The Brit School @ The Brit Awards
February 20, 2008
The Brit School came away the resounding winners of the 2008 Brit awards at Earls Court. The evening was hosted by the The Osbournes who were accompanied by two thrones on stage and a giant skull behind them.
The ceremony opened with a lively performance from the flambouyant Mika who actually recorded the music video for one of his singles in Croydon’s Surrey street Market. Other performances on the night included a duet featuring Rihanna and the Klaxons, Kylie Minogue, The Kaiser Chiefs, Leona Lewis, Amy Winehouse and Sir Paul McCartney.
The first award of the evening went to Take That for best live act, the next award presented to former Brit School student Adele was the Critics choice award. Adele gave a shout out to the Brit School which started the evenings deluge of references to the Brit School and Croydon. The big winners of the evening were Take That, The Foo Fighters and The Artic Monkeys who each left with two awards.
But the night had to belong with another Brit School alumni Kate Nash who won Best British Female. I guess applications to the Brit School may increase for next year. The evening came to a close with a special Contribution to Music Award to Sir Paul McCartney who also performed a medley of songs.
Other winners on the show included Kylie for Best International female, Kanye West for International male, Mika for Best Breakthrough Act, Mark Ronson for Best British male (the first recipient of this award who was not a singer) Ronson also performed with Amy Winehouse.
The evening ran relatively smoothly with no major incidents other than drunk recipients, although the award ceremony has recieved criticism from former multi Brit nominee Craig David who says he has lost interest in the Awards ceremony because “It fails to represent the true reality of the music business.”
“It’s great for artists who pick up awards, but in terms of representing what’s really going on, I think they’ve missed the eight-ball,” he said.
A spokeswoman for the awards said she would not be commenting on his remarks.
“The year that I was nominated for six, I couldn’t have sold any more records or had any more number ones,” David, 26, told the BBC News website.
“To still not pick up one proved to me that however the voting system is and whatever the excuses were made, it just didn’t really represent what was going on.”
The music business can be cruel in our opinion but the truth is, awards are nice but if you are making music for the right reasons, they shouldn’t matter. (apart from sales figures that is!)
