It's, It's A Ballroom Brits! - Part 1
Welcome to my new office. Do you like? You will notice is is lacking in a few home comforts, such as...well...an office, but it's mine, I am here at the Brit Awards, backstage in a massive aircraft hanger which is divided up by endless false walls, all of which are covered in carpet. It's a bit like being a laboratory white mouse, only without having an ear grafted to my back, and you're not allowed to smoke in here, it's the one thing the security guards have been most insistant about. I think the carpet might be flammable or something.
Anyway I'm in and watching the world go by in a startlingly self-important fashion. The world, that is, not me. Although, now I come to mention it, maybe me a bit too, It's very much that kind of a do.
So far I have very little to report of note. There are backstage televisions everywhere, and I can EXCLUSIVELY REVEAL that Rihanna will be performing with the Klaxons in front of a wall of laserbeams, in proper new rave style, and that the theme for their costumes seems to be The Dark Ages...only with lasers, as I said. Hopefully it'll make more sense when we see it properly later on, but she seems to be in fine voice..
Anticipation hangs heavy in the air. There's been a lot of people walking around with hands on their hips (usually their hands, although this may change as the evening wears on), together with some sucking in of teeth (again, their teeth) and even a little bit of heavy sighing. That is very much the way of things with the people who set these kind of events up. They also do not like to be interrupted if, say, a friendly, well-meaning blogger suddenly realises that there is only so long a laptop battery will last, and that actually some mains power might be nice.
I tell you, I was clearing my throat for AGES until someone noticed, and even then the most I got was a cough sweet.
Meanwhile, I officially have my celebrity-spotting cap on. It's pink, with pointy ears, so I'm getting a few weird looks, but so far I can EXCLUSIVELY REVEAL that I have seen - WITH MY OWN EYES - all of the Chris Moyles breakfast show team (look, that's them in this picture. The red wallpaper room is their studio, and as you'll also notice, the ChartBlog office is slightly less well decorated, and could be mistaken for just being a plie of flight cases out in the corridor, to the untrained eye) and that Dave bloke who goes out with Heidi Sugababe.
Rest assured, it will get a LOT more hectic than this, I have, after all, only just arrived. Either that or there's going to be an awful lot more stuff about flight cases and how sore my back is getting. I know, I know...it IS almost too exciting, isn't it?
The Complete ChartBlog Brits Report
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
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