Originally written by TheBoyDeadly · 15 January 2008
A lot of work goes into the BRIT Awards nomination ceremony. Evidence trails back all the way to the award received by Adele last year, as the newfangled ‘Critics Choice’ prize – announced in the press just after Fireworks night - went to the London-born singer whose back catalogue at the time carried the weight of a solitary single.
Evidence, surely, of strings and things being pulled about the industry trade routes – strings that yesterday snagged hooks in the t-shirts of a legion of fresh-faced TV professionals scuttling around the corner-less venue, desperately trying to warm the crowd to gig-heat.
Suited men supped and nattered throughout, while the idiot-grin gaggle of BRIT School kids – who used to count Adele among their number, interestingly - gladly complied with the compere’s demands for on demand whooping and hand-smacking.
Most left after 2008’s most-tipped, though other highlights included seeing Jamie T up for a BRIT two years after leaving his bedroom for the first time, Richard Hawley raining on everyone’s parade and Jodie Harsh, that most desperate of London mules, parading around looking for Andy Warhol in a chicken factory; this crass pantomime’s very own Widow Twanky.
Anyway…
British Male Solo Artist Jamie T Mark Ronson Mika Newton Faulkner Richard Hawley
British Female Solo Artist Bat For Lashes Kate Nash KT Tunstall Leona Lewis PJ Harvey
British Group Arctic Monkeys Editors Girls Aloud Kaiser Chiefs Take That
British Album Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare Leona Lewis – Spirit Mark Ronson – Version Mika – Life In Cartoon Motion Take That – Beautiful World
British Breakthrough Act Bat For Lashes Kate Nash Klaxons Leona Lewis Mika
British Live Act Arctic Monkeys Kaiser Chiefs Klaxons Muse Take That
British Single Leona Lewis – ‘Bleeding Love’ Mika – ‘Grace Kelly’ Take That – ‘Shine’ Kaiser Chiefs – ‘Ruby’ Sugababes – ‘About You Now’ Mark Ronson Ft Amy Winehouse – ‘Valerie’ Kate Nash – ‘Foundations’ The Hoosiers – ‘Worried About Ray’ James Blunt – ‘1973’ Mutya Buena – ‘Real Girl’
International Male Solo Artist Bruce Springsteen Kanye West Michael Buble Rufus Wainwright Timbaland
International Female Solo Artist Alicia Keys Bjork Feist Kylie Minogue Rihanna
International Group Arcade Fire Eagles Foo Fighters Kings of Leon White Stripes
International Album Arcade Fire – Neon Bible Eagles – Long Road Out Of Eden Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Kings of Leon – Because Of The Times Kylie Minogue – X
Critics' Choice Award Adele
Outstanding Contribution to Music Sir Paul McCartney
The ceremony proper will take place at Earls Court on the 20th of February, presented by Ozzy and the odious Sharon Osbourne.