DiS watches the Brit Awards: our wine was nice and we drank the whole bottle

was like the female chris_is_cool

and i thought you'd made it...

All I have to do to win an outstanding contribution to music award in Britain is hang onto 6 shamefully poor album releases and call everyone else shit whilst still claiming they copied you.

I actually laughed so hard at reading Orson winning "best international breakthrough act" a little bit of wee came out. I hate these award things, but the thing that depresses me most is, in 20 years time the future will look back at us and say... "JAMES MORRISON??! Wow 2006 was a really shit year for music! oh well, back to my flying car :)"

Liam Gallagher really can't sing after all these years, u would think he'd be better by now!

The only one I agree with.

Which is one more than usual.

"Jumper bunnies"

..Because they are too busy getting fucked by their masters NME.

Their acceptance videos were the most unfunny shit I have ever seen.

is because they think award shows are horrible events full of horrible people who are completely out of touch with reality, which they are (and the brits are the worst). they said as much in their interview with q after they won a q award for something or other. its nothing to do with not being able to get there due to rehearsals or video shoots...bands and singers routinely take intercontinental flights to get to these award shows (muse flew from the us to get to the mercury prize last year on the same day as the ceremony, the rhcp were at the grammies only a couple of days ago). and they knew the date of these awards, and knew they were obviously going to get nominated for something, a long long time ago, and could have worked their schedule around that. the reason they're not there is because they don't want to be there

its pretty pathetic really...if they had bothered to attend no doubt someone on here would have taken a shot at them for being industry whores only concerned with promotion. i dont particularly like them but they're a band who are clearly very down-to-earth people who have little tolerance of industry bullshit and who aren't willing to conform to the tedious routine of the modern mainstream music industry. really dont see how anyone here could object to that. the brits are shit, as everyone here agrees. so why go to them then?

they've learned from Oasis' mistakes and they're purposely keeping a distance from the showbiz side of things which we all know has nothing to do with the music.

They're trying to give themselves a chance of being in it for the long-term, good luck to em.

despise The Kooks, how could they not have won best breakthrough act? They fit all the criteria - coming from nowhere to sell an acclaimed multi-platinum album and they're really young. The Fratellis = a mindless, dense soundtrack for getting smashed.