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Bryan'$ taking the pi$$ >8-D

Where are the bicylcle stands when you need them - ask Jane Asher.

Quite right actually - if you enjoy music no matter what then surely thats good. I love some things I just know deep down are pretty dodgy!

Me too!

Oh, you're talking about music.



Just ignore this.......................






pure riddy, by the way

#2

The wee redhead looks particularly desperate....

How long before someone leaves a comment here that get's binned

Eh woah Scotch where are you heading with this!!!

DEFAME

Glen kicks off the game

Norrie fans the flame

Scotch-git gets the blame

The next spice girls maybe?

I thought the Brits was poptastic; Take That in a spaceship, Girls Aloud and of course the brilliant Pet Shop Boys medley, exactly what the Brits should be all about.

Despite being a Corden and Horne fan not sure the presenting team worked, think Kylie would have been ok by herself...

Anyhow, I enjoyed it and each to their own.

See you at the pub with Girls Aloud Bryan!

Maria

I've just thrown a bamboo blind out - have I made a mistake?

These girls look as if they could do with a good feed.

The Brits - a celebration of an industry.

Can we get back to music now?

Yours puritanically

HFG - there was an interesting interview with Roland Gift today on the Tom Morton show, his being that the Brits did not really matter one way or the other and he also said that it was invented as this time of year was a real nose dive in terms of sales and so it really is an industry invention. The year they lost out on the Grammy the winner was......Milli Vanilli!!

Snapshot of the charts is my view.

#11

S'long as you throw it at a panda s'cool.

Paul Weller got one, so can't complain.

And I do like the Girls Aloud cover of Teenage Dirtbag (on the Radio 1 anniversary album; glorious covers of classic songs, including the Streets' version of Your Song)

HFG, take your point but Norrie is right, it is very much a snapshot of the charts so I appreciate alot of regulars on GIO blog wouldn't be remotely interested.

I enjoy it and I like to think my 14 year old niece loves it as much as I did when I was a kid whoevers idea it was or why it started.

I guess back then there wasn't so much exposure of pop stars as there is now so it was more unusual to see them all on one night like that.......

All the pop stuff aside, Elbow, Kings of Leon and The Ting Tings/Estelle performance were also excellent.

I used to work in the "industry" and attended the Brits 3 years running. Some of it was complete pants but for example the year Belle and Sebastian won Best Newcomer was an amazing night.

Whatever you feel about current music or the charts or the music industry I am glad of anything that keeps kids and adults interested in music and maybe gives them the same excitement as we used to get from gatefold vinyl (if thats possible!)

Maria

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I was delighted to see Kings of leon and especially Elbow who have been plugging away for years be rewarded. As far as Girls Aloud go, yes they make catchy pop records (Can't speak french especially) and are very tv and radio friendly, and yes they were wannabees who were brought together and well marketed but then so were some of the classic 60's girl groups especially on Motown. I just can't see The Promise being hailed a classic in years to come. I remember seeing them perform it for the first time on x factor. We were at a house party and the better halves insisted on watching. On the 'Live' show Girls aloud exclusively performed The Promise for the first time, all 5 lined up in front of 5 different microphones. When they finished Dermot O'Leary asked Cheryl
what it was like singing live in front of the judges and when she answered (in front of her own Mike) you couldn't hear her. So the bold Dermot strolls over puts his mike in front of her singing Mike so she could be heard. . . . And the following week Britney got slated for miming. Hilarious.

#13 and 16

Norrie / Maria - I did sign off as "puritanically", and I know any music's better than none (with the possible exception of Queen). Life's littered with injustices, though, and for GA, for example, to get so much exposure when, again for example, John Martyn's death still hasn't prompted a repeat of the doc. on ´óÏó´«Ã½4 (what are minority channels for??) is just another one.

I was watching the football anyway....

The Irish one. Phwoar.... Forget the music.