Russell Brand to host the Brit awards

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i don't know what you want from it, paul.

i guess sneakingly i want it to be shit, and for someone to show it to be shit. but the modern MO is 'get your retaliation in first' ie have a presenter who hates it and bands no-one could possibly care about either way. what would be the point of 'upstaging' something so desperate to shock.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

But yeah, British bands don't understand showmanship AT ALL.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

In that case they should have brought back Noel Edmonds to present (xp).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i want fireworks and a marching band which lights up and huge fucking explosions and i want a medley that starts as a greatest hits set then goes into pie jesu and fall out boy and i want 100s of dancers and i want a fucking awesome shreddy guitar solo and i want a stage that lights up like something out of final fantasy 7 and i want some great songs and i want more fireworks and i want an omg duet and more fireworks

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

oh i get it now. you're one of these emos.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

yeh that was your average sunny day real estate show back in the day

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I'd like the Stooges on.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

yeh, there teaming up with kode 9 and the spaceape next year, it's booked already.

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Was there anyone involved in the ceremony this year who wasn't a complete and utter cunt?

-- Sick Mouthy (njsouthal...), February 15th, 2007.

nick gets it, although i can't say i watched the blessed thing.

― unfished business (Scourage), Friday, 16 February 2007 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link

what no one explained to me was how joss stone seemed to have *planned* and (under)rehearsed this whole thing. the whole out-in-front-of-the-podium-i-wanna-tell-you-a-storee affair. the arrogance of the womanchild! hillariously she's been 'serrenading the president' lately which perhaps accounts for the wee poppet thinking that now teh whole world wants to hear what she has to say!

even more hillariously she has no auto-filter or whatever on her myspace page leading (by last night at least) to a deluge of 'oh you have let us down so badly' type comments on there for teh world and his wife to gawp and cringe at.

― pisces (pisces), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i was thinking about how they could improve the show

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link

see my post about 8 or 9 up

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Tits and guns.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i think kirsty wark should compere. give it a bit of frisson.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

"This profile is undergoing routine maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience!"

― Frogm@n henry (Frogm@n henry), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I just checked - either they deleted it all or the deluge of myspace comment spam has pushed it all down the list.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

"I watched Dragons Den followed by The Verdict."

I still want to know how come no-one involved in making The Verdict seems to have noticed that Jeffrey Archer isn't actually eligible for jury service 'cos he's been in nick within the last 10 years....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

erm maybe cos it wasn't actually real and jeffrey archer is generally more well to known to middle aged folks than megaman.

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

"yeh but it's like brand presenting. everything is so draped in cool, irony and this weird aggression"

that's ilx in a nutshell

― iain macdonald (the_article_don), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

"erm maybe cos it wasn't actually real and jeffrey archer is generally more well to known to middle aged folks than megaman."

So they couldn't find anyone else that middle aged folks had heard of who is eligible for jury service?

(I know it wasn't real, obv.* - but surely the object of the exercise was to make it as real as poss., using a jury who were a reasonable cross-section of the population who by some extraordinary coincidence just happened to be celebrities and to therefore appeal to as large a proportion of the population as possible?)

* - I'm wasn't 100% sure that all of the jurors realised this 'though

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Saturday, 17 February 2007 08:19 (seventeen years ago) link

'cos he's been in nick within the last 10 years....

Is it just 10 yrs? I thought it was: criminal conviction = ineligible for life.

― Affectian (Affectian), Saturday, 17 February 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Isn't that for "being an MP"..?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 19 February 2007 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link

"Is it just 10 yrs? I thought it was: criminal conviction = ineligible for life."

Apparently not.

"Isn't that for "being an MP"..?" I don't know abouit that, but I'm not sure the Conservatives have even allowed him to rejoin the Party.

He is a Lord 'though, isn;t he? Doesn't that make him not only ineligible to be an MP (didn't Anthony Wedgwood Benn have to disavow his own title in order to become / remain an MP?) but also again make him ineligible for jury service?

It would be a bit of a joke if, as a Peer, he is member of the ultimate Court Of Appeal whilst simultaneously being ineligibe for jury service - but then Lord Archer's entire life seems to have been filled with such incongruities.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

House of Lords as a Higher Court is not the same as the House of Lords as a legislative body, i.e. the legal function of the House of Lords is restricted to a v. small group of Law Lords. I can't remember the relevant version of the Jury Act but I'm fairly certain that Lords can sit on a jury too.

― It's Expected I'm Maud Gonne (Modal Fugue), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Jeffey Archer still a cunt tho'

― da mystery of sandboxin' (fandango), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Well OBVIOUSLY.

― It's Expected I'm Maud Gonne (Modal Fugue), Monday, 19 February 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

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