Pretty good I thought.

In my book:
Good performances : The Darkness, Outkast and Beyonce, Duran Duran (although Simon's singing was a bit patchy in places) and dare I say it, Busted.
Poor perormances : Jamie Cullum and Katie Melua, 50 Cent

Was it me, or did they show a clip of the darkness singing "Motherf*cker"? hehe.

Any thoughts?

Probably one of the worst award ceremonys Ive seen in a while, coming 2nd to that British music awards one they show on ITV.

The whole set up was just cringeworthy

And the main winners:
The Darkness & Busted, two of the most full of themselves, irritating bands of 2004 sweeped all of the awards to top off another poor show by the Brits.

I really, really dislike awards shows nowadays for some reason. Can you tell ?

It was so so dull. Bring back Jarvis.

Katie Melua playing the guitar made me laugh though. Just the one chord is it?

i thought it was a big dissapointment, the darkness were hyped up to be the best act of the night and i thought even a tiny sound problem ruined the lyrical loudness of the band! katie melua deserves all the hype shes got, fantastic artist.

Haha, they did! I remember that track from their album. However, his voice is so loud and high-pitched, I don't think anybody who hasn't heard the track before could have heard the swear.

I'll give him a nudge...he's my man-whore don'tcha know...!?



Jarv' was probably reeling tonight...what a lacklustre do.

Parky's duff 'scooby-dooer' and the jazz-lite bint made a right pigs ear of "Lovecats". Le Bon was completely out of tune from start to finish...and were THREE songs really necessary!? Surely a raucous rendition of "Wild Boys" would have sufficed!?

Justin ’Darkness’ made a complete tit of himself with his arrogant acceptance speech and downright grandiose demeanour.

Dido won a few awards... GRAND!!! If she were any more middle-of-the-road she'd have a big white line down the middle of her coupon...*polite applause anyhoo*.

Muse OWNED the show.

I didn't notice if it was sung or not (the subtitles were way behind the singing) but in 50 Cent's perfomance it deffinatly said "f*ck" in the subtitles.

Yeah, Muse were really good. Beyonce gets my "performance of the night" award though

Outkast amazed me - because I loved their performance! Beyonce's performance was stunning. She don't half look good, too!

I'd have liked to have listened to Katie Melua but unfortunately she was largely drowned out by the backing music, so that bit did nothing for me

Darkness left me shrugging my shoulders. The show was well worth watching though, for OutKast and Beyonce

Yeah, her mic was too quiet, and Cullum seemed to be semi shouting his performance too, which didn't help.


Beyonce is amazing, she's got everything, voice, looks, dance, energy, as well as writes and produces, the full monty. The only thing I was disappointed about, about the performance, was the so called "collaboration", which, errrr, basically wasn't, but just one song after another. I'm was, and I'm sure alot of other people were, keen to see what they'd planned together, sadly, not alot. But two great performances, all the same.

I only watched it for a few minutes: Muse's performance Which i have to say was top notch as ever

Im very disappointed they did nto win anything though As they REALLY deserve it and are SO much better than the darkness!

I was disapointed with the show....especially as the organisers appeared to have only called up American bookers - or was it just me thinking that most of the guests and performers were from the US? I'm sorry I thought it was the BRIT Awards, not the YANK Awards!

To rub salt in the wound the first award given was a best International one.

Outkast were good, Beyonce was weak - I have no doubt she is stunning performer and has a great studio voice, but having seen a couple of live performances from her now (including last night) I thought she was lacking in the vocal department.

Also, it was billed as being 'better than Kylie and Justin's performance from last year'. How so? It was just Outkast performed, then Beyonce came on and Outkast left. Hardly groundbreaking in my opinion. Also the great thing about the performance last year was that they did something that wasn't theirs - both Outkast and Beyonce just sang their best known hits and left.

I thought Darkeness' speaches were funny - I know some might think they were arrogant, but that's the whole point of the band - they are very tongue in cheek...and hey, let's face it he was probably right when they said that they are the best band in the UK right now...not much competetion though is there?

I quite liked Jamie and Katie's version of Love Cats - although I'm an old fart so no surprise there.

50 Cent's epic was laughable - whoever dreamt up putting him into a low budget version of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was hopefully shot by one of those smoking barrels.

On the awards front, fairly predictable, which is a good thing, but most of nomiations were only down to one or two in each category anyway - not entirely sure how Busted managed to win Best Breakthrough, but hey it's only rock n roll.

Next year? Well perhaps the BPI should concentrate of staging a better show, bigger budget, better guests.

Beyonce & Outkast Collaboration: What a let down that was, it was just a performance when she appears half way through and sings her own song with a few dancers.

The highlight for me was Alicia Keys, Gwen and Missy performance of Kiss - Brill!

Abit annoyed about Jamelia not winning anything. Suprised by Daniel Bedingfield (Glad he beat Will), Lemar (Dizzie Rascal should have won) and Dido winning best single but not album.

I wasn't impressed by beyonce and friends with there over the top performance. The darkness were a little cocky but there was always duran duran who were the saving grace. At least timberlake didn't behave like a prat this year!!
Why did that pair meuala and cullam decide they wanted to destroy a cure song and then busted had the nerve to cover an undertones song.

Go on... finsh that quote off with "Kid's today don't know their born!"

Duran Durans's guitarist needs lessons, badly.

what a fukc up!!

I thought that This years Brits was better than 2003. The Darkness were very cocky, but funny.

The Outkast/Beyonce was good, but I thought they would have sung together.
Alicia Keys, Gwen and Missy was excellent version of Kiss.

Busted was good. Duran Duran's guitarist either needs guitar lessons or needs to tune the guitar again.

Those two who sang lovecats ruined the song. It sounded shit. I use to like that song, not anymore they ruined it.

By the way busted who two Brits awards.

Muse were amazing,Matt wow how fab is he
Also Loved alicia,gwen and missy that was pretty groovy hehe.I think Gwen could have sounded alot better though.

I know what you mean, Gwen did sound quite ... odd.

Got to be honest I didnt' bother watching it this year. I've really lost faith in the whole Brits thing.

Yep it just didnt sound like her at all

Loved Alicia Keys, Gwen Stefani & MissE's performance, loved how they tied it in with Pass That Dutch, it almost sounded like part of the same song, why wasn't MissE wearing a dress though?

Outkast were amazing!

Prefer the original version of Love Cats, they weren't too good, but wouldn't say they were bad.

Well done Lemar!

And where was S Club 8s nomination? No jokes please!

Katie Melua and Jamie Cullum were great, and i am not a jazz fan.
Beyonce/Outkast were not a collabiration, Beyonce's act is tiresome.
Darkness are overrated, they only have one song and that is crap! Muse were much better
Kiss was odd, ok though
Busted rubbish

Overall, the brits needed Dido.

To be fair, guitar playing never was their strong point. They should stick to the synths.

Duran Duran being given an outstanding contribution to music award did give me a good laugh though.

And why have the Cure become so fashionable?

On the Katie/Jamie thing, I wasn't a fan of the performance but enjoyed what they did to the song and espically the stage presence of Jamie.