinking of something that is beholden to traditionalism in ways that feel suffocating to me. i've said elsewhere, i genuinely find Turner's vocal style and lyrics cheese-grating on my nerves - it's not what he or his band represent, it's just him and his band - for me.

stop trying to look cool, you're squaring up the joint, daddio!

I don't know that there's some aesthetic sliding scale whereby the Arctic Monkeys are viewed as "tawdry retro crap" and Pye Corner Audio are deemed "hazy hauntological 'nuum." The relationship between tradition and "nowness" is a lot more complex than that.

my aesthetic sliding scale is purely internal i freely admit

the interplay between nostalgia and futurism and conservatism "small c" and radicalism does deserve a nuanced exploration that this thread probably isn't the best place for

inner nostalgia and social nostalgia too

i'm sure there's a bunch of threads examining all this

I don't think AM are slavishly retro, they're just rather lumpen and unexciting. The notion that they're 'outsiders' is absurd. They've been hyped from the start as the great white hopes of UK rock, have received numerous industry awards etc etc. Nothing wrong with that in itself, but to claim they're rock 'n roll rebels is nonsense.

super geeky punk fans who would dig on eBay for an old Voidoids shirt

this is ONE character too long for a display name fyi

hyphenate super-geek and take out the "y" imo

stew otm

they're about as establishment as you get in the music industry and there's nothing wrong with that in itself because so is any big name really, but it makes this "spirit of tru rock n roll" blather (even more) embarrassing

which popular rock bands are not 'lumpen'?

Toto

Qotsa, Mastodon..

My lumpen, my lumpen, my lovely lovely lady lumpen.

good efforts lads but i meant popular as in popular now, like still getting in the charts and/or winning awards

maybe they need to sound like paramore or the 1975 to avoid lumpendom but then they probably wouldn't be quite as popular

paramore are huge, no?

they win Kerrang awards, so yes

People must have been really desperate for a controversy this year for this speech to even be vaguely noteworthy.

On this side of the line stand the rest of us, inspired by the words of a man who understands that rock’n’roll isn’t about an antiquated idea of “guitar music”, or about any level of genre elitism, but spirit and ethos, excitement and unpredictability

This is OTM though.

to deny the specificity of rock'n'roll is a tool of rockism imo

I mean it isn't audible in the Arctic Monkeys' music at all but they're not quite antediluvian CAMRR types either.

There's something problematic about "rock and roll" as the spirit to which all other genres are supposed to cleave but then again "soul" is similarly problematic.

That's not what he said.

marcello, the bulk of your post is gibberish so i'll ignore it - however, judging from some of the unsavoury patter you float about on twitter you should be v careful about casting accusations of misogyny around.

as for this whole thing about 'he's being SARCASTIC', i mean what's this ample evidence? it's easy to say 'oh ya just being cynical, these kids are super savvy' but i'm not convinced. DL, if you've interviewed alex and he's proven himself to be an arch wit then fair enough but i've seen nothing of the sort.

as for this brits as a whole, thought the standard of guests was superb - miles up on last year. excruciating as ever to have corden in charge, p much an embarrassment for britain - shoving prince's band out of the way to gurn for a selfie in an attempt to say 'hey us brits are so cheeky and wild!' but came across as arrogant and unclassy.

OK, you want the argument, I'm quite happy to provide it.

marcello, the bulk of your post is gibberish so i'll ignore it

Yes, you would, wouldn't you - if you've ignored it, how do you know it's gibberish? - because that just goes to show why you have such a shallow and vapid outlook on life.

however, judging from some of the unsavoury patter you float about on twitter you should be v careful about casting accusations of misogyny around.

I love how you spend time, that you'll never get back, reading tweetlines of people you don't like. Try not reading them or perhaps blocking them - you might live a happier life doing that.

He was EVIDENTLY being sarcastic in his speech, as was obvious to everybody who watched it and isn't thick.

Finally, what is this obsession you have with "class"?

Well, you said he was classist

Seems to be a controversy here between 'Alex Turner was spouting banal rockist stuff' and 'Alex Turner was taking the piss out of rockist stuff'. Don't think those two things are exclusive though?

Was it less embarrassing one way or the other?

collecting awards is what arctic monkeys do best

so yeah, according to subsequent interviews turner wasn't being sarcastic after all. DL?