As promised a couple of shakes ago, I have just live-tweeted the 2009 Brit Awards on my Twitter feed, which, incidentally, is worth signing up to because I post a few extra links and news that I can't fit onto this site.
Here are my Twitter comments ("tweets") in full, with minor edits so it makes more sense.
- The Brits are copying Glastonbury and using a 'pyramid stage'. Pfffrt. Expect some highly smug tweets as I watch from my tellybox.
- U2 are putting all their words on a big screen like a worship concert.
- Ha ha, look at James Corden, doing a great Homer 'smock'.
- Simon Pegg has kept that weight off.
- Duffy best female?! - the clue's in the name.
- Best International Female up next, it's... NO NO NO WRONG NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO WRONG GET HER OFF NO NO NO NO NO AAAARGH STOP HER TALKING NO NO NO OH PLEASE NO. Katy Perry's stopped. Phew.
- Took Corden 15 mins to do a shag joke to Kyles.
- Girls Aloud look like flamingos.
- Second Brit for Duff(y).
- It's Coldplay - I may have to hide.
- Chris Martin came on naked, doing a rap version of Run To The Hills. Didn't expect that.
- Pet Shop Boys, Brandon Flowers and Lady GaGa later. It could be messy.
- Strong International Group category. It's Kings Of Leon, obvs'ly. Epitome of casual cool, "y'all".
- Why's Paul Weller at home having tea with Adele? (He was in a pub, it turned out.)
- Has Duff(y) finished? Can I un-mute yet?
- Joe Calzagglewaggle looks sheepish because he's totally forgotten which award he's presenting- heh!
- KINGS OF LEON YOU ARE IN BRITAIN NOT JUST ENGLAND. Gah.
- Who are those people with torches?
- It's our hometown boys, Take That. Robbie fever! Rumour was Robbie Williams would turn up. He didn't, but Take That's Brit performance was truly beautiful. Mat Horne is having an orgasm at it.
- Take That looked like Kraftwerk.
- Nick Frost looks like a geography teacher browsing a gardening centre.
- Eddie's just killed Iron Maiden.
- Matt Lucas knows how to find the camera, doesn't he?!
- Hoff and Elbow. What a contrast. Oh as I type, Guy Garvey says to the Hoff, dryly: "You up for a drink later on, David?" Fried Brits gold, ha ha ha!
- Next bit of gossip: Will Katy Perry "controversially" snog Florence & The Machine? Will the Pet Shop Boys, the Killers and Lady GaGa be a car crash? Stay tuned.
- They muted Florence's introduction. Hmm. No snogging.
- Gok's predictable and receding.
- Best International Male Kanye West did a terrible "inter-racial" joke. (International. Inter-racial. It's a pun, see? Kanye's no Tim Vine.)
- Ting Tings and Estelle's quite good mash-up is more sass than my bowels can cope with.
- Did Grace Jones do Estelle's make-up?
- Allan Carr comes on to 'Womanizer'. Does science teacher joke - I've already done that here, luv.
- Best single Girls Aloud is a major relief.
- Tom Jones is a McLaren F1 car (orange and grey).
- Right, Radiohead, it's your time to win... go on... go on... Duff(y)?!? Oh come ON.
- Duff(y)'s crying. Good. She's ruined all music forever by beating Radiohead.
- Stephen Fry's tummy is rumbling - oh the trivia of Twitter.
- Took Corden 110 minutes to do a shag joke about Brandon Flowers.
- Here's Pet Shop Boys' disembodied heads. Starting with Suburbia, with added pink wig, then Love Etc, then Always On My Mind, then (to a massive cheer) Go West . It's a classic Brits melody!
- Here come the sexy men dancers.
- The sexy men dancers have been replaced by Lady GaGa on What Have I Done To Deserve This. One second of I'm With Stupid, then Brandon doing It's A Sin. A couple more breakneck track changes.
- Wow, those mostly naked dancers don't leave a lot to the imagination, do they?
- Pet Shop Boys didn't need Brandon Flowers and Lady GaGa.
- So that's it, done. Elbow had the best moment with the Hoff, Take That were the best performers and Duff(y) was a travesty.
A finally message to a friend on Twitter: "Twittering was the only way of coping with the awfulness." See my Twitter page here.
Corden and Horne are the kings of not-funny - bring back Fox and Fleetwood. Them harpies out of All Saints are vile. Guy Garvey is now wearing a fat suit. Pet Shop Boys are ace (how good did West End Girls sound?) and, aas you say, the Gaga and the Flowers were utterly surplus to requirements.
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Ha ha! I actually think Fox and Fleetwood would make a great sitcom. It'd be a good excuse to revive the Terry and June theme tune.
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