I'm sure it will be the usual smug-fest. Who is up for the 'lifetime' achievement award this time ? Take That, Amy Winehouse, Carter USM or someone else with a fine body of work like Oasis :)

To me the Brits are like the Mercury's for cloth ears.

never watched it

that finds award shows of any ilk flat out boring? They're usually planned to within an inch of a PR's intellect, reflect no definition of "best" that I've ever encountered and I'd suggest most people would be hard pressed to remember who won what a fortnight after the occurrence. The presentations are usually without any interest and the performers seem to always play it safe. I'd prefer to go and cut my toenails.

And all those folk thanking God for his influence on their lives and their art; he seems to be credited so much I would have thought someone would have offered the Big Guy a contract by now...

Thanks for watching it for me. One less painful experience to go through. Wish I'd seen the Grammys, though.

We are being abit serious about awards, the joyous thing about the Brits is that even though the choices of winners etc can be bland not one goes by without some madness from the pop community. Whether it's Jarvis puntering Jacko vanity? or Joss stone wandering accent and dazed performance form last year out even the affrontery of the old days when Annie lennox use to win 3 years after her last album was amusing. (oh and that bloke from BPI's hat)
Can I suggest a bingo/drinking game:
you can have a drink everytime an America star needlessly thanks god for their success.
another for everytime a floppy fringed faux indie type grunts more than "cheers" by way of thanks.
At least a pint to anyone who can interpret what gnomic utterance liam gallagher comes out with.
oh a quick snifter everytime Amy winehouse changes her shoes.
any other suggestions?

Jo Whiley will come on to announce that some band that she personally regards as "wicked" have won some prize.

As long as there's no Russell Brand, I'm happy.

oh and broadcasting and music industry "professionals" who use a mic as if it's the first time they have come across one!

...will probably be more entertaining than the award ceremony itself, although last year's had a certain car-crash TV value- anyone remember Joss Stone making some misguided speech about 'sending Robbie Williams some love' and caterwauling through Amy Winehouse's 'Rehab'??

As Morrissey said (back when his sayings were worth summat) The Brits "say nothing to me about my life". Totally unrelated to any music I'm interested in (except tangentially).

...switching between here, ITV, the United vs Lyon match, and the Red Issue website. And a bottle of Tempranillo.

Mrs Matt taken the kids to her parents for half term? How'd you guess?

Wrote a fantastic piece on The Brits in today's Independent. It may be available online and I highly recommend it.

to hear Mark Ronson tell me how boring it was. And I figured he was right, so I turned it off again.

Presented by the Osbournes, cast list of blow fly challenging career length nonentities other than Kylie who is constantly on the telly anyway and I can see any time. I wonder who watches it? Incidentally, were the folk awards televised (I would have watched that - real musicians making real music).

...of The Brits is that it sparked the hilarious podcast I've just listened to. And I didn't even have to watch the damned thing to enjoy the podcast - a real win-win situation!