I have no interest in any of the acts. And it'll be lots of shrill screaming from the fans. Wouldn't mind a peek just to see James Corden fall on his arse though.

Couldn't give a shit.

I didn't even know it was on. That's how much I know or care about it. I saw a programme listed in the schedules but I assumed it was one of those interminable lead up shows that presage the actual show in a months time. Will it make any of the winning records sound any better or worse or will it change my opinion about what I like? Unlikely, as it never has in the past.

The best of British music for me the fact that Everything Everything and Field Music are not nominated sums it up , completely irrelevant

More than ever, in fact. I'm not particularly sure why, but I guess it's because I'm a fan of pop music and it's the biggest pop music awards in the UK.

I might even be live blogging it BBC Sport style. I'm sure that half an hour in, I'll be spewing forth linguistic bile and venom though.

It's mainly the office outing for the industry and a chance to generate a spike in downloads/sales for the winners. No significance beyond that, unless you genuinely feel others are more qualified than you to decide who's "best" in music.

And surely no-one remembers who won what in years to come. I bet you can recall The KLF's dead sheep, the Sam Fox & Mick Fleetwood debacle, Prescott's soaking and Brandon Block's award that wasn't. Who won the actual awards those years, eh? Eh?

I'll only be watching if Mick Fleetwood and Sam Fox are presenting. Their 1989 show was probably the funniest two hours of television I've ever witnessed.

Bjork and Polly Jean

Up the irons

jarvis n Jacko

but mostly its bland backslapping

Annie Lennox win?

are rubbish by their very nature, but the Brits is probably one of the more interesting among all of them.

There has been a few classic moments, even in bands we might not be interested in. EVERYONE remembers Geri Halliwell's union jack dress, for example, don't they?

Lady Gaga's performance last year (completely mad like A Proper Pop Star) made me sit and take notice of her.

My friend works with Florence and the Machine and her (their?) performance (can't remember if it was last year or the year before) increased sales incredibly. Increased sales of records and downloads are good for the music industry in the long-run, I suppose.

Having said that, I'll be watching the football and hoping that Twitter tell me if they are any good bits to catch up on.

I've ever cared about who wins the Brits or any music award for that matter. They can occasionally throw out the odd surprise or eye-opener but for years the idea of spontaneity seems to have been hounded out of the building and individuality bundled up in a sack, weighted down with bricks and discarded in the canal.

These days I equate watching the Brits to watching the X Factor or Big Brother. They all seem to be the same thing to me really, my brain unwilling to work at discriminating between them preferring just to compartmentalise them as "popular formulaic entertainment with added sterotyping" and letting it all wash over me if I happen to tune in, which I invariably don't. Which probably makes me sound po-faced and miserable. It's not that, it's just that I can't be arsed.

Watching Top of The Pops was always the most exciting TV experience for me musically and no show has ever come near to it in terms of bottling a fraction of the thrill that music instils in me. Even an umpteenth repeat of Steve Wright blathering all over the footage on TOTP2 is more exciting. Even if it's Beverley Craven or Johnny Logan. Or Dana. Or The Lighthouse Family. Or Razorlight*.

I quite like watching the Mercury prize when it's on simply because a bit of subjective impassioned opinion is allowed into the proceedings. I can then engage in the experience by either nodding vigorously in agreement or guffawing at the level of wrongity-wrongness being espoused by some "critic" about how good/bad an act's album is. I partioularly like it when they use words like "important" and "ground-breaking" for acts that are invariably this year's version of last year's clone to the previous decade's influential act that represented the best assimilation of the sound and style of the actual "important" and "ground breaking" act from which they are all derived. I also like the way no one knows how to discuss the token "avant garde" act or "jazz" act. Then I can get really antsy and bore Ma Bisto with MY opinion. She loves it*.

*A lie.

that this will be the only prime time music show on TV this year. (Excluding those ITV A Night with some one hasn't made a good record for 20 years shows.)

twaddle and I have never made them a centrepiece of any nights viewing. Especially so now when I am out of the demographic.
Even when I was younger and hipper I would be flicking over only to catch the token indie act like the sublime Bjork/ Harvey moment alluded to earlier. It made up part of a VHS tape of stuff recorded from TOTP and The Chart Show. Thrown away now but not a bother thanks to YouTube.

at yer actual live show, like last year, so we can tweet them and ask what words have been bleeped out by ITV. They can be a bit keen and any mention of flip, sugar and bottom eradicates a whole speech.

It is sadly getting tamer, the only time I attended was when a very drunk Brandon Block make Ronnie Wood look a bigger dick.

I'm gonna record it just to watch Mark Ronson but only because Rose Elinor Dougall is performing with him. Don't really care about the rest tbh.

I will record it. Then fast forward through it the next day tutting loudly. As bit like my recent Glastonbury viewings.

Excruciating festival of onanism.

TMFTL

I've been watching it since i was a kid, since it was called the snappily titled, British Rock & Pop Awards. Then it was The BPI Awards i think and maybe others i've forgotten. It's always been a bit ropey, but as someone who loves the culture that surrounds Pop music as much as the sounds themselves i need to know if i'm missing anything. My earliest memories are of a peroxide blond Bowie being introduced by Tommy Vance probably, as 'the Thin White Duke", i was only vaguely aware of him at this age but could see that he commanded respect and was cool and charasmatic. I remember The Police who couldn't be there accepting an award via filmed link with champagne in a jacuzzi and, 3 proper pop stars at the height of their fame.....Bork & Polly....Jarvis & Jacko......Mick Fleetwood & Sam Fox......Chumbawamba & Prescott........anyway it's started so i must go , might miss something! Blimey, one of Take That is spectacularly flat!

Sometimes the Massive are stultifyingly predictable.