Richard Hawley

Richard Hawley Forum
It is currently Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:39 pm

All times are UTC [ DST ]




Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 10 posts ] 
Author Message
 Post subject: Brit awards
PostPosted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 3:55 pm 
Offline
Hawleytastic!

Joined: Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:56 am
Posts: 2629
Location: London
Really interesting piece on Channel 4 about the diversity of the Brit awards.

https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/v ... 9/?fref=nf

Always thought it a load of bollocks but this year, it appears it is especially so. There is a petition #BritsSoWhite but surely it should be #BritsSoShite. Coming from the funk, soul sister side of the road, I find it laughable that no acts from popular but less mainstream genres are ever included. I don't like grime music – as my boys would say, you ain't sposed to, bra – but they are mighty enthusiastic about it and seem to see it as a form of protest to listen to it. As your man says, he doesn't shop in Selfridges, this is the voice of Poundland, albeit a tuneless, artless, disembodied one (but maybe that's what my mum would've said about Billy Bragg when I was 16...).

What say yous? x


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Brit awards
PostPosted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 9:50 pm 
Offline
Site Admin
User avatar

Joined: Thu Jun 19, 2003 12:47 pm
Posts: 12713
The only thing that really decides who wins a Brit award is ££££££££. Therefore as an 'accolade' it is meaningless. It is an industry wankfest. therefore I don't care if it's too white.. too grey.. too disabled, not enough soy sauce or whatever the fuck. As an item of interest to genuine music lovers... well it isn't... let them get on with it and set your phaser to ignore.. I couldn't tell you who won what.. who wore what.. who said what or who was up for what... apart from me.. I'm up for a good nights sleep... hmm maybe watching the Brits will help with that..

_________________
http://www.last.fm/user/strumms
I saw an elsebound train, on the overpass
In the driving rain, every ticket costs the same
For where you can't go
Mustang horses, champagne glasses
Anything frail anything wild
It's the price of living motion, what's beautiful is broken
And grace is just the measure of a fall.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Brit awards
PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 12:34 am 
Offline
Hawleytastic!
User avatar

Joined: Sat Sep 01, 2007 12:07 am
Posts: 2902
Location: Stoke-on-Trent
I had no idea it was on. I was at school watching our production of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".

_________________
http://www.nickbarberphotography.co.uk


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Brit awards
PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 3:04 pm 
Offline
Secretly Canadian
User avatar

Joined: Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:12 am
Posts: 3536
Location: The Door
How the hell was Any Winehouse in the running for British Female Solo Artist? And Florence & + x Machine whatever they call themselves? What a crock of shit. At least it's not still Annie Lennox every year.

_________________
http://www.wagonwheelmedia.co.uk
http://www.last.fm/user/TheWagonMaster

"you ain't afraid of no alleyway when you are the thing in the dark"


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Brit awards
PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 3:28 pm 
Offline
Hawleytastic!
User avatar

Joined: Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:10 pm
Posts: 4482
Location: Cheshire
I would be happy with Annie Lennox every other year.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Brit awards
PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 3:29 pm 
Offline
Hawleytastic!

Joined: Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:56 am
Posts: 2629
Location: London
She has good hair. Surprised the people in charge missed that one as an award category. x


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Brit awards
PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 5:12 pm 
Offline
Hawleytastic!
User avatar

Joined: Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:42 pm
Posts: 1553
Location: darn sarth
Watched a bit of it last night - utter bollocks - should really have turned off when Simon Le Bon made his appearance. The 'awards' have very little to do with the quality of music - unfortunately just about the money and publicity - hence the desperate attempts from people like Rihanna.

_________________
And I listen to you call, I hardly hear you at all
I walk the quiet night, watch the river rolling by


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Brit awards
PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 9:45 pm 
Offline
Hawleytastic!
User avatar

Joined: Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:15 pm
Posts: 1895
Location: Near Wales.
I missed it. I was in Manchester watching Richard Hawley. :D

_________________
Love is so hard to find
And even harder to define


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Brit awards
PostPosted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 10:23 am 
Offline
Too much time on my hands

Joined: Wed Feb 16, 2011 9:03 pm
Posts: 561
Location: South Yorkshire
I actually hate awards of any type other than those awarded in competitions where the aim is to be better, stronger, faster, score more goals or points, etc. How can you compare musicians, actors, artists, writers, etc. and claim one is better than all the rest? It's a nonsense. Oscars, Baftas, Turner Prizes, Booker prizes, Brit awards or whatever - they are all about money and publicity. I am always bewildered by them but the discussions prior to the awards and after them provide the publicity and being able to put 'Oscar winner' on the film blurb seems to legitimise it or putting 'Booker prize finalist' helps the book to sell.

Where I work we have prizes for students which are awarded before the graduation ceremony e.g. for the best dissertation (why? Isn't the highest mark enough?); the student who has overcome the most difficulties (you mean for the student who has vocalised their difficulties rather than the quiet more private student who has struggled in silence). Yes it is nice for the few students who get them and their parents but, fundamentally, I don't like them because of the notion that this person, artist, song, etc. is better than the others. It is purely subjective; it is not comparing like with like; it is creating a competition where there isn't one and can't possibly be one.

Rant over. X

_________________
up the Owls


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Brit awards
PostPosted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 9:28 pm 
Offline
Secretly Canadian
User avatar

Joined: Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:12 am
Posts: 3536
Location: The Door
I think there's definitely good, bad and everything in between. But comparing good with good? No way. There's what you personally like, and then there's Coldplay and techno.

_________________
http://www.wagonwheelmedia.co.uk
http://www.last.fm/user/TheWagonMaster

"you ain't afraid of no alleyway when you are the thing in the dark"


Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 10 posts ] 

All times are UTC [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 21 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group