Best of the BRITSPaul McCartney starred at last night’s BRIT awards receiving his Outstanding Contribution to Music Award, which was handed over by Kylie Minogue (after he specifically requested the Australian star earlier on this week). Mark Ronson won Best British Male – the first non-singer ever to take the award. Other highlights included Amy Winehouse’s two performances, managing to just about keep herself together, and the Osbourne family’s muddle through the overall presentation of the event. All together making the BRITs show a slightly chaotic and extremely entertaining fix.
Full list of winners:
Best British male: Mark Ronson
Best British female: Kate Nash
Best British album: Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Best British group: Arctic Monkeys
Best British breakthrough act: Mika
Best British live act: Take That
British single: Take That - Shine
International male solo artist: Kanye West
International female solo artist: Kylie Minogue
International group: Foo Fighters
International group: Foo Fighters
International album: Foo Fighters - Echoes
Critics' choice: Adele
Outstanding contribution to music: Sir Paul McCartney
Snoop Dodge
David Beckham has been advised to pull out of current talks with Snoop Dogg to fund his making of an X-rated skin flick. Becks and Snoop have been friends since their first meeting at Live 8 concert in 2005, and Snoop is keen to make another adult blockbuster and evener keener for David to stump up the cash. Friends of Becks have advised him to pull out of any investment involving Snoop as it would be a disaster...
In other news….
* Scared that BB9 is going to be even more of a flop than their previous efforts Big Brother bosses have come up with a bizarre plan to save the show. They plan to use ‘golden ticket’ winners from the 2006 show as potential 2009 contestants after weeks of dull auditions.
* An unnamed 34-year old British man was caught urinating on a revered monument in Riga, Latvia, and given a custodial sentence. The Foreign Office estimates that 70 per cent of British stag and hen parties are now held abroad, and 1 in 4 of these run into some sort of trouble ranging from lost money and passports to arrests and prison.
* Ebay junk ends up as cover art - The Feeling’s Dan Gillespie is addicted to buying tat on ebay, and has bought so much his home is now overrun with stuff. To solve the ever increasing problem the band collected a whole heap of ebay junk from his house, and built up the concept physically. It now appears pride of place on the front cover of their new album.
* The world’s first wooden supercar has been unveiled – and it’s faster than a Porsche. The eco-friendly two-seater has a six-speed manual gearbox and can sprint from 0 to 60mph in 3 seconds.
Snoop Dodge
David Beckham has been advised to pull out of current talks with Snoop Dogg to fund his making of an X-rated skin flick. Becks and Snoop have been friends since their first meeting at Live 8 concert in 2005, and Snoop is keen to make another adult blockbuster and evener keener for David to stump up the cash. Friends of Becks have advised him to pull out of any investment involving Snoop as it would be a disaster...
In other news….
* Scared that BB9 is going to be even more of a flop than their previous efforts Big Brother bosses have come up with a bizarre plan to save the show. They plan to use ‘golden ticket’ winners from the 2006 show as potential 2009 contestants after weeks of dull auditions.
* An unnamed 34-year old British man was caught urinating on a revered monument in Riga, Latvia, and given a custodial sentence. The Foreign Office estimates that 70 per cent of British stag and hen parties are now held abroad, and 1 in 4 of these run into some sort of trouble ranging from lost money and passports to arrests and prison.
* Ebay junk ends up as cover art - The Feeling’s Dan Gillespie is addicted to buying tat on ebay, and has bought so much his home is now overrun with stuff. To solve the ever increasing problem the band collected a whole heap of ebay junk from his house, and built up the concept physically. It now appears pride of place on the front cover of their new album.
* The world’s first wooden supercar has been unveiled – and it’s faster than a Porsche. The eco-friendly two-seater has a six-speed manual gearbox and can sprint from 0 to 60mph in 3 seconds.
CLIPS
Amy doing what she does best....
No comments:
Post a Comment