Rule Britannia

It was the Brits last night when we celebrate all that is good (or bad) about the British music industry.

I had a passing interest in this years ceremony as three girls from work won tickets through a link up with one of the sponsers. In addition I discovered that Word magazine would be blogging about the evening live on their website. Finally Britains scarriest family were hosting the evening and we all waited to see if they would surpass the "Mick & Sam" debacle of a previous year.
The reality was:-

• The Osbournes were as awful as we all hoped they would be. Ozzy sadly can hardly string a whole sentence together, which he never needs to I suspect with Sharon as his wife. She took over when ever she could and her dissmissal of Vic Reeves when he took too long over an announcement was embarrassing. True Vic wasn't sober and is a pale shadow of the comedian of 10 years ago but her belief that she is the most powerful woman on TV (or Britains favourite Mother) is uncalled for. Jack and Kelly did ok but when ever they were partnered by either parent looked very ill at ease. The highlight of the evening was when Ozzy introduced Paul McCartney as Mr Sir Paul McCartney!
• The Word blog event was a revelation and actually made the whole thing a joy to behold. You can read it here but without the visuals via ITV is probably nowhere near as funny. Mark Ronson seemed to get most stick but the Kaiser Chiefs and Leona Lewis got their fair share as well. I even made a contribution.
• Kylie looked great!
• Macca started with his last single off his latest album. Starbucks clearly want their monies worth.
• The best music of the whole evening was from 1973 when he played "Live and let die"
• I correctly predicted "Hey Jude" just before he played it ,which impressed my boys, but little do thy know that he is incapable of doing a show like the Brits without playing it.

Generally it was the "same old same old" but watching while reading the Word blog did add a new and very entertaining dimension.