NEWS : Lady GaGa Wins Big At The BRITs, But It’s Dizzee Rascal and Florence + the Machine Who Steal The Show… [VIDEO]

Written by Rajveer Kathwadia on 17 Feb 2010

Whilst GaGa may have walked away with a hat-trick of gongs and performed at last night’s awards show, it was Dizzee and Flo’s on-stage collaboration that was the most memorable point of the evening. On top of that they’ve both walked away with a trophy each as Raskit picked up the Best Male award and The Machine won probably the most coveted award of the evening; Best British Album for the number one selling Lungs.

All eyes prior to the show were on Cheryl Cole after it was alleged that her football hubby Ashley Cole has been playing away again. But, YES she turned up, YES her performance was kind of brilliant despite the horrendous lip-synching, YES she ripped off Janet and Beyonce with her dancing, and NO she was not wearing her wedding ring.

Other performances included Jay-Z and Alicia Keys performing Empire State Of Mind at an awards ceremony AGAIN! Jiggaman also won Best International Male and made sure to thank the Spice Girls for inspiring him?!? JLS performed and won Best Single for Beat Again and unsurprisingly back-flipped their way through the whole thing and also won the BRIT for the Best British Breakthrough Act (it should have gone to Florence!). Lily Allen opened the night with The Fear and won Best British Female (it should have gone to Florence!!), and Robbie Williams closed the event with a medley of his hits after winning the Outstanding Contribution To Music trophy (it should have gone to Florence!!! – ok maybe it should have gone to Take That).

The BRIT Awards were also celebrating 30 years of handing out temporary ego-boosts to musicians and they commemorated this by awarding the Spice Girls with the best BRITs Performance Of The Last 30 Years for their 1997 rendition of Wannabe/Who Do You Think You Are (remember the Ginger and her Union Jack dress/knickers combination?), and Oasis won BRITs Album Of The Last 30 Years for (What’s The Story?) Morning Glory. Liam Gallagher picked up the award on behalf of the now defunct band, he hailed ‘the best fans in the f**king world’ before throwing his microphone into the audience (not at Jay-Z). Host Peter Kay responded to this by labeling Liam a ‘kn*bhead.’

Our tip (as well as every-bloody-one else’s) for 2010 Ellie Goulding picked up the Critics Choice Award which has previously been won by Florence and Adele. Paul Epworth won best Producer for his work with Florence and Friendly Fires amongst others and Kasabian won Best Group and performed their track Fire whilst literally surrounded by a wall of flames. The big winner as previously stated was Lady GaGa who performed a muted (by her own very wacky standards) set in dedication to her friend Alexander McQueen; the fashion designer who committed suicide last week. Check the full list of winners below as well as a selection of our favourite performances.

British Male Solo Artist – Dizzee Rascal

International Male Solo Artist – Jay-Z

BRITs Album Of The Last 30 Years – Oasis for (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?

British Breakthrough Act – JLS

British Group – Kasabian

International Breakthrough Act – Lady Gaga

International Female Solo Artist – Lady Gaga

British Female Solo Artist – Lily Allen

International Album – Lady Gaga for The Fame

British Single – JLS for Beat Again

The MasterCard Best British Album – Florence + the Machine for Lungs

British Producer – Paul Epworth

Critics’ Choice – Ellie Goulding

BRITs Performance Of The Last 30 Years – Spice Girls for Wannabe/Who Do You Think You Are

Outstanding Contribution To Music – Robbie Williams

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