Yet another awards ceremony - the Brits '08
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Seamus O'Neill
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By Seamus O'Neill
Published on 02/21/2008
Mika opened the 2008 Brit Awards and was joined on stage by Beth Ditto in what was an entertaining start to the awards ceremony. It all went slightly downhill after that though.
Live from Earls Court and hosted by Sharon, Ozzy, Kelly and Jack Osbourne the show had very few laughs. The usually good-for-a-laugh Osbournes were let down by a very uninteresting script which did not play to their humour. However, when do we see an entertaining awards ceremony any more?
The first award of the night went to Take That for Best British Live Act. They also picked up the award for Best British Single for ‘Shine’, which was voted for by the public. On collecting the award for best British live act they said, “we appear before you bruised and battered but dead chuffed.”
Another duet was performed as Rhianna and the Klaxons took to the stage and performed a version of Rhianna’s hit song Umbrella. While the audience were dazzled with an amazing lighting set, the version of the song never really took off.
Adele won the Critics Choice Award and Mika picked up the gong for British Breakthrough Act. He thanked “everyone who ever sent us an email two years ago on his blog.”
Next performance of the night belonged to the irresistible Kylie as she sang Wow. She later in the night won the award for Best International Female Artist. This was Kylie’s third Brit award and truly deserved, as she has sold 68 million records worldwide.
The award for Best International Male went to Kanye West while the British equivalent was won by Mark Ronson. Ronson later performed on stage with Adele, Daniel Merriweather and Amy Winehouse. Winehouse also performed solo and at the end of her song exclaimed, “I love you baby” and asked the audience to “make some noise for my Blake.”
The Foo Fighters won two Brit Awards including Best International Group and Best International Album for ‘Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace’.
The Monkeys, the Arctic Monkeys that is, also won two awards. Best British Group and Best British Album for ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’. One of the few funny moments of the night came when comedian Vic Reeves gave the award for best album to a very drunk looking Arctic Monkeys and Sharon Osbourne butted in and told Reeves to “pi** off you b******” as he seemed to forget what award he was presenting.
Best British Female Award went to Kate Nash who paid tribute to the Brit School and commented how “not all of us get into Univserity and don’t worry if you don’t.” The Brit School has produced many winners of Brit awards in the past few years.
Others to perform on the night were Kaiser Chiefs and Leona Lewis who surprisingly did not win any award although nominated for four.
The other funny moment in what was an otherwise dull show was from comedian Alan Carr. When presenting an award he told the crowd “ sorry I’m a bit pissed, I stuck a straw in Amy’s beehive.”
The night drew to a close as pop princess Kylie Minogue presented Sir Paul McCartney with his award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. McCartney in a very short acceptance speech said “I just think British Music is the best.”
He then performed a medley of songs including “Dance Tonight” which is taken from his album Memory Almost Full. The song unfortunately did nothing to get the crowd going and would not be too far out of place on a show like Barney the dinosaur or the Teletubbies. He redeemed himself by singing live and let die, which he wrote and performed with his band Wings back in 1973 and which was the title track to the Bond movie of the same name. He then played out with the Beatle classic Hey jude which he wrote with John Lennon and which was recorded by the Beatles back in 1968.
Check out the latest from last night's awards ceremony, where the award presenters were more entertaining than the award winners.
Something for everyone but was it any good?
Mika opened the 2008 Brit Awards and was joined on stage by Beth Ditto in what was an entertaining start to the awards ceremony. It all went slightly downhill after that though.
Live from Earls Court and hosted by Sharon, Ozzy, Kelly and Jack Osbourne the show had very few laughs. The usually good-for-a-laugh Osbournes were let down by a very uninteresting script which did not play to their humour. However, when do we see an entertaining awards ceremony any more?
The first award of the night went to Take That for Best British Live Act. They also picked up the award for Best British Single for ‘Shine’, which was voted for by the public. On collecting the award for best British live act they said, “we appear before you bruised and battered but dead chuffed.”
Another duet was performed as Rhianna and the Klaxons took to the stage and performed a version of Rhianna’s hit song Umbrella. While the audience were dazzled with an amazing lighting set, the version of the song never really took off.
Adele won the Critics Choice Award and Mika picked up the gong for British Breakthrough Act. He thanked “everyone who ever sent us an email two years ago on his blog.”
Next performance of the night belonged to the irresistible Kylie as she sang Wow. She later in the night won the award for Best International Female Artist. This was Kylie’s third Brit award and truly deserved, as she has sold 68 million records worldwide.
The award for Best International Male went to Kanye West while the British equivalent was won by Mark Ronson. Ronson later performed on stage with Adele, Daniel Merriweather and Amy Winehouse. Winehouse also performed solo and at the end of her song exclaimed, “I love you baby” and asked the audience to “make some noise for my Blake.”
The Foo Fighters won two Brit Awards including Best International Group and Best International Album for ‘Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace’.
The Monkeys, the Arctic Monkeys that is, also won two awards. Best British Group and Best British Album for ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’. One of the few funny moments of the night came when comedian Vic Reeves gave the award for best album to a very drunk looking Arctic Monkeys and Sharon Osbourne butted in and told Reeves to “pi** off you b******” as he seemed to forget what award he was presenting.
Best British Female Award went to Kate Nash who paid tribute to the Brit School and commented how “not all of us get into Univserity and don’t worry if you don’t.” The Brit School has produced many winners of Brit awards in the past few years.
Others to perform on the night were Kaiser Chiefs and Leona Lewis who surprisingly did not win any award although nominated for four.
The other funny moment in what was an otherwise dull show was from comedian Alan Carr. When presenting an award he told the crowd “ sorry I’m a bit pissed, I stuck a straw in Amy’s beehive.”
The night drew to a close as pop princess Kylie Minogue presented Sir Paul McCartney with his award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. McCartney in a very short acceptance speech said “I just think British Music is the best.”
He then performed a medley of songs including “Dance Tonight” which is taken from his album Memory Almost Full. The song unfortunately did nothing to get the crowd going and would not be too far out of place on a show like Barney the dinosaur or the Teletubbies. He redeemed himself by singing live and let die, which he wrote and performed with his band Wings back in 1973 and which was the title track to the Bond movie of the same name. He then played out with the Beatle classic Hey jude which he wrote with John Lennon and which was recorded by the Beatles back in 1968.