The BRIT Awards 2020 with Mastercard - Show Programme

TUESDAY 18TH FEBRUARY 2020
London’s O2 Arena : Live on

CONTENTS
05 Chairman’s welcome
07 Mastercard celebrates 22 years!
09 Eating and Seating
11 Here, Share, Everywhere - Go Social
13 Get The 70s Party Started
15 Exclusive! Host Jack Whitehall
18 BRITs Launch
25 NOMINATIONS: THE BIG REVEAL
TONIGHT’S PERFORMERS & MASTERCARD
BRITISH ALBUM OF THE YEAR NOMINEES
28-42 Dave, Lewis Capaldi, Stormzy,
Harry Styles & Michael Kiwanuka
45-50 Billy Eilish, Mabel, Lizzo &
Celeste (BRITs Rising Star winner)
THE 2020 NOMINEES
55 British Male Solo Artist of the Year
55 British Female Solo Artist of the Year
59 British Group
61 New Artist of the Year
62 Song of the Year
65 International Male Solo Artist of the Year
67 International Female Solo Artist of the Year
69 Producer of the Year? It's Fred again..
MORE…
71 Forty Fabulous BRITs Shows Revealed
88 BRITs Week 2020
91 The Best of The BRIT School
95 BRIT Trust - Our Friends Eclectic
99 The BRIT Awards Voting Academy
103 VIP beauty at BRITs Spa
104 The BRITs Green Team
105 Thank you and goodnight!
Jorja Smith: The BRIT Awards 2019
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WELCOME TO
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So much has changed in our industry
since the first BRITs in 1977, a
musical lifetime ago when Shirley
Bassey and Simon & Garfunkel were
among the winners. But there’s one
thing that is as true today as it was
back then - however seismic the
shifts in the business, nothing is ever
more important than the artists.
Returning to the Chairman’s seat this
year, the key challenge in my mind
was to create a show that is as much
about tomorrow as it is today. After
discussions with many of you who are
here tonight, the direction was clear
in my mind: The BRITs needed to be
reinvented with artists at the front and
centre. The performers at tonight’s
40th celebration are all incredible
artists who are shaping culture.
My first thanks goes to the 2020
Official Voting Academy - over 1,400
music industry experts including
artists, retailers, promoters, agents,
publishers, labels, producers and
media from across the UK - who have
selected the nominees and winners
in all of the revamped categories.
It’s been said you can’t have change
without continuity. So I’d like to say
thank you to the BPI led by CEO Geoff
Taylor, Director of Events Maggie
Crowe and their team who have
once again done a fantastic job in
keeping the show on the road. A huge
thanks too to this year’s exceptional
creative team: Exec Producer Sally
Wood, Director Hamish Hamilton and
Production Designer Misty Buckley.
Thank you also to ITV who backed
our creative vision, Mastercard whose
enthusiasm and support is as strong as
ever 22 years on, and of course Dawbell
and all the media teams who have again
done a brilliant job in telling the story
of The BRITs. I am also delighted we’ve
been able to bring back the excellent
Jack Whitehall to be our host tonight.
This year The BRITs also welcomes
Amazon Music as its digital music
partner for the first time. We’ve already
seen the fruits of this partnership
and there is much more to come to
ensure the show is accessible to as
many as possible across the globe.
As with any production of this magnitude
there are simply too many individuals
to name everyone to whom the show
owes a great deal of gratitude. The
BRITs would simply not be possible
without the hundreds of unsung
heroes who pull together behind
the scenes to ensure the successful
delivery of a night like tonight. This
year more than most because change
is never easy to implement. But
the way in which the changes have
been embraced is testament to the
professionalism and skill of every
single person involved behind the
scenes. I can’t thank them enough.
Congratulations to the winners who
have already been announced
including Fred again.. who has
been named Producer of the Year
for his work on some of the biggest
hits of the year. Celeste, winner of
The BRITs Rising Star award, will be
performing tonight in a BRITs first; it
is right that the main show provides
a platform for exciting new talent.
I wish the very best of luck to all the
acts nominated and their teams who
work tirelessly behind the scenes.
And a warm welcome to all the artists’
families so many of whom are here
to share the moment. Tonight is your
show. I hope it’s a memorable one.
Finally, it’s important to remember that
The BRITs has a very proud tradition
of giving. In fact, it is the only major
music awards ceremony in the world
which sees any profit donated to
good causes. I’m proud that this year
we will continue to support the much
needed funding for the BRIT School,
Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy plus
charities supporting young people
in music, education and wellbeing.
David Joseph,
BRIT Awards Chairman
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Have a fantastic evening; sit back,
get ready for some electrifying
performances and enjoy the show.
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CONGRATULATIONS
TO ALL THE
WINNERS AND
NOMINEES OF THE
BRIT AWARDS 2020
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SCOFF, THEN
WE’RE OFF!
HERE’S THE PLAN FOR THE NIGHT
FOR OUR LUCKY BRITs DINERS…
Hugh Jackman opens The BRIT Awards 2019
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Don’t miss your moment!
The BRIT Awards kicks off at
8pm sharp. It’ll be broadcast
on ITV1 with catch-up and
online services available.
Everyone attending The BRITs is in
for an enjoyable evening. If you are
lucky enough to join us for fine dining,
there is an even bigger treat in store.
Dinner service takes place ahead of
The BRIT Awards, with guests seated
in three areas. Hello to everyone
on the Arena floor tables, in the
VIP suites, and in Diamond Dining,
situated at the Intercontinental
Hotel. Menus vary by venue.
Diamond Dining patrons should allow
20 minutes to transfer to allocated arena
seats for the show. Please liaise with
your server as you cannot take your
drinks from one venue to the other.
Your meal tonight is a Jubilee
celebration of time travelling treats.
We celebrate the 40th BRITs show
with a nod to our first outing back
in 1977 – a time when the British
cooking tradition began to take its
first tentative steps toward more
cosmopolitan feeds. In homage to The
BRITs’ dinner served at the Grosvenor
House Hotel on that day, there is a
distinctly retro 70s flavour to the meal.
This year, we offer two main food
options. Alongside our meat-eaters
feast there is a wholly vegan choice
to preorder for the first time.
All Arena guests begin dinner with
Coronation Cauliflower. It’s a zeitgeisty
2020 vegan twist on Coronation
chicken, a dish named in 1953 and
re-discovered in 1977 honouring HRH
Queen Elizabeth’s Jubilee year.
The main course for carnivores is
mouth-watering coq au vin. It is hale
and hearty locally-source fare, just like
your mum used to do. What a treat.
And for dessert we have chef’s
special version of a multi-layered
delectation comprising festooned
ice cream waves mingling with the
thinnest slivers of mint and chocolate.
Life Water have generously placed
complimentary bottles of water on
every table. Servers are on hand to take
additional drinks orders. The Heineken
group has supplied an excellent range
of beers, lagers, ales and ciders. The
wine list is refreshing and a wide
range of spirits is also available.
Table guests who have pre-ordered
drinks will find orders already prepared
and set aside for your table.
Last year The BRITs introduced
stackable and reusable drinks glasses.
We continue to put sustainability at
the core of our planning (see page
104). All Level 1 and Level 4 drinks
will be served in reusable cups for
which a small charge is payable.
MENU
STARTER
Coronation cauliflower – charred
and spiced Lincolnshire cauliflower,
curried mango mayo, coconut chips
VEGAN STARTER
Coronation cauliflower – charred
and spiced Lincolnshire cauliflower,
curried mango mayo, coconut chips
MAIN
Coq au vin – Corn fed Goosnargh
chicken breast cooked in red wine, turnip
puree, carrots, woodland mushrooms,
chicken bacon, Anna potatoes
VEGAN MAIN
Beetroot and chickpea Wellington with
horseradish potatoes, roasted carrots
and carrot puree, turnips, beetroot sauce
DESSERT
Vanilla mousse, dark chocolate cake,
mint choc chip ice cream, mint gel
VEGAN DESSERT
Spiced poached Conference pear,
chocolate crumble, blackberry custard
Menus for Sapphire Suites and
Diamond Dining guests will vary.
Please ask your servers for details.
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LIVE NATION WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE
THE BRIT AWARDS 2020 NOMINEES

HERE, SHARE…
EVERYWHERE!
MAKE THE MOST OF THE BRITs.
TAKE IN ALL THE ACTION
ON SOCIAL MEDIA!
Dua Lipa The BRIT Awards 2019 Red Carpet
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Whether it’s a sneaky selfie or a
‘See who I spotted!’ snippet of news,
your friends and followers can share
your BRITs excitement via TikTok,
Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
The BRITs partners with all major
social media platforms, enabling
you to enjoy an access all areas
experience, including a whole heap of
exclusive content for you to explore.
Yasmin Evans will be live on TikTok from
the Red Carpet, giving you the first look
as the biggest names in music arrive,
while the Awards show is streamed for
fans outside of the UK on YouTube.
Meanwhile, the ever-ready Somethin’
Else crews are backstage, serving
up the most delicious tidbits to our
official feeds and news page!
Fresh for 2020, we’ve teamed up with
Amazon Music. Exclusive recordings
of tonight’s performances as well as
playlists covering the very best of
BRITs history are available to stream.
Remember, a big shake-up in
voting means there are no public
votes to decide on the night. The
pressure’s off, so sit back, relax,
and take in the sights and selfies!
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Congratulations to
all the nominees.
Here’s to a great night.

MERRYMAKING
AT MY PLACE
WE’VE INVITED LOADS
TO OUR HOUSE!
The BRIT Awards 2019 Official After Show Party
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Are you a BRIT Awards VIP? Yes?
Then, wristbands at the ready!
When the on-stage action is
over, you know what to do.
Follow the signs from the O2
auditorium straight to the famous
annual BRIT Awards Aftershow Bash.
If you enjoyed a pre-show meal in our
Diamond Dining celebration space, you’ll
see the remnants of our Silver Jubilee
street party have been swept away. The
streamers have gone and the cobbles
are cleared! If your invite permits, we’d
love you to come to our party. We’ve
stocked the bar and dusted down the
hostess trolley. Put the Demis Roussos
on. Welcome to our 1970s house.
Step over the threshold and you’ll
know this is an evening unlike
any other. For starters, we’ve two
options to get your groovy looks
on. There’s the professional gang
from Sebastian Professional who’ll
fix a fallen up-do or carefully coiffeur
your locks till you have a look you’ll
love – Farah Fawcett anyone?
Or if you’d rather go full Dave From
Slade, knock on the door of our older
sister’s room and say we sent you. She’ll
soon have you wigging out like Noddy
Holder or sporting a manly Magnum
P.I. moustache. Just like that; she’s
transformed your look to comedy gold
quicker than you can say ‘Shang-a-lang’.
Mind the shag pile, we’ll tip-toe over
to mum and dad’s bedroom next –
and as long as you promise not to
tell, we can raid the wardrobes to go
all-out glam, punk or disco. Here, you
can borrow insta-ready outfits for the
ultimate photo booth souvenir of your
trip back in time. Hey, we’ll even take
the pics - seventies style! Here tonight
to celebrate New York’s disco style are
the crew from Ru Paul’s Drag Race.
Indeed… coming through! There’s also
a Studio 54-themed, showgirl parade!
If you’re the kind who hangs out in
the kitchen, here’s the news – you’ll
share the space with the BRITs cake
makers supreme. This is where they
turn the confectionary world ‘Upside
Down and Inside Out’ with their sweet
treats and sugary confections.
We’ve served up forty BRITs shows
since 1977. If teleporting back to our
beginnings has made your head spin,
see a medic. Sure, celebrating your
40th can bring on a bad bout of mid-life
crisis – but there’s a cure for those ills.
Ask your doctor about our garden
sanatorium. A picnic seems just what
the doctor ordered, but be warned – life
looks a whole lot different out there!
Lastly, when you’re ready to dance,
we’ve pushed back the sofas to make
a space in the living room. Take part in
our silent disco or see our flashmob,
who’ll throw some shapes on the
Saturday Night Fever dance floor. Let’s
see what happens when house DJs
Robber Ron and Siggy Smalls pop by
to take a turn on wheels of steel. But
don’t be stuck in the queue for the
loo when its time for our star guest
to appear. We can’t tell you who it is
till the party – but just think! You’ll be
able to say you saw ‘em perform – a
performance of BRITs legend (right
here in our very own living room)!
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AM I ABOUT TO DO
A RICKY GERVAIS?
‘DANGEROUS’ JACK WHITEHALL IS BACK,
AND HE’S GOT A SHARP TONGUE.
Let’s see now. I’m thinking of a
sarcastic Englishman with a quick
wit, who loves poking fun at the
A-list guests in his audience. He’s
back for a third successive year
hosting a world famous award
show. The spotlight is on him and
he has nothing to lose. Admit it, it
would be quite a temptation if you
had a few scores to settle. But that
wouldn’t happen… would it? Helen
Lamont chats to Jack Whitehall, The
BRIT Awards’ “I hope I don’t push
the self-destruct button!” host.
Jack got through 2019 – just about –
without facing the wrath of his A-lister
guest list. Many a quip was delivered
at the expense of Simon Cowell, Piers
Morgan, Ed Sheeran, Niall from One
Direction (Little Niall!), Little Mix, and
George Ezra. But it wasn’t intentional;
Jack shrugs guiltily, before an admission.
“It can be dangerous. I just say
whatever comes into my head.”
“No matter how much I tell myself to
behave, at the last minute I end up
putting my foot in it. I’m sure there
will be a moment of madness.”
“I will always sail as close
to the wind as I can.”
Two other elements affect how the
evening progresses. The first is the
talent - will they behave? “People do
use it as a platform…
I shan’t stop them.”
The other’s just fate.
“Things will always go
wrong, or deviate during
the night, I get that. Just make
sure you have something up
your sleeve for those moments.”
For example, “when Kendrick
Lamar was on with his chainsaws
(in 2018) - I thought there had
been a malfunction. I was like,
“Am I about to have to do a Ricky
Gervais dance, from The Office?”
“Getting away with it –
that’s all I can aim for.”
“If I can do that it will have
been a success.”
Of course, this time around, there has
been a lot of on-stage preparation.
The 31 year-old actor/comedian
has a good idea what he’s in for.
He knows the ropes and as far the
jokes go, he’s put the prep in.
There’s hardly a city that Jack hasn’t
been to this winter as his standup
tour snaked the whole country,
before heading off to Australia, New
Zealand, the back of beyond.
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“My schedule is quite intense,” he
admits, “but that’s the way I like to do
it, zipping about from city to city”.
“The last couple of years, I’d
not done stand-up in ages, so
I definitely felt a bit rusty.
“The first time around, I did a few gigs
beforehand, just to remind myself
what it was like up on stage!”
mean, 28 weeks with a big No.1 album,
you might need your own moment?
“Well, I will be trying to crowbar any kind
of performance I can into the show. It’s
a big part of it, for me, to try to see what
showmanship we can wedge in there.”
“I just need to get those elbows
a bit sharper so I can put myself
front and centre of whatever
performance opens the show.”
(Looks like at The BRITs 2020,
Lewis Capaldi, it’s your turn
to get the drinks in).
The BRITs is delighted that Jack
Whitehall accepted the invitation to
present his third BRITs celebration.
He’s been a busy lad, filming dogtastic
kids movie Clifford alongside John
Cleese: “He’s eighty this year!
One of my comedy heroes…”
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That’s not a problem likely to
affect 2020 proceedings.
“Oh no, I’m loving the tour…
and The BRITs is the perfect
way to round it all off!”
So what can we expect from The BRITs’
greatest showman on stage in 2020?
Certainly more spangly outfits (“I had
fittings for this back in December!”)
and yeah – as soon as the spotlight
is on, he’ll tap-dance his way onto
stage centre, jazz hands a go-go.
At one point, it looked like he might
wrestle the mic from Hugh Jackman
during last year’s big opening number.
Jack harrumphs loudly. “Well.
Yeah. I thought I might be singing
alongside him. But it became very
clear, very quickly that was not going
to be the case on this show. I got
demoted to backing dancer.”
Big fella, some people are not keen
you share the spotlight, you know? I
Luckily Jack – who previously revealed
that Elton John, Stormzy and 5ive
were among his all-time favourite
performers, reckons we’ve had a
great year for exciting new music.
In fact, “So many great artists had
big albums out in the last 12 months
we’re almost kinda oversubscribed
in terms of working out who
will do the performances”.
He doesn’t want to pick favourites,
oh no, but when pushed he admits,
“I love Billie Eilish. And Sam Fender,
the lad who won Critics’ Choice
last year, is a lovely kid. His album
was great so it would be good
if he got some recognition”.
Who else?
He ponders. “Well Lizzo, of course, who
I met on a chatshow. She was amazing!”
“And Lewis Capaldi. I love him. I met him
at the after party after Glastonbury. He’d
just been on the main stage. Came off,
bought a massive round for everybody…
“And then his card got declined and my
sister’s fiancé bought the round for him!”
He’s also completed filming on
Hollywood flicks Silent Retreat,
alongside Isabella Rossellini, and Jungle
Cruise starring Dwayne Johnson -
“although I don’t want to tempt fate, you
never know what might happen (sighs)”.
“I know I’m in The BRITs, they
can’t cut me from that!”
Jack will be mindful that while here
at The BRITs, we can have fun – but
some parts of the world face times of
remarkable challenge. It’s been a helluva
year and we’re only seven weeks in.
We come together to celebrate
musical achievements - while
remembering The BRITs is, first and
foremost, a fundraising event.
Revenue from tonight’s show
goes to good causes - and our
donations are very much needed.
So the show must go on. Nothing
will stop Jack being part of
proceedings. Well, probably. “Who
knows though – maybe I’ll have to
stay in Australia and Skype it in!”
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THE BRITs
ARE COMING
RIDE THE WAVE OF
EXCITEMENT ALL THE
WAY TO THE BRITs

We don’t want to go overboard,
but there’s a lot to be excited
about in the run up to the nation’s
biggest Awards ceremony.
After the host is announced in December
(Hello, Jack Whitehall!) the next big news
is, of course, the Nominations Reveal.
The 2020 announcement took
place at the swish Riverside Studios
in Hammersmith, London.
Alice Levine, BBC Radio 1 afternoon
host (and a very glamorous lady), kept
the atmosphere at fever pitch - and
the mood among the BRIT School kids
in the front row was certainly wavy!
Main image: Mabel
Inset: Aitch
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The very thought of the party and the
popstars meant the excitement among the
crowd was growing. So when Liam Payne,
the first guest to take to the stage arrived,
the audience really went crazy. The former
One Directioner performed a relaxed Live
Forever, as a thumping calling card for his
debut album LP1, with guest star Cheat
Codes joining him in vocal endeavor.
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CONGRATULATIONS
to all of this year’s winners and nominees
Celebrating 10 years
as the home of The BRIT Awards

‘I’m in shock and genuine awe at finding out
I’ve been nominated or Best Female at
The BRIT Awards 2020. Watching my female
heroes on The BRITs every year was by far my
biggest inspiration for dreaming of becoming
a singer/songwriter as a little girl. Being
nominated is such an honour and I can’t
wait to bring my mum to the show!’
Freya Ridings
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Liam has had a whole career worth
of solo songs since his One Direction
days, with eight hits and host of sizzling
collaborations spanning the threeyear
window since the split. Alice
was quick to congratulate him on his
success to date, paying homage to the
Wolverhampton wanderer: “I should be
being welcomed to The BRITs by you –
you already have seven BRIT Awards!”
Liam revealed that on the day of
a previous triumph, his sister got
a new pet, so “we now actually
have a dog named BRIT”!
And boom! Another BRIT to
his name, (and what a way to
celebrate the occasion)!
The next performer on stage was
Freya Ridings. She swapped Liam’s
live band and funky beats for a grand
piano and sweeping soaring vocal.
Lost Without You was where it all
began for this genuinely self-effacing,
enchanting girl, who was able to
tell Alice she’s been to this event in
the past – as part of BRIT School.
“I lost my glasses and I kept my
backpack on the whole time. But I
had the best time!” she beamed.
And Freya has so much goodwill
toward the BRIT organisation thanks
to the experience she had at the
school. While there, she kept a diary.
“It was the beginning of a new
chapter, writing in the diary, writing
new songs every day”. Look how
far she’s come to perform here to
day! “Sigh! It’s been a journey.”
Now there’s a chance she
could win British Female.
Freya giggled again. “You don’t
even think of these things when
you’re a little chubby ginger kid
at school. It blows my mind!”
Another performer – and New Act
nominee - who honed his skills in
the playground is Aitch. Just turned
20 he’s one of the biggest success
stories of the year. Taste (Make It
Shake), the track he’s performing, made
No.2, and judging by his BRITs Are
Coming experience, strutting across
the stage while grinning from ear to
ear, he’s loving his adventure: “It’s a
sick energy, The BRITs, man. You can’t
really feel the same anywhere else.”
If you were to win a BRIT Award, Alice
asked Aitch, “where would it live?”
“Don’t worry,” Aitch grinned, despite his
usual too-cool-for-school demeanor.
“I can always make room for a BRIT”.
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We proudly congratulate our
BRIT AWARDS
2020 NOMINEES
Best Group
Bring Me The Horizon
Foals*
Song of the Year
AJ Tracey ‘Ladbroke Grove’*
Dave feat. Burna Boy ‘Location’**
International Male Solo Artist
Burna Boy
Post Malone
*North America representation only
** Featured artist
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If you’re wondering how to follow that
performance, the answer was Dermot
Kennedy, of course. Alice seemed quite
beside herself with excitement as she
made the introductions (although we’re
sure the bit about peering through his
bedroom window with a telephoto lens
was a joke). Dermot’s up for International
Male Solo Artist, thanks to his unique
blend of acoustic guitars and electronic
beats, all topped off by his unmistakable
Irish accent. As he performed Power
Over Me, an insistent push of mood
music, he seemed lost in emotion.
But he assured us, if a BRIT win were
in the offing, he’d remain “um… fairly
calm”. Hmmm, let’s wait and see.
The last act of the night to perform
was Mabel. She took part this time last
year, when she and Notes performed
My Lover. Well, a lot can change in
twelve months, her 2020 performance
swapped urban cool for dayglo green
hair, a zebra print basque and dance/
pop fun! Don’t Call Me Up, her biggest
hit to date, was the track that made all
the difference (and her rendition tonight,
complete with full dance troupe and
flashing zoetrope backdrop, would have
been oh-so-at home on the big stage)!
Mabel acknowledged the step-change.
“It’s crazy how a song can grow wings
and fly you anywhere”. She joked
that if any of her three nominations
transformed into awards to take home
she’d change her name to “BRIT
Award winner Mabel”… “Everywhere
I go… especially my Uber”. Imagine
that flashing up on your screen!
Before the show ended, Alice found
time to reveal every nomination,
flashback to BRIT winners of old, and
remind us how what we can expect
when Jack Whitehall rules the roost
on BRITs night (as long as there are
no naughty popstars, who disappear
like Foo Fighters, when he tried to
interview them at their table).
The BRITs 40th Show is almost upon us.
BRITs Are Coming host Alice – who did
most of her to-camera links fronting
a screen backdrop showing a metal
army of close formation classic BRITs
statuettes – signed off, signaling the
countdown toward the big show itself.
Time has marched on toward
The BRIT Awards 2020. Tonight,
as always, the cream of musical
talents will be on parade. Eyes front,
Ladies and Gentlemen. And can
we have your attention, please.
Mian Image Liam Payne.
Inset: Alice Levine with Aitch
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Dermot Kennedy performing at
The BRITs Are Coming! 2020 Show
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The BRITs has ripped up the
rulebook for 2020, promising
an event that’s more slick and
streamlined than ever before.
The Britannia trophies have returned
to their classic silvery shape for
the new era. Ant tonight’s focus is
on music – and music alone.
Fewer category groups means
there are only ten chances to win
a coveted prize at The BRITs 2020
(and just eight acts will have wins
announced at The O2 tonight).
Meanwhile other shortlists have
been revamped, including Critics’
Choice, which is renamed as Rising
Star. British Single is replaced
by British Song, recognising the
ubiquitous role of streaming.
Talent is talent, of course, no matter
how you define it. And British music
is in rude health judging by the
amazing sounds being nurtured,
consumed then exported worldwide.
Lewis Capaldi and Dave lead the
nominations with four nods apiece.
Each could win big in British Male
Solo Artist, British Album, New Artist,
and British Song of The Year.
Highly prolific artists Mabel and Stormzy
feature in shortlists for the third year.
Each could take home three trophies,
if their stars were to align. Meanwhile
Harry Styles and Michael Kiwanuka
feature on two shortlists each.
The most striking theme linking the
nominations pack for 2020 is that this
is the year of the British Male Solo
Artist, so well done to the fellas.
The British Male shortlist is identical to
the one for the prestigious Mastercard
British Album: Dave, Harry Styles, Lewis
Capaldi, Michael Kiwanuka and Stormzy
– no girls, and no groups feature there.
Mabel is the only female artist
powering her own way to a British
Song Nomination (although Miley
Cyrus and Normani appear as
featured artists). The 23 year-old is
also flying the flag for the girls as she
competes for New Artist of the Year.
Of course the strength of breadth of
female talent is shown in the British
Female Solo Artist category. Mabel,
Freya Ridings and Mahalia sit alongside
the more experimental Charli XCX and
FKA Twigs. The International Female
category couldn’t be more diverse,
with Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Camila
Cabello, Lana Del Rey and Lizzo
singing loud and proud over there.
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If British music is ruled by stylistic
waves, riding the crest in 2019 was
rap music, dominating great swathes
of youth culture. Dave and Stormzy
represent here, but the Official Chart
was chockablock with tunes ranging
from Aitch and Burna Boy to Ed
Sheeran and Dermot Kennedy, proving
even guitar tracks are influenced by
a more urban chorus these days.
You may remember that in 2016 The
BRIT Awards made constructive moves
to level gender numbers. Efforts are
made to welcome diverse industry
experts to the academy every year.
In 2020, The BRITs has never been
more diverse, with broadly half of
the acts in UK categories having
BAME heritage – that’s quite a feat
considering only 15% of the population
identifies as BAME heritage in the UK.
As we ring the changes, a few legendary
acts remain steady on The BRITs’
shortlists. Coldplay have more BRITs
in the trophy cabinet than any other
act in the running. A triumph tonight
would take their win tally to ten. Harry
Styles, who has seven One Direction
wins plus one solo gong, could claim
award number nine. And Ed Sheeran,
with six BRITs from 16 nominations,
could take home BRIT seven.
Over in the International categories,
our Yoda figure is Bruce Springsteen,
receiving his tenth nomination at
70 (he previously won in 1986).
And the youngest BRITs nominee
is Bond Theme singer Billie Eilish,
who celebrates four years in the
charts at just-turned-eighteen.
The two BRIT Award winners already
announced are Celeste and Fred again..
British Producer of the Year Fred again..
lent his magic touch to albums by
Stormzy and Ed Sheeran, among others,
in 2019. See page 69 for his story.
The inaugural BRITs Rising Star
winner is Celeste (see page 50), who
shared her shortlist spotlight with
Beabadoobee and Joy Crookes. If the
trend for BRITs Critics’ Choice artists
transferring early success to the main
category noms continues, we expect
to hear a lot more from these ladies –
and many more new faces – soon.
The British Video Vote, International
Group, Global Success, and Outstanding
Contribution to music categories have
been retired in 2020, and some voting
mechanisms have been updated.
Please see the info displayed on each
nominations page for information.
THE BRIT AWARDS 2020
NOMINATIONS LIST IN FULL
MALE SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEAR
In association with Amazon Music.
Dave Neighbourhood. Universal Music
Harry Styles Columbia. Sony Music
Lewis Capaldi Virgin EMI. Universal Music
Michael Kiwanuka Polydor. Universal Music
Stormzy Merky/Atlantic. Warner Music UK
FEMALE SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEAR
In association with Amazon Music.
Charli XCX Asylum. Warner Music UK
FKA Twigs Young Turks. XL/Beggars
Freya Ridings Good Soldier. Kobalt Music Group
Mabel Polydor. Universal Music
Mahalia Asylum. Warner Music UK
GROUP OF THE YEAR
Bastille Virgin. Universal Music
Bring Me The Horizon RCA. Sony Music
Coldplay Parlophone. Warner Music UK
D-Block Europe D-Block Europe. Universal Music
Foals Warner Records. Warner Music UK
SONG OF THE YEAR
The top ten identified by chart eligible sales
success in the calendar year then voted for
by The Academy. Supported by Capital FM.
AJ Tracey Ladbroke Grove
AJ Tracey
Calvin Harris & Rag’n’Bone Man
Giant Columbia. Sony Music
Dave ft Burna Boy Location
Neighbourhood. Universal Music
Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber
I Don’t Care
Asylum. Warner Music / Def Jam. Universal Music
Lewis Capaldi Someone You Loved
Virgin EMI. Universal Music
Mabel Don’t Call Me Up
Polydor. Universal Music
Mark Ronson ft Miley Cyrus
Nothing Breaks Like A Heart
Columbia. Sony Music
Sam Smith & Normani
Dancing With A Stranger
Capitol. Universal Music
Stormzy Vossi Bop
Atlantic/Merky. Warner Music UK
Tom Walker Just You And I
Relentless. Sony Music
BRITs RISING STAR
Identified by a panel of critics,
influencers, writers and composers.
Beabadoobee Dirty Hit
WINNER Celeste Polydor. Universal Music
Joy Crookes
Insanity/Speakerbox Recordings. Sony Music
NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Supported by BBC Radio 1
Aitch Since ’93. Sony Music
Dave Neighbourhood. Universal Music
Lewis Capaldi Virgin EMI. Universal Music
Mabel Polydor. Universal Music
Sam Fender Polydor. Universal Music
MASTERCARD ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Dave Psychodrama
Neighbourhood. Universal Music
Harry Styles Fine Line Columbia. Sony Music
Lewis Capaldi
Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent
Virgin EMI. Universal Music
Michael Kiwanuka Kiwanuka
Polydor. Universal Music
Stormzy Heavy Is The Head
Merky/Atlantic. Warner Music UK
INTERNATIONAL MALE SOLO ARTIST
Bruce Springsteen Columbia. Sony Music
Burna Boy Atlantic. Warner Music
Dermot Kennedy Island. Universal Music
Post Malone Republic Records. Universal Music
Tyler the Creator Columbia. Sony Music
INTERNATIONAL FEMALE SOLO ARTIST
Ariana Grande Republic Records. Universal Music
Billie Eilish Polydor. Universal Music
Camila Cabello Epic/Syco Music. Sony Music
Lana Del Rey Polydor. Universal Music
Lizzo Atlantic. Warner Music
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
10 British Producers identified by chart eligible
sales success of the Album and/or Single where
Producer is credited. An expert judging panel
then identifies a shortlist of 3. From that judging
process - the winner will be identified.
WINNER Fred again..
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“ Four BRITs?! No way!!!
What an honour,
and what a way to end
the most incredible
year. I’m very grateful.
Thank you, THANK YOU!”
DAVE
DAVE
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Dave
Psychodrama
NEIGHBOURHOOD. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
JM Enternational
If its therapy you’re after, you’ve
come to the right place. Dave
released his No.1 debut solo
collection - a concept album -
in March 2019. Split into three
acts - dealing with themes of
environment, relationships and
social compass respectively - it
is what its creator hopes will
become “a potent time capsule”.
“The kind that captures the age, my
generation and the conditions of my life.”
Inspired by the talking therapies his
brother experienced in prison, it is
bookended by the soothing voice
of a psychoanalyst, encouraging
our now 21 year-old protagonist
to examine his darkest thoughts,
to go deep inside himself.
Working alongside producers 169
and Fraser T Smith (Adele, Stormzy)
Dave spent twelve months creating
it. He says, “Psychodrama allowed
me to get a lot off my chest”.
“It allowed me to become the person
that I wanted to live up to being. It
allowed me to fulfil my potential,
changing the way people see
me, and the way I see myself.”
It can be heavy stuff but its clever,
concise, hard-hitting. He dissects the
external environment he grew up in, as
well as personal and family pressures;
the result is a stunning and insightful
critique of some young London lives
today. It’s a hard place to be for a young
man whose peers are often steeped
in bravado, so he traces his journey of
self-discovery through a progression
of “gold or silver, something rare or
precious” tracks - “from the start, when
I was more reluctant to speak, to the
end, which is embracing the idea that
it’s OK to find out a bit about yourself”.
“What’s important is the flow; how
words fit together with the tempo.”
The first three songs are a distilled
version of what defines him Psycho,
(“I’m not Psycho, but my life is”)
Streatham, and Black. The latter
is an uncompromising blast about
belonging, race and Empire.
“That track is my experience,”
says Dave. “Me being south
London, black, Nigerian… but I
don’t think that it’s universal for
the whole black experience”.
The middle section is catchy,
containing the summery Location,
Then as the end draws near there is
social commentary on the cinematic
Lesley (with themes of domestic
violence), the metaphorical Voices,
which is “a constant chase for
happiness,” and Drama. Drama
features the voice of Dave’s brother
Christopher, serving time for murder,
speaking from his prison cell.
Some of the album’s lyrics - including
“forget the other brother that was even
bigger, we were figures just trying to
figure out if we could be a figure” - are
snippets from visit and phone call
conversations between the pair.
As a teen, says Dave, “in my
life nothing was rosy“.
“I didn’t know what I was going to do
with my feelings. My (two) brothers
were both in different prisons — I just
had to express myself, and when I got
onto that mic, I let everything out.”
That’s how he found his way forward,
in music. Still doing visits, he says
the inmates now like his music.
“It’s something different to the status
quo”, he says, putting it mildly.
“It had a positive impact on everyone.”
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Lewis
Capaldi
Divinely Uninspired
to a Hellish Extent
VIRGIN EMI. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
You kind of get the impression
that Lewis Capaldi hasn’t really
taken everything in yet.
From his seven weeks at No.1 with
single Someone You Loved to the six
weeks at No.1 with his debut collection,
he’s had no time to take stock,
understand what those numbers mean.
“Either these people all have horrible
taste in music or I must be OK,” he jokes.
Because, suffering from an insanely
bad case of imposter syndrome,
Capaldi’s easy charm means he’s
self-deprecating to a fault.
“You’re like - what the f*** is going on
here? Surely people must have better
taste in music than to listen to me?”
There’s no doubt it’s been a year of firsts
for the 22 year-old from Bathgate. And
it’s all down to the first time he got his
heart broken, fuelling an album full of
easy-to-identify-with heartbreak songs.
Out of twelve tracks, only one - Grace
- is actually happy, while Someone
You Loved is open to interpretation.
Otherwise, he says, it is “jam-packed
with big, sexy sad-bangers”.
“I never set out to make an album
full of ‘em but it just transpired
that way. When you’re sad, you
think about it, you get into your
feelings - you’re wallowing in it”.
Even the pleasure - and pressure
- of writing in California didn’t
distract his attention.
“LA? Loved it.” But “I was in LA and six
months before that I was sitting in my
house playing PlayStation in my pants”.
“I [felt] this would all be better
if I could share that with her…
being in that simpler time”.
After the writing, the album had to be
structured. “I wanted to keep it mostly
new, and I wanted people to hear
variety. I’d written about 400 piano
ballads, so there was a conscious
effort not to stick them on there”.
He says, “Now that the album is out,
it’s amazing to see the reaction”.
The tracks that did make the cut
include, as well as the singles, Capaldi
favourites Hollywood and Headspace.
“I wrote Headspace when I was 17;
I’ve always had this special feeling
about it. Hollywood is jaunty - it’s a
change of pace for the album, and
people really seem to enjoy it.”
It’s fair to say, as its title reflects, the
album had a difficult birthing process.
Enjoyed isn’t a word he’d use, to be fair.
“The actual writing of the songs?
Loved doing. The arrangements of
the song? Loved doing. But when it
comes to the actual recording process
where you sit there playing the
same guitar part 47 f***ing times?”
“Putting an album together was the
most stressful and boring thing I’ve ever
done in my entire f***ing life. Everyone
will tell you about this f***ing mad little
journey they went on with recording
the album, and for me, I was like f***ing
hell, I want this to be over so I can
just play these f***ing songs live.”
But, “It’s nice to know that people
enjoyed [the album], it’s nice to
know that people bought it.”
“It’s nice to know that I’ve got a
job for another year and a bit.”
JM Enternational
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“ I wouldn’t miss
performing at The BRITs,
because usually when
people perform, their
album and single sales
go way up the chart, so
looking forward to that
especially...I’ll be there
with bells on x”
LEWIS CAPALDI
LEWIS
CAPALDI
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STORMZY
ED SHEERAN
LIZZO
CHARLI XCX
MAHALIA
COLDPLAY
FOALS
BURNA BOY
GOOD LUCK
TO ALL OUR
TALENTED
ARTISTS

“ I appreciate every single one
of you more than you know.
Thank you @BRITs, feeling
very blessed and proud!”
STORMZY
TORMZY
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Stormzy
Heavy Is The Head
MERKY/ATLANTIC. WARNER MUSIC UK
JM Enternational
There was point in December
2019 that Stormzy describes as
“a really proud moment”.
He revealed, “I’ve locked myself away
for two years, and dedicated myself to
the art. I’ve made a body of work I’m very
proud of, and that people can listen and
connect to in many different ways”.
Three years after the maelstrom release
of his 2017 debut Gang Signs & Prayer,
with all that disc did to grow his profile, he
knew its follow-up - which turned out to be
the No.1 Heavy is The Head - should be
louder, sharper, stronger, more insistent.
““This time around, it was all about
pushing the boundaries...”
“I felt like a new artist…[with] new
truths and stories to tell.”
When Stormzy made GSAP, he
proclaimed its success was for “all his
young black kings” - his South Norwood
neighbours and others like them.
“Even with the distance that inevitably
happens from my community, I was
making sure I was talking to my people.”
Now with success, he advocates for
them, he’s a leader. He’s out to make
a space for them on the national
stage. This is his manifesto.
He sighs. “I’m so used to it, being the
only black face in mainstream culture.”
So Stormzy’s plan is to be joined by
so many more. The track Superheroes
is a rallying cry to black British talent,
mentioning everyone he can think of
from Malorie Blackman to Dave. There
are collaborations. Burna Boy, Dave,
Headie One, Her, Yebba, and Thiana
Major9 appear on the album, which
mixes grime with soul, R&B dreams.
The space between grime and blues and
gospel is not always an easy place to
inhabit. Vossi Bop and Pop Boy explain
why. And “sometimes music can be a bit
sexist or like using women as objects,” he
says. “I was like, no, forget all of that, I want
a woman to be able to play this before
she’s going out for drinks with her girls.”
Disappointment and Wiley Flow
got caught up in a feud with Wiley,
who reportedly disapproves of his
Ed Sheeran soujourns on Own It
and Take Me Back To London.
But yet the testosterone-packed
bravado of Big Michael and Crown
sits cheek by jowel with the break-up
love letter Lessons (the most tender
track on the record). That’s what you
get when you let your guard down.
And all of those facets are, somehow,
Stormzy: “I’m a complex human. [This is] 16
truths from a man. So it’s like 16 chapters.”
“Making this album helped
me realise who I am.
“It was me understanding that every
emotion I’m feeling is valid. My sadness,
my vulnerability is as important as
my kingship and my confidence.”
But still, ‘kingship’ is important. Stormzy
would not have got where here
is today without his self-confident
swagger. He’s been anointed.
He reveals, “It’s been a proper slow
realisation, in naive way, as well”.
“Maybe up until this year I underestimated
who I had become, my voice, my
reach, and all of that,” he reasons.
“I’m at peace, I understand it
now, and I embrace it all.”
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Harry Styles
Fine Line
COLUMBIA. SONY MUSIC
There’s one line in particular that
seems to sum up the process of
making the second Harry Styles
album. The former One Direction
superstar, alongside spells in
Nashville and London, holed up
in Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La studio
in the oh-so-warm Malibu swelter,
telling Rolling Stone magazine of
his method to making Fine Line
(his second solo No.1 album).
Frozen Margheritas in hand, “we’d turn
the speakers out into the yard… “
“We’d do mushrooms, lie down
on the grass, and listen to Paul
McCartney’s Ram in the sunshine”.
As well as love, loves lost and
redemption, one of the overarching
themes of the record is a sigh of relief,
of freedom. Having proven himself
on his debut the creative juices are
flowing. “I’m really enjoying making
music and experimenting,” he said.
He told Zane Lowe, “making an
album, I feel like is the most selfindulgent
time you can think of, really”.
“Because you’re just like, ‘how do I
feel about this?” He’s tried therapy,
but prefers making music. “I think
with the therapy thing, I just realised
I was just getting in my own way. It’s
been a thing where I’ve definitely
felt it have an impact on my life.”
The open roads and open hearts of
California play a part in proceedings.
So too does his eclectic band of
rockers and folk hearts - including
songwriting partner/producer Kid
Harpoon - with whom he excels.
Although most tracks are open to the
listener’s interpretation, a break up
makes its presence felt on the anxious
To Be So Lonely, and again on Cherry,
where a relationship soured. There are
sonic nods to Joni Mitchell, Vampire
Weekend, plus strings, Gospel choirs
and the ghosts of rock’n’roll heroes.
After teasing that the LP was “all about
having sex and feeling sad” (and
Watermelon Sugar, if the rumours
are true, provides the former) the
process was surprisingly upbeat. “It
was so much fun’, he says, “much
more joyous than last time”.
“Even coming into this record
I wanted to feel less guarded,
free-er and more honest.”
So Golden, written early, was always
the show opener: “It feels so Malibu,
driving down the coast,” and there
are show-stopping singles Adore You,
Watermelon Sugar and Lights Up.
In Falling, he touches on his own
personal journey - could he become
someone he’s really no fan of? It seems
self discovery has brought white-knuckle
moments when the safety net slips.
“I think it was something I hadn’t
really experienced before, the
times when I felt good and I felt
happy were the happiest I ever
felt in my life… and the lowest was
the lowest I ever felt in my life.”
Finally, when the record was almost
finished, Styles slipped off to Japan
to take stock of it critically.
“I needed time to get out of that album
frame of mind,” he told The Face.
He was reading Haruki Murakami,
and writing in his hotel room,
showing up at karaoke.
“It impacted the album in a big way.”
“It was just a positive time for my head.”
JM Enternational
38

HARRY
STYLES
“Thank you for the support.
Thank you @BRITs for the nominations.
Love you. H!”
HARRY STYLES
39

MICHAEL
KIWANUKA
42
“I’m so excited and humbled to have
been nominated at this years
BRIT Awards, what a way to start
the decade! So proud to be a part
of the vibrant and forward thinking
movement that is British music!!”
MICHAEL KIWANUKA

Michael
Kiwanuka
Kiwanuka
POLYDOR. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
JM Enternational
The most talented beings
among us are often the ones
most plagued by doubt.
That holds true for Michael Kiwanuka.
At times it has crippled his creative
process, postponing the release
of his second 2018 album Love &
Hate. The album’s success, (it was
a No.1 and a BRITs British Album
nominee) brought about a bad case
of imposter syndrome. What could
be done about 2019’s album three?
Kiwanuka worried that what
audiences liked about Love & Hate
was the polished production talents
of now-returning collaborators
Dangermouse and Inflo.
He’s explained, “I was overwhelmed
by the response to the record”.
“I started to really get scared”.
“In the studio I would cower:
Somebody’s going to find me out.”
“But about a year-and-a-half ago,
I got tired of that way of thinking.
I just went, ‘This isn’t helping
anyone, least of all me.’
“I’m living my dream. I’m in the
room. And I was wasting it with
thoughts of inferiority. I’ve always
had that annoying voice and after
30 years you’re like, ‘Shut up”.
The result was the self-titled Kiwanuka,
says the Muswell Hill singer. “It’s
a reaction against this fast-paced,
throwaway, machine-led world”.
He’s tossed aside expectations, instead
declaring, “Take me as I am - a mix
of anxiety, spirituality, wisdom, talent
and self-doubt. I’m proud of all of it”.
The choice of name is in itself a political
statement - a big ‘no, thank you’ to those
who wanted him to change his name
to something more Western, before he
was known to the world. That subtle
racism is challenged on Hero, and on
the in-for-the-kill opener, You’re Not The
Problem. It’s there again in Rolling, and
on Interlude (Loving The People) where
civil rights leader John Lewis is sampled.
“It sounded beautiful and moving over
these chords, so we put it here.”
It seems that Final Days is an about a
fine as it can be when one is pondering
a shapeship crash apocalypse, (albeit
a multi-textured, almost tactile one).
And throughout, like a soulful storm,
here’s where moods close in, then
clear. The album invites its audience
to remain engaged for all the drama,
transfixed as thunder rumbles, electricity
spikes and time passes. “You won’t
even know the song has changed,”
says Kiwanuka, “If you press play when
you’re cleaning the house, you get
sucked in for the whole duration”.
Of course among the melancholy
there are joyful moments. The sun
breaks through with the gospel choir
on I’ve Been Dazed, where, “it just
came out almost hymn-like”. And there
are shards of dazzling positivity in the
show-closing Light. “You end on this
peaceful note… whether it’s obvious
things like the light at the end of the
tunnel or just a light feeling in my heart.”
It is the work of someone who
has found his way forward.
Says Kiwanuka, “This is who I am, rain
or shine. I am completely myself”.
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“I think everyone
deserves an equal
amount of appreciation,
[no matter] how old they
are. But I mean,
I’m cool with the praise.
I’m good with it!”
BILLIE
EILISH
BILLIE EILISH
45

BMG CONGRATULATES
FKA TWIGS LEWIS CAPALDI MABEL
NOMINATION
FEMALE SOLO ARTIST
OF THE YEAR
NOMINATIONS
MASTERCARD ALBUM OF THE
YEAR + MALE SOLO ARTIST
OF THE YEAR + NEW ARTIST OF
THE YEAR + SONG OF THE YEAR
NOMINATIONS
FEMALE SOLO ARTIST OF
THE YEAR + NEW ARTIST OF THE
YEAR + SONG OF THE YEAR
AJ TRACEY
NOMINATION
SONG OF THE YEAR
BRING ME THE HORIZON
NOMINATION
GROUP OF THE YEAR
JOY CROOKES
SHORTLISTED
BRITs RISING STAR

JM Enternational
“So excited to perform at
this year’s BRIT Awards.
So many legendary people have
performed at The BRITs, so it
really is an honour and
a dream come true!”
MABEL
MABEL
47

WE PROUDLY CONGRATULATE OUR FRIENDS AND CLIENTS
ON THEIR BRIT AWARDS NOMINATIONS
MASTERCARD ALBUM OF THE YEAR
DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A
HELLISH EXTENT
LEWIS CAPALDI 1
KIWANUKA
MICHAEL KIWANUKA 1
MALE SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEAR
LEWIS CAPALDI 1
MICHAEL KIWANUKA 1
FEMALE SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEAR
FKA TWIGS 1
SONG OF THE YEAR
GIANT
CALVIN HARRIS
RAG’N’BONE MAN 1
SOMEONE YOU LOVED
LEWIS CAPALDI 1
DON’T CALL ME UP
MABEL
DANCING WITH A STRANGER
SAM SMITH 12
FREYA RIDINGS 1
MABEL
INTERNATIONAL FEMALE SOLO ARTIST
CAMILA CABELLO
LIZZO
INTERNATIONAL MALE SOLO ARTIST
TYLER, THE CREATOR
NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
LEWIS CAPALDI 1
MABEL
1 DENOTES SHARED REPRESENTATION
2 DENOTES SHARED NOMINATION

LIZZO
“ Eight years of touring, giving out
free tix to my undersold shows,
sleepless nights in my car, losing
my dad, and giving up on music,
playing shows for free beer & food
with -32$ in my bank account,
constantly writing songs, hearing
‘no’ but always saying ‘yes’.”
“ Glad I never gave up.”
LIZZO
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“It’s a huge honour to be the
recipient of the BRITs Rising Star
Award 2020. Like many others,
I grew up watching the The BRITs and
have been continually inspired
by its nominees, winners and the
performances. I hope to make the
most of this incredible opportunity
and I can’t wait to perform on
the The BRITs next this year.”
BRITs RISING STAR: CELESTE
50

OF
REVELATION AND LIGHT
CELESTE EPIPHANY WAITE IS A SIX-FOOT TALL
SUPERSTAR. SHE AIN’T WAITING TO SHINE…
CELESTEA MOMENT
JM Enternational
The inaugural BRIT Awards Rising
Star Award winner is 25 year-old R&B
singer Celeste. Born in LA but raised
near Brighton, she writes tunes that
hark back to Hollywood’s headiest
days - but her twist is fresh, jazz-tinged
and exciting. First signed to Lily Allen’s
Bank Holiday Records following the
breakout Daydream, she moved to
Polydor, releasing the EP Lately,
singles including Strange, Father’s
Son and Coco Blood, as well as a
collaboration You Do Something To Me
alongside Paul Weller. Helen Lamont
asks just what it’s like to be on the
cusp of going supernova with old soul.
Congratulations on your
BRITs Rising Star Award!
Thank you! Honestly, I’m so pleased - it
meant so much. It makes me feel like the
hard work this year has been worth it.
How did you find out?
I was coming back to England, after
touring [with Michael Kiwanuka]. We
were on a plane, and after we landed
my manager showed me the email,
and I was like, ‘Are you 100% sure’?
You’re in good company
on the shortlist…
It’s absolutely amazing, especially
when the top three are all female.
I felt that was really quite rare.
You were the first performer
announced for BRITs night…
Yes, oh my gosh! I have thought about
it every day since! I’ve never done a
show on this scale before [but] I’ve
been mentally preparing for a bigger
show. I have folders of drawings,
plans, and lighting ideas. I’ve found
the right things to be inspired by -
hopefully I’ve equipped myself well!
Do you get nervous?
I get this little adrenalin buzz, which I
can’t really control - but I like that feeling!
If it ever goes away I’ll be disappointed.
Did you grow up watching The BRITs?
Everyone watched The BRITs, didn’t
they? It’s one of the things you looked
forward to every year. I remember
seeing Misteeq perform, and So Solid
Crew. I was completely obsessed
with Misteeq. I put my hands on the
TV and started screaming! I also
remember Mark Ronson perform
[with] Daniel Merriweather, Adele and
Amy Winehouse. There is something
candid about those performances,
so in the moment, they seemed
excited to be there. That’s when all
of those things began to happen
for those people in their career.
Who were your other influences?
I listened to whatever the adults were
playing. My mum’s friend played garage
like Sweet Like Chocolate, my mum
liked M People and dance tracks, my
granddad and nan would play stuff
they danced to, a celebratory thing -
listening to The Platters, The Flamingos,
Johnny Ray and Frank Sinatra.
You’ve put your own spin
on that old-time vibe…
I grew up listening to traditional
song structures and that carried
into my songwriting. I’ve always
had that appreciation. I love to
listen to crooners. And at three I
was listening to Aretha Franklin!
Everything’s based on my instincts
and what I listened to growing up.
What was the Celeste
in that childhood like?
When I was a kid I was hyperactive.
At twelve, my mum said, you really
need to calm down. I never did what
anyone told me to do, which, actually,
was helpful. I didn’t get involved in
stuff teenagers can feel pressurised
to do, it wasn’t all about fitting in.
When did you decide to be a performer?
At nine, I had singing lessons, then
stopped. Tried again at fourteen -
stopped. At fifteen I began to take
it seriously. At sixteen, I was curious
about whether I really could become
a musician or a singer. My family said,
well if this is something you want to do,
we will try to support you. But I didn’t
have any idea of the mechanics of how.
I just did what teenagers did, uploading
songs onto YouTube and SoundCloud.
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AND GRACEFUL APPROACH
TO YOUR CRAFT IS BEING
RECOGNISED AND
REWARDED.
HERE’S TO A SUCCESSFUL
2020 AND BEYOND.
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CELESTE
SKINNY LIVING
RACHEL CHINOURIRI

Life could have turned out
differently after being born in LA…
Yeah, but my mum moved back to
England when I was two, so I never grew
up as an American. I think it is tough to
grow up in LA, especially if you don’t
have money. I’m glad I’ve grown up here.
But now you travel there a lot
Yeah, I went for a month in October.
Actually I first went back when I was
sixteen. My [Jamaican] dad was
diagnosed with cancer so we went
over there to visit him then, before
he passed. Obviously my memories
weren’t positive, so when I went
back with my manager at 23 I wasn’t
keen! That visit changed my outlook.
I’ve got good friends there now.
Your singing took off
amongst the heartbreak…
Yeah the idea is that its good to set
your sights on something. Don’t let
anyone or anything stand in your way.
I had a lot of things happen when I
was about sixteen – things I hadn’t
experienced before, like people
passing. I could have become down
but I used it to spur me on. My mum
was a single mum but she always had
her own motivation. Anything you want
or need find a way to get it yourself.
How is 2020 shaping up for you?
Six weeks of writing in January into
February, before big headline shows,
including Shepherds Bush Empire, April
into May. I have a lot of festivals, and
hopefully more new music, from June
onwards. I love playing new songs to
the crowd to see what the reaction is.
TWO MORE GREAT ACTS MADE THE
2020 BRITs RISING STAR SHORTLIST.
BEABADOOBEE
Nineteen-year-old beabadoobee
– Beatrice to her friends – grew up
listening to lo-fi indie rock and Filipino
music. The 90s inspired songwriter, who
only wrote her first song, Coffee, in 2017,
is now a prolific producer of earwormladen
atmospheric EPs including
Patched Up, Loveworm, and Space Cadet.
JOY CROOKES
A jazz-loving, Irish dancing Joy
Crookes grew up in the shadow of
Elephant and Castle, leaving school
early to concentrate on soulful music
intertwining Billie Holliday, identity,
and WB Yeats. Now 21, she spent 2019
wowing Glastonbury, and helping the
world hear her songs Mother May I Sleep
With Danger, Early, and London Mine.
How will you know you’ve
hit the big time?
I want to have an album out, and feel
proud. And get the chance to make a
second album. And a third! I’ll know if
I can relax, waking up knowing this is
my permanent job! But I might be 50
before I feel like that…
But you’re already hanging
out in showbiz circles…
I met Mick Jagger the other night!
Amazing, because I love the Rolling
Stones! I wish I met him fifty years ago. I
really fancied him when he was younger.
(Sighs) I’m glad there are people that I
idolise that are still alive.
Make the most of it
with a collaboration…
I’m thinking I need to make this happen!
I’m excited! Because, y’know, most of
my heroes aren’t alive any more.
JM Enternational
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CELESTE
2020 BRITs Rising Star Award Recipient

DAVE
NEIGHBOURHOOD. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
HARRY STYLES
COLUMBIA. SONY MUSIC
LEWIS CAPALDI
VIRGIN EMI. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
MICHAEL KIWANUKA
POLYDOR. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
STORMZY
MERKY/ATLANTIC. WARNER MUSIC UK
MALE SOLO
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
IN ASSOCIATION WITH AMAZON MUSIC.
It’s a young man’s game, being in on the British
Male Solo Artist shortlist. Now, as they get these
early albums in, everyone’s star is burning bright.
Stormzy released a second album Heavy Is The
Head in December 2019. It made No.1 as did
three of its tracks: Own It (alongside Ed Sheeran
and Burna Boy) Take Me Back to London (with Ed
Sheeran) and the album’s first single, Vossi Bop.
The star wore a bulletproof vest to play at Glastonbury; this
watershed moment made him the festival’s first headline
grime star. All this came after his 2017 debut No.1 Gang
Signs & Prayer won him two BRITs and earned him a
platform to speak on political causes. He also founded a
Cambridge scholarship for BAME-only artists. Stormzy was
named a Next Generation Leader by Time Magazine.
Like Stomzy, Harry Styles is an old friend of The BRITs.
The One Direction frontman has seven 1D trophies and
one solo BRIT from 13 previous nominations. At 25, he’s
recognised for his second solo collection, Fine Line. Styles
previously celebrated one self-titled solo No.1 album,
and four 1D No.1 albums Take Me Home, (2012), Midnight
Memories (2013), Four (2014) Made in the AM (2015) as
well as the No.2 Up All Night, 1D’s 2011 debut. Since the
2017 release of the million-selling solo debut Harry Styles,
he’s appeared in the movie Dunkirk, modeled for Gucci,
hosted SNL and exec produced a sitcom based on his
life Happy Together. His Love on Tour begins in April.
Lewis Capaldi is a man of contradictions. His social media
boasts milliions of fans of his cheeky one-liners. His
music is a different affair. The 22 year-old Glaswegian
staked his claim with big ballads of heartwrenching
heartbreak. (On Insta he mostly talks about Greggs).
Capaldi’s overnight success is ten years in the making. He
released a series of EPs: Bloom (2017), then Breach (Nov
2018, which contained Someone You Loved and saw him
recognised on BRITs Critics’ Choice shortlists,) and Bruises
(2019, which saw his success skyrocket). Someone You
Loved then topped the chart for seven weeks in early 2019
while a debut album Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent
was the biggest selling collection in Britain for five years.
Dave wasn’t allowed out after school as a teen in case
he got into trouble. The hours spent rising to Grade 7
on the piano was time well spent. He rejected a place
to study law at university and now 21, he’s seen the hard
work he’s put in since the age of 16 lead to this year’s four
BRIT nominations. His first full-length LP Pyschodrama
topped the chart in March 2019; it followed the 2017 EP
Game Over in a stellar creative period. His breakout
came in 2016 when Drake remixed the track Wanna
Know. Three years on, the Canadian exec produced
Top Boy, the drama showcasing Dave’s acting debut.
Michael Kiwanuka returned in November 2019 with a third
self-titled album, and a second shot at doing the British Male
Artist/British Album double. The former session musician found
fame in 2012 with his debut Home Again collection before
Love & Hate topped the chart in 2016. His third collection –
including lead single You Ain’t The Problem - made No.2. It’s
an increasingly confident statement of identity and belonging,
enveloped in psychedelic soul. Kiwanuka tours in spring 2020
including a headline Alexandra Palace date next month.
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FEMALE SOLO
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
IN ASSOCIATION WITH AMAZON MUSIC.
CHARLI XCX
ASYLUM. WARNER MUSIC UK
FKA TWIGS
YOUNG TURKS. XL/BEGGARS
FREYA RIDINGS
GOOD SOLDIER. KOBALT MUSIC GROUP
MABEL
POLYDOR. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
MAHALIA
ASYLUM. WARNER MUSIC UK
Make space on the shelf! Someone is
bringing home their first BRIT Award.
With three nominations to her name in 2020, all
eyes are on Mabel. Although she was previously
nominated in British Breakthrough in 2019, this is her
first shot at British Female Solo Artist, thanks to her
No.3, debut LP High Expectations. The album was
well named, given Mabel’s musical pedigree. With
mum Neneh Cherry and dad Cameron McVey, she’s
been around music forever. But thanks to singles like
big hit Mad Love, and recently, the Tiesto collab God
Is A Dancer, she’s making a name all of her own.
Quite a few careers have sprung from Love Island
by now – but usually the star has to appear on
the show. BRIT School graduate Freya Ridings’
penchant for a melancholy piano-led love song
saw a breakthrough third single Lost Without You
provide the soundtrack to Laura and Jack’s breakup
in 2018. Shazam searches spiked and the song
went platinum. Freya’s self-titled album, released
in August 2019, made No.3. It included all of the 25
year-old’s singles to date, including You Mean The
World To Me and Castles. Not bad for a girl who
describes herself as “a zebra in a horse race”.
One woman artwork FKA Twigs knows what its like
to be different. Cheltenham’s Tahlia Barnett was
a dancer for Jessie J and Ed Sheeran by 17, but
she’d soon announce herself in an avant-garde
blaze on the i-D magazine cover. Twigs’ first album
LPI came out in August 2014 and she followed it
with an EP M3LL155X and two BRIT nominations in
2015. A second LP, the otherworldly Magdelene,
didn’t emerge until November 2019. It included
singles Cellophane with its mesmerizing video,
Holy Terrain (ft. Future), and Home With You.
Charli XCX is a popstar of the classic sort. She was
singing at raves and warehouse parties before making
it to No.1 with the Icona Pop collaboration
I Love it in 2013. Three albums have followed –
True Romance (2013), the punk-influenced Sucker
(2014) and Charli (2019), and in between there has
been hit after banging hit including Boom Clap,
Doing It, Girls and 1999. She also featured alongside
Iggy Azalea topping the Billboard Hot 100, with
Fancy. Charli XCX has written multiple hits for
other artists, including Iggy Azalea, Selena Gomez,
Blondie, and Shawn Mendez & Camila Cabello.
The year 2016 was a big one Mahalia. The
Leicester soul singer released her debut LP Diary
of Me, and nabbed a key role in the seminal
drama Brotherhood. A string of collaborations
and then solo singles followed - some from the
atmospheric 2018 Seasons EP. Mahalia had another
big year in 2019. She released her butter-voiced
debut album Love and Compromise, seven years
after she first signed a record deal aged 13. It
included standout duets with Burna Boy (Simmer)
and Ella Mai (What You Did), plus fan favourites
Do Not Disturb and I Wish I Missed My Ex.
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GROUP OF THE YEAR
BASTILLE
VIRGIN. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
BRING ME THE HORIZON
RCA. SONY MUSIC
COLDPLAY
PARLOPHONE. WARNER MUSIC UK
D-BLOCK EUROPE
D-BLOCK EUROPE. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
FOALS
WARNER RECORDS. WARNER MUSIC UK
They just don’t make ‘em like they used
to… and the British Group shortlist is full
of bands who deliver year after year.
Coldplay’s relationship with The BRIT Awards is
long and fruitful. The band has scooped nine BRITs
to date; in fact they’ve won British Group four times
since 2001’s debut Parachutes. This year’s nod
sees the four piece celebrate their 28th nomination.
Last year saw Coldplay return with Everyday Life,
an eighth No.1 album. It is the follow up to 2015’s
A Headful of Dreams, despite fears they might’ve
split in 2017 not long after their Something Just Like
This Chainsmokers’ collaboration. Everyone’s happy
they’ve returned to the chart with singles including
Orphans, Arabesque, Everyday Life, and Daddy.
Bastille’s front man Dan Smith has popped up in
unexpected places of late – as well as a BRITs duet
with last year’s Outstanding Contribution winner
P!nk he provided the I Can’t Fight This Feeling
soundtrack to the John Lewis Christmas advert;
the band also features on Happier, the Marshmello
smash No.2. Bastille burst onto the scene in 2003
with No.1 debut Bad Blood, before the follow-up
Wild World and mix tape of collaborations, Other
People’s heartache Pt. IV. June 2019 release Doom
Days is their third studio collection. It reached
No.4, and prompts their sixth BRITs nomination.
Foals have been around for a good long while as
well. They formed in 2005 and released albums
Anecdotes (2008), Total Life Forever (2010), the darkly
hypnotic Holy Fire (2013) before hard rock favourite
What Went Down (2005). The Oxfordshire indie pop
art rockers brought out the synth-heavy exploration
of dystopia Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Parts 1
and 2 seven months apart in 2019. The latter topped
the album chart, one better than its predecessor’s
chart placing. This is Foals’ third BRITs nomination.
Sheffield rockers Bring Me The Horizon celebrated
fifteen years in the music business with the release of
fourth album Amo in February 2019, which knocked
The Greatest Showman OST off No.1 after 28 weeks
at the top spot. Its electronica/ hip hop sound was a
departure for the band who’d previously released the
death metal collection Count Your Blessings (2006),
before Suicide Season (2008) and There Is A Hell…
in 2010, which won international acclaim. Sempiternal
came in 2013 before That’s The Spirit (2015), which
included their biggest single to date, Throne, and
won new fans with a lighter, classic rock sound.
D-Block Europe are a South London rap collective,
bringing their ‘UK Rap Wave’ sound to the streets.
Former schoolmates Young Adz and Dirtbike LB
struck a chord with their explicit lyrics and their
shocking street tales, wrapped up in thumping
beats and vocoder vocals. After impressing with
tracks Large Amounts and The Shard, they found
greater success from 2018 onwards with successive
mixtapes, Any Minute Now, Home Alone, PTSD,
and Street Trauma. They first made the Top 20
with single Gucci Mane feat. Yxng Bane. More
followed including Kitchen Kings, Nookie feat.
Lil Baby, and Playing for Keeps feat. Dave.
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Jump In Together
@lewiscapaldi

NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
SUPPORTED BY BBC RADIO 1
There’s been a shake up at The BRITs,
and you’ll notice British Breakthrough has
been replaced by New Artist of the Year.
AITCH
SINCE ’93. SONY MUSIC
DAVE
NEIGHBOURHOOD. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
LEWIS CAPALDI
VIRGIN EMI. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
MABEL
POLYDOR. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
SAM FENDER
POLYDOR. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
That switch paved the way for Mabel’s airy pop/R&B
to make it onto the shortlist two years on the
trot – and why not? Fans will remember 2015’s
breakthrough, Know Me Better, while 2017 brought
the catchy Finders Keepers and collaborations
Cigarette and Ring Ring. In 2019, she released a
No.3 album, High Expectations, which included
Top 10 singles Don’t Call Me Up and Mad Love.
Her tunes remain on everyone’s lips thanks to
their radio-friendly, easily streamable pop.
It’s hard to believe that only last year, Lewis Capaldi
and Sam Fender were fighting out to be Critics’
Choice winner. Capaldi, now 23, was pipped at
the post, but the ensuing twelve months have
turned the droll Scotsman into a global star. He’s
built his enthusiastic following through a neverending
tour schedule, plenty of social media japes,
and – oh yes – the tracks Bruise (which made him
the fastest-ever unsigned artist to reach 25 million
Spotify plays) and please make it Someone You
Loved, which topped the charts worldwide. In May
2019, he released the unspeakably successful
Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent.
Sam Fender won The BRITs’ Critics’ Choice award
in 2019. Although a vocal chord haemorrhage took
the wind out of his sails last summer, (forcing him to
cancel many a festival shindig), his music itself did
the talking. He released the No.1 album Hypersonic
Missiles in September 2019, which included singles
Play God, Hypersonic Missiles, Can We Talk?
and The Borders. By December, he’d moved on,
bringing out fresh work in All Is On My Side. Sam
also supported legends Bob Dylan and Neil Young
at their Hyde Park extravaganza, and kept it real as
the star attraction at his hometown Mouth of The
Tyne Festival. He was their fastest-selling (ever) act.
Next up, it’s Dave. The prolific Streatham rapper
mixes political verse with emotional candour. He first
broke through aged 16, when Drake remixed his track
Wanna Know, and his output has been relentless
since. Back then, Dave (otherwise Santan Dave)
also released Thialgo Silver with AJ Tracey, from the
Six Paths EP; In 2017, there was Samantha (a J Hus
collab), and the Game Over EP featuring singles No
Words and Question Time. His first No.1 came with
the 2018 Fredo collaboration, Funky Friday. In March
2019, Dave released the disaffected concept album
Psychodrama. The No.1 collection included Top 10
singles Black, Streatham, Location and Disaster.
Manchester rapper Aitch is another man on Grime
Artist speed dial. The 20 year-old – a.k.a. Harrison
Armstrong – caught Stormzy’s attention with his
first track Straight Rhymez which gained 12m
views on YouTube. He’s had two Top 10s – Taste
(Make It Shake) and Buss Down, ft. ZieZie. And
he’s lent his Manc machinations to tracks by Ed
Sheeran, Stormzy and Jaykae (Take Me Back
To London), Stormzy (Pop Boy), Bugzy Malone
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SONG OF THE YEAR
THE TOP TEN IDENTIFIED BY CHART ELIGIBLE SALES
SUCCESS IN THE CALENDAR YEAR THEN VOTED FOR
BY THE ACADEMY. SUPPORTED BY CAPITAL FM.
Song Of The category is, of course, what
used to be known as British Single.
Music consumption is up overall and streaming
is now the world’s favourite way to listen, with
114 billion streams in the last twelve-month
period. Top tunes are just as likely to be
treasured album tracks as lead promos. And
so, the category is retitled as Song of the Year.
In commercial terms there were two clear
leaders in the fight to be biggest single
(finding the best is a more nuanced affair).
Lewis Capaldi’s Someone You Loved spent
seven weeks at No.1 in March and April,
chalking up 2.33 million sales in 2019. It
was also the most streamed song across
multiple platforms. The single also made
No.1 in America. That Billboard chart-topper
made him the first solo Scot to complete
that feat since Sheena Easton in 1981!
The video for Capaldi’s breakout, breakup
smash featured his second cousin and
namesake Peter Capaldi. The plaintive
piano track was one of four big hit
compositions. Hold Me While You Wait,
Bruises and Grace also made Britain’s
Top 40 biggest songs of the year.
Ed Sheeran was Britain’s other big seller.
Suffolk’s finest teamed up with Justin Beiber
for their fourth collaboration in May. I Don’t
Care was an ode to anxiety but there was
little to worry about in terms of chart sales.
Its eight-week chart-topping reign totalled
1.43m units and 240 million YouTube views of
the very odd promo, where the guys dressed
as ballerinas, bananas cowboys and more.
Like Capaldi, Sheeran had a raft of huge
sellers. Tracks Beautiful People feat.
Khalid, and Take Me Back to London,
alongside Stormzy, held their own.
One of music’s enduring trends is
collaboration. Half of our shortlisted acts
appear with a pal. Wanna cross over and
chart Stateside? Like Ed (not that he needs
to), team up with a North American mate.
Sam Smith impressed on the topic of
international relations. The January duet with
former Fifth Harmony singer Normani got us all
on the dance floor! Their thumping ‘get over
you’ No.3 anthem garnered the most YouTube
views by a British Artist. Count ‘em, Sam –
that’s a cool 500 million. All eyes on you!
Mark Ronson also looked west for inspiration,
finding Miley Cyrus and her back-to-her-roots
Tennessee drawl. Their outing was reportedly
a work of homage to Miley’s Godmother, Dolly
Parton. Mark took a back seat for the roadchase-on-the-highway,
much-viewed video.
But the driven producer went all out for this
half-dance, half-country hit. This modernday
Jolene peaked in February at No.2.
The producer-as-popstar vibe continues with
Calvin Harris. This is his 17th BRIT nomination.
His January No.2 release alongside another
BRITs favourite Rag’n’Bone Man was a
grand and foreboding epic dance track
with hints of gospel. More than 230 million
people on YouTube watched the clip.
Triple passport holder Mabel hooked
her biggest hit to date with Don’t Call
Me Up, the flick-him-off anthem. She
turned heads with January’s No.3 tale
of a gal who has had enough of her
lackluster beau. It’s catchy dance groove
and cool moves upped the glamour!
There was a tip for every suburban dweller
in Just You and I, Tom Walker’s No.3 hit, and
that tip was, ‘be thankful’. Originally released
in 2016 it received a reggae makeover and
charted in January 2019, almost three years
later. The track is an ode to Tom’s nowfiancé
Annie. The video features a young
couple running down Southend Pier.
It’s London that features slap-bang in the
lyrical landscape elsewhere. Our boys from
The Endz are keeping it real. Dave teamed
up with Burna Boy in July; the Location in
question was an ‘all boys on tour’ trip to Ibiza.
The No.6 song a hot and heavy, bravadopacked
boast about women and deals.
Streatham’s top boy went on tour, having a
blast in the sunshine. On his biggest hit to
date, AJ Tracey took a trip down memory
lane. Having grown up nearby, Ladbroke
Grove was the sounds and vibes of his teen
years. Sampling Jorja’s Smith’s Wandering
Romance, the track made No.3 in February,
an evocative snapshot of London days.
Stormzy, meanwhile, directs the world’s gaze
on his hometown, and the Vossi Pop video
features an iconic Thames-side landscape.
The track’s title came from a video the
rapper found on YouTube; it’s a not-so-gentle
put-down to haters who might besmirch
his now-famous name. Vossi Pop says he’s
riding the wave, having fun, and rising above
petty fights and troubles. He blasts, “This is
London city. We the hottest in the world!”
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DANCING WITH A STRANGER
CAPITOL. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
VOSSI BOP
ATLANTIC/MERKY. WARNER MUSIC UK
JUST YOU AND I
RELENTLESS. SONY MUSIC
DON’T CALL ME UP
POLYDOR. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
NOTHING BREAKS
COLUMBIA. SONY MUSIC
LOCATION
NEIGHBOURHOOD. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
I DON’T CARE
ASYLUM. WARNER MUSIC /
DEF JAM. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
SOMEONE YOU LOVED
VIRGIN EMI. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
LADBROKE GROVE
AJ TRACEY
GIANT
COLUMBIA. SONY MUSIC
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INTERNATIONAL
MALE SOLO ARTIST
The International Male Solo Artist category includes
four twenty-something, first-time nominees -
and one certified septuagenarian legend.
Dublin singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy blends
a time-honoured singer-songwriter vibe with
influences stretching from 50 Cent to Stormzy.
The classically trained former busker had toured
extensively before releasing his breakthrough
hit Power Over Me, which became the biggest
selling single of last year in his homeland. He’s
nominated for his first major label collection, 2019’s
melancholy No.1 Without Fear, and for its preceding
single, Outnumbered, which made UK No.2.
New Yorker Post Malone’s crossover magic made
him Spotify’s most streamed artist of 2019. After
emerging in 2015 steeped in the hard-edged rap and
trap scenes, he’s now ‘genre-less’, blending hip-hop,
rock and country. Certainly his second UK No.1 album,
Hollywood’s Bleeding, featured more sing-along riffs and
choruses than the fizzing excitement of Stoney (2016)
or Beerbongs & Bentleys (2018). The No.1 record was
rewarded with three Top Ten singles Wow, Goodbyes
and Hollywood’s Bleeding, plus a cameo roll call
stretching from Ozzy Osbourne to Travis Scott. It also
includes the huge Swae Lee collaboration, Sunflower
from the Spider-Man – Into The Spiderverse film.
One-man creative powerhouse Tyler The Creator
has given new meaning to the phrase Do It Yourself.
He first rose to prominence as the co-founder of
hip hop collective Odd Futures, and since then has
amassed one mixtape, five studio albums, a clothing
collection, a streaming app, an annual music festival
and a whole heap of video production credits to
his name. He’s recognised here for his fifth studio
album Igor. Slower and more soulful than previous
works, it’s famous for its love triangle narrative,
singles Earfquake, I Think and Igor’s Theme, plus
contributors including Kanye West and Solange.
London’s melting pot welcomed Burna Boy to its heart at
the start of his musical career but the artist remains true
to his Nigerian afro-fusion core. The African diaspora
were among the first to know his name but his influence
is now global. Since 2012, he has released albums L.I.F.E
(2012), On a Spaceship (2015) and the 2018 mixtape
Outside featuring the standout single Ye and vocals
by Mabel, Lily Allen, and J Hus. The African Giant LP
came later in 2019, alongside collaborations with Dave,
Mahalia, Jorja Smith, Stormzy and Ed Sheeran, as well as
standout track Ja Ara E on the Lion King: The Gift OST.
Bruce Springsteen, of course, has little to prove – but
the creative fires burn brightly. His tenth International
Male nomination (he previously won in 1986) comes
after 55 years in music; it’s 45 years since Born To
Run made his name further afield than Astbury Park.
After a stage show Springsteen on Broadway in 2017,
Bruce’s rule of the rock world continued with his 19th
studio album Western Stars. He describes the solo UK
No.1, his first in five years, as a ‘jewel box of a record”
with sweeping American themes. It was followed by
an acclaimed self-directed movie of the same name.
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REPUBLIC RECORDS. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
BILLIE EILISH
POLYDOR. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
CAMILA CABELLO
EPIC/SYCO MUSIC. SONY MUSIC
LANA DEL REY
POLYDOR. UNIVERSAL MUSIC
LIZZO
ATLANTIC. WARNER MUSIC
INTERNATIONAL
FEMALE SOLO ARTIST
The women nominated in the 2020
International Female Solo Artist category are
the vanguard of the next generation.
It’s true – two have triumphed before. Ariana
Grande won twelve months ago and Lana Del
Rey - the most established artist on the shortlist –
received the International award in 2013 as well
as International Breakthrough the year before.
Indeed, this is Lana Del Rey’s fifth nomination; across
20 UK hit singles, and a ten-year chart career. Her
fourth No. 1 album (from six in total), is entitled Norman
F***ing Rockwell. It came out last September, all of a
cinematic shimmer with piano ballads and classic rock
sounds. She also released Doin’ Time, and Don’t Call
Me Angel, alongside Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande.
A poetry book, Violet Bent Backwards Over The
Grass, companion audiobook, and seventh album
White Hot Forever are slated for 2020 release.
Ariana Grande is Spotify’s most streamed female
artist of the decade. She is as prolific as she is
popular. Ariana, former Nickelodeon star now 26
year-old pop/R&B Queen, followed LPs Yours Truly,
My Everything, Dangerous and Sweetener with
her fifth studio album, Thank U, Next. The title track
became YouTube’s most watched video within 24
hours; next she became the first female artist to
replace herself at No.1 in the UK, swapping 7 Rings
for Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored.
Camila Cabello began her musical career in the
American X Factor in 2012, finding fame with girl group
Fifth Harmony. A 2015 duet with Shawn Mendes, I Know
What You Did Last Summer, proved a springboard to
a solo career which exploded with the 2018 song of
the summer, Havana, featuring Young Thug, from her
self-titled album Camila. December 2019 brought a
second album, Romance, preceded by a second Shawn
Mendez chart-topper Senorita and collabs with Pitbull
& J Balvin (Hey Ma), Pharrell Williams (Sangria Wine)
and Ed Sheeran & Cardi B (South of The Border).
Lizzo and Billie Eilish have a whole heap of attitude
between them – but they are so different. Lizzo -
That’s Detroit Michigan’s Melissa Viviane Jefferson to
you – secured her place on the world stage with her
third album Cuz I Love You (May 2019). The 31 year-old
rapper/singer/classically trained flautist had her first
UK hit with Juice in February 2019, before audiences
played catch-up discovering the sassy greatness of
2017’s Truth Hurts and the 2016 banger Good As Hell
which charted in May and October respectively.
Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish is the youngest nominee
on our list – something the baggy-shirted phenomenon
is more than used to! She had a lot to celebrate
in 2019 for as well as turning 18 she claimed the
accolades of ‘most streamed female artist of the year’
and ‘most streamed album of the year’ on Spotify.
Less than two years after the release of her debut EP
Don’t Smile At Me, she became the youngest female
ever to scoop a UK No.1 in April with When We All
Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, her debut album.
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Thank you
for the music.
A huge congratulations to
The BRIT Awards 2020 nominees.

FUN LEADS TO
INSPIRATION
CONGRATULATIONS
TO BRITISH PRODUCER
WINNER FRED AGAIN..
Record producer Fred again..,
A.K.A. Fred Gibson, is the wind
beneath the wings of many a
chart-topper. He produced Ed
Sheeran’s No.6 Collaborations
Project, Stormzy’s Heavy Is The
Head, and the No.1 Shotgun by
George Ezra. Don’t
forget tracks for Eminem,
Octavian, Charli XCX and
others. Helen Lamont
wanted to know more...
How do you describe your job?
I just say I write songs.
The next question would be,
‘Have you written something I’d know?’
That’s my uber driver conversation!
I say, ‘hip-hop, dance music, pop’.
Once, bizarrely, a driver asked, and
then three of my songs came on
the radio. I didn’t tell him though!
How did you get your first break?
Brian Eno, by some kind of bizarre
serendipity. He’s very much the Gandalf
in my life. My lovely neighbour, Mel,
introduced me. He has a singing group
on Tuesdays - his neighbour, Annie
Lennox - Paul McCartney came one time.
We sing country songs and have a glass
of wine. I went along when I was sixteen.
You were already doing music.
I started playing piano at seven,
then percussion, Xylophone,
orchestral stuff. I went to Trinity to
study composition but left because I
started making albums with Brian.
And you keep in touch?
Most days! He’s like my Shaman. As
I get older I realise he’s someone
I am immeasurably grateful for.
How do you hook up with other artists?
Pretty organically, it’s a small world.
But my brother/manager is genius at
finding people early, like Steffie (Steflon
Don), and J Hus. So thanks to him!
And then there’s Ed Sheeran…
We’re a good match in the studio and
we’re friends. People like doing stuff
that’s fun. Fun leads to inspiration,
inspiration leads to good songs
(laughs). Thank God, with Ed, I had a
couple of good one-liners early on!
What is Ed’s studio process?
Comes along at 9am with no
entourage. Every day we’ll write two
or three whole songs. Just keep your
head down, always finish it, move
on. It’s instinct. He’s disciplined,
but he makes music he loves.
What about Stormzy?
It’s effortless working with someone who
knows himself as truly as Stormz does.
There’s never any aim or intention. We
just go, and wait ‘til something sticks -
and it always does, cos he’s the truth.
You guys recorded Own It together.
I love this tune! We honed the melody
then he laid down a sketch of the
verse. When I was in Nashville with
Ed, we did his verse, then got in with
Burna in London. It’s three of my
best friends in music on one song.
What is Burna Boy like?
Well, the second day I worked with him
I invited a bunch of friends, saying “you
gotta see this guy”. He’s like Ed, he
follows his gut, and you capture him.
Only difference, he’ll smoke 50 blunts
more than Ed, who’ll smoke none.
Who would you love to work with?
My all-time favourite musician is Bon
Iver, Justin Vernon. But I don’t know
how I could be in a studio with him
and try to help, because everything
he’s done is perfection. Can I make
this perfect thing more perfect?
I’d have an existential crisis.
And you make your own music…
Actual Life is a load of songs made from
real things. it’s an aspect of humanity
that isn’t sufficiently documented in
songs. I’m the guy who films stuff,
catching the sentences people
throw out. You can put the sound,
the sentence, into the song. There’s
something beautiful to that as well.
Is it great to hear crowds
singing your songs?
It’s good, but the big win for me is
simple, the day I make the song.
I’m excited to make another. That’s
the happiest thing in my existence.
Just walking home from the studio,
headphones on, playing the song.
Congratulations Fred.
Enjoy your BRITs win!
Thank you, it’s cool isn’t it? I’m
going to bring my granny along.
Fred again..’s single Mani (Wish
I Had You) is out this month.
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1977: The first-ever BRIT Awards was a right
royal knees-up, introduced and televised to
celebrate the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. While Her
Maj didn’t make it to the Wembley Conference
Centre venue, she probably watched winners
drawn from the 25 years of her reign rock up
including Sir Cliff, Simon and Garfunkel and
Procol Harum on telly. The Beatles received
the Outstanding Contribution to Music gong.
1982: Good things come to those who wait, and
five years after the first BRITs, a Grosvenor House
shindig welcomed a waft of New Romantics and
Synth Rockers including Human League, Soft Cell
and Adam and The Ants to represent the real
music du jour. Sir Cliff still won Best Male though
(well, he was Wired For Sound back then).
1983: Host Tim Rice took charge in 1983,
but it was Sir Paul McCartney’s night. As
well as winning Outstanding Achievement
again as part of The Beatles, he nabbed Best
British Male and a special Sony trophy. Pete
Townshend accepted a Lifetime Achievement
award for “20 years of behaving like a prat”.
Best British Female Kim Wilde burst into
tears of emotion – so Angela Rippon gave
an acceptance speech on her behalf!
1984: Everything Must Change sang Paul Young,
Best British Newcomer in 1983, but by now The
BRITs was getting into a groove. A Who’s Who of
80s music – Bowie, Annie Lennox, Culture Club,
and Spandau Ballet swept the awards boards
and Michael Jackson took Best-Selling Album
for shifting 25m copies of Thriller worldwide.
1985: In 1985 the show returned to the telly!
Wham! became Best British Group, The
Police brought a l’il police dog to collect
Outstanding Achievement, and Bob Geldof
and Midge Ure picked up a Special Award
for Band Aid’s efforts. “Just give me the effing
award!” said St Bob (maybe). Prince didn’t
say much when Elaine Paige presented his
award - but he did wear a nice feather boa.
HAPPY
40 TH
BIRTHDAY,
BRITs!
IT’S GIVEN US GLAMOUR, IT’S GIVEN US GLITZ
– AND SOME OF THE MOST TALKED ABOUT
MOMENTS IN UK MUSIC. FROM ITS EARLIEST
INCARNATION TO THE EVENT IT IS TODAY,
WE CELEBRATE THE RICH AND SOMETIMES
RAUCOUS HISTORY OF THE BRITs!
1985
1977
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CONGRATS!
Dave. Stormzy.
Michael Kiwanuka.
Celeste. Foals. Lizzo.
Rag’n’Bone Man.

1986: An IRA bomb scare caused havoc,
but the 1986 show did go on, featuring
Thatcher cabinet member Norman Tebbit,
who confessed to ‘knowing absolutely nothing
about pop music’. He did give Outstanding
Contribution awards to Elton John and Wham!,
just returned from China, and in recognition for
the stunning export value of the music (but did
they discuss the DHSS as per Wham Rap)?
1992
1993
1987: “This award will have a respected place
with all my garden gnomes” joked 1987’s Best
British Male Peter Gabriel, while Eric Clapton won
Outstanding Contribution: ‘The dinosaur award”.
Other big beasts celebrating included Phil
Collins, Kate Bush and Dire Straits. Meanwhile
Pet Shop Boys were mildly amused when
West End Girls scooped Best British Single.
1988: It was off to the rather glam Royal Albert
Hall where Bananarama performed with boys in
budgie smugglers. Spare a thought for British
Single winner Rick Astley, whose British Single
acceptance speech was suddenly shelved, in
order to increase the allotted screen time for
Outstanding Contribution winners The Who.
1989: Uh-oh, it’s time for a Sam Fox and Mick
Fleetwood moment. The mismatched pair landed
in BRITs legend as they tried to keep things
together when all around them was falling apart.
It’s got to be Perfect, trilled Fairground Attraction,
the British Single and British Album winners
from the stage. But if we’re honest, it was not.
1990: Off to the Dominion Theatre in 1990,
where International Newcomer Neneh
Cherry and Rod Stewart performed, and
Outstanding Achievement went to Queen.
The award allowed an ailing Freddie Mercury,
in a powder blue suit, to cradle his award and
say simply, ‘Thank You and Goodnight’.
1991: British Music was Rockin’ All Over The
World, so it was only fitting that Outstanding
Contribution Award winners Status Quo
included the legendary track in a medley.
Elsewhere, the ladies were loving it with Lisa
Stansfield and Betty Boo topping category
polls. Sinead O’Connor was less chuffed,
as she fell out with organisers - so the show
played a clip of Whitney Houston instead!
1992: Seal scooped a hat trick of wins in 1992,
but it was The KLF who hit the headlines with
a terrifying stunt. Instead of celebrating their
joint British Group win, the art-house pranksters
finished a mix of 3am Eternal brandishing AK47s,
and firing blank rounds at the audience. Their rep
shouted “Ladies and Gentlemen, the KLF have
now left the Music Business”. And they had.
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1993: Over to Ally Pally for the 13th
show, where Crystal Maze host
Richard O’Brien welcomed show
openers Madness, Suede, and
U2, riding high on the success
of the Zoo tour. Highgate
son Rod Stewart took the
very short trip to Muswell
Hill to collect his Outstanding
Contribution. But who’s that
hiding behind the Britanniathemed
podium? It’s only those
young British Single winners, Take That.
1994: Hosts Elton John and Ru Paul kicked
off their evening with Don’t Go Breaking My
Heart. And the duets kept coming - Bjork and
PJ Harvey singing I Can’t Get No Satisfaction,
Bon Jovi plus Dina Carroll (what?) on I’ll Sleep
When I’m Dead, and Pet Shop Boys plus a
Welsh Male Voice Choir on Go West. Take
That were on the crest of a wave with their
Beatles medley, and Van Morrison scooped
Outstanding Contribution to Music.
1995: Britpop has landed! Blur owned the
evening, scooping a record four awards for
themselves, but in an unexpected moment
of bonhomie, Damon explained, the British
Group Award “should have been shared
with [British Newcomer winners] Oasis’.
Stuck in dispute, Prince scrawled the word
Slave on his cheek, and Blur’s Mr. Rowntree
went one better, cheekily etching Dave.
1996: Here’s a night of BRITs legend, in
which Michael Jackson brought in busloads
of waiflike ‘refugee’ children to join him on
stage for a messiah-like rendition of Earth
Song, prompting Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker
to get his bum out to moon the ‘King of Pop’.
Watching, all agog, were the triple awardwinners
Oasis, Outstanding Contribution victor
David Bowie, plus Neil and Chris from the Pet
Shop Boys. Jarvis was quickly arrested - but
he was let go without charge pretty quick.
1997: Girl Power! In 1997, Spice Girls Sporty,
Scary, Baby, Ginger and Posh scorched the
image of Geri Halliwell’s knicker-flashing
tea-towel Union Flag dress - worn for a showopening
rendition of Wannabe - onto our
retinas. The Bee Gees picked up Outstanding
Contribution, and Jamiroquai and Diana Ross
turned Earls Court Upside Down in their duet.
1998: National treasures Tom Jones and
Robbie Williams performed a tight-trousered,
stomping duet when the show moved onto
London Arena in 1998. Texas and Method
Man brought extra edge to Say What You
Want, and, unfortunately, Chumbawamba
realised they could thump more than just tubs,
enraging a suddenly soaking Deputy Prime
Minister, John Prescott, who faced an icebucket
challenge, decades ahead of the rest.
1995
1996
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Rudimental DJ, one of the UK’s biggest dance pop acts at Edinburgh’s Hogmanay.
Scotland is globally-renowned for staging international music events having played host to
the MTV EMA’s, MTV Crashes and MOBO Awards. Each year Scotland’s world-class venues,
Glasgow’s SSE Hydro and The Event Complex Aberdeen (TECA) attract some of the world’s
greatest musicians to take centre stage. From one-off music spectacles to a year-round
programme of events including the Celtic Connections and Edinburgh’s Hogmanay, the
“UK’s biggest street party” - Scotland’s music scene continues to be as vibrant as ever.
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1999: Yep, Fatboy Slim thought he was being
funny when he held up the A4 with speechless
penned on it. But there was Let Me Entertain
You wag Robbie, who thanked the academy
for his win by writing ‘legless’ instead. remove
admitting altogether. Robbie was packed off
to rehab by Elton John pretty soon after. But
not before Bille/B*Witched/Steps/Cleopatra/
Tina Cousins celebrated ABBA, and Boyzone
performed the Comic Relief single When The
Going Gets Tough with boxers Chris Eubank
and Barry McGuigan and Nigel Benn.
2000: The 20th BRIT Awards planned
unforgettable duet moments, including
Queen’s pressurised collaboration with
boyband 5ive, and Welsh teamwork from
Tom Jones and The Stereophonics. But Geri
Halliwell’s leggy stageset may have captured
the nation’s attention instead. Elsewhere,
Robbie Williams challenged Liam Gallagher
to a fight, and drunk DJ Brandon Block
squared up to Rolling Stone Legend Ronnie
Wood, after going to ‘collect’ an award that
wasn’t his! BRITs Behaving Badly, indeed.
2001: A fresh-faced Ant and Dec arrived in
an Ice Cream Van to present The BRITs 2001,
hosting a show that saw pop battle rock for
our favours. Coldplay, Oasis and Outstanding
Contribution winners U2 strummed their way
to success while A1 picked up Best Newcomer
and Hear’say - big new band of the day –
performed Pure and Simple. However, 2001
is remembered as the year Craig David didn’t
win (despite six nominations), or the one where
Eminem came in with a mask and chainsaw
and we were all too scared to enjoy the ‘bants’.
2002: Can’t Get You Out Of My Head
prophesised Kylie, while the double
international award winner, in her silver thigh
boots, pulsed in front of a huge silver record
set. Elsewhere there was a live performance
by cartoon act Gorillaz, a comedy showcloser
It Wasn’t Me/ Me Julie by Shaggy
and Ali G, and a cash-flinging calling card
by So Solid Crew. In the middle, a paredback
Sting won Outstanding Contribution.
2003: The BRITs liked Kylie so much they
invited her back the next year to duet on
Rapture with Justin Timberlake, who would
get into a lot of trouble if he tried this kind
of tomfoolery nowadays. International
Female Pink kicked everything off with
Get The Party Started/ Just Like A Pill and
Tom Jones closed it with a rafter-raising
Outstanding Contribution medley.
2000
1999
2001
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2009
2004: Champagne anyone? Cat Deeley
announced the return of rock and, with
three awards, The Darkness ruled the roost.
This show was one big wonderful mash-up;
with OutKast and Beyoncé duetting, Katie
Melua and Jamie Cullum doing Love Cats,
and Stefani & co giving a fresh take on the
Prince favourite Kiss. Missed your BRITs
afterbash invite? Fear not. International
Newcomer 50 Cent and his crew made
sure he was In Da Club, up on stage.
2005: The BRITS marked its 25th birthday.
Robbie’s song Angels was named the Best
Song of 25 years. Franz Ferdinand and
Keane grabbed two gongs apiece, and the
night’s biggest winners were Scissor Sisters
who won International Album, International
Breakthrough, and International Group.
Frontman Jake Shears thanked “the British
people for embracing us and giving us the
best year of our lives”, before performing
in a wonderfully hallucinogenic farmyard
alongside Jim Henson’s puppet pals.
2004
2006: Kaiser Chiefs opened the show with
I Predict A Riot and there nearly was one
when Kanye West brought a bevvy of 77 goldpainted
ladies to sashay along the walkways
during his jaw-dropping performance of
Diamonds From Sierra Leone/Golddigger. After
that, we had a stellar Outstanding Contribution
performance. Prince and his Revolution
bandmates, dropping two new tunes from 3121
alongside Lets Go Crazy and Purple Rain.
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2007: Rock‘n’roll was the
name of the game at Russell
Brand’s 2007 Earls’ Court show.
There was West Coast rock, from The
Killers, there was Northern Rock, from Arctic
Monkeys who scooped British Album and
British Group, and then rock‘n’roll behavior,
from British Female winner Amy Winehouse
who sent us to Rehab. Topping it off was
classic rock. Outstanding Contribution winners
Oasis delivered eyebrow-singeing favourites
Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rock‘n’roll Star.
2008
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2008: Collaborations ahoy! 2008 was an
all-killer, no filler delight from start to finish, set
in the throne room of the night’s host family,
the Osbourne clan. There were three mashup
moments – Mika and Beth Ditto on tracks
including Grace Kelly, Rihanna and the Klaxons
delivered a once-is-not-enough jawdropping
Umbrella, and Mark Ronson got his groove
on with unforgettable duets with Daniel
Merriweather, Amy Winehouse and Adele.
2009: The wonderful Kylie helped Gavin and
Stacey’s Matthew Horne and James Corden
present this year’s extravaganza with theatre
to the fore with Pet Show Boys’ highly stylized,
highbrow Outstanding Contribution medley
setting the tone. Welsh singer Duffy scooped
three trophies, a newly reformed Take That
performed comeback track Greatest Day, while
reality show newcomers Girls Aloud performed
a teasing track Promise Me featuring copious
featherography from Mr. Ostrich and co.
2004
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2010: Woo-ha! Another anniversary show.
Oasis grabbed a special award for the Best
British Album of 30 Years and the Spice
Girls’ Wannabe was rewarded as Best
Live Performance of 30 years. Robbie won
Outstanding Contribution and his medley
was so long, to be fair, the other acts
could have thought twice about being on.
Triple award winner Lady Gaga ensured
all eyes were on her Alexander McQueen
tribute of Telephone/ Dance Into The
Dark while wearing a remarkable whitepowdered
make-up and wig combo in the
style of Dangerous Liaisons gone mad.
2010
2011: All Change! The whole BRITs kit and
caboodle up sticks and moved across
London to a new venue, the O2, led by
solo host, James Corden. Although the
sheer scale of the venue was intimidating,
Adele showed how these shows should
be done – just a voice and a piano on
the ballad, Someone like You. The whole
place went silent. People will still be
talking about it in another forty years.
2012: Yep, its true - 2012 will forever be
remembered as the one where Adele
flipped the bird at returning host James
Corden. After winning two awards – British
Female and, near the end of the night,
British Album, Adele was all ready to say
her ‘thank you’s’ when Corden ushered
her off stage to make way for the eleven
minute medley of hits from Global Success
winner Blur. Among the acts who did get
time to play was Rihanna who performed
We Found Love. Might have been better to
find a couple of spare minutes, to be fair.
2013: The BRIT Awards celebrated its
biggest TV audience in a decade in 2013.
Probably because the laser and lights show
provided by Muse at the top of the show for
Supremacy was an amazing sight. But there
was other eye-popping moments too. Taylor
Swift in a wedding dress. Justin Timberlake
doing Mirrors. And One Direction standing
atop a giant pinball machine blowing
the minds of teens everywhere with
One Way Or Another/Teenage Kicks.
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2014: If there are three concepts you’d
choose to round off your evening’s
entertainment with, they’re Happy, Good
Times, and Get Lucky. Handily that’s what
BRIT audiences got from the Pharrell
Williams and Nile Rogers’ Daft Punk
medley at the end of the BRITS 2014.
There were so many big names on stage
that night – Beyoncé with XO, Katy Perry,
Bruno Mars with Treasure – but Arctic
Monkeys set an awards record none of
the rest could beat – scooping Best Album
and Best Group for the third consecutive
time of asking. Those guys were on fire
(no really. Health and safety, please)!
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2015: Welcome back Ant and Dec!
We see you’ve invited some American
friends. First, Kanye came with his rapper
pals, including Skepta and Stormzy, to
shine a light – or scary flame-thower
torch-thing - onto the UK grime scene.
Sam Smith sang Lay Me Down and
Paloma Faith weathered a stage storm
to perform Only Love Can Hurt Like
This. Unfortunately, falling backwards
down a flight of stairs is pretty painful
too as trouper Madonna discovered
by tripping over her cape during her
first BRITs performance in 20 years.
2016: Ant and Dec again hosted an outof-this
world evening of entertainment,
interrupted only by the whirl of a
zoetrope light show and a quick flash of
a Pam Hogg-inspired crasher. Rihanna
twerked with rumoured beau Drake
on Work, Little Mix bewitched us with
Black Magic, and Justin Beiber sent
out voodoo-esque rays from his onstage
Sorry campfire. Adele blazed
the biggest trail, however, winning
Global Success, British Album, British
Single and British Female – the latter
delivered, from the International
Space Station by astronaut Tim Peake.
“Not bad for a girl from Tottenham
who don’t like flying,” she shrieks.
2017: The BRIT Awards 2018 were
tinged with sadness; we’d lost ‘family
members’ George Michael, George
Martin, Prince and David Bowie the
previous year. As well a tear-jerking
tribute from Wham! bandmates,
Chris Martin delivered You Have
Been Loved for George, and David
Bowie was remembered via British
Album and British Male wins for his
final record. Katy Perry kept things
current with giant Trump and Theresa
May puppet heads, and Robbie
celebrated his BRITs ICON win with a
medley from Heavy Entertainment.
2018: No, Stormzy isn’t a sweaty fella.
He got drenched with sheer emotion
– plus lots of ‘rain’ from above during a
highly charged, politician-bashing Big
For Your Boots. Also acting out were
Kendrick Lamar and his grumpy pal
Rich Kid, who trashed a Lamborghini,
in a box, with a chainsaw. Setting
temperatures to high were Dua Lipa,
Little Mix and Liam Payne with Rita Ora.
In the midst of it all, Liam Gallagher
quieted the room with The BRITs’
tribute to the Manchester Arena attack
victims, Live Forever. Sometimes
the simplest setting says it all.
2019: This Is The Greatest Show!
blasted Hugh Jackman in an allsinging
all-dancing silver screen-style
opener (and he wasn’t wrong). 2019
saw Scots DJ Calvin Harris scoop two
awards after fourteen nominations,
and double award winners The 1975
sauntering across the stage in Sincerity
is Scary. The Carters accepted their
BRIT in front of a Meghan Markle
portrait, and Outstanding Contribution
winner Pink ended the evening in
fiery excitement. We had a blast!
2020: What does the 2020 chapter
hold for The BRIT Awards? A note to
our performers, if you want to mark
these moments forever – it’ll have
to go really badly, or incredibly well!
After all, anything can happen. Who
will provide tonight’s most exciting
moments? Only time will tell!
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BIG DIFFERENCE
BRITs WEEK RETURNS, INCLUDING
A VERY SPECIAL EVENT BY BASTILLE
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Main image: The 1975 Inset: AJ Tracey
Jordan Curtis Hughes
Fans of live music in London
have been in seventh heaven this
month, thanks to twelve generous
music acts, and BRITs Week.
Catfish and The Bottlemen kicked
things off with a rip-roaring show held
at West London’s newest venue, the
2000 capacity Exhibition London.
Gigs by Yungblud, Louis Tomlinson
and Tom Walker proved just how
eclectic the line-up is at this, the
sixth annual fundraiser held in
aid of the charity War Child.
And Jack Savoretti, Declan McKenna,
Sigrid, Bombay Bicycle Club and
Gang of Youths were also among
those who gave the time and
talent to support the cause.
There’s even a trio of events still to
go, while we all recover from tonight’s
celebrations. You can see Tom
Grennan and Nothing But Thieves
doing their thing before Bastille
deliver a must-see show, the exciting
Bastille Reorchestrated, at the London
Palladium on Saturday February 22.
Tickets for the Bastille and Catfish
& The Bottlemen shows sold out
within minutes after going on sale
via britsweekwarchild.co.uk
Although most events offered a strictly
limited number of tickets to buy, only
a lucky (and incredibly quick off the
mark) few secured them this way. The
majority were distributed via a highly
successful raffle. Each donation of £5
secured one raffle entry, the fairest
way to distribute tickets for these
over-subscribed, must-see shows.
The small capacity venues add
to the exclusivity and unique
atmosphere of the events.
Visit amazon music, the
official BRITs Week partner, for
exclusive content and more.
BRITs Week is run in association
with The BRITs and The O2, in
support the charity War Child.
And BRITs Week shows, along with
the successful BRITs All Back To Mine
strand they replaced, have raised
a massive £4.5m since 2009.
War Child works to improve the lives
of children living in the world’s many
conflict zones. Currently the charity
has NGOs on the ground in Syria,
Iraq, Afghanistan, Central African
Republic, Burundi, the Democratic
Republic of Congo, South Sudan and
Yemen. The also operate in refugee
camps in Palestine and Jordan.
The charity was founded in 1993 by
documentary makers David Wilson
and Nick Leeson who were prompted
to act when they witnessed firsthand
the devastation wreaked upon
children in the Balkan conflict.
As well delivering aid in situ, the charity
advocates for child-centred UK policy
such as prioritising children’s human
rights above “national economic and
security interests…post Brexit” and
lobbying for the humanitarian return of
the displaced children of IS personnel.
The work of War Child continues
as more kids are sadly caught
up in conflict every year.
FEBRUARY 2020
SATURDAY 8
CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN
EXHIBITION LONDON
MONDAY 10
YUNGBLUD
CAMDEN ASSEMBLY
TUESDAY 11
JACK SAVORETTI
OMEARA
WEDNESDAY 12
DECLAN MCKENNA
ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL
THURSDAY 13
LOUIS TOMLINSON
SCALA
FRIDAY 14
TOM WALKER
OMEARA
SUNDAY 16
SIGRID
OMEARA
SUNDAY 16
BOMBAY
BICYCLE CLUB
BUSH HALL
MONDAY 17
GANG OF YOUTHS
OMEARA
WEDNESDAY 19
TOM GRENNAN
BUSH HALL
FRIDAY 21
NOTHING BUT
THIEVES
THE DOME
SATURDAY 22
BASTILLE REORCHESTRATED
LONDON PALLADIUM
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TIMES…
… AT THE BRIT SCHOOL
Libby Cooper
Staff and students at the BRIT School
are rarely fazed by a famous face.
But they certainly were last autumn
when a certain big star stopped by
its Selhurst campus. In September,
Nile Rodgers came to unveil a
music wing named in his honour.
A couple of months later, YouTube
Music unveiled a state of the art
Film and TV studio facility for the
school to train the next generation
of film makers and original artists.
The Nile Rodgers Music Suite and
YouTube Music Studios sit alongside
another high-profile facility, dedicated to
Beatles producer Sir George Martin. Says
Rodgers: “When I look at it like that then I
feel pretty humbled and overwhelmed - I
never got into this business expecting
my name to be anywhere… except on
the back of an album in very small print!”
The legendary music producer, who has
sold more than 500 million albums and
75 million singles worldwide, has forged
a fruitful relationship with BRIT. Alongside
manager Merck Mercuriadis, he has
added £250,000 to its coffers, mostly
through 2019’s ‘BRIT Awards Viewing
Party’. It was a fabulous fundraiser reprised
tonight as the 2nd Annual Nile Rodgers
BRIT Awards Viewing Party at The Ned.
Nile was excited to see the project
come to fruition, revealing, “It’s a great
honour… I’m very proud of what Merck
and I have accomplished thus far”.
The New Yorker’s own childhood
was marred by struggle, so key to
his involvement is the BRIT School’s
determination to deliver gold-standard
arts education for 14-19 year-olds; it’s a
successful, unique and free-to-access
model which welcomes 700 students
each year through an applications process
that is always - always! - open to all.
You probably know the BRIT story by
now. Founded in 1991 as a unique joint
project between the BRIT Trust (the
fundraising arm of the BPI) and the
Department of Education, it was based
on New York’s High School of Performing
Arts. Almost 30 years later, BRIT has
grown to be an ambitious state school;
built on dreams and achieving them all.
Just look at BRIT alumni, who continue
to succeed in every sector. Recently,
we’ve seen Paralympian Will Bayley
MBE swapping table tennis for Strictly;
and Milly Zero and Clay Milner Russell
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moving into Albert Square as Eastenders’
Dotty Cotton and Bobby Beale. Freya
Ridings, black midi, Jade Bird and Rex
Orange County are admired by music
critics while, through Britain’s Got Talent,
Khronos Girls and Twist and Pulse
made themselves household names.
The list goes on – alumni including Jessie
J, Amy Winehouse, Katie Melua, Loyle
Carner, Ella Eyre, Raye, FKA Twigs and
Adele have sold more than 175 million
albums between them. Never forget
the creative industries as a whole are
among Britain’s biggest exports, worth
over £100 billion to the UK economy and
forecast to expand a further 50% by 2023.
In acting, Tom Holland, Cush Jumbo,
Ashley Thomas and Archie Madekwe
have become screen stars; meanwhile
Cleve September, Tarinn Callender, Shan
Ako and Dan Gillespie Sells lead an
ever expanding team of #AlwaysBRIT
talent bringing theatre alive on the
stage in London’s West End.
And it doesn’t stop there. The ambitious
attitude nurtured by BRIT has seen
graduates rise to the top in every
creative sphere including dance, where
the magnificent Alleyne Dance twins
excel, and production - Percelle Ascott
and Jovian Wade are rising stars in that
sphere. Gemma Cairney continues on
BBC Radio while Kiera-Nicole Brennan
is now the youngest presenter ever
on Channel 5’s Milkshake. Behind the
scenes, promoters, photographers,
press officers, theatre managers, games
designers, arts administrators, graphic
designers – you name it – have been
educated at BRIT, where, alongside topnotch
GCSE and A Level tuition, each
student will specialise in one of nine key
practical strands: Community Arts Practice,
Dance, Film and Media Production,
Interactive Digital Design, Music and Music
Tech, Musical Theatre, Theatre, Production
Arts, and Visual Arts and Design.
To many, the entertainment industry can
seem like a world just out of reach of the
‘everyday’ person. That’s where BRIT has
broken down barriers in an incomparable
manner. Now, invaluable relationships
exist between education and industry,
via a raft of internships, apprenticeships,
#BRITTalks masterclasses and mentoring
programmes. Simon Cowell’s SYCO,
ITV, and PRG offer student placements,
while Accenture, The Utley Foundation,
Sir Cameron Mackintosh and the
BRIT Trust ‘Obie’ scheme provide
financial bursaries to sustain ambitions
as students pursue their goals.
Meanwhile Andrew Lloyd Webber
and his Foundation continues to
nurture the wonderful Bridge Theatre
Company, bringing talented theatre
graduates into the world of work for a
year-long rep role (critics are always
first in line for show tickets, knowing
these guys are truly ones to watch)!
Alongside the nuts and bolts of their
craft, BRIT students learn a key life skill
for any creative – that of resilience. Nile
Rodgers explains, “If you’re pursuing
your career in the music industry, if
you are dedicated, you will probably
get tons of things wrong… but at some
point, the planets will start to align”.
The hard work will pay off. The
skill base will be set. The audition
pieces are polished. And to innovate
becomes second nature. That’s when
self-belief begins to take hold.
There’s no better place to lay creative
foundations. That’s why The BRIT
School is where Get Happy begins.
See brit.org for further info.
Richard Griffiths and Harry Magee
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THE BRIT TRUST HELPS A DIVERSE
MIX OF CHARITIES & ORGANISATIONS,
SUPPORTING YOUNG PEOPLE IN THEIR
EDUCATION AND EMPOWERING LIVES
THROUGH MUSIC.
The BRIT Awards, in all of its
shimmer and shining glory, may look
like a glamorous event. And it is!
But underneath its glittery showbiz
veneer, this shindig also has a
different and more powerful story.
to the hardworking BRIT Trust to be
distributed to a range of great causes.
As the charitable arm of the BPI (the
music industry’s governing body), the
BRIT Trust, since its 1989 creation, has
donated over £25 million pounds to date
– and that figure increases year-on-year.
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The BRIT Trust is a registered
charity (Charity No. 1000413)
The BRIT Awards is a fundraising
event, the biggest night of The
BRIT Trust’s jam-packed year.
Donations made by The BRITs and
its sister celebrations, The Classic
BRITs and The MITS Award Dinner go
As well as supporting two longterm
beneficiaries Nordoff Robbins
and The BRIT School, the BRIT
Trust makes numerous one-off
and smaller community grants.
Who has benefitted from BRITs
donations this year?
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The UK’s Armed Forces continue to
serve our country without fear or favour,
and our debt of gratitude is immense.
As a token of our respect, The BRITs
donates 200 tickets per annum to
Tickets For Troops, who distribute
them to current servicemen or veteran
personnel injured in conflict since 2001.
The BRITs also gladly donates tickets to
reputable charities.
MENTAL HEALTH CHARITIES
The BRIT Trust continues to grow
its commitment to the mental health
of our nation. The BRIT School now
benefits from the rollout of a robust
programme centred on student wellbeing
and pastoral care. The BRIT
Trust also supports multiple other
mental health initiatives, including
charity projects run by Music Support
and Music for Mental Health.
Geoff Taylor, Chief Executive BPI
& BRIT Awards, said: “The work of
The BRITs and The BRIT Trust to
promote education and wellbeing
through music has never been
more important. We need to help
address the treatable causes of poor
mental health rather than deal with
their damaging consequences.”
brittrust.co.uk
NORDOFF ROBBINS
Nordoff Robbins is the world’s foremost
music therapy provider. The charity,
founded fifty years ago, works handin-hand
with educators and the NHS
but receives no government funding;
instead it relies on public donations to
continue in its mission – to transform
the lives of vulnerable children and
adults through the power of music.
Music therapy provides immeasurable
support for people with complex
communication issues, which often
stem from autism, dementia, brain
injury, stroke, plus mental health
issues including depression. The
charity helps more than ten thousand
UK residents annually, in outreach
or at fifteen partner centres, as well
as leading research and education
to improve provision worldwide.
Nordoff Robbins’ excellence leads the
world: training future practitioners with
a two year Master of Music Therapy
(Nordoff Robbins): Music Health, Society
course, plus other shorter courses.
In addition, the Nordoff Robbins
Graduate/Partnership Development
Scheme supports newly qualified
music therapists in their careers.
nordoff-robbins.org.uk
BRIT SCHOOL
The BRIT School is a unique state
school providing a free and unparalleled
arts-focused education for 14-19 yearolds.
Situated in Selhurst, Croydon,
it combines an excellent academic
record with wonderful vocational
training across nine different strands
including Interactive Digital Design,
Community Arts Practice, Musical
Theatre and Music & Music Technology.
BRIT students benefit from unique
entertainment industry partnerships
while enrolled, and very close to 100%
of BRIT graduates go on to training,
employment or higher education. In
work, they can be found at the highest
levels across the creative spheres. They
are employed by many companies
including Apple, BBC, Facebook,
ITV, Sky, Sony Music, and SYCO.
Since its 1991 inception, The BRIT
School has welcomed over 9,000
students. All benefit from its unique joint
funding model, which is split between
the BRIT Trust and the Department of
Education. The BRIT Trust has donated
£13.4m to The BRIT School to date.
brit.croydon.sch.uk
BRIT Trust grant recipients over the
yearsinclude the following organisations:
Access To Music, Arts & Kids/London, Sinfonietta,
Avenues Youth Project, Bigga Fish, Black Arts
Alliance, Blackheath Halls, Blantyre Music Project,
Glasgow, British Performing Arts, Medicine
Trust, Canford Summer School, Charterhouse in
Southwark, Chicken Shed, Community Music,
Commission for Racial Equality, Community Music
East, Dame Vera Lynn Trust, Drugscope, ELAM,
Global Rock Challenge, Heart’n’Soul, Heathfield
Community College, Irene Taylor Trust (Music in
Prisons), Key4Life, Lenton Community Association,
LIPA, Making Music, Mencap, Midi Music Company,
Music & Sound Experience, Wales, Music and the
Deaf, Musicians’ Benevolent Fund, Musicians In
Focus, Musicians Union, National Foundation for
Youth Music, National Music Day, Pimlico School,
Portishead Youth, Princes’ Trust, Raphael Walters,
Release, Rock School, Roundhouse Trust, Royal
Commonwealth Society, Save The Children, St
David’s Hall, Cardiff, St Luke’s School, Terrence
Higgins Trust, Tim Macbeth Two Moors Festival,
West Lothian College, Young Persons Concert
Foundation, Youth Music Theatre UK
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Customer:
Eurilait
Description:
Chilli Cheese Steaks sleeve
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BARBECUE CHEESE SAUSAGES
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BARBECUE CHEESE SAUSAGES
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4 BARBECUE CHEESE STEAKS
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4 BARBECUE CHEESE STEAKS
Use By:
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A DELICIOUS CHEESE FEAST – WHO NEEDS MEAT!
B BQ CHEESE STEAKS
B BQ CHEESE SAUSAGES
SUITABLE FOR
E G E
T A R
GRILL OR GRIDDLE
CHEESE
F O R A FABULOUSLY C H E E S Y H O T D O G A D D
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STEAKS
Cheese sausages containing Cheese semi-hard steaks cheese containing & chilli semi-hard cheese
COOKING COOKING GUIDELINES GUIDELINES
INGREDIENTS: Cheese INGREDIENTS: (Milk) (66%), Cheese (Milk)
Cream (Milk), Water, (71%), Chilli (1%), Water, Egg Cream (Milk), BBQ, GRILL BBQ, OR GRIDDLE GRILL OR GRIDDLE
White Powder, Salt, Modified Egg White Maize Powder, Starch, Butter
Place on a HOT BBQ, griddle pan or under
Stabilisers (Guar Gum, (Milk), Methylcellulose). Modified Maize Starch. Place on a HOT BBQ, griddle
a pre-heated grill TURNING OCCASIONALLY
Free from artificial flavours Free from and artificial flavours pan or under a pre-heated
preservatives. Suitable and for preservatives. vegetarians. Suitable until the cheese grill TURNING sausages OCCASIONALLY
are LIGHTLY
for vegetarians.
ALLERGENS IN BOLD
GOLDEN AND until PIPING the HOT. cheese steaks are
ALLERGENS IN BOLD
LIGHTLY GOLDEN and piping hot
NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION DO NOT REHEAT
Typical values per 100g: NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION NOT SUITABLE DO FOR NOT REHEAT
Typical values per 100g: MICROWAVE COOKING NOT SUITABLE FOR
Energy kJ/kcal 1337kJ/322kcal
MICROWAVE COOKING
Fat
Energy kJ/kcal 1242kJ/299kcal
26g
SLEEVE
of which saturatesFat
18g 23g
widely recycled
SLEEVE
Carbohydrates of which saturates 0.3g 15g
280g℮
widely recycled
TRAY
of which sugars Carbohydrates 0.3g 3.0g
check local recycling
TRAY
Protein
of which sugars21g
1.0g
check local recycling
Salt
Protein 2.0g 20gFILM
not currently recycled
Salt
1.8g
FILM
STORAGE: Keep refrigerated.
Produced in Austria. Packed not in currently the UK. recycled
Once opened use within 3 days.
Packaged in a protective atmosphere.
STORAGE: Keep refrigerated.
Do not exceed use by date.
Once opened use within 3 days.
Not suitable for home freezing.
UK
Do not exceed use by date. MZ 043 180g℮
USE BY: See side of
Not
pack.
suitable for home freezing.
Please contact ben@alfrescocheese.co.uk USE BY: See for info. side Eurilait of pack. Ltd., Leighton Lane Ind.Est., Evercreech, Somerset BA4 6LQ
Produced in Germany. Packed in the UK. Packaged in a protective atmosphere. Please contact ben@alfrescocheese.co.uk
for info. Eurilait Ltd., Leighton Lane Ind.Est., Evercreech, Somerset BA4 6LQ. www.alfrescocheese.co.uk
C H I L L I
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F R E E
C C H H I I L L L L I I
BARBECUE CHEESE SAUSAGES
4 BARBECUE CHEESE STEAKS
Use By:
CAD Ref:
Board Spec:
WIS-NPD-2415Z
A DELICIOUS CHEESE FEAST – WHO NEEDS MEAT!
Tambrite B BQ 220g/m² CHEESE 400µm STEAKS
Grain:
Overall (mm): 264.50 x 200.00
GRILL OR GRIDDLE
CHEESE
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Date: 16/11/18
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Cheese steaks containing semi-hard cheese,
COOKING GUIDELINES
WIS-NPD-2415Z
INGREDIENTS: SAUSAGES
spiced with chilli and paprika
Cheese (Milk) BBQ, GRILL OR GRIDDLE
(67%), Water, Cream (Milk),
Butter (Milk), Egg White Place on a HOT BBQ, griddle
Powder, Modified Maize Starch, pan or under a pre-heated
Salt, Chilli (0.2%), Paprika (0.2%).
grill TURNING OCCASIONALLY VERSION
Free from artificial flavours
and preservatives. Suitable until the cheese steaks 07 are
for vegetarians.
LIGHTLY GOLDEN and piping hot
DESIGN ALLERGENS LEAD IN BOLD
SI ELLIS
NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION DO NOT REHEAT
EJ JOB Typical REF values per 100g: NOT SUITABLE FOR
00704 MICROWAVE COOKING
Energy kJ/kcal 1242kJ/299kcal
PRODUCT
Fat Cheese 23g steaks plain
SLEEVE
of which saturates 15g
280g℮
widely recycled
CLIENTCarbohydrates
3.0g
TRAY
of which sugars EURILAIT 1.0g
check local recycling
Protein
20g
SPECIAL COLOURS FINISHES CMYK
Salt
1.8g
FILM
not currently recycled
C H I L L I
FA B U L O U S I N A B R E A D B U N W I T H M AYO ,
SALAD L E AVES AND ROASTED P E P P E R S .
YOU WILL L OVE T H E M !
C H I L L I
STORAGE: Keep refrigerated.
Once opened 6 use DELICIOUS within 3 days. CHEESE SAUSAGES
P871 Do not exceed P7716 use by date. MATT
CYAN MAGENTA
METALLIC
VARNISH
Not suitable THE for PERFECT home freezing. VEGETARIAN ALTERNATIVE TO A SAUSAGE
USE BY: See side of pack.
SUITABLE FOR
E G E
T A R
I A N S
Produced in Germany. Packed in the UK. Packaged in a protective atmosphere. Please contact ben@alfrescocheese.co.uk
for info. Eurilait Ltd., Leighton Lane Ind.Est., Evercreech, Somerset BA4 6LQ. www.alfrescocheese.co.uk
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OLLIE JACOB • NADIA JAE • KILO JALLOH • BETHAN JAMES • IAIN JAMES • NATALIE JAMIESON • SARAH JAMIESON • FRANCESCA ANNA JANNETTA • TRE JEAN‐MARIE •
LAUREN JEFFERYS • SARAH JEFFRAY • JOSH JENNINGS • KAREN JENNINGS • NATALIE JENNINGS • JIN JIN • SHABS JOBANPUTRA • BRYAN JOHNSON •
CALLUM JOHNSON • GEORGE JOHNSON • MELANIE JOHNSON • PETER JOHNSON • TAISHA JOHNSON • KATHLEEN JOHNSTON • ADRIAN JOLLY • DAVID JONES •
EMMA JONES • JULIA JONES • KATE JONES • MICHAEL JONES • P.A. JONES • PAUL JONES • SAMMY JONES • SIMON JONES • LUCY JORDACHE • ALAN JORDAN •
FAYE JORDAN • LAWRIE JORDAN • ANGELLE JOSEPH • DAVID JOSEPH • HANNAH JOSEPH • TARA JOSHI • KAROLINA JOYNATHSING • RAMI KADRI • AMMAR KALIA •
JOANNA KALLI • EMMA KAMEN • KAN D MAN • ANNA KARATZIVA • NEAL KARIA • NATTY KASAMBALA • ALEX KATTER • BOBBY KAUR • HARPZ KAUR • CORRINA KAVANAGH •
JESS KEELEY‐CARTER • EMMA KELLY • GRACE KELLY • EMILY KENT • JOE KENTISH • TED KESSLER • ROB KHAN • SEMERA KHAN • ALIM KHERAJ • MORAD KHOKAR •
ELEANOR KIFVEL • DARA KILKENNY • JULIA KILLER • LUCY KILNER • KANYA KING • KARLYN KING • OLIVER KING • SIMON KING • CRAIG KINNEAR • ELLA KIRBY •
CHRIS KOEGEN • OLIVIA KOLO • JAZMIN KOPOTSHA • JESSICA KORAVOS • SOPHIE KOSTROWSKI • LOUISE KOVACS • SABRINA KRISTIANSEN • DARREN KRUSE •
DAYALAN KULENDRAN • HEMAH KWAKYE • KWAME KWATEN • ISAAC KYEREMATEN • ANTONIA KYTE • LEE LABORDE • GRACE LADOJA • LAIA LAFUENTE •
JOHN LEAHY • JORDAN LEE • ORLA LEE‐FISHER • TOBY LEIGHTON‐POPE • ABI LELAND • MIRIAM LESSAR • NICKY LESSWARE • YASMIN LEUNG • NICK LEVINE •
BEN LEWIS • LEAH LEWIS • MEL LEWIS • ROB LEWIS • TOM LEWIS • GINTARE LILEIKYTE • ALMA LILIC • PETER LINNEY • DANIEL LISTER • STUART LITTLEWOOD •
SARAH LIVERSEDGE • HAYLEY LLOYD • DAVE LOADER • ANTHONY LOCKWOOD • RYAN LOFTHOUSE • REMEL LONDON • JANICE LONG • JEN LONG • PAULETTE LONG •
STEVE LONG • MAX LOUSADA • TIM LOVEJOY • EMMY LOVELL • CASS LOWE • JO LOWE • LOUIE JOHN LOWIS • MAX LUTKIN • MERVYN LYN • NATASHA LYNCH •
DORIAN LYNSKEY • WILL LYONS • FAYE LYONS WHITE • ANNIE MAC • KATE MACDONALD • PAUL MACK • TOBY MACKENZIE • SEAN MACKEY • MARK MACKIE •
AVRIL MACKINTOSH • TOM MACKLIN • SCOTT MACRAE • NATALIE MADDIX • LUCY MADGE • DAVE MAGEE • RIME MAHDI • LINDA MAITLAND • PAUL MALONE •
COLLEEN MALONEY • ANDY MALT • FRAN MALYAN • NATASHA MANN • HOLLY MANNERS • JAMES MANNING • JAMES MANNION • ROZ MANSFIELD • CHIMENE MANTORI •
AWARDS
TOM MARCH • JASON MARCUS • ANN MARIE SHIELDS • KATERINA MARKA • CATHERINE MARKS • JEREMY MARSH • HOLLY MARSHALL • JOHN MARSHALL •
JULIAN MARSHALL • KORDA MARSHALL • RICKY MARSHALL • ELIZABETH MART • STEPH MARZIANO • BEVERLEY MASON • LIZ MASON • SHEENA MASON • GUY MASSEY •
ANTHONY MATCHETT • VICKKI MATHURIN • CHRISTINA MATTEOTTI • SARAH MATTHEWS • TINA MATTHEWS • OLIVIA MATTHIAS • TAPONESWA MAVUNGA •
JIM MAWDSLEY • BEN MAWSON • SAM MAYERS • IAN MCANDREW • ABBIE MCCARTHY • STEVE MCCARTHY • NEIL MCCORMICK • ALLY MCCRAE • KATH MCDERMOTT •
PAUL MCDONALD • LYNNE MCDOWELL • HELENA MCGEOUGH • WILL MCGILLIVRAY • MARY MCGOVERN • DEBI MCGRATH • NESTA MCGREGOR • JAMES MCGUINNESS •
KIERAN MCGUINNESS • PETE MCINTOSH • SAMANTHA MCKENNA • FARON MCKENZIE • ALEC MCKINLAY • KAYLEIGH MCLAUGHLAN • CRAIG MCLEAN • PADDY MCLEAN •
JO MCNALLY • KIM MCNALLY‐LUKE • IAIN MCNAY • BEN MCOWEN WILSON • NOREEN MCSHANE • MICK MEADOWS • RADHA MEDAR • JOCELYN MEEK • KIRSTY MEHTA •
JACK MELHUISH • LIANA MELLOTTE • JENNY MENSAH • MERCK MERCURIADIS • ANNA‐SOPHIE MERTENS • JOSEPHIN MEYER • MICHAEL MICHEL • KAIYA MILAN •
TIM MILES • RACHEL MILLAR • GLENN MILLER • LAUREN MILLER • ED MILLETT • SCOTT MILLS • BETHANY MINELLE • ALEX MITCHAM • MARK MITCHELL • LAURA MOAT •
CHARLIE MOCK • DAVID MOGENDORFF • TSHEPO MOKOENA • JANELLE MONÁE • CARLY‐ANN MOND • PHIL MONGREDIEN • GUY MONK • LAURA MONKS •
SUSAN MONTGOMERY • LILY MOON • ANTHONY MOOREY • SIMON MORAN • BRUNO MORELLI • SARAH MORGAN • CARLENE MORLESE • KEVIN MOROSKY •
YASMIN LAJOIE • DREW LAM • NIKKI LAMBERT • SAFIYA LAMBIE‐KNIGHT • EBONI LAMINE • MARK LAMPO • SOPHIE LANE • EMMA LANSDOWN • REBECCA LAPORTA •
CHARLIE LARBY • JEREMY LASCELLES • LISA LAUDAT • ASHLEY LAUDER • KEN LAWLOR • ADAM LAWRENCE • JAY LAWRENCE • AMY LAWSON • GREG LAWTON •
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JO PARKERSON • REECE PARKINSON • STEVE PARKINSON • BENJAMIN PARMAR • DANIEL PARMAR • DIPESH PARMAR • NINA PARNABY • RUTH PARRISH •
HANNAH PARTINGTON • ROB PASCOE • JAY PATEL • COLIN PATERSON • JAMES PATERSON • NICK PATRICK • JOSEPH PATTERSON • STEFANIA PAVLOU • CHLOE PEARSON •
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ANDREW PERRY • DANIELLE PERRY • JASON PERRY • JONATHAN PERRY • JUSTIN PERRY • MAISIE PETERS • ROBYN PETERS • OLIVIA PIENAAR • ELIZABETH PIKE •
NAOMI PIKE • EMILY PILBEAM • HARRY PINERO • ABBIE PINK • STEVE PITRON • KATHRYN PLATT • DANIEL POKU • JEROME PORRITT • SIMON PORTER • DORIS PORTERFIELD •
ED POTTON • CHRIS PRICE • MALCOLM PRINCE • SARAH PROBERT • ELLIE PROHAN • COOKIE PRYCE • LUIS PULIDO • WILL PUXLEY • JOEL QUARTEY • MADDY RADCLIFF •
MARK RADCLIFFE • JAMES RADICE • ASHLEIGH M RAINBIRD • DAVE RAJAN • MARK RALPH • GUILLERMO RAMOS • SOREN RAMSING • NICK RAPHAEL • SIMON RAYMONDE •
ANTHEA XTRA RECORDINGS • KIRSTY REDFEARN • DAVY REED • THOMAS REEVE • GEMMA REILLY • NICK REILLY • RENE RENNER • DAVID RENSHAW •
DAMARIS REXTAYLOR • MISS REYNOLDS • JACQUELINE RICE • OLIVER RICE • PATRICE RICHARDS • ZEON RICHARDS • LEE‐ANNE RICHARDSON • TARA RICHARDSON •
CHARLIE RICKARD • JACOB RICKARD • JORDAN RILEY • SHARON RILEY • MICHAEL RIVALLAND • CALLUM ROBERTS • COLIN ROBERTS • DAN ROBERTS • PAUL ROBERTS •
SAM ROBERTS • MARC ROBINSON • MICHAEL ROBINSON • CATHERINE ROE • DR PAUL ROGERS • SAM ROMANS • KERRI‐ANN ROPER • JB ROSE • NINA ROSENBERGER •
OLLIE ROSENBLATT • AARON ROSS • CHARLOTTE ROSS • KATE ROTHSCHILD • MEL ROUND • DAVID ROWE • STEPHEN ROWE • TIANN ROWLAND‐DIXON •
HENRIETTA ROWLATT • DAVID ROWNTREE • JENNIFER RUBY • LIAM RUDDEN • MATTHEW RUMBOLD • SCARLETT RUSSELL • MATT RYAN • RIC SALMON • MARTA SALOGNI •
EBI SAMPSON • DARI SAMUELS • PAUL SAMUELS • GEMMA SAMWAYS • WHITNEY SANCHEZ • DANIELLE SANDERS • JAMES SANDOM • RAG SATGURU •
AMELIA SAUNDERS • LOUISE SAUNDERS • MARK SAVAGE • MICHAELA SAVAGE • PHILIP SAVILL • NITIN SAWHNEY • CHRIS SAWYER • NEIL SAXBY • PAUL SCAIFE •
CARLO SCARAMPI • DUNCAN SCOTT • JAMIE SCOTT • JUSSY SCOTT • PHOEBE SCOTT • SANDRA SCOTT • KOMALI SCOTT ‐JONES • ANNABELLE SCOTT CURRY •
SAM SEAGER • DUNCAN SEAMAN • ADRIAN SEAR • HELEN SEARLE • DJ SEMTEX • SARA SESARDIC • SAMANTHA SEWELL • TALIA SHABATAI • YARA SHAIKH •
VOTING
ZAYNA SHAIKH • SHAHESTA SHAITLY • PROFESSOR JONATHAN SHALIT • AUTUMN SHARKEY • NIK SHARMA • KIRSTEN SHARP • DAVID SHARPE • HILLARY SHAW •
CHARLIE SHAWCROSS • HANNAH SHEEDY • PAUL SHEEHAN • SALEEM SHEIKH • JO SHEINMAN • LISA SHENTON • ARRAN SHEPHERD • KATE SHEPHERD •
JAZMIN SHERMAN • ADAM SHERWIN • ANDY SHIER • HIROKI SHIRASUKA • SNOOCHIE SHY • IAN SILLETT • CRAIG SILVEY • CAROLINE SIMIONESCU‐MARIN •
SEBASTIAN SIMONE • ARLEY SIMPKINS • DAVE SIMPSON • GEORGE SIMPSON • LAUREN SIMPSON • REBECCA SIMUYEMBA • DAVID SINCLAIR • PHOEBE SINCLAIR •
CLAIRE SINGERS • ASHLEY SINGH • SAM SINGH • SUNIL SINGHVI • BEN SKERRITT • KATHERINE SKINGSLEY • HAYLEY SKUES • DAN SLATTER • CLAIRE SLEVIN •
JENNIFER SMALL • DAN SMEE • PAUL SMERNICKI • AL SMITH • CARL SMITH • CAROLE SMITH • CHRISTIAN SMITH • DAN SMITH • ED SMITH • JASON SMITH • JEFF SMITH •
JENNIFER SMITH • JO SMITH • MIKE SMITH • PATRICK SMITH • PAUL SMITH • PHIL SMITH • CHARLOTTE SMITH‐OATES • DAVID SMYTH • JOHANNA SODERBERG •
Cromwell Road
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STE Cambridgeshire SOFTLEY • KATE SOLOMON • KOSI SOMPETA • JESSICA SPAINE • WILL SPEER • MIKE SPENCER • SAM SPENCER • JAMIE SPINKS • HANA STADDON • LISBEE STAINTON •
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CRAIG STANLEY • CAMERON STANTON • EMA STAPLETON • GARY STEIN • ELLIE STEPHENS • HOLLY STEVENS • WILLIAM STEVENS • FIONA STEWART • JAMES STIRLING •
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LEAH STOCKFORD • NATHAN STONE • LEA STONHILL • SOPHIE STOTT • CRAIG STRACHAN • KATIE STRACHAN • CHRIS STRAW • GEORGIA STRAWSON • JACK STREET •
Cheese Sausages Sleeve
MARK STRIPPEL • WILL STROUDE • DARREN STRUWIG • CLAIRE STURGESS • JADE STYLE • JAYNE STYNES • CLAIRE SUGRUE • CAROLINE SULLIVAN • KEMI SULOLA •
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MIKE SUMPTER • DANTON SUPPLE • MARK SUTHERLAND • JOEY SWARBRICK • VICKI SWEENEY • ADRIAN SYKES • PAUL SYLVESTER • LINZI SYMONS • ASHLEY TABOR‐KING •
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PHILIP TAGGART • DEVLIN TAGOE • JASMINE TAKHAR • MARTIN TALBOT • JIMMY TAM • CHRIS TAMS • STACEY TANG • ALI TANT • MAZIN TAPPUNI • DJ TARGET •
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Julie’s Bicycle is proud to be working once again with
The BRIT Awards 2020 with Mastercard.
We are the charity at work behind the scenes to make
your music industry greener.
Congratulations to all of tonight’s nominees and winners.
Powering creative climate action since 2007
juliesbicycle.com @juliesbicycle juliesbicycle info@juliesbicycle.com

SPA
QUALITY
There’s a
secret oasis
backstage
at The BRITs
Even the biggest stars in the world need
a little extra sparkle from time to time.
And when an audience of
millions is waiting, you really
need to look your best.
Hidden away backstage at the O2
is the BRITs Artist Lounge and Spa,
where VIPs can relax before their
big performance. It’s also the place
to trust for a last minute beauty fix.
The BRITs top-tier team are ready and
waiting to help VIPs with all kinds of
make-up emergencies. Experts are on
hand to help with manicures, hair styling,
plucking, tanning and facials as well.
There’s something for everyone
from a whole new look, to a dab of
concealer. And there are tips and tricks
aplenty for VIPs to learn from grooming
professionals at the top of their game.
The BRIT Awards would like to thank all
of our wonderful Spa partners for their
hard work, expertise and generosity.
You guys really help our stars to shine!
Intro: Helen Lamont
Product Info: Jo Tutchener-Sharp
LAB Series is delighted to be the
Official BRITs backstage Men’s
Skincare Partner at this year’s
Awards. We will be offering a range
of grooming treatments from quick,
refreshing facials to pre-show
beard tidy ups. Professional
consultants will be on hand to
offer some expert advice and
will be showcasing some of our
best-selling products, including
the Age Rescue Face Lotion.
A global leader and authority in
men’s skincare, Lab Series is solely
dedicated to men and their skin’s
unique needs. Since 1987, the
elite team of doctors, scientists
and skincare specialists of the
LAB Series Research Centre has
developed high-performance,
technologically advanced skincare,
hair and shaving essentials
to keep men looking healthy,
comfortable and well-groomed.
At The BRIT Awards 2020,
Red Carpet Manicure will be
back stage offering gel manicures
in hot-off-the-Paris-Fashion-
Week-Runway shades.
Red Carpet Manicure is an
at-home gel polish brand, which
launched the world’s first at-home
gel manicure starter kit. Starting
in the USA, the brand went
global and has been seen on
celebrities such as Idina Menzel
and Rhianna, Adele, Pixie Lott,
Jessie J, Selena Gomez, P!nk and
Margot Robbie. Each Manicure
is powered by professional
technology and has a simple three
step easy-to-follow system, with
all our shades being Vegan.
We are thrilled to be backstage
as the Official BRITs Backstage
Nail Partner at this year’s Awards.
We’ll be offering gel manicure
treatments, with get-the-looks,
showcasing our best-selling
and newest shades!
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IT’S SO EASY
BEING GREEN
MEDIA PARTNERS
BRITs SPA
CHARITIES & INITIATIVES
The BRIT Awards puts environmental
sustainability at the front and centre of
its entire programme. Each aspect of
production has been reviewed, striving
to be as green as it can be. Many
thanks to sustainability partner Julie’s
Bicycle, which offers expertise and
education as well as an unwavering
ambition to become carbon-free.
While The BRITs still shimmers and
sparkles (of course!), things have
changed behind the scenes. Armchair
viewers may think of the show as the
120 minutes on our screens. But visitors
to The O2 can see this is much bigger,
many-tentacled, operation.
All of the food for 3,800 diners,
alongside all the drinks, the merch stall,
the stage sets, production teams and
media operations all need to be green.
Diners tonight tucked into a feast without
realising the effort that’s gone into their
meal. The food is overwhelmingly British;
ethically produced and locally sourced
fare. For the first time, 25% of meals
served were vegan. The main menu has
a carbon footprint of 2.417kg of CO2e
per meal with the cream in the dessert
having the biggest impact. The vegan
menu has a carbon footprint of 1.663kg
of CO2e per meal with the puff pastry
in the main course and the sugar in the
dessert having the biggest impact.
All food waste is carefully collected and
sent to make green gas, we have no
single use plastic and even the wine
corks are sent for reuse by charities
working in craft projects. This menu is
printed on recycled paper and will be
recycled again at the end of the night!
Production offices backstage and all food
concession outlets are single-use plastic
free. That means no straws, sachets or
cutlery. Supplies arrive in reduced-plastic
or compostable packaging. And easy-tocarry
Stack Cups are back for 2020, now
in every location! For a £1 charge, these
refillable cups can be used all night then
exchanged for a souvenir version at the
end of the evening.
The BRITs stage sets are made, where
possible, from sustainable materials
such as recycled metal or FSC timber.
Many are stored while others are sent
to the BRIT school for repurposing.
Even the arena event signage ends up
as traffic barriers and road cones - some
could even become tourist yurts in Greece.
The BRITs event partner, the O2 Arena,
has its own wide-ranging sustainability
programme called AEG 1EARTH which
maximizes energy efficiency and
reduces whole-venue waste. Its remit
includes the Intercontinental Hotel (the
Diamond Dining location).
The O2 began current sustainability
programmes in 2010. The venue has
reduced CO2 emissions by 4% annually
and water use by 4.4% annually.
Crucially, it has exceeded these targets
in each of the last ten years. Tucked
away behind the scenes you’ll find an
onsite wormery and eco-digester, which
helps to the venue to commit just 1%
of waste to landfill. Even lost property
found at The O2 is recycled, so if you
don’t claim that left-behind item, it will
be sent charity partners for re-use.
WHAT IS JULIE’S BICYCLE?
Launched twelve years ago, Julie’s
bicycle is a London-based charity that
works within the creative industries to
hasten action on climate change and
environmental sustainability.
It quickly broadened its focus
from music industry clients to the
wider creative sphere and now
works alongside a diverse range of
partners including local government
organisations to ensure sustainability is
at the heart of plans for the future.
Julie’s Bicycle also seeks to raise
awareness of climate and sustainability
issues by mentoring organisations
and individuals to make the necessary
changes. The charity empowers artists
and tastemakers to speak confidently
to influence others, ensuring
environment issues remain at the
forefront of every conversation.
For info, see juliesbicycle.com
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THE BRIT AWARDS
COMMITTEE 2020
Committee Chairman David Joseph (Universal),
Committee Charlene Grant (BMG),
Phil Christie (Warner), Nicola Tuer (Sony),
Ted Cockle (Universal), Geoff Taylor (BPI/BRITs),
Maggie Crowe OBE (BRITs), Sally Wood (BRITs TV),
Stuart Bell, Richard Dawes, Kate Etteridge (DawBell PR),
Ged Doherty (BPI/BRITs)
Digital Committee Chairmen Tony Barnes (Universal),
Giuseppe De Cristofano (BRITs)
For The BPI, OCC & Voting Academy
Kiaron Whitehead, Chris Austin,
Chris Walker, MJ Olaore
EVENT AND SHOW
BAL Event Director Maggie Crowe OBE
Event Manager Adrian Carter
Director of Digital Giuseppe De Cristofano
Business Development and Partnerships Manager
Lucy Bannatyne
Accreditation and Transport Co-ordinator
Dina Van der Elst
Ticketing Rachel Bentley
Event Assistant Hannah Denchfield
Event Co-ordinators Ashley Read, Ollie Paxton
Finance Dominic Thomas
Legal Christy Whelan, Verity Hunter
Technical Support Alan Brindley
BRITs Digital Somethin’ Else
Media Relations DawBell PR
National TV & Radio Promotion
LD Communications
International TV Sales ITV Global
Catering Payne & Gunter/Levys Restaurants,
Bethan James, Lucy Fulford
Design & Photography JM Enternational
Venue Danielle Kennedy-Clark,
James Clarke, Rachel Hardman, Octavia Harwood
Mastercard Kirsty Redfern, Alanna Blake,
Andy Wise
Television Show Produced by BRITs TV
ITV Katie Rawcliffe, Lily Wilson
BRITs TV
Executive Producer Sally Wood
Director Hamish Hamilton
Production Manager Rebecca Hutchinson
Band Production Maggie Mouzakitis
VT Producer Camilla Cheales
Music Producer Caroline Cullen
Award Presenter Producer Louise Clay
Production Co-ordinator Katherine Skingsley
Camera Supervisor Rob Sargent
Programme Sound Toby Alington
OB Facilities CTV
ITV2 RED CARPET SHOW
Producer Dan Rooke
Director Tony Grech-Smith
Production Manager Natalie Truelove
Assistant Producer Rachel Helsby
Production Co-ordinator Zoe Nicholson
BRITs 40 TH DOCUMENTARY
Producer/ Director John Williams
Assistant Producer Nicky Lessware
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STAGE PRODUCTION
BRIT Awards Productions
Kate Wright, Tony Wheeler,
Lisa Shenton, Malcolm Birkett,
Julie Chennells, Yvonne Ryan,
Amanda Crane, Chris Caddy,
Nancy Skipper, Lily Graham,
Freya Newland, Ciara White
Stage Management Mike Grove
Production Design Misty Buckley
Art Director Matt Rees
Lighting Designer Al Gurdon
Lighting Crew Boss Richard Gorrod
Lighting Company PRG Europe
Rigging Outback Rigging
Sound Designer Colin Pink
PA Supplier Britannia Row Productions
Crew Catering
The Bleeding Hearts Catering Company
Staging StageCo
Set Steel Monkey
Screens Ogle Hog
Local Crew Showstars
Site Crew Bizmonkeys
Stage Crew Stage Miracles
Dressing Room/Press Monitors
Soundbite Productions
Furniture & Backstage Lovely Things
Draping Blackout Limited
Health & Safety J-EMSS Limited
Backstage Security Show & Event
Security
Power Templine
Cabins Qdos Event Hire
Structures Neptunus
BRITS VIP CLUB
Production BRIT Awards Productions
Production Manager Chuck Crampton
Event Production Keeley Wills, Kaz Hill,
Paul Bissoni, Jason Burridge
Designer Bruce French
Art Director Mick Pirie
Lighting Designer Stuart Pring
SHOW PROGRAMME
Editorial Helen Lamont (Editor),
John Marshall (Art Editor),
Will Amery (Design & Production)
Jan Burdge (Proofreading)
Advertising Leppard & Rivers Associates
Judith Rivers, Kathy Leppard
Advertising Marshall Harrison
Stephen Laffey, James Rolph,
Zina Crosse
Publisher JM Enternational
Printer Fingerprint
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permitted to record or film any part of The
BRIT Awards 2020 event without a specific
licence from BRIT Awards Limited.
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