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Johnny Vodka
20-02-2008, 18:45
It's the annual **** awards tonight. Is anything good nominated (bar Bat For Lashes)? Will anything good win? Does anyone care? :D
Damage Inc
20-02-2008, 18:50
The Boss for international male, and Bjork for female. Otherwise it's all turgid *****.
LouBarlow
20-02-2008, 18:51
Why did the auto-censor mask out 'Brit' in the thread title?
PJ Harvey has a nomination.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_BRIT_Awards
The international artists are better than our own ;)
White Stripes
Arcade Fire
Kings Of Leon
Dufus Wainwright
Anyone know how Radiohead have been left out?
Damage Inc
20-02-2008, 19:09
Why did the auto-censor mask out 'Brit' in the thread title?
I'm guessing it is because a word that rhymes with brit was used in its place.
Johnny Vodka
20-02-2008, 19:27
I'm guessing it is because a word that rhymes with brit was used in its place.
Ooops, must have been a typing mistake.
IIRC Radiohead were left out because they didn't have a physical release within the qualifying dates.
No idea why LCD Soundsystem were left out... Maybe Kylie's "X" really is better than "Sound Of Silver"... :|
Not a very well known international act in all fairness..
Johnny Vodka
20-02-2008, 20:03
Not a very well known international act in all fairness..
But aren't the Brits supposed to be judged on quality? ;)
LouBarlow
20-02-2008, 20:04
Why do people even bother watching it if they just mock it? :lol:
Life's too short - off for an early night :D
DeadYankee
20-02-2008, 20:06
Yes, but I expect so much more from my award shows dahling, not these popular bands that people buy records from.
Why, oh, why, oh, why, oh, why etc etc
lets face it - if any of his willfully obscure bands made it onto the list he'd drop them faster than his trousers at a crack-mums convention
god its cringeworthy:brickwall
Johnny Vodka
20-02-2008, 20:10
Why do people even bother watching it if they just mock it? :lol:
I won't be, but I thought it deserved a thread. :D
And, as for DY, I'm not sure what "wilfully obscure" bands I'm supposed to be into & I still like Bat For Lashes.
Did anyone like the Arctic Monkeys' second album? :thinking:
LouBarlow
20-02-2008, 20:14
lets face it - if any of his willfully obscure bands made it onto the list he'd drop them faster than his trousers at a crack-mums convention
:lol:
NicolaUK
20-02-2008, 20:16
Bet The Klaxons fans are loving this :lol:
Johnny Vodka
20-02-2008, 20:21
What are The Klaxons doing then?? At least they have two good tunes... :D
robbie99
20-02-2008, 20:25
What are The Klaxons doing then?? At least they have two good tunes... :D
umbrella - ella - ella with rihanna, and lasers!
I liked it!
Johnny Vodka
20-02-2008, 20:27
The Klaxons... for people not old enough to remember EMF. ;)
Unlucky Bat For Lashes. Nice one Mika! :lol:
Johnny Vodka
20-02-2008, 20:29
:razz:
She was never going to win, though. I had the misfortune of hearing that idiot Chris Moyles the other day and he was calling her "folk face". :thinking:
robbie99
20-02-2008, 20:30
The Klaxons... for people not old enough to remember EMF. ;)
or Jesus Jones!
NicolaUK
20-02-2008, 20:32
Unlucky Bat For Lashes. Nice one Mika! :lol:
:D
Ahh Kylie with The Power Rangers :lol:
I had the misfortune of hearing that idiot Chris Moyles
Tuning your radio to Radio 1 isn't misfortune, it's self inflicted you doughnut.
Johnny Vodka
20-02-2008, 20:38
Tuning your radio to Radio 1 isn't misfortune, it's self inflicted you doughnut.
Nah, I'd stupidly left my iPod running overnight, so when I got in the car I was stuck with the radio...
**** me this is bad. We have the misfortune of seeing the Osbournes trying to string three words toghether and then we get beaten over the head with Fearne ******* Cotton!!
KennyVader
20-02-2008, 20:48
How did Mark Ronson, a producer, win best solo male? Erm ...
They're not giving Daddy Osborne much to say are they!
NicolaUK
20-02-2008, 20:49
In a perverse way I'm actually enjoying it :D
Was glad to see Mark Ronson win something, bit of an odd category to put him in though.
Kaisers are pretty awful though :(
KennyVader
20-02-2008, 20:51
And why is Beth Ditto famous anyway, does she actually have more than one song?
Johnny Vodka
20-02-2008, 20:57
I don't see anything wrong with giving best British male to a producer (especially given all the crappy singer-songwriters around), although if we're going to do that it should have been Burial. ;) :p
I don't see anything wrong with giving best British male to a producer (especially given all the crappy singer-songwriters around), although if we're going to do that it should have been Burial. ;) :p
Although it was Best British Male Solo Artist - that's what makes it a bit odd.
Do they still have the Best Producer category?
Johnny Vodka
20-02-2008, 21:02
Hmm. I suppose whatever his album is called is by him, but "features" guest vocalists.
I don't think they have a category for best producer.
no flipping
20-02-2008, 21:03
Terrible choice of presenters
So I guess it helps to go to the Brit school if you want to win a 'Brit'. :|
I guess you also have a to be a bit common innit.
Mr Majestik
20-02-2008, 21:12
Anyone fancy blowing up the Brits School whilst it's empty.
Kate Nash, Adele, Katie Melua, The Kooks... It has to be stopped!
NicolaUK
20-02-2008, 21:13
:lol: @ Dave Grohl :notworthy
Mr Majestik
20-02-2008, 21:14
Is it a sign of getting old when you turn over to watch Masterchef?
Johnny Vodka
20-02-2008, 21:14
Anyone fancy blowing up the Brits School whilst it's empty.
Kate Nash, Adele, Katie Melua, The Kooks... It has to be stopped!
Sounds good to me.
:lol: @ Dave Grohl :notworthy
Did you hear the almighty woosh as it went over everyone's heads.:lol:
lets face it - if any of his willfully obscure bands made it onto the list he'd drop them faster than his trousers at a crack-mums convention
:lol: :notworthy .. Well that's the 2008 Forum's funniest quote all sewn up.
KennyVader
20-02-2008, 21:26
Did you hear the almighty woosh as it went over everyone's heads.:lol:
we'd be there but we just sold out Madison Square Gardens ... so ... y'know ...
:lol: :notworthy
NicolaUK
20-02-2008, 21:27
What a bunch of cocks.
ascender
20-02-2008, 21:27
So, Take That are the best live act? That's when I decided it would just annoy me if I carried on watching.
was it just my telly where everything went all slowed down for a few seconds a bit back after the Simon Cowell 'joke'?
Amy Winehouse looks like she needs a wee (and is completely oblivious to the music being played behind her, it seems).
Johnny Vodka
20-02-2008, 21:30
So, Take That are the best live act? That's when I decided it would just annoy me if I carried on watching.
It was voted for by Radio 2 listeners...
Just be glad it wasn't Westlife.
KennyVader
20-02-2008, 21:30
was it just my telly where everything went all slowed down for a few seconds a bit back after the Simon Cowell 'joke'?
I guess it was the swear-delay box went a bit wrong.
lol at Whinehouse's "dancing" :gag:
what a surprise, she mentioned her criminal husband :brickwall
Oh shut up about your husband you stupid crack whore....
This is truly car-crash tv ... so appalling, you just have to watch. My estimations of Kelly Osbourne sure did go up there though when she told the Arctic Monkeys to **** off. :lol:
Drysolder
20-02-2008, 21:32
Oh shut up about your husband you stupid crack whore....
:lol:
It's appalling though, even worse because all the winners already know they've won - Adele had already said she was just going for the free booze!
I guess it was the swear-delay box went a bit wrong.
I assumed that as well - why must they 'protect' us from swearing at 9.30pm though? :shrug:
'Grace Kelly' surely was best single out of that collection?
kohoutec
20-02-2008, 21:34
Well at least the Hoosiers havent won anything, for that we should be thankful
:lol:
It's appalling though, even worse because all the winners already know they've won - Adele had already said she was just going for the free booze!
I think she got her award when the nominations were announced, rather than tonight
KennyVader
20-02-2008, 21:36
Vic Reeves completely failing to be funny! Dear me!
Fight! Fight! Fight! :clap:
Drysolder
20-02-2008, 21:38
I think she got her award when the nominations were announced, rather than tonight
Oh, okay - yeah, looks like she did.
What the hell is Jim Reeves doing up there?
KennyVader
20-02-2008, 21:39
lol did they forget to turn grandma osbourne's mic off then
what an arsehole sharon osbourne is. god..this is a ******* balls up of immense proportions.
Did anyone see that bloke look down his nose at the monkeys as they walked past.:lol:
Christ on a bike! ... Get Sam Fox & Mick Fleetwood on the phone, this is going pear-shaped, so bad even Ozzy has gone home early.
Shame theY cut the Monkeys short, I was quite enjoying them rip the **** out of the Brit school lot.
Did anyone see that bloke look down his nose at the monkeys as the walked past.:lol:
Wasn't that Paul Young?
Sharon is just a gobby bint, over the years I grown to dislike her a lot she is just a spoiled bitch. I can remember a time when it was Ozzy & his wife Sharon. Now it's Sharon & her husband Ozzy. LOl at Ozzy introduce McCartney way too early.
losimagic
20-02-2008, 21:47
Oh shut up about your husband you stupid crack whore....
phew, I thought I was the only one getting sick and tired of that rubbish.
Amy, nobody gives two hoots about free-loading loser of a husband, so shut up about him!
poor kylie looks terrified. Would have been great if they had heather mills to present his award.
and what is this 'brit school' they keep harping on about?
So, the moral of the Brits this year is you can't win (no matter how talented you are) if you won a tv talent show because you're not "credible" and have been packaged and approved by "the suits" in front of an audience of millions but you can win if you're only moderately talented (or even just completely rubbish) having been to the Brits school and packaged and approved by "the suits" behind-closed-doors where the thin veneer of "credibility" and "cool" can be maintained, well, until you go out on stage and start waving to them what you went to school with n that anyway.
and what is this 'brit school' they keep harping on about?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit_School
NicolaUK
20-02-2008, 21:52
Paul Young's still alive then :lol:
and what is this 'brit school' they keep harping on about?
http://www.brit.croydon.sch.uk/
I'm guessing Kate Nash and Adele were in the munters class.
And WHY hasn't anyone told Kate Nash that lemons are sour not bitter. :mad:
Paul McCartney's voice has gone downhill an awful lot since the good old days
macca looks woefully out of place.
George vader
20-02-2008, 21:59
Glad I taped it now!!!!!!!!
I'm guessing Kate Nash and Adele were in the munters class.
And WHY hasn't anyone told Kate Nash that lemons are sour not bitter. :mad:
what about gin and bitter lemon?
rsbrowndog
20-02-2008, 22:07
What a load of *****. Arctic Monkeys easily win my award for biggest cocks of all time ever. *******. Remind me never to buy any of their "music".
Cheers,
Ryan
How did Mark Ronson, a producer, win best solo male? Erm ...
They're not giving Daddy Osborne much to say are they!
I made exactly the same two comments to Mrs Glennsh watching this
"Best British Male" indeed :|
This is *****!!! Painful crap
EDIT: Already answered :thumbs:
well that was *****
Looking at the Brit School Graduates is plain odd. it seems that EVERY british artist went (and graduated) there :?: :?: I mean Amy Whinehouse......WTF :nuts:
http://www.brit.croydon.sch.uk/Careers/graduates.htm
I thought it was all very enjoyable, it certainly made me laugh.
Mr Silly
20-02-2008, 22:33
Didn't see it - what happened? I see people making comparisons to the Sam Fox Mick Fleetwood one - was it really that bad/great? what happened?
Sharon is just a gobby bint, over the years I grown to dislike her a lot she is just a spoiled bitch. I can remember a time when it was Ozzy & his wife Sharon. Now it's Sharon & her husband Ozzy. LOl at Ozzy introduce McCartney way too early.Totally agree. One of the reasons I didn't watch this was because of her. Can't stand her spoilt daughter either
Oh shut up about your husband you stupid crack whore....I really don't get the whole "poor Amy" culture. She and her husband messed up big time and turned down help. No sympathy here
well that was *****
Looking at the Brit School Graduates is plain odd. it seems that EVERY british artist went (and graduated) there :?: :?:
http://www.brit.croydon.sch.uk/Careers/graduates.htm
But looking at that list its only lately that they (the school) have had more success. Its as if our current A&R is getting lazy and just seeing what's available ;)
And I didnt realise Athlete were part of that same gang :(
I mean Amy Whinehouse......WTF :nuts:
Regardless of her private(?) life she's released the best album of all the them :thumbs:
Dreadful. I really want to like the Arctic Monkeys as their music is pretty good, but they are just a load of knobs basically who give out the impression that they think they are better than everyone else.
Ozzy was hardly on it apart from the start and end. Funny hearing Sharon off-mike saying "What have they come as" about the Monkey's and calling Vic reeves a ********. Funny
Radiohead
20-02-2008, 22:47
Is it a sign of getting old when you turn over to watch Masterchef?
No, it's doing what I did and deciding all along that Masterchef was by far the preferable option.
GAmbrose
21-02-2008, 00:14
Dave Grohl taking the absolute **** was the only good thing about the whole show.
Gary A
NicolaUK
21-02-2008, 01:09
I thought it was all very enjoyable, it certainly made me laugh.
Indeed, when were The Brits to be taken seriously :nuts:
LouBarlow
21-02-2008, 05:25
Dave Grohl acting all high and mighty seems a little off considering the vaccuous, souless music he has been making for the last 13 years...selling out stadiums is just great Dave...really. Well done.
christ what a train wreck, only highlight was leona lewis and note to producers. Don't big up Ozzy as a host when he clearly wasn't
Dave Grohl acting all high and mighty seems a little off.
I think you'll find he was being sarcastic
basegreen
21-02-2008, 08:47
They should have stopped when Javis flapped his arse at Michael Jackson.
but then Prescott would never have got a bucketload of ice thrown over him :lol:
Johnny Vodka
21-02-2008, 09:08
Dave Grohl acting all high and mighty seems a little off considering the vaccuous, souless music he has been making for the last 13 years...selling out stadiums is just great Dave...really. Well done.
Agrees with LB. :suspect:
sky+'d this and got through it in 10 minutes... utter garbage. i hate the osbournes especially the mum and that jaw of a daughter.
I thought the Arctics stab at the trendy brit school lot was superb... It's just a shame no one saw it as a sly dig, just them being egotistical... tut
I really hate Sharon Osbourne though, she really thinks she is a cut above the rest... I missed why she called Vic Reeves a ******* though... Anyone care to shed some light!?
Didn't bother watching it but what did (Sir) Dave Grohl do/say? Something about selling MSG out? That it?
I thought the Arctics stab at the trendy brit school lot was superb... It's just a shame no one saw it as a sly dig, just them being egotistical... tut
I really hate Sharon Osbourne though, she really thinks she is a cut above the rest... I missed why she called Vic Reeves a ******* though... Anyone care to shed some light!?
what is the brit school?? i didn't get that, although saw they were taking the **** out of it.
also wondering why she kept gettin on at vic reeves too :?: i hate her, she wants all the attention constantly.
GAmbrose
21-02-2008, 13:31
Didn't bother watching it but what did (Sir) Dave Grohl do/say? Something about selling MSG out? That it?
He was just being really sarcastic.
Something like "It's great to be compared with previous Brit Award winners such as Bros, Shakespears Sister, Kula Shaker etc etc. We would have been there, but we've just sold out Madison Square Garden"
Thats me paraphrasing, it was quite funny. The Foo's didn't even appear on my musical radar until last year when I saw them live at V2007. Since then i've become a fan.
Gary A
sky+'d this and got through it in 10 minutes... utter garbage. i hate the osbournes especially the mum and that jaw of a daughter.
Just what on earth was Kelly wearing that night?!?!
Kirs-tea
21-02-2008, 13:38
He was just being really sarcastic. Something like "It's great to be compared with previous Brit Award winners such as Bros, Shakespears Sister, Kula Shaker etc etc. We would have been there, but we've just sold out Madison Square Garden"
Wish I'd watched it just for that!! :notworthy
I saw bits, it seemed prtty badly put togetehr but considering rhe marketing I wonder how much of that was deliberate.
Arctic Monkeys seemed suitably kerazee, they're so wilfully "different" in a not-very-different sort of way.
McCartney getting that lifetime achievement thing was pretty crap, he certainly didn't change the world as Sharon Osbourne said.
Plus, that "Dance tonight" song he did, am I the only one to notice it only had about 3 lines? Musical genius? Nah.
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