August 21, 200620 yr Yep! *shrug* My flat-mate for the month is downstairs working on music...and I wonder how many ppl will actually get to hear it! Off topic' date=' but he just got back from the weekend in Hampshire...just noticed you're from there.[/quote'] Not that many. I'm been trying to get people to listen to blackbud (scan of album review from Word Magazine here - http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a124/grant77/BB-Wordarev1-sep06755.jpg & http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a124/grant77/BB-Wordarev2-sep06756.jpg ), but no-one seems to want to know :(
August 22, 200620 yr Author Live, in hope The organisation behind the Brit Awards, the BPI, has a habit of portraying the Brits as a lovable but wayward pubescent. In the weeks before the show (next year's will be held on February 14) it always issues statements claiming that the Brits are synonymous with unscripted craziness - you just never know what will happen at the so-called music industry Oscars! Remember Jarvis v Jackson? Remember when implacable political opponents Danbert Nobacon of Chumbawamba and John Prescott came face to face, and Nobacon did what any self-respecting anarchist would do? Must-see television, miss at your peril, etc. It's all a smokescreen to obscure the fact that the Brits haven't gone off-piste in years. Nobody has so much as lobbed a vol au vent at host Chris Evans, let alone properly misbehaved. Not even the Kaiser Chiefs, who won three awards this year - so much for predicting a riot. And the Brits' other supposed big draw, one-off performances by unlikely duos, has become a stunt whose weakness was epitomised in 2006 by the pairing up of - wait for it - Daniel and Natasha Bedingfield. Viewers' indifference was reflected in the ratings, which dropped to 4.6 million this year, despite performances by Coldplay and Kanye West. Part of the blame can be pinned on the surfeit of competing music awards programmes, from the NMEs to the Mobos. But the real problem for the Brits is the perception that they're stodgy and corporate. They can hardly deny it, given that their website is titled 'the Brit Awards with MasterCard'. The BPI's response was to announce yesterday that the 2007 awards would be the first in 20 years to be broadcast live. Viewers will see it as it happens, rather than an edited version 24-hours later, and you just know the organisers are praying that some pop star (James Blunt?) will be headbutted by another (a Sugababe, with the will of the entire nation behind her?) right on stage. But it's just not going to happen. The people who win Brits these days aren't the applecart-upsetting type. If only Coldplay or Keane DID act up now and then. Keane, who won in 2005 and could win again in 2007, may have trouble in their ranks at the moment, with their frontman Tom Chaplin admitting to a drink and drugs problem, but they're not going to trash Earl's Court. The indignation that inspired Jarvis Cocker and Nobacon simply doesn't fire up the current batch of stars, who also seem to lack the appetite for comedy confrontations such as the off-stage row between So Solid Crew and Westlife a few years ago. If the BPI wants fireworks, it'll have to resort to nominating alleged enemies Charlotte Church and Girls Aloud - but there's a problem there, too. The pop category has just been dropped (along with rock and urban), apparently because of the dearth of viable candidates. So who's going to supply the big "moment" now? http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevulture/archives/2006/08/22/post_121.html
January 16, 200719 yr The Brits 2007... ...Someone here might care about the Brits, but the short-list has been announced, so let's see whom is up for the awards. The full list of nominations is as follows: British Male Solo Artist James Morrison Jarvis Cocker Lemar Paolo Nutini Thom Yorke British Female Solo Artist Amy Winehouse Corinne Bailey Rae Jamelia Lily Allen Nerina Pallot British Group Arctic Monkeys Kasabian Muse Razorlight Snow Patrol Mastercard British Album Amy Winehouse - 'Back To Black' Arctic Monkeys - 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' Lily Allen - 'Alright, Still' Muse - 'Black Holes And Revelations' Snow Patrol - 'Eyes Open' British Single Shortlist Corinne Bailey Rae - 'Put Your Records On' The Feeling - 'Fill My Little World' James Morrison - 'You Give Me Something' The Kooks - 'She Moves In Her Own Way' Leona Lewis - 'A Moment Like This' Lily Allen - 'Smile' Razorlight - 'America' Sandi Thom - 'I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker' Snow Patrol - 'Chasing Cars' Take That - 'Patience' Will Young - 'All Time Love' British Breakthrough Act Corinne Bailey Rae The Fratellis James Morrison The Kooks Lily Allen British Live Act George Michael Guillemots Kasabian Muse Robbie Williams International Male Solo Artist Beck Bob Dylan Damien Rice Jack Johnson Justin Timberlake International Female Solo Artist Beyonce Cat Power Christina Aguilera Nelly Furtado Pink International Group The Flaming Lips Gnarls Barkley The Killers Red Hot Chili Peppers Scissor Sisters International Album Bob Dylan - 'Modern Times' Gnarls Barkley - 'St Elsewhere' Justin Timberlake - 'FutureSex/LoveSounds' The Killers - 'Sam's Town' Scissor Sisters - 'Ta-Dah' International Breakthrough Act Gnarls Barkley Orson The Raconteurs Ray Lamontagne Wolfmother Outstanding Contribution To Music Oasis
January 18, 200719 yr MUSE MUSE MUSE!!! However.... I am torn on album of the year... Snow Patrol and Muse!! what a choice! I loved both of those....
January 18, 200719 yr they both got continuous play on my iPod and my car's cd player....... I'm torn. For different reasons too....... both ace albums.
January 18, 200719 yr As it's the Brits, they will go for Eyes Open. Or the Arctic Monkeys If Lily "I got a famous dad" Allen gets it, than there is something wrong.
January 19, 200719 yr ...Someone here might care about the Brits, but the short-list has been announced, so let's see whom is up for the awards. The full list of nominations is as follows: British Male Solo Artist James Morrison Jarvis Cocker Lemar Paolo Nutini Thom Yorke British Female Solo Artist Amy Winehouse Corinne Bailey Rae Jamelia Lily Allen Nerina Pallot British Group Arctic Monkeys Kasabian Muse Razorlight Snow Patrol Mastercard British Album Amy Winehouse - 'Back To Black' Arctic Monkeys - 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' Lily Allen - 'Alright, Still' Muse - 'Black Holes And Revelations' Snow Patrol - 'Eyes Open' British Single Shortlist Corinne Bailey Rae - 'Put Your Records On' The Feeling - 'Fill My Little World' James Morrison - 'You Give Me Something' The Kooks - 'She Moves In Her Own Way' Leona Lewis - 'A Moment Like This' Lily Allen - 'Smile' Razorlight - 'America' Sandi Thom - 'I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker' Snow Patrol - 'Chasing Cars' Take That - 'Patience' Will Young - 'All Time Love' British Breakthrough Act Corinne Bailey Rae The Fratellis James Morrison The Kooks Lily Allen British Live Act George Michael Guillemots Kasabian Muse Robbie Williams International Male Solo Artist Beck Bob Dylan Damien Rice Jack Johnson Justin Timberlake International Female Solo Artist Beyonce Cat Power Christina Aguilera Nelly Furtado Pink International Group The Flaming Lips Gnarls Barkley The Killers Red Hot Chili Peppers Scissor Sisters International Album Bob Dylan - 'Modern Times' Gnarls Barkley - 'St Elsewhere' Justin Timberlake - 'FutureSex/LoveSounds' The Killers - 'Sam's Town' Scissor Sisters - 'Ta-Dah' International Breakthrough Act Gnarls Barkley Orson The Raconteurs Ray Lamontagne Wolfmother Outstanding Contribution To Music Oasis those are my predictions!
January 19, 200719 yr I doubt Thom will get best male. My gut feeling is that it will go to Mr. Morrison.
January 19, 200719 yr I only watch the Brits for the humour value...and the occasional Coldplay performance. But it's nice to see Nelly Furtado up for best international female! GO CANADA!!:D
February 14, 200719 yr Early winners: Muse for Best Live Act. The Fratellis for best british newcomer Orson for best international newcomer :(
February 14, 200719 yr I doubt Thom will get best male. My gut feeling is that it will go to Mr. Morrison. And your "feeling" was right!!:rolleyes:
February 14, 200719 yr WTF?! Oh dear. The Bris =cack anyway You have something against Bristol??:confused:
February 14, 200719 yr Early winners: Orson for best international newcomer :( It should have been Wolfmother!!!
February 18, 200719 yr The real winners on the night were Take That with their performance of "Patience"............................... Robbie must be turning in his rehab bed!!:rolleyes:
February 18, 200719 yr The real winners on the night were Take That with their performance of "Patience"............................... Robbie must be turning in his rehab bed!!:rolleyes: This makes me extremely happy, I hate Robbie, always have, always will. The fact that for years he`s been thinking he is the big "I-am" then this year his album flops like a turd, it went to number one, but then sank like the Titanic in the charts, thus damaging prospects for his next album selling well and finally having to check himself into rehab. The same time, the band who he has publicly slagged off since leaving have had an amazing year, a No.1 comeback album that is still selling well, No.1 single which was deemed worthy of a Brit, and a sell-out tour. Yes, that makes me happy, bring the fucker down a peg or two.
February 18, 200719 yr This makes me extremely happy, I hate Robbie, always have, always will. The fact that for years he`s been thinking he is the big "I-am" then this year his album flops like a turd, it went to number one, but then sank like the Titanic in the charts, thus damaging prospects for his next album selling well and finally having to check himself into rehab. The same time, the band who he has publicly slagged off since leaving have had an amazing year, a No.1 comeback album that is still selling well, No.1 single which was deemed worthy of a Brit, and a sell-out tour. Yes, that makes me happy, bring the fucker down a peg or two. Robbie has had his time, but now his career is in danger of going down the swanny. He needs to get back to writing good songs and not try to be a "rapper", which he most certainly isn't.;)
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