Brit awards 2012: live coverage
Wish you were at the Brit awards but couldn't get a ticket? Don't worry, neither could Tim Jonze! But he liveblogged the hell out of Adele winning loads of awards here ...
Post your comments and questions below. You can also tweet him @timjonze
"And the winner is ... Adele!" "And the winner is ... Adele!" "And the winner is ... Anna Calv ... no, sorry, we read the wrong line, it's actually ... Adele!"
For those of you who haven't got time to watch the Brits tonight, I have handily summarised the next few hours above. For everyone else, get ready to join me from about 7.30pm tonight for your fully interactive (er, tweet me @timjonze and stuff) live Brits commentary. We've got a fair few Guardian people there, including Kieran Yates on the red carpet and Caspar Llewellyn Smith at the free bar. As for me I'll be blogging until my fingers bleed from the Guardian offices with a nice bottle of C�tes du Rh�ne (I refused to do this sober) and some bonus free hot chocolate from the machines.
Some treats to look forward to tonight ...
*Blur are going to receive the outstanding achievement award and play some songs! Like they did at Glastonbury when everyone cried!
*Emeli Sand� is going to do the critics choice slot that Adele did last year when she redefined the whole concept of what a pop star could be by standing on a stage and singing her most popular song.
*Noel Gallagher is rumoured to be doing "something" with Coldplay.
*Lots of awards will be given out to some of the people on this list of nominees
*I will get drunk and forget how to spell
I'll check in every now and then with a bit of preview stuff before the show starts (it's live on ITV from 8pm with James Corden presenting, whoop!) so join me for that or return here when the main event starts ...
Ok, here's some required reading/clicking/viewing to get you in the mood for tonight ...
1) Ten top Brits moments, as chosen by Observer writer Tom Lamont
2) You still have time to vote in our poll - let us know who you think should win in each category.
3) Watch Guardian critics discuss their encounters with the one and only ? Adele! Featuring Caspar Llewellyn Smith, Tom Lamont and Rosie Swash reminiscing on their favourite Adele moments.
4) A classic 1994 interview with outstanding contribution to music winners Blur, from our wonderful Rock's Backpages series
5) Most importantly you need to get your Mecca daubers and betting pencils at the ready to play Peter Robinson's Brits bingo game! Will Ed Sheeran eat an apple? Will Alex James mention cheese? Will I locate the key combination that does that little accent above the "e" on the end of Emeli Sande's name? Make up some bingo cards using a site like this and play along ?
Of course, Brits bingo could also double up as a drinking game ? simply take a swig each time something on the list is mentioned. Although given that one of the things included here is "Adele looks sad near a piano" you might need a liver the size of Charles Bukowski to take part
So Caspar Llewellyn Smith, our man embedded in the beast of the music industry's belly, is using his undercover skills ? which involve eating lots of food and drinking even more booze, just like a real member of the music industry (he's so good at camouflage) ? to bring us the following info: Dizzee Rascal has trod in a bread roll; David Arnold is spilling the beans on his secret Olympic closing ceremony plans; most punters are still locked outside while the industry stuff their faces with the following ?
Starter
A trio of 'truffles' - porchini, spelt and broad bean with homemade
tomato chutney and crostini (v)
Main Course
Cannon of English lamb in green herbs on pea puree, with spiced red
cabbage, and a little lamb and mint Cornish pasty
Dessert
Mojito jelly with tequila mousse, effervescent lime sugar
I could give you the vegetarian option as well, what with this being the Guardian and everything, but really ? is that what you want from a live blog? Is that the kind of pioneering, liberal-minded, open journalism the Guardian prides itself on? Ok, ok, here's the vegetarian menu ?
Starter
A trio of 'truffles' - porchini, spelt and broad bean with homemade
tomato chutney and crostini (v)
Main Course
Wild mushroom ragout in puff pastry case with pas puree and spiced red cabbage
Dessert
Mojito jelly with tequila mousse, effervescent lime sugar
In other news, Blur's Dave Rowntree is on the red carpet. He says being at the Brits is "actually a really nice thing to do". He sounds like someone on a mission to shrug off that "boring" tag.
Kieran Yates is on red carpet duty for us tonight and I'm pleased to say she's not letting the excitement of meeting Ed Sheeran overwhelm her ...
Puppriss says below that the thought of Noel Gallagher duetting with Coldplay is a case of "the bland leading the bland"
If they hadn't posted that underneath this very article, I'd have nicked that for myself.
Rihanna is backstage and has just revealed that her dress cost a thousand pounds and is from Givenchy. I thank you, and look forward to blogging live from Paris Fashion Week after this successful audition.
A word on the nominees, then. Ed Sheeran is actually nominated for more awards than Adele, although he's probably less likely to win them all. Sheeran gets the nod for best male solo artist, best breakthrough artist, best album and best single. And if that information doesn't reveal the thrilling, vibrant health of the British music industry right now, I don't know what will.
I reckon Sheeran will get best male and maybe breakthrough (although Jessie J is looking good for that too). Adele will surely win all hers - best single, best album and best female solo artist. That leaves categories such as British group (I'm tipping Kasabian to beat Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys, Chase & Status and Elbow) and so many international categories I'm not even sure why this is called the Brits. I am going to go out on a massive limb and tip Blur for outstanding contribution to music.
Here are the results of the Guardian readers poll, then. And you lot are hoping that ... er ... Adele and Ed Sheeran clean up. I think you might be in for a fun night!
In other news, Noel Gallagher has told Keith Lemon on the red carpet that he's actually duetting with Olly Murs. He's joking, I think, but if he did do the duet it would be a case of THE BLAND LEADING THE BLAND HAHAHA!!!!!
We're about to start and this news is quite exciting
And so we kick off with the award for best Arcade Fire tribute act. And the winner is ... Coldplay! Here they are, doing their epic, atmospheric, inoffensive thing.
The giant disco ball has just let off a few sparks. Is that the pyrotechnics we were promised? NO! Now the walls are exploding with fire. It's either an impressive opening show or Chris Martin left a cigarette lit
I will resolve to leave my cynicism at the door as best as I can for the next two hours. After all, here's James Corden to present, and there's definitely nothing annoying about that guy. Right, here comes the award for best British album ...
If you're playing Peter Robinson's Brits bingo then tick off #43 "Extreme James Corden Adele Introduction Seriousface".
I'm not sure what happened to the album award I promised. It moved on to a Whitney tribute and now it's Florence performing No Light No Light. Am I drunk already or is this making literally no narrative sense? It's like a William Burroughs novel or something
While we're on an ad break, here's some pop gossip from top music writer Pete Paphides ...
... you just wouldn't get this kind of thing from your "Lester Bangs versus Lou Reed" era.
It's Kylie time ? she's presenting the award for British female solo artist. Who will win? WHO COULD IT BE?
We have a winner of best British female solo artist: Adele!
Easy this, innit?
Adele says she looks like "a drag queen next to Kylie". She thanks XL for giving her creative freedom and all her fans, then walks off with her Peter Blake-designed statuette.
Oh god what is going on? James Corden has made me laugh out loud! He said "That's one hell of a succesful tranny" as Adele left the stage. I'm not sure if I'm laughing for the right reasons, but still ...
Another award time. The winner of best international solo male is Bruno Mars. Mars is rocking a quiff modelled on the one I attempted for a day in the Guardian office before everyone asked me why I was trying to look like La Roux/Tin-Tin/Joey Barton/someone who had received a harsh electric shock
Olly Murs. Performing live. What did I do in a previous life to end up covering this?
Murs has lots of female dancers with him. What's the point in Murs if he's not doing his trademark jelly legs dancing that the nation fell in love with back in 2010?
Rizzle Kicks - or the Rizzly Kicks as Louis Walsh likes to call them on Twitter ? have joined him for a verse. It's pulse-quickening stuff
It's what Peter Blake would have wanted ...
They like this whole standing on a stage and singing your song thing at the Brits (see last year's Adele performance). It shows you're unaffected by fame, you're utterly authentic and you're ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC (we'll ignore the big light display of a rotating house and the suits scoffing roast lamb and truffles down the front). Anyway, Ed Sheeran is now doing "that thing" with his song Lego House
I was saving the red wine for a celebratory drink near the end. Then Sheeran came onstage and things didn't quite work out as planned.
I'm being mean about Ed Sheeran but what do I know?
Compared to Leyton Orient's Jimmy Smith, absolutely nothing, that's what.
We're back from another ad break and Tinie Tempah is about to announce the best British single ... the winner is: One Direction! In your face Someone Like You!
According to Caspar in the thick of the action Adele received a standing ovation, which is unprecendented so early on in the ceremony. He would know, having been to every single one since 1843
Rihanna is the winner of the best international female solo artist award. But we're having a few "IT problems" here so apologies if this news is rather delayed ...
In other news, Florence's stage set apparently cost �80,000! And now Noel Gallagher is playing with a stage set that looks like it cost about �8.50.
Chris Martin is on the piano, btw. IT'S THE BLAND LEADING THE BLAND! ETC ETC
It's time for an Amy Winehouse tribute now ? there's audio of her speaking about her career over a montage of black and white photos. It lasts for less than two minutes, then James Corden says "she will be missed" and we're back in the room with Plan B who is presenting the award for best British solo male artist. He can't remember what year it is, which is a good start.
And the best male solo artist winner is ... Ed Sheeran. I have already run out of snide jokes to make. He says he didn't think he'd get this one, although looking at the competition (James Blake, Noel Gallagher, James Morrison) I'm not sure why.
With my computer system seizing up around me, I can barely keep up with all these awards. But the winner of the best British band goes to Coldplay as voted for by Radio 2 listeners. Had I known it was Radio 2 listeners voting I would never have backed Kasabian earlier on in this blog. Noel Gallagher's piano player goes up to say thank you and we're moving on to ANOTHER AWARD ALREADY
PJ Harvey's here on video talking about Let England Shake. Let the LOLs begin ...
It's Adele time. She's performing Rolling In The Deep, the best song by a mile off 21. If it was up to me, I'd have made her do this one last year. Then the most talked-about moment of the whole awards would have been missed. Someone should put me in charge of a record label.
Anyway, this song should feel a bit old really (it came out before Someone Like You) but it's still the best live moment of the show so far by some distance.
Guardian reader conanthebarbarian has some advice to liven the show up:
"The KLF should turn up and set fire to another million quid - and James Corden. He'd make some wonderful kindling."
All in the name of performance art, of course.
Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor are here for the best international group award. May's hair is, frankly, terrifying ? more so than my aforementioned quiff. And the winner of best international group is ... oh dear lord ... Foo Fighters. Here comes a "wacky" video acceptance ...
Gulp!
Cesc F�bregas is here to present an award. Hang on, Cesc F�bregas?!? Anyway, the winner of best breakthrough goes to ... Ed Sheeran. All I can think of to say, really, is ... Cesc F�bregas?!?
You know that Bruno Mars song Just The Way You Are? Well I don't know about you, but I've always thought it needed a laid-back jazz-funk remake
One Direction have been "busted" drinking booze. The sight of them drinking at least pleases most women in Britain (for example, my wife) as they can pretend they are over 18 and it's perfectly ok to fancy them.
Other than that, really not much eventful has happened so far at this year's Brits. And we only have half an hour left for Brian May's hair to run off and form a dubstep duo with Chris Martin. Or for something, anything, anything at all, to happen ...
will.i.am and Rob Brydon. Why did nobody ever think of that pairing before? It just seems so ... obvious. Anyway, the winner of best international breakthrough artist goes to ... Lana Del Rey. She accepts with the steely nerves we've come to expect from her.
PS For the final (ok, not final but definitely the best) word on Lana Del Rey check out Sean from Rough Trade's amazing record reviews ...
I think we can safely say that Rihanna has stolen the show here. I particularly like her kiddy rave dancing. Unlike a lot of stuff tonight, it felt like a proper, sensory-overload pop performance.
So Ray Winstone introduces Blur and now they're accepting their outstanding contribution award. Damon says: "Thank you very much. The last time we were here was 17 years ago and what happened that night had a profound effect on our lives. So it's very nice to come back and say thank you for this honour."
Then there's a whole load of thank yous: family, friends, label bosses, producers, you know the drill.
"But more than any of those people, I really want to dedicate this to a very special person ... "
He means Noel Gallagher right?
No! He doesn't! He means "Chris Morrison, you're a very dear friend, thank you!"
And they're off to prepare for closing the show.
George Michael is here. To sing? No, to present another award! Jesus Christ, there are more awards. When does this thing end, November? Anyway, now it's time for album of the year. George Michael says he flew back from Australia because they told him who the winner was and he loves them so much.
And the winner for best album goes to ... Adele for 21 ! Bad news for George Michael, he was told it was PJ Harvey when he booked his flights.
I do love a good Adele speech. She's got proper charisma. "Thank you so much," she says, pretending to care after she's just won six Grammys. "I'm so proud to be flying our flag ..." she continues before Corden CUTS HER OFF! OUCH! HEADS WILL ROLL TOMORROW ETC
Grand finale time. It's Blur performing Girls & Boys. Damon still looks young enough to get away with jumping around the stage like he's got insects in his briefs.
Of course, the best thing about the Brits is when the camera pans onto Old Music Industry Person doing a dance near the end.
Joey Barton is not happy over on the Twitter that the Brits cut off Adele for this Blur racket
Phil Daniels is doing that trademark singing of his on Parklife. Blur seem to be splitting opinion over on the "social networking" places. It's either a national disgrace that they interrupted Adele's speech for this, or it's a thrilling, punky racket that shows up the commercial nature of the rest of the night's entertainment.
Anyway, that's it for another year. Thank you for reading, commenting and tweeting. The full list of winners is as follows ...
British male solo artist: Ed Sheeran
British female solo artist: Adele
British breakthrough: Ed Sheeran
British group: Coldplay
British single: One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful
British album: Adele - 21
International male solo artist: Bruno Mars
International female solo artist: Rihanna
International group: Foo Fighters
International breakthrough act: Lana Del Rey
Outstanding contribution to music: Blur
Critic's choice: Emeli Sand�
Over on ITV2 Blur are doing Tender so I'm going to have a gander (cockney speak, you understand) at that ...
... meanwhile you can have a gander at our red carpet video ... goodnight!
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/21/brit-awards-2012-live-coverage
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