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Wed 17th Feb, 2010 in International News

We know you’ve all been hanging on the results from the 2010 BRIT Awards, so give those fingernails a break people! The ceremony – which has just wrapped up in the UK – once again went straight to the beating heart of music from the Mother Land, with the likes of Robbie Williams and Oasis at last getting the recognition they so richly deserve.

Anyway, it seems ‘Best British Live Act’ has been cut from proceedings in 2010, with Take That’s past win over Muse and Arctic Monkeys obviously representing the highest the honour could go. This year’s Big Day Out line-up scored highly, though, with a suavely-suited Dizzee Rascal taking ‘British male solo artist’, Kasabian named ‘British Group’ and Lily Allen strutting away with ‘British female solo artist’.

While we’re sure Animal Collective had an acceptance video all ready to go for ‘International Breakthrough Act’, sadly they were pipped by that other electronic innovator Lady Gaga.

One thing it’s hard to be all curmudgeonly about, though, is the duet between Dizzee and ‘British Album’ winner Florence Welch. Watch You Got The Dirtee Love (genius!) below.

Some of the winners…

British male solo artist
Dizzee Rascal

British female solo artist
Lily Allen

British breakthrough act
JLS [who?]

British group
Kasabian

British album
Florence and the Machine – Lungs

International male solo artist
Jay-Z

International breakthrough act
Lady Gaga

Brits album of 30 years
Oasis ‑ (What’s the Story) Morning Glory

British producer
Paul Epworth

Outstanding contribution to music
Robbie Williams

Nobody has hearted this, be the first!

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digitaljunglist

digitaljunglist said on the 17th Feb, 2010

best album of past 30 years .. oasis - (what’s the story) morning glory .. damn straight!! greatest album ever written

Braveheart81

Braveheart81 said on the 17th Feb, 2010

Apparently Liam Gallagher threw his award and the microphone he was using for his speech into the crowd as he walked off stage.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 17th Feb, 2010

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. HA. HA.

But really.

BTIazza

BTIazza said on the 17th Feb, 2010

Ah that made my day. Thanks dude.

Braveheart81

Braveheart81 said on the 17th Feb, 2010

The best quote from the evening is as follows:

Lady Gaga cleaned up at the BRIT Awards, scooping three awards.

The Poker Face singer took home trophies for International Album, International Breakthrough Act and International Female Solo Artist.

ElectroGirl

ElectroGirl said on the 19th Feb, 2010

can i just point out how sad my life is and say i know who jls are (plus i lived in the uk last year) they were the runner up group on x factor in the uk and they are fecking awful, as most of the shit onshows like that is

The Fool

The Fool said on the 19th Feb, 2010

Why did Liam accept the award if the album was written by Noel?

The Fool

The Fool said on the 19th Feb, 2010

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. HA. HA.

But really.

I don't really give a fuck about Oasis but you have to appreciate that it's a petty seminal album.

Braveheart81

Braveheart81 said on the 19th Feb, 2010

MorningAfterboy's favourite Manc band is Manchester Orchestra.

He thinks they are much better than Oasis.

Dexter Ramone

Dexter Ramone said on the 19th Feb, 2010

Noel probably declined their invite, so they asked Liam instead I wager.

Braveheart81

Braveheart81 said on the 19th Feb, 2010

I think the entire band was there except Noel.

Apparently everyone was thanked in Liam's speech except Noel.

At the end of his speech he said something like "now let's go and have lots of class A drugs" before chucking the award and microphone into the crowd and walking off.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 19th Feb, 2010

MorningAfterboy's favourite Manc band is Manchester Orchestra.

He thinks they are much better than Oasis.

The dad is back!

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 19th Feb, 2010

I like that album, but my issue was with the words "greatest album ever written". Which is bullshit.

Braveheart81

Braveheart81 said on the 19th Feb, 2010

And clearly The Stone Roses is the best British album of the last 30 years.

It was a viewer voted poll though. It's certainly not an unworthy winner though.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 19th Feb, 2010

Hmm, of the past thirty years? Possibly Meat is Murder for me.

Braveheart81

Braveheart81 said on the 19th Feb, 2010

Morrisey is too much of a whinging Pom.

He also loses points for encouraging vegetarianism.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 19th Feb, 2010

Liam Gallagher is more of a whinger than Moz will ever be.

Braveheart81

Braveheart81 said on the 19th Feb, 2010

For sure.

Even though Liam thinks he's a tough guy, he's actually a whiney little bitch. Not that you'd ever say that to him. He'd surely glass you.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 19th Feb, 2010

Knock you unconscious with one hit over the head with his tambourine.

oldgregg

oldgregg said on the 19th Feb, 2010

the award he threw into the crowd was going for 8000 pound on ebay last time i checked.

mooney88

mooney88 said on the 19th Feb, 2010

Too bad The Queen is Dead shits on Meat is Murder from about 50 feet.

Stefan Beck

Stefan Beck said on the 19th Feb, 2010

Yeah,was gonna say Meat Is Murder is probably the weakest of their four studio albums.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 19th Feb, 2010

No way. Meat > Queen > self-titled > Strangeways

Braveheart81

Braveheart81 said on the 19th Feb, 2010

How's the new Papa Roach album working out for you?

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 19th Feb, 2010

Oh dear, dad's gone senile.

mooney88

mooney88 said on the 19th Feb, 2010

It seems MAB has an undoubted love for Meat.

Barry Wom

Barry Wom said on the 21st Feb, 2010

Apparently, that's a scam; his award was returned to him backstage. Why wouldn't you thow it away though? Whilst a deserving acknowledgment, awards ceremonies are such a crock of shit; Phil Collins was in the list FFS! Liam should have thrown that moistened bint Lady Gaga into the audience too. Anyone of discerning taste and a modicum of intelligence would part like the red sea...

Monosyllabic simian tool bag though he can be, I think Liam's 'uber-petulance' is mostly a piss-take a lot of the time; the 'class A' drugs comment likewise. The reality with Oasis is that the triptych of Definitely Maybe, Morning Glory and The Masterplan are all pure gold and you could probably take a small smattering of tracks from the following decade's underwhelming 'ho-hum' albums and mount an argument for some reasonable songwriting. I happened across one called 'Gas Panic!' the other day and it was a fuckin choon (amongst a lot of dirge granted).

This bizarre outlook that EVERYTHING they've done outside of MG and DM is shit is mostly down to people's dislike of the spiky brothers' temperaments rather than their actual music. Many of Oasis' 90s contemporaries are still lauded as being great when they are probably even more mediocre. Messrs Grohl, Armstrong and Martin play the PR game though. Liam, on his first Oz tour, preferred to headbutt- not a great start in a new country. What Chris Martin says with an Evian, Liam Gallagher says with a Stella... The fact that the defunct Oasis, for all their faults, leave Coldplay as the giant killers of UK music is enough to make you weep!

Sunnyboyz

Sunnyboyz said on the 22nd Feb, 2010

Apparently, that's a scam; his award was returned to him backstage. Why wouldn't you thow it away though? Whilst a deserving acknowledgment, awards ceremonies are such a crock of shit; Phil Collins was in the list FFS! Liam should have thrown that moistened bint Lady Gaga into the audience too. Anyone of discerning taste and a modicum of intelligence would part like the red sea...

Phil Collins is god. Please refrain from dissing him.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 22nd Feb, 2010

Phil Collins AND Lady Gaga are gods.

Sunnyboyz

Sunnyboyz said on the 22nd Feb, 2010

^^ Agree.

Unfortunately, I am missing out on the second Lady Gaga show because I had already bought Brand New tickets.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 22nd Feb, 2010

My show got moved forward a week. Which is okay, because now I have a chance to go to the Machine Head gig.

Barry Wom

Barry Wom said on the 26th Feb, 2010

Love him or hate him, I can almost mount an argument as to the significance of Phil Collins as an icon of eighties pop music. His chum Gabriel decided to mount an argument for artistic integrity and that left him a lot less wealthy (and devoid of a great many more requests for Bob Geldof charity concerts).

But those of you, having decided to devote your hard earned or that of some other poor sap, to Lady Gaga, the profound question remains simply:... WHY?

Is there some sort of postmodern irony to the schtick she serves up? If so, I'm really struggling to find it. The absolute lack of any kind of musical merit or pedigree works against her. I hear she can distinguish between the black and white keys of a piano but then, so could Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney and we all know what that single did for their respective creds...

Gaga is one of a multitude of modern chart music imprints: she suddenly exists as an instantanous pop figure; an opportunistic chance to capitalise on gullible 'gen y' ers'. I'm sure Collins himself would be offended by any kind of comparison and that's how low we've got. Eighties pop: Collins, Jackson, Madonna. Noughties pop: Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Timbaland versus Mundine vs Green. CROCK! OF! SHITE! End of...

Stefan Beck

Stefan Beck said on the 26th Feb, 2010

Too long didn't read version:
YOU DARN KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 26th Feb, 2010

"Why?" isn't really a profound question in this context, but I enjoy both of Gaga's albums quite a bit. She's quite talented and has established herself as one of the very few eccentrics of mainstream pop music - not afraid to work outside the square and certainly not afraid of pleasing anyone else but herself in terms of what she creates. You're more than welcome to go onto another one of your "rahhh I'm fortysomething and you goddamn kids better get off my goddamn lawn" rants with a couple of big words thrown in, but I'm just speaking as someone who very much enjoys Ms. Gaga.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 26th Feb, 2010

Too long didn't read version:
YOU DARN KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN.

KINDRED SPIRITS. I was writing my response as you had posted yours, that is too weird.

Sunnyboyz

Sunnyboyz said on the 27th Feb, 2010

But those of you, having decided to devote your hard earned or that of some other poor sap, to Lady Gaga, the profound question remains simply:... WHY?

Gaga is one of a multitude of modern chart music imprints: she suddenly exists as an instantanous pop figure; an opportunistic chance to capitalise on gullible 'gen y' ers'. I'm sure Collins himself would be offended by any kind of comparison and that's how low we've got. Eighties pop: Collins, Jackson, Madonna. Noughties pop: Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Timbaland versus Mundine vs Green. CROCK! OF! SHITE! End of...

P.A.R.T.Why? Because I gotta, and poker face certainly gets me in the mood for partying.

In saying that, comparing popstars from different ages and eras is like comparing apples and oranges. We've only had Lady Gaga for a few years, so unless you've developed a time travelling delorean we don't know how she is going to be looked on in ten years time. I personally enjoy her interesting attitude with regards to mainstream media, and I respect the fact that she is willing to test the limits of 'normality' with her DIY fashion design.

She also makes a killer tune.

gaga-ooh-la-la.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 27th Feb, 2010

http://blogs.laopiniondemurcia.es/llamaloperiodismo/files/2009/12/gran-torino.jpg

lanesra23

lanesra23 said on the 27th Feb, 2010

Hard to use Madonna as an example of why 80s pop was so good when she helped contribute to the Noughties-style pop you are trying to flame.

Stefan Beck

Stefan Beck said on the 27th Feb, 2010

Man,Into The Groove was such a fucking banger.

The Fool

The Fool said on the 27th Feb, 2010

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 28th Feb, 2010