If you, like me, live in Australia and have
spent today cooped up in the air-con escaping the plus 30 temperatures and
sky-high humidity or you’ve just woken up in the UK and somehow missed last
nights entertainment at the BRIT Awards – we’ve got you covered!
In short – Lorde’s done it again, Bey Bey’s
performance was perfect and a certain member of One Direction almost missed
the acceptance speech while he ducked off for a wee.
The Arctic Monkeys opened the festivities
with a bang (and a fire?) with their hit song R U Mine? before leaving band initials A & M highlighted in
fire in the middle of London’s O2 Arena. James Corden then climbed on stage to,
yet again, do a spectacular job of hosting the biggest awards show in the
United Kingdom. He too got on the Fire Bandwagon, opening the awards with his
suit sleeve on fire much to the dismay of Occupational Health and Safety
Officers across the globe.
Into the awards ceremony and we saw the
Arctic Monkey’s steal the show taking home both Mastercard British Album of the Year and British Group amongst other artists such as Bastille, Rudimental
and One Direction.
Next up was the home-grown artists time to
shine with David Bowie taking home British
Male Solo Artist and a ‘shaking’ Ellie Goulding claiming British Female Solo Artist as she thanked her
team around her.
The second performance of the night was
Katy Perry, who earlier skipped the red carpets, but donned the O2 stage in a
very neon-coloured, Egyptian-themed costume during her performance of her
latest hit song Dark Horse. After
copping some slack following her performance on Britain’s X Factor, Katy was
certainly out to please audiences and she did not disappoint.
Internationals Kylie Minogue and Pharrell
Williams fittingly announced Bruno Mars as winner of the International Male Solo Artist category while Lorde took home International Female Solo Artist and
Daft Punk outdid Kings of Leon and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis to score International Group.
British
Breakthrough Act went to Bastille while Rudimental
Feat. Ella Eyre scored British Single for
their hit ‘Waiting All Night’.
One Direction added to their already
sizeable stash Brit Awards by taking home the Global Success Award for the
second year in a row!! BUT… Liam, Louis, Zayn and Niall were left hanging by
their own band member Harry Styles who was inconveniently ‘having a wee’ as
their name was read out. He made a valiant effort to run from the toilets to
the podium and still managed to thank his fans and team… after asking the boys
what they had won. WATCH HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-sAdsSn25M
Beyonce treated the London audience to her
first ever live performance of ‘XO’ – and boy, did she look absolutely amazing,
and sounded even better, as she did so. Lorde and Disclosure were among other
artists to take to the stage. Ellie Goulding also performed a mash-up of two of
her hit singles ‘I Need Your Love’ and
‘Burn’. Bastille and Rudimental
teamed up for an incredible performance and were appropriately dubbed
‘Bastimental’ by James Corden.
One Direction beat Ellie Goulding and
Calvin Harris to take out the first Brits Twitter vote for Best British Video for their hit single ‘Best Song Ever’. This time
all 5 boys managed to make it up to the podium to accept their award but with
noticeably more alcohol in their systems as Liam proclaimed, “I’ve had a few
drinks,” before randomly declaring his love for Jimmy Carr.
The awards ceremony ended shortly after
that before artists and other entertainment industry people’s people made their
way to different after parties scattered around London. Sony’s party held at
The Arts Centre proved particularly popular with drop-ins from Harry Styles and
Pharrell Williams while Ellie Goulding, Katy Perry and Lorde chose to party it
up together in London’s Soho House.
