and and… Outstanding Contribution award.. they’ve actually RUN OUT of people to give it to haven’t they? What is the Petshop Boys outstanding contribution? A cover of a Village People Song?
Who next year? Blancmange? Howard Jones? Whigfield?
the outstanding musical contribution will be for whoever has a run of reissues/remasters coming out that year: wouldn’t be suprised to see some repackaged PSB soon.
I really do love PSB but i’m not sure they have ‘contributed’ in terms of anything other than daft videos and a huge sales volume over the years. Hard to see anyone around these days who makes musical or stylistic reference to them in the same way as say, the Cure, Bauhaus, Joy Division/New Order or Depeche Mode.
It is laughable… If you compare the brits to the MTV europe awards. The MTV ceremony is actually pretty good TV, they get some goods bands playing and generally an amusing presenter.
Smiffy and Gavin were shite tonight as were the so called collaborations. I turned over and watched law and order SVU.
The biggest talking point has to be that the ginger one just doesn’t fit in with the other 4. They must spend ages on her hair and make up and she still looks awful. They need to take a leaf out the spice girls book and ditch the ginger.
Remember that blaring out of the radio in a mates car in Spain, back in the day [wistful sigh]…
Tearing around southern Spain in a Nova. He and his missus in the front me in the back. Either drunk or hung over. He used to drive like a fekkin’ lunatic. Euro pop on the radio. Spanish Police stopping us for speeding on an A road from the airport and clearing us out on the road from the airport….
…still, got back to Blighty and blimey. Dosen’t Whigfield sound like a load of old cobblers?
Duffy’s voice annoys the hell out of me (you’re Welsh not American, sorry love), the songs seem utterly formulaic and derivative and, well, that’s enough for me. I need something to interest me in the music.