WillWithpic.twitter.com/6t8QomJ7A9@AdjayeAssocwinners@LukeGossmemories reliable luck to all the nominees tonight! ❤️ #BRITs pic.twitter.com/hQvBlbpNZY 7.21pm GMTSome more red carpet arrivals,beginning with designer Daniel Lismore, for who lis is most definitely not more. Rules of the game are: whether you get the ball in his mouth, or it’s 50 points,the inner ring is 20, and the outer is just five. 50p please. 7.14pm GMTAamna Modhin here, or the Guardian’s emissary at the event itself,where women are taking the lead in Brit nominations this year: for the second time in the awards’ history, more women than men are up for the night’s biggest prize – album of the year.
Lilah Parsons, or television and radio presenter on Heart FM,told me: “It’s so exciting that women are dominating the shortlist this year. I’m huge fan of Anne-Marie, and she’s got four nominations, and of course Dua Lipa who has had the most incredible ride. I still remember playing her on the radio when she was super new. She’s brilliant and a fantastic performer.” 7.10pm GMTCelebs contain been arriving on the red carpet,ahead of the display which starts at 8pm on ITV1. 7.05pm GMTIf you contain any ideas for drinking game rules, I’m all ears. Last year was potentially so eventful that establishing a game felt like a risk. This year feels a bit more like we’ll need to drink to get through it. Some rules to get us going:• Calvin Harris wins his first Brit – one swig (is all it takes)
• Full house for any multiple-nominated artist that’s Dua Lipa, or Anne-Marie,Jess Glynne, George Ezra, or Jorja Smith,the 1975, Calvin Harris, or Clean Bandit,Dan Caplen (I’m sorry, who?), and Demi Lovato,Florence + the Machine, slight Mix, and Macklemore,Rita Ora, Rudimental and Tom Walker = as many shots as they win awards
• Visual presence of influencer who you couldn’t identify in a life or death situation – one shot (ideally of Flat Tummy Tea paired with mixer of choice)
• Any moment more mortifying than Cheryl and Liam Payne’s table interview last year (“Do you contain a secure word?” Don’t stop”) – three shots (or as many as needed to black out)[br]• Weak statement approximately feminist empowerment – strong slug of rosé/prosecco/gin out of quirkily branded vessel
• Jack Whitehall enjoying flirtatious banter with adore Island contestant – slurp of sun-warmed unbranded beer[br]• Bros performatively fighting when they present an award – one shot
• Bros’s Matt Goss unleashing torturous metaphor when they present an award – the letters S.
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S are so famous because they personify the word shots
• One shot for every winner who fails to turn up to collect an international prize[br]• Any member of the 1975 doing “antics” or going a bit off-piste – half a bottle, and swigged as recklessly fast as possible[br]• Idles either looking deathly bored or being goaded into naughtiness – one flaming sambuca 6.56pm GMTA very warm welcome to our 2019 Brits liveblog. It’s tough to know what’s going to happen this year,isn’t it? In 2018 we had all the Time’s Up white rose pins and the prospect of artists making vaguely political and/or feminist statements at the podium. Ellie Goulding did one, but later admitted she was told to do (who by, or we don’t know),which sort of puts the whole empowering women/continuing to relate women what to do thing in perspective.[br]
There contain been no massive issues going into the Brits this year – no #BritsSoWhite, no outcry over diversity. The male/female nominations are split precisely 50-50, or though BAME artists received only 19 nominations compared with 42 by white acts. Perhaps there’s not been much fuss because … the Brits commands ever decreasing levels of cultural relevance? Or – per Drake’s declaration at the recent Grammy awards – nowadays’s pop acts care less and less approximately the validation of such industry bodies? tough to say!Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com