Via new Canadian blogger Paul Jané comes this report on the Brit Award Ceremonies. I used to follow the British music scene, but I lost interest some time in the mid-Nineties. I looks as if I haven't missed much.
British pop stars are much exercised about all this scary war talk. Of paramount concern is the mess it will make:
Ms Dynamite - who won best British female artist and best urban act - performed a rewritten version of George Michael's track Faith which said: "I don't want blood on my hands."
Chemical weapons kill without all that messy blood, so perhaps this is why Saddam Hussein's use of them on his own citizens does not seem to upset anti-war activists so much.
They are also extremely worried about Der Bush's plans for them. Apparently word has gotten out about Operation Wrap Party (the Bush Junta's® plan to assassinate uppity celebrities):
Coldplay's Chris Martin, who had earlier joked about how his band were the best in the world - "except for [boy band] Blue" - turned serious when he picked up the best British album award.
"Awards are basically a nonsense and we're all going to die if George Bush has his way, but thanks for these two awards anyway," he told the 5,000-strong crowd.
Serious indeed! Why, the thought of a world without Coldplay's music is just... just... quite frankly it's no different from the thought of the world five minutes ago, before I had ever heard of these people.
Hob-Bit*: Apparently Elijah Wood and Liv Tyler were supposed to present something, or receive something (this report is not at all clear, and I don't really care) but they didn't show up. Hmm... could they have been tipped off?? After all, they've got someone on the inside.
*(Get it? Har! I kill myself.)
Posted by Andrea Harris at February 21, 2003 01:28 AMIgnore the so-called 'stars' here in the UK. They're manufactured (there's a factory on a small industrial estate just outside Heathrow) and they have an IQ marginally bigger than their shoe size.
Posted by: William at February 21, 2003 at 05:02 AMThat explains something I've been wondering about, William: Gary Glitter.
Posted by: Kevin McGehee at February 21, 2003 at 08:31 AMSo when's that Operation Wrap Party happening? I miss out on all the fun!
Posted by: Patty at February 21, 2003 at 03:30 PMBTW the Brits were dry and they were still talking crap!
Posted by: Andrew at February 21, 2003 at 07:07 PMBTW, Andrea, only SOME chemical weapons kill without all that messy blood. Mustard gas, phosgene and other blister agents can produce a lot of blood, coughed up from the lungs, from tear ducts, from sweat glands--it's an incredibly pasinful and horrific way to go. Saddam is thought to have plenty of this stuff to go with his more "sterile" sarin, ricin and VX.
Posted by: David Jaroslav at February 21, 2003 at 09:01 PMUh oh -- somebody better tell Dynamite, or whatever her name was!
Posted by: Andrea Harris at February 22, 2003 at 12:43 AM