:rofl: :heart:

Well they're just having a bit of fun and being themselves! If Leona won it she wouldn't have showed a bit of emotion as usual probably! She'd be like "Oh yeah thank you" *walks off* I'm sure they are flattered as I'm sure they will be with their many NME awards they'll get later too :P Just like with their hilarious speeches last year they just made an effort to be themselves and take their moment!

 

Anyway as I said in the Lounge they're all in it for the music and FWN was imo the best collection of music put out this year!

It wasn't as good as when they got Keith from We Are Scientists to accept the award as one of them. What was better is that hardly anyone knew! Still good though! ^_^

And here it is!

 

 

 

someone to change that

 

They've only scopped Best British Band! :D

And here it is!

 

 

LOL

 

someone to change that

 

Done :)

Haha how funny where the Arctic Monkeys! The Brits are known to have a bit of controversy.

 

There were quite a few complaints about the show last night - most of them about Sharon Osbourne however. :lol:

 

Thankyou for the videos too. ^_^ The Blazin' Squad references are v.funny. :heehee:

If there was any swearing, it was definitaly done after 9pm!!!

I don't understand why they bother going if they clearly aren't going to take it seriously. I think that's what most people are annoyed with...

 

Arctic Monkeys: We won, like we give a f***!

 

Leona (as one example of someone who lost out): Would most probably cry.

 

I actually like their music - even though I was reluctant at first I thought I'll give them a listen and I am liking their stuff. I just don't like them ... I find them terribly pretentious and they seem to take themselves way too seriously. And I've said it before - for such young men with the world at their feet they do seem like a really miserable bunch they don't seem to have any sense of humour at all. But I did chuckle a bit when they made the Brits School comment - a spark of wit at last from them.

 

Kathy

 

I actually like their music - even though I was reluctant at first I thought I'll give them a listen and I am liking their stuff. I just don't like them ... I find them terribly pretentious and they seem to take themselves way too seriously. And I've said it before - for such young men with the world at their feet they do seem like a really miserable bunch they don't seem to have any sense of humour at all. But I did chuckle a bit when they made the Brits School comment - a spark of wit at last from them.

 

Kathy

 

I think the fact they're miserable is because I don't think they could really care about what happens with them. They're certainly not under any label pressure at all to perform. I think their upbringing adds a lot to the way they talk in front of the cameras too. They came about to fame very quickly and everybody wanted to talk to them and they just weren't used to it - a lot of bands etc. would have had an inking about how to perform with the media.

 

Does anyone know if Kenzie was actually there last night? :lol:

I think the fact they're miserable is because I don't think they could really care about what happens with them. They're certainly not under any label pressure at all to perform. I think their upbringing adds a lot to the way they talk in front of the cameras too. They came about to fame very quickly and everybody wanted to talk to them and they just weren't used to it - a lot of bands etc. would have had an inking about how to perform with the media.

 

Does anyone know if Kenzie was actually there last night? :lol:

 

You may be right, Alex may be a bit shy! I'll see how he comes out of his shell over the next few years!

 

NormaKath

it s just their sense of houmor

it s just their sense of houmor

 

Haha everyone doesnt get it then :P

kids...

Artists who performed or won awards at the Brit Awards this week (February 20) experienced massive rises in sales yesterday (Feb 21).

 

Arctic Monkeys’ double award win and ’s duet with Mika saw sales of ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’ and The Gossip's ‘Standing In The Way Of Control’ rise by 151 percent and 150 percent respectively.

 

Paul McCartney was the biggest beneficiary of the awards, seeing sales of his recent ‘Memory Almost Full’ album increase by a massive 515 per cent.

 

Sales of Mark Ronson’s ‘Version’ increased by 271 per cent, while ’s ‘X’ album saw a 242 per cent sales increase.

 

HMV spokesperson Gennaro Castaldo explained: "The impact of the Brits on artist profiles and album sales is becoming more pronounced each year."

 

Source: NME.com

Friday February 22, 2008

The Guardian

 

 

Most people, if they are being honest, watch the Brit awards in the hope that something - anything - will go wrong. The choice of winners is numbingly predictable and the big-name live collaborations are rarely as compelling as they must have seemed on paper, so sceptical viewers cling to the slim possibility that the carapace of bland self-satisfaction will crack just enough to allow a glimpse of the tart irreverence that has been fundamental to British pop since the Beatles.

 

The organisers know this, which is why every year they make vague promises of crazy antics, but at the same time they do their best to ensure that said crazy antics will never materialise. This year, the traditional air of self-congratulation reached intolerable heights with relentless plugs for the Brit School, the institution whose alumni include Amy Winehouse, Adele, Leona Lewis and Kate Nash, and whose current intake filled the front few rows at Earls Court.

Like many people, Arctic Monkeys felt this was laying it on a bit thick. Accepting the award for Best British Album while dressed as country squires ("what have they come as?" sniped host Sharon Osbourne), they sarcastically pretended to be Brit School graduates themselves. "Not taking the p*** at all," said bassist Nick O'Malley, though of course they were, and very successfully.

 

The organisers, perhaps fearing that sensitive onlookers would be reduced to tears by such mockery, promptly cut off the band's microphones and redirected TV viewers to the reassuring sight of Fearne Cotton backstage.

 

It was a bracing, amusing and unexpected moment, and a sign of Arctic Monkeys newfound self-assurance.

 

Perhaps unsurprisingly for a young band who achieved massive success at a stage when most groups are still plugging away on the toilet circuit, the Sheffield quartet only shuffled, wincing, into the limelight two years ago. But their refusal to play the industry game often came off as sulky and charmless.

 

In previous years, they preferred to make their Brits acceptance speeches in prerecorded videos. The first time, in 2006, they even got a friend to speak for them while they sat in silence, heads bowed, like schoolboys outside the headmaster's office. The keen wit that animates Alex Turner's lyrics has always struggled to translate to his public appearances.

 

Not that this ever detracted from their music. On their 2.3m-selling, Mercury-winning 2006 debut, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, Turner's broad Sheffield vowels were only the most audible sign that here was a songwriter with his own voice. It was a rare feat: direct and inclusive enough to be Britain's fastest-selling debut ever, yet still fiercely intelligent and idiosyncratic. Last year's Favourite Worst Nightmare successfully averted the dreaded second-album slump by expanding Turner's range: hilariously waspish on Brianstorm, deeply humane on Fluorescent Adolescent and even sexy on 505. O'Malley and drummer Matt Helders, meanwhile, constitute one of the most muscular, agile rhythm sections in British rock.

 

The band's two years in the public eye seem to have given them the confidence to turn refusenik recalcitrance into puckish mischief. Their boozy, truncated outburst may not rank alongside Jarvis Cocker's buttock-wiggling in the annals of awards show upsets, but for a minute, at least, Arctic Monkeys were bold enough to voice what so many viewers were thinking. For once, a band notorious for saying very little said exactly the right thing.

 

I can't stop watching that video :mellow: :rofl: Seeing Jamie in the background almost bursting with laughter while they're talking about Kenzie makes it even funnier :lol:

This year, the traditional air of self-congratulation reached intolerable heights with relentless plugs for the Brit School, the institution whose alumni include Amy Winehouse, Adele, Leona Lewis and Kate Nash, and whose current intake filled the front few rows at Earls Court.

 

I've been watching the taping of the show last night and my husband and I (oh I sounded like Mrs Queen) couldn't stop laughing at Turner's comments (and I must admit up until this time I didn't know Turner had a sense of humour). Incidentally, has anyone come out of the Brits school with a northern accent or is it just for the benefit of southern would-be stars!

 

Norma

 

I think the fact they're miserable is because I don't think they could really care about what happens with them. They're certainly not under any label pressure at all to perform. I think their upbringing adds a lot to the way they talk in front of the cameras too. They came about to fame very quickly and everybody wanted to talk to them and they just weren't used to it - a lot of bands etc. would have had an inking about how to perform with the media.

 

Does anyone know if Kenzie was actually there last night? :lol:

Ken who?

Ken who?

 

Kenzie from Blazin' Squad. :P That was who the Arctics were mainly taking the p*** out of, as well as most of the BRITs school graduates.