The BRIT Awards 2013 with Mastercard - Show Programme

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WELCOME TO
THE BRIT
AWARDS 2013
By any benchmark, 2012 was an exceptional year – and it
was no great surprise that music played such a central role in
the biggest celebrations this country has ever seen.
Whether it was Underworld’s extraordinary score for the Olympic Opening
Ceremony, Coldplay’s stunning performance to close the Paralympics or Elbow’s
One Day Like This sounding more meaningful than ever, so many memories of
last summer came with an unforgettable soundtrack.
I hope tonight’s BRITs will provide some more special moments as we look to
celebrate a great year for British music.
A look at the nominations confirms another hugely competitive BRIT Awards.
Perhaps more than any other category, the contenders for British Single reflect
the huge breadth and vibrancy of British music last year, featuring many artists
receiving their first BRIT nomination.
In contrast, The Rolling Stones – who were nominated for the very first
BRIT Awards back in 1977 – are back in the nominations after 17 years,
vying with some strong competition for British Live Act.
And who could call the winner of the prestigious Mastercard British Album of
the Year, with the incredible albums from Alt-J, Emeli Sandé, Mumford & Sons,
Paloma Faith and Plan B all in the line-up.
Internationally, music again proved itself a significant cultural and economic export
in 2012, a fact reflected in the introduction of the BRITs Global Success Award.
Congratulations, and good luck, to all the nominees.
This year sees the introduction of another new award, the Special Recognition
Award which is being presented to War Child. For two decades now, War Child
has worked with artists to raise funds and awareness to help children whose
lives have been torn apart by war. The BRITs are very proud to give recognition
for their vital work as well as saying thank you to all the artists who have given
their time, help and energy to something so important.
All of tonight’s winners will again receive a bespoke award. It was never going to be
easy following Dame Vivienne Westwood and Sir Peter Blake, so we are absolutely
delighted that Damien Hirst agreed to put his unique stamp on the Britannia trophy.
Of course there would be no winners without the 1,000-strong BRITs
voting academy and I would like to thank the artists, music critics,
students, radio and TV executives, DJs, managers, lawyers, record labels
and many others from across the industry for their input.
I also thank MasterCard for their record-breaking 15 years of support,
ITV for continuing to make The BRITs such a highlight of their
primetime schedule, my colleagues on the BRITs organising committee
and the great team which puts the show together, led by Event
Director Maggie Crowe and Executive TV Producer Suzi Aplin.
After the memorable performances of the past two years, live music will again
be at the heart of this year’s BRITs. Enjoy the show and remember that you are
helping us support our charity the BRIT Trust which funds The BRIT School – now
into its 22nd year of extraordinary success – Nordoff Robbins, and a host of other
worthwhile causes, War Child and Tickets for Troops among them.
Have a great night.
David Joseph
BRIT Awards Chairman
Adele, performing at The BRIT Awards 2012
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CONTENTS
07 A message from MasterCard
08 Welcome to the party
09 Damien Hirst
11 James Corden, exclusive host interview
12 The BRITs Nominations Launch
14 Who’s up for what? Nominations revealed
TONIGHT’S PERFORMERS &
MASTERCARD BRITISH ALBUM NOMINEES
17 Robbie Williams
20 One Direction
23 Plan B (Ben Drew)
24 Emeli Sandé
27 Muse
28 Ben Howard
30 Mumford & Sons
32 Alt-J
36 Justin Timberlake
37 Paloma Faith
THE 2013 NOMINEES
39 British Male
41 British Female
42 British Group
43 British Breakthrough Act
45 British Live Act
47 BRITs Global Success Award
48 British Single
51 International Male
53 International Female
55 International Group
57 War Child at 20!
60 Exclusive! Read all about
Critics’ Choice winner Tom Odell
63 British Producer
67 What is the BRIT Trust?
71 The BRIT School
73 The BRIT Awards Voting Academy
74 Thanks for everything
05

Music lives on ITV
Good luck to all nominees
Top to bottom
Rita Ora, Delilah and Emeli Sandé
at The BRIT Awards Launch 2013.
photo jmenternational
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07

Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to The BRIT Awards
2013 with MasterCard.
We know tonight’s amazing
show will knock your socks off,
so prepare to celebrate the best
that Britain has to offer, right
here on the BRITs stage.
We extend a special welcome to you if you are dining with
us in the arena this evening, in Diamond Dining or in the
Sapphire Suites. You’ll find an information card placed on
your table; containing all you need to know about your dining
arrangements. Please note service may differ between locations.
The menu for tonight’s three-course meal is British and
seasonal. As you sit down at your table, which is elegantly
dressed in a colour scheme of black and white, be assured
that behind the scenes a team of sixty chefs have toiled
to bring you an array of fabulous flavours. Six hundred
waiting staff are on hand to cater for your every need.
Your main course this evening is a melt-in-your-mouth seared
fillet of beef, accompanied by beef shin braised for a full 24
hours for your hotpot. Over a ton of beef has been ordered to
ensure you’ll have plenty to eat! A delicate trio of wild British
mushrooms flavour the terrines, tarts and salads of your starters,
while blackberries and apples accompany luxurious baked
macaroons. Try a shiver of sorbet to finish your feast off in style.
Your pre-ordered drinks have been pre-selected, and set aside for
your table. Over 150,000 glasses and 5000kg of ice are on hand to
ensure you can have your tipple served to suit, however you like it!
In Diamond Dining, drinks for the meal are already laid out on
your table while your show-time order will arrive when you’re
ready to carry on celebrations in the arena. The special carry-bag
provided ensures there will be no juggling trays! Meanwhile, in
the suites, the in-room bar is already stocked with your order,
and an ice box sits on the table. Many thanks to BRIT partner Life
Water, who provided our ‘Refreshingly British’ bottles of water.
Relax and enjoy tonight’s event, and treat yourself to the
best of British. Just feast yourself on The BRIT Awards menu
– and then treat your senses with The BRITs show 2013.
Building on the success of 2012, The
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THE OFFICIAL BRIT AWARDS AFTERSHOW PARTY
Here’s all you need to know about our famous bash!
When the curtain comes down on tonight’s big event, head
over to The BRIT Awards legendary aftershow hoedown. It’s
enough to make your eyes go pop! It takes just two hours
to transform the Diamond Dining area into a pop art, popup
party venue. Be sure to stop by, whatever you do!
Inside, our exclusive party space is a place where style king
Damien Hirst would fit in. BRITs designer Bruce French has created
a huge, one-of-its-kind dance floor around Hirst’s famous ‘dots’
design theme, and with DJs Johnny Russell and Alex Newland on
the decks, it will be the place to be seen. A performance theatre,
nearby, will impress with all sorts of unexpected musical feats.
The Recovery Room – a white-tented structure – is a relaxation clinic
that’s good for the soul. We prescribe treats aplenty! Start with tasty
blister packs of Jelly Belly beans or head for the oxygen bar if you’re
a little light-headed. When drastic action is needed ask the on-hand
surgeons to operate. Their cake, styled in the shape of Hirst’s famous
motif, is a sparkling skull – they must be neurosurgeons, it seems!
Elsewhere we look to alternative remedies. Perhaps mystics,
including our crystal ball fortune teller and tarot reader can
gauge your future’s health. Knock friends for six at the four-lane
bowling alley that’s been erected. And of course The BRITs’ famous
dodgems return to get you and your mates in an all-out spin!
If what we prescribe can’t put hairs on your chest, join The BRITs world
record attempt to squeeze as many hirsute people into the same space.
Stick on a moustache specially styled for your delectation – then add
your photo to the wall, or put it on brits.co.uk, Instagram or Twitter!
Before we’re done there’s just one more thing to mention. The twisted
of mind will be tempted by The Freakshow. A fated few will be ushered
inside to see sights that would make your eyes water. Whatever you do,
watch out for the Wolfboy. Take this as a warning: all is not as it seems…
THE BRIT AWARDS 2013
ARENA & DIAMOND DINING GUEST MENU
Trio of woodland mushrooms - morel terrine;
girolle tart with tarragon cream; and wild mushroom
a la grecque salad with cheese straw
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Seared fillet of English beef with slow cooked beef hot pot,
butter braised fondant potato, caramelised cauliflower
puree, horseradish dumpling and a rich red wine sauce
•
Blackberry and apple macaroon with apple and
blackberry salad and blackberry sorbet
•
Vegetarian main course
Roasted aubergine and feta croquette with pine nuts,
chilli, roasted tomato and avocado salsa
Photographed by Billie Scheepers
© Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2012
SpotteD!
Damien Hirst has designed
a stunning trophy to celebrate
The BRIT Awards 2013.
“ Art is a relay race, which goes
back to cavemen. I believe all art
starts its life as contemporary,
and every day that we wake
up the world is different from
the day it was before. Art is still
around to communicate to
people who haven’t been born
yet, about what the world is like.
That’s what great artists in the
past have done and that’s what
I want to try and do.”
“That’s what all artists try to do.”
Damien Hirst
Like no other artist of his generation, Damien Hirst
has permeated the cultural consciousness of our
times. His work is characterised by its directness
as well as its ambition; it is both deadpan and
affecting, and it provokes awe and outrage in equal
measure. He is an artist with a truly global reach.
His recent six month Tate Modern retrospective of 2012,
spanning more than two decades of his work, was the most
successful show they have hosted of a living artist to date,
drawing crowds averaging 3000 a day, it smashed their box
office records. This took place within the framework of the
London 2012 Festival, part of the city’s cultural Olympiad.
Hirst has crossed over into the music industry in his career,
directing the Blur Country House video of 1995 and more
recently U2’s Even Better than the Real Thing, which opened
their stage show at Glastonbury in 2011. His long-time
association and support of Strummerville, a charity set up
after the untimely death of his great friend Joe Strummer in
2002, provides funding and support to aspiring musicians.
The BRITs committee is delighted that Damien Hirst has accepted
the invitation to re-design the classic BRIT award for 2013. Inspired
by Hirst’s iconic spot paintings, the trophy is a bespoke collectors’
piece that any BRITs winner would be honoured to receive…
Additional words: Ann Gallagher
08
09

“ The BRITs Is a phenomenal
ThIng To Be paRT of.”
Congratulations to all
the winners and nominees
at The BRIT Awards 2013
Spare a thought for BRITs host James Corden. He’s backstage
right now, and he’s about as nervous as any man can be.
Certainly, the Gavin and Stacey star knows what’s in store for
him – and us – this evening. “I’ve done three BRITs now, and this
will be my fourth,” he tells us. “I just hope I do it justice.”
“Three hours before the show, I’ll try to get some sleep in.
Half an hour before, I begin to get nervous. Five minutes
before, it’s terrifying! And then once you’re on stage you
think, I’m on this train now… and I can’t get off it.
“But nerves are welcome, because you only get
nervous about things you care about…”
Spare a thought, too, for artists with
butterflies in their tummies; this is their
chance to deliver a performance
we’ll remember forever.
Adele’s 2011 performance
of Someone Like You
provided one such spine-tingling moment for James. “It had 20,000
people stopped and glued and listening to who I think is the best
female solo artist on the planet, singing a standard that people are
going to sing along to after we’ve gone,” he remembers. “And from
that moment on, it felt like The BRITs became a music show again.”
He says the line up for 2013 is exciting. “There are so many acts I am
looking forward to seeing. Muse will be amazing. Robbie Williams will be
brilliant. And Justin Timberlake? It will be great to see him back on stage.”
New for 2013, the introduction of the BRITs Global Contribution to
Music Award illustrates the changes afoot in the music business. Says
James, “Music is so much easier to transport now. Artists no longer
have to spend a year in America playing every fleapit dive to break
it. Now it’s all on iTunes and Spotify. It’s tremendously exciting”.
The Tony Award-winning actor spent much of 2012 on Broadway
when his stage show One Man, Two Guvnors transferred from
the West End. He hopes to return to the London stage in 2013
but was delighted to join music stars including tonight’s
performers Emeli Sandé, Mumford & Sons and One Direction
at the forefront of a new British Wave over there.
He’s bashful. “They’ve all done well in America, and I’ve done
well in one city – but it exceeded any of my expectations.”
Already pals with one set of hopefuls, One Direction, he
promises he won’t let their youthful ways lead him astray!
“I’m got a couple of films coming up,” he tells us, in summary.
“There’s the Paul Potts biopic One Chance, and Can A Song
Save Your Life is a film about the music industry, with Mark
Ruffalo and Keira Knightly. Yes,”– he grins – “I do sing a bit in it!”
Currently, filming his self-penned action comedy thriller
The Wrong Mans is keeping him busy. In fact, he tells us,
that’s why he won’t be joining One Direction at the
party – well, at least not for too long!
“I’ve got to be up to start filming at 6am
the day after,” he sighs, but then this is
a man who does love a challenge.
He reminds us, “I am so proud of
The BRITs and how we’ve changed
it over the last few years. It’s back
to being all about the music”.
“And I’m incredibly grateful to ITV,
to the BPI, and to organisers Suzi
Aplin and David Joseph, that they
show such faith in me to ask me
back to do it every year. It really
is a dream come true for me.”
The home of The BRITs
Words: Helen Lamont
Photo: john marshall jmenternational
11

Delilah
Thom Green and Gus Unger-Hamilton - Alt-J
Danny O’Donoghue
Rita Ora
Hot
RigHt
Now
LauNcH JaN 10, 2013
tHe Savoy HoteL LoNdoN
Paloma Faith
DJ Fresh
Host - Nick Grimshaw
Photos: jmenternational
Main pic, Critics’ Choice Winner - Tom Odell
Faith and a pink-haired pal by the front of the
stage, Emeli explained, ‘’He’s such a wonderful
musician and it’s great to pass it on to him”.
To which Tom stuttered, “Cheers everyone, thank
you so much… quite overwhelmed but pleased!
And then Tom, bathed in the bluest of stage
lights, silenced the clatter of industry talk
and the sound of waiters filling up glasses
with his pared down performance of
Another Love, his breakthrough 2012 hit.
Jessie Ware, too, took to the stage, using her
mirrored and chandelier’d backdrop as her chance
to shine. Breathy and heartfelt, her rendition of
Running had a distinct jazz club feel – and if the
audience wasn’t aware of her work until that
moment (where had they been?) her sound
announced an intention to make 2013 her year!
The BRITs changes with each show that passes
– but the superb standard of music remains.
While Nick Grimshaw announced our line-up
of musical guests for February’s main event,
we flashed back to who joined us in 2012
it’s starting to feel like a fabulous dream!
That time around, Coldplay opened the show,
with their hit Charlie Brown, before host James
Corden bounded onto the stage to take charge
of proceedings. Chris Martin and Co. would
go on to scoop the award for British Group.
Florence and the Machine performed No Light,
No Light before Olly Murs – up again for British
Solo Male Artist in 2013 – grinned his way
through a “shabba-tronic” duet of Heart Skips A
Beat with former BRIT school kids Rizzle Kicks.
There were more teenage screams when One
Direction won the award for best British Single.
As well as winning two gongs – for British
Breakthrough Act and British Male Solo
Artist, Ed Sheeran’s Lego House was a low-key,
pared-back delight. And then Noel Gallagher,
also up for British Male for his High Flying
Birds collective, enlisted Chris Martin to help
rock the house with AKA… What A Life!
Our love affair with the U.S. continued, with Foo
Fighters picking up International Group and
Lana Del Rey scooping the prize for International
Breakthrough. Bruno Mars topped a tremendous
year in a kitch Osmonds-style outfit. His fan
favourite track Just the Way You Are showed why
he bagged International Male Solo Artist, and
then Rihanna, once more named International
Female Solo Artist, returned to the BRIT stage
triumphant, in a yellow wig and rabble rousing
mood for the euphoric We Found Love.
Lifelong fans were in for a treat when Blur, 2012
winners of the Outstanding Achievement Award,
rolled back the years with their medley of hits
including Girls & Boys, Song 2, This Is A Low, Parklife
and Tender, and the older audience members were
thrust into memories of ‘where was I when…?’
But 2012 really belonged to one lady, Adele. From
four nominations she scooped two awards, and
they were the big two; British Solo Female Artist
and the behemoth MasterCard British Album of the
Year Award. Her tear-stained track Rolling In The
Deep rang out clear across the O2 and wrote itself
into everyone’s list of best ever BRITs moments.
Now, we wonder… What will be The BRITs’
most-watched moment of 2013…?
You could have been forgiven for thinking
it was Ladies Night down at The Savoy,
when the great and the good popped
down to party with us at The BRIT
Awards’ nominations launch. Glancing
around the historic hotel’s shimmering
ballroom, there were glamorous
women as far as the eye could see.
There has been much talk this year of a sorority
in music. A sisterhood of girls becoming stronger
in each other’s success. As launch host Nick
Grimshaw paced the floor side of stage, preparing
to kick off launch proceedings, that sorority was
behind the scenes: meeting, giggling, making
introductions, and posing for red carpet photos.
Never have so many nominees in the British
Female category come down to celebrate
together. And it says so much about key record
buying trends – where female singers were
once considered a bit of a gamble – today.
Paloma Faith and Rita Ora knew the reason for
the evening’s party was to celebrate great British
music. And to that end, they both wore gowns in
hues of glistening champagne. Paloma, wearing
Vivienne Westwood with an ostrich feather
headdress, schmoozed with all and sundry,
making particular pals with a Mui Mui clad, ‘Monica
Belluci’-esque Jessie Ware, who hooted, “I’m up for
two, I can’t believe it!” Rita Ora, wearing Diane Von
Furstenberg, was fresh-faced and full of brighteyed
beauty. And when hotly-tipped newcomer
Delilah walked in, she turned the head of every
man in the room. Those boys from Alt-J certainly
looked impressed, although Delilah later admitted
her dress caused her to suffer: ‘I can’t breathe
but it looks fabulous. I just keep holding it in!’
Our nominees let their good news sink in while
on the red carpet. As they chatted to presenters
Jameela Jamil and Laura Whitmore a few looked
shell shocked by their news. AlunaGeorge
joked about comparisons to ‘an old Justin
Bieber and young Michelle Obama’. British
Producer nominee Jake Gosling was all-at-once
chuffed but bemused – could he follow in 2012
winner Ethan Johns’ footsteps this year? Danny
O’Donoghue, whose band The Script are up for
Best International Album, breezed in and out. DJ
Fresh, nominated for his single Hot Right Now,
featuring vocals by Rita Ora proclaimed he was
“up for anything”. And when Tom Odell asked
Paloma if she’d won the award he was there
to collect, she giggled, “I’ve never been Critics’
Choice. I’ve always been Critics’ enemy, me…!”
On stage, of course, Nick Grimshaw was getting
down to the all-important business of revealing
who’s up for what in nominations. But in the midst
of it all he welcomed Miss Emeli Sandé to the stage.
Clad demurely in a black Charlotte Taylor shirt
with yellow bird motif, and teamed with a
leather bikers’ jacket and trademark blonde quiff,
she looked positively regal when she stepped
onto the stage. Mind you, Emeli looked cool
as a cucumber last year – and now, she admits
to Grimmy, she was, in fact, shaking inside!
“This time last year,” she explained, “I was excited
but very nervous. I wish now I had just enjoyed it”.
And passing the mantle of Critics’ Choice winner
to a blinking Tom Odell, cheered on by Paloma
13
12

Feel The love
Who’s in the running to receive
2013’s coveted BRIT Awards?
They say that it is the taking part that counts.
But try telling that to the artists vying for
a coveted place in BRITs musical history.
With just 14 money-can’t-buy Damien
hirst statuettes to be had in 2013, the
competition to win one is certainly on!
Narrowing the category shortlists down is
no easy matter. With a wealth of talent on
these sceptred isles, there is a rich vein of
greatness to choose from. Nevertheless the
brightest of stars releasing albums between
July 2011 and November 2012 (or singles
out any day last year) have been included.
Who will shine most on this fateful night?
The net is cast wide this time around and no
one artist is an out-and-out front-runner. With
three nominations each, a trio of acts share the
honour of leading the pack. emeli Sandé tops
an outstanding year with nods in the British
Female, MasterCard British Album and British
Single categories. While the solo single Next to
Me provides her official nod for British Single,
she also pops up featured alongside labrinth,
collaborating on his track Beneath Your Beautiful.
NomiNatioNs list
Emeli
Sandé and Tom Odell
Photo: jmenternational
Mumford & Sons and Alt-J join emeli in the
hotly-contested MasterCard British Album
category. More recognition for both comes on
the British Group shortlist, while newcomers
Alt-J are British Breakthrough hopefuls and
Mumford & Sons, on their second album, are
in with a chance in the British live Act pack.
Seven acts, while we’re here, could go home with
two dotty tributes. Plan B is up for MasterCard
British Album and British Male, taking his all-time
nominations tally to five. Paloma Faith does
it with the girl equivalent, MasterCard British
Album and British Female. BRIT stalwarts Muse
pick up double recognition, olly Murs has an
opportunity to win two with British Solo Male
and British Single, while newcomers Rita ora,
Jessie Ware and Ben howard, each making such
a big impact on music in the last year, fight it out
in British Breakthrough and for solo success. Can
any of them expect twins by the end of tonight?
Now, three of our gongs are already earmarked
for winners. Tom odell (what a year he has
before him!) had the Critics’ Choice trophy in his
hand by the end of the BRITs nominations party
in January, while Paul epworth was named as
British Producer of the Year at the glittering MPG
Awards gala last week. With the outstanding
Contribution to Music accolade rested for 2013,
The BRITs issues a Special Recognition gong,
so well deserved by our friends at War Child.
And to celebrate the amazing year that British
artists have had around the world, we bring
you a commemorative trophy, The BRITs Global
Success Award. We’re sure you can think of likely
contenders… but later all will be revealed.
The BRIT Awards nominee shortlists are based
on the result of voting by the 1000-strong
BRIT Academy of music industry experts
combined with a public vote. Three categories
- British Single, British Breakthrough Act and
MasterCard British Album of the Year - are
decided by public voting alone, via trusted
media partners (see the category footnotes
for more info). Choose your favourites…
and get ready to cheer on the winners!
Jessie Ware
Photo: jmenternational
British Breakthrough act
Top 5 selected by Voting Academy. Winner identified by
public vote promoted by brits.co.uk and BBC Radio 1.
alt-J Infectious Music
Ben howard Island / Universal Music
Jake Bugg Mercury / Universal Music
Jessie Ware Island / PMR / Universal Music
rita ora Columbia / Roc Nation / Sony Music
British Female solo artist
amy Winehouse Island / Universal Music
Bat for lashes Parlophone / EMI Music
emeli sandé Virgin / EMI Music
Jessie Ware Island / PMR / Universal Music
Paloma Faith RCA / Sony Music
British grouP
alt-J Infectious Music
mumford & sons
Gentlemen of The Road / Island / Universal Music
muse Helium 3 / Warner Bros / Warner Music
one Direction Syco / Sony Music
the xx Young Turks / XL / Beggars
British liVe act
coldplay Parlophone / EMI Music
mumford & sons
Gentlemen of The Road / Island / Universal Music
muse Helium 3 / Warner Bros / Warner Music
the rolling stones Polydor / Universal Music
the Vaccines Columbia / Sony Music
British male solo artist
Ben howard Island / Universal Music
calvin harris Columbia / Sony Music
olly murs Epic / Sony Music
richard hawley Parlophone / EMI Music
Plan B 679 / Atlantic / Warner Music
Brits gloBal success aWarD
The winner of this Award will be announced
at the Show on Wednesday 20th February.
British ProDucer oF the Year
In association with The MPG Awards.
Identified by a panel overseen by MPG.
Winner - Paul epworth
Damon albarn
Jake gosling
British single
Top fifteen British singles based on the biggest
sales success in 2012. With Capital FM and iTunes.
adele Skyfall XL Recordings / XL / Beggars
alex clare Too Close Island / Universal Music
coldplay & rihanna Princess of China
Parlophone / EMI Music
DJ Fresh Ft rita ora Hot Right Now
Ministry of Sound / Ministry of Sound Group
emeli sandé Next To Me Virgin / EMI Music
Florence & the machine Spectrum
Island / Universal Music
James arthur Impossible Syco Music / Sony Music
Jessie J Domino Island / Lava / Universal Music
labrinth Ft emeli sandé
Beneath Your Beautiful
Syco Music / Sony Music
olly murs Ft Flo rida Troublemaker
Epic / Sony Music
rita ora Ft tinie tempah R.I.P.
Columbia / Roc Nation / Sony Music
rizzle kicks Mama Do The Hump
Island / Universal Music
robbie Williams Candy Island / Universal Music
rudimental Ft John newman Feel The Love
Asylum / Black Butter / Warner Music
stooshe Black Heart
Future Cut / Qworks / Warner Bros / Warner Music
sPecial recognition aWarD
War child
international Female solo artist
alicia keys RCA / Sony Music
cat Power Matador / XL / Beggars
lana Del rey Polydor / Universal Music
rihanna Def Jam / Universal Music
taylor swift Mercury / Universal Music
international grouP
alabama shakes Rough Trade / XL / Beggars
the Black keys Nonesuch / Warner Music
Fun Atlantic / Fuelled By Ramen / Warner Music
the killers Vertigo / Universal Music
the script Epic / Phonogenic / Sony Music
international male solo artist
Bruce springsteen Columbia / Sony Music
Frank ocean Def Jam / Universal Music
gotye Island / Universal Music
Jack White XL Recordings / XL / Beggars
michael Buble Reprise / Warner Music
mastercarD British
alBum oF the Year
Supported by The Sun Bizarre Column.
alt-J An Awesome Wave Infectious Music
emeli sandé Our Version Of Events
Virgin / EMI Music
mumford & sons Babel
Gentlemen of The Road / Island / Universal Music
Paloma Faith Fall To Grace RCA / Sony Music
Plan B ill Manors 679 / Atlantic / Warner Music
critics’ choice
In association with War Child. Identified by
a panel made up of media music critics.
Winner - tom odell Columbia / Sony Music
alunageorge Island / Universal Music
laura mvula RCA / Sony Music
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A LBu M ouT N o W
“ I’ve been coming to the
show for such a long time,
and it’s always so brilliant to
be part of it. When I won the
Outstanding Contribution
to Music Award in 2009
I thought that was probably
it for me and The BRITs, so
I am absolutely chuffed that
Candy has been recognised
this year, and I’m honoured
to be invited back onto the
stage yet again.”
Robbie Williams
brits.co.uk
#BRITs2013
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“ Winning the BRIT last year
was one of the best moments
of our careers. To be asked
back to perform this year is a
huge honour for us. We can’t
wait to be there – it’s going to
be a great night!”
One Direction
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“ I’ve grown up with
The BRIT Awards. It’s the
most important mainstream
award ceremony out there.
It’s been a real classy affair
the last few years, and it’s
had a make-over, The BRITs.
To be part of it, and to be
recognised by it, has been
really rather special.”
Plan B (Ben Drew)
PLAN B
ILL MANORS
Ben Drew – otherwise known as Plan
B – is fast becoming a multi-media auteur,
and frustrated spokesman for an ignored
generation. Previously nominated in this
category for his soulful 2010 concept
album The Defamation of Strictland Banks,
he returns with the soundtrack to his
debut feature film. ILL Manors is a harrowing tale of
the sharp end of life on London’s mean streets.
Although the idea for the title track preceded the
making of the movie, most of the soundtrack was
completed retrospectively, and in the wake of
the English riots. Released in July 2012, it is social
commentary in bassline, soul and hip-hop, and
reportage of the bleak. It shares the same venom as
his debut collection, the rap/grime collection Who
Needs Actions When You Got Words (2006), although
musically it is stronger. And it certainly makes you think.
Produced in the main by Al Shux and Plan B, the
soundtrack also features Labrinth, John Cooper
Clarke, Kano and Takura Tendayi. A strange falsetto
in single Lost My Way is juxtaposed with a relentless,
unwavering, rage-against-the-machine of a rap, while
third single Deepest Shame is a snapshot into the
movie characters’ lives set against an urgent beat.
Plan B’s skill is such that, when he chooses, his music
defies both boundary and genre. Here he sticks to
what he feels is needed; it is the bile and passion
in this collection that is its most powerful tool.
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EMELI SANDÉ
OUR VERSION OF EVENTS
What a difference a year makes. On February
13th 2012 Emeli Sandé could walk into a
record store and see her CD, Our Version
of Events, displayed for the first time. It
quickly became the fastest-selling album
since 2009, and later, Britain’s biggest seller
of 2012. Certified four-times platinum
but heading for sales of 1.5m copies, the
debut has crowned the UK album charts
for seven weeks, bouncing back up to
the top spot with regular aplomb.
But that drive to create had been there from
the outset. Emeli Sandé gave up a future
in medicine to concentrate on her music
career, so, she says, she would never do
things ‘half-assed’. Each track on the album
features her writing credit, mostly alongside
long-time collaborator Shahid ‘Naughty Boy’
Khan although Hope is the product of early
sessions with Alicia Keys and Read All About
It Part III is a stripped-back follow-up to her
Professor Green duet from November 2011.
Our Version of Events skips stylistically from
the vibrant dance beat of her August 2011
debut single Heaven to the dramatic strings
of Bond-style Daddy and the hymn-like grace
of Next to Me; throughout all is the restrained
power of Sandé’s lyrics, both simple and
honest, and her clear-as-a-bell searing vocal.
In October 2012, a deluxe version of the
album was released featuring five additional
tracks including collaborative singles Wonder
and Beneath Your Beautiful. As Clown, the
fifth cut from the album continues to chart,
it is time to take notice of Emeli’s ethos: “I
believe in just putting your hopes and
ambitions out there and letting them fly.”
“ Music is my thing. Music
is what I want to give to
people. It’s the one thing
I can actually do.
2012 was definitely a good
year. Releasing my album
was a highlight but then
everything that came from
that was amazing.
Thank you to everyone
that bought it, for taking
a chance on me.”
Emeli Sandé
“ It feels great to have this
acknowledgement and
recognition. And to come back
here after winning the Critics’
Choice and to be nominated is
really, really cool.”
Emeli Sandé
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“ There is a part of us that
is definitely clinging to
the organic, human side
of music, to honour our
friendship and the fact that
we want to play together in
a room. We’re not afraid to
bring new elements into the
equation but we’re not quite
prepared to go full robot. I
think we’re kind of cyborgy!”s
Muse
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“ I’ve been taking time off in the
middle of nowhere before
I start touring again, weathering
tropical storms in Indonesia, and
I’ve only just heard about the BRIT
Award nominations.
I truly can’t believe it.
A massive thank you to all those
who nominated me for British
Male Solo Artist and British
Breakthrough Artist. It should be a
really fun night.”
Ben Howard
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“ We’re very proud of being
British. As we travel
around, sometimes far
away from home, we
never forget who we
are and where we came
from. The BRIT Awards
celebrate British music
and as British musicians
it’s very special to be a
part of that celebration.”
Mumford & Sons
MUMFORD & SONS
BABEL
Mumford & Sons are, arguably, the
biggest band in the world right now.
Their album Babel, which followed the
2009 debut Sigh No More, sold more than
600,000 copies in its first week of release
in the USA and made No.1 on both sides
of the Atlantic. Still, it is America, perhaps
even more than their British homeland,
that has really taken the West London
folk scene four-piece to their hearts.
The success of Sigh No More, which won
the BRIT Award for MasterCard British
Album of The Year in 2011, took the band
on a tour across the globe that reached
epic proportions. It was on that tour
that Babel began to take shape, with
song writing buoyed by the creative
atmosphere in Nashville, and harmonies
uplifted to glory in those endless
jamming sessions on the road. Markus
Dravs has reprised his role as producer
on this rootsy, twelve-song collection.
At times its a wild-eyed hoe-down of
unapologetic joy and rustic bango-led
vigour; go on, strike up a chorus of
singles I Will Wait, or Lover of The Light, or
the ease-them-in-gently track Hopeless
Wanderer. But in between, on tracks like
Ghosts That We Knew and Holland Road,
there is a brooding foreboding, ferocious
anger, and tangible longing and loss.
With recurring lyrical themes of
literature and religion brooding under
the sometimes mournful mandolin
line, some have questioned the earnest
intention of Babel, but bandleader
Marcus Mumford gives that theory short
shrift. “No, it’s not a statement of faith,”
he reveals. “We don’t feel evangelical
about anything, really - other than music.”
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“ It’s a fantastic honour to get not
only one but three nominations.
The BRITs are something we’ve
all grown up with as a pinnacle
of achievement in British music,
and we’re really proud to get this
recognition. Also it should be a
bloody good party.”
Alt-J
ALT-J
AN AWESOME WAVE
Sometimes the best things happen when you least
expect it. The success of Alt-J’s debut album An
Awesome Wave gives testament to this. Much of the
music was laid down three years ago in the fourpiece’s
Leeds University flatshare. Says drummer Thom
Green, “We never tried to be a big band. We didn’t
even realise we were writing an album”. Instead they
carefully crafted songs: some with an experimental,
trip-hop atmosphere, others synth-heavy or tinged
with folk-rock. Innovative and individual, each one is
just a little bit wonderful, and just a little bit weird.
An Awesome Wave was released in May 2012
showcasing singles including Matilda, referencing
the serial killer flick Leon, Breezeblocks, in homage
to Where The Wild Things Are creator Maurice
Sendak, and Tessellate. In 2012, tracks were shaped
into one fluid cohesive listening experience in
three intense weeks at producer Charlie Andrew’s
Brixton studios – not bad for a band that joke they
don’t know where to put the chorus. Says singer
Joe, “Our producer helps us with that! We’re more
like artists, he’s more like a designer. We make the
print and then he puts in on a scarf and sells it in
the V&A gift shop”. Whatever they’re
doing, an army of critics agree
they’re getting it right, although
they’re in a tizz about musical labels.
Keyboardist Gus Unger Hamilton
warns, “don’t call us a genre, we’ll
**** you up and make up our own”.
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CONGRAT ULATIONS
TOM ODELL
BRITS CRITICS CHOICE (Winner)
LAURA MVULA
BRITS CRITICS CHOICE
THE VACCINES
BRITISH LIVE ACT
THE SCRIPT
INTERNATIONAL GROUP
JAMES ARTHUR
BRITISH SINGLE for Impossible
ALICIA KEYS
INTERNATIONAL FEMALE SOLO ARTIST
OLLY MURS
BRITISH MALE SOLO ARTIST
BRITISH SINGLE for Troublemaker ft. Flo Rida
RITA ORA
BRITISH BREAKTHROUGH ACT
BRITISH SINGLE for R.I.P. ft. Tinie Tempah
PALOMA FAITH
BRITISH FEMALE SOLO ARTIST
MASTERCARD BRITISH ALBUM OF THE YEAR
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
INTERNATIONAL MALE SOLO ARTIST
ONE DIRECTION
BRITISH GROUP
GLOBAL SUCCESS
CALVIN HARRIS
BRITISH MALE SOLO ARTIST
LABRINTH
BRITISH SINGLE
for Beneath Your Beautiful ft. Emile Sande
to all our artists
on their nominations for
the brit awards 2013

“This is the category
that means the most
to me. I am honoured
to have been
acknowledged this
year. To be honest,
I’m blown away!”
Paloma Faith
“You have to wait
for it… I’m ready.
That’s all I’m giving
you for now…
I know, I know!”
Justin Timberlake
PALOMA FAITH
FALL TO GRACE
If her debut 2009 album Do You
Want The Truth Or Something
Beautiful? was a theatrical
outing of intimate moments, all
done up in red velvet with a
burlesque artists’ wink, Paloma
Faith’s second collection, Fall
to Grace, is a ‘‘re-invention; in the sense that it’s
who I am. The honest version”. it’s also cinematic
to the point of a night at the Imax; writ large,
coloured bright and containing soundscape
panoramas that stretch way out of sight.
Released a week after its May 2012 mega-ballad
Picking Up The Pieces, the now platinum-certified
Fall To Grace sees the 27 year-old enlist the
production talents of main producer Nellee
Hooper (Bjork, Madonna) as well as Jake Gosling
(who’s worked with Ed Sheeran) to help mould its
primary creative themes. The album, which was
two years in the making, is, she says, “a soundtrack
to my last few years. Relationships with friends
and family. Romances. It’s about leaving sad
situations and going into a hopeful situation’.
Ballads such as Black and Blue and Beauty of The
End are glamorous yet neurosis ridden, while
Blood Sweat and Tears is a bloody-toed dance
with a ‘show must go on’ vibe at its core. That
intense vulnerability is, says Paloma, exactly
what she was after: “I wanted to show my real
self on this album. It’s a bit heart-on-sleeve”.
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Justin Timberlake
collected the International
Male trophy in 2003.
photo: jmenternational
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War chests at the ready! The title of
British Male Solo Artist is up for grabs
so prepare for a clattering clash of
musical styles. The artists here excel
in every genre from rap, pop, and funk,
to acoustic indie rock and dance floor
smashes. The one thing they do have
in common? This lot really are good.
Richard Hawley is an old hand at this business. The
Sheffield-born songsmith came to the fore with Longpigs
in Britpop’s first wave but Standing at the Sky’s Edge, his
seventh studio album, has eclipsed previous successes.
The August 2012 release was a stylistic departure,
swapping rockabilly sensibilities for raging guitar rock
intertwined with sixties’ psychedelics and electronica.
Lyrics are filled with aural outrage and an almost
apocalyptic political message. We’re not hearing protest
songs exactly, more a warning of impending doom.
Plan B, a.k.a Ben Drew, draws upon political themes
throughout his most recent work, indeed it is at the
very core of his being. Currently starring in cinemas in a
remake of The Sweeney and fresh from an 11 date UK
arena tour, Plan B’s directorial debut, iLL Manors and
its accompanying soundtrack are a spitting feathers
sideswipe at the political classes, an uncomfortable
posting reminding that the ‘underclass’ is growing.
Plan B’s dark reality certainly hit a chord with
many; the OST made UK No.1 in August last year.
Our third contender Ben Howard looks on the
lighter side of troubles. His best-known tracks
are the affirming Keep Your Head Up and Old Pines,
a soft, John Martyn-style sketch of life’s simpler
side. Every Kingdom, the folk-tinged album, is the first
record to be released on Mumford & Sons’ Ben Lovett’s
indie label Communion. The Totnes local has built
a strong live reputation through word-of-mouth in
surfer circles and a near-constant life on the road.
Olly Murs and Calvin Harris, meanwhile, make out-andout
pop songs. Xtra Factor host Olly receives a nod on
the strength two albums. His second collection, In Case
You Didn’t Know, went to UK No.1 upon its November
2011 release and spawned two No.1 singles: Heart
Skips A Beat featuring Rizzle Kicks, and Dance With Me
Tonight. His third album, Right Place Right Time came
out in November 2012, with chart-topping lead single
Troublemaker featuring the rapper Flo Rider. As well
as touring with One Direction and Robbie Williams,
Olly is currently headlining his own arena dates.
Producer and DJ Calvin Harris, meanwhile, is the King of the
collaboration - enlisting the planet’s biggest popstars to
lend his October 2012 third album, entitled 18 Months,
a euphoric edge. Six singles combine to make a
veritable ‘who’s who’ in dance/pop music: they are
Bounce featuring Kelis (UK No.2), Feel So Close (No.1),
Let’s Go featuring Ne-Yo (No.2), We’ll Be Coming
Back, alongside Example (No.2). Tinie Tempah lent
a hand on Drinking From The Bottle (No.17) and the
chart-topping Sweet Nothing, featured Florence
Welch. Ellie Goulding did her bit – and let’s not forget
the mammoth Rihanna collaboration, We Found Love.
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British Female s olo a rtist
When the chips are down, and the picture
looks bleak, sometimes what you need
most is the strength of a woman. As the
country continues to struggle through
tough economic times, it is the female
singer, the stoic pioneer of torch songs
sung from the heart, who so often provides
the soundtrack to see us all through.
B At for LA shes
Amy Winehouse
Island / Universal Music
The first of five nominees on the British Female shortlist is
Amy Winehouse, whose global success was instrumental
in paving the way for the next wave of wonderful female
singers. Amy’s untimely death in July 2011 was followed
by the December 2011 release of the No.1 album Lioness:
Hidden Treasures. It featured new compositions, alternate
versions and previously unreleased tracks including the
single Our Day Will Come and the Tony Bennett duet Body
and Soul. Although not the long-awaited studio follow-up
to the massively successful Frank (2003) and Back To Black
(2006), its class and raw passion provide fitting tribute.
Lioness earns the British Female Solo Artist winner of
2007 the sixth BRIT nomination of her short career. And
of course, Amy’s memory and legacy live on not only
through her music, but through the Amy Winehouse
Foundation – a charity set up by her family to help
disadvantaged young people in the UK and abroad.
Parlophone / EMI Music
Paloma Faith is another larger than life London lady.
Previously nominated in the British Female category
in 2009 for Do You Want The Truth Or Something
Beautiful?, she returned in 2012 promising more
‘agony and suffering’ in its platinum-certified followup,
Fall To Grace. The collection included four singles,
among them May’s Picking Up The Pieces (at No.7 it
was her biggest hit to date) and Just Be in December.
Paloma is also an actress, currently appearing alongside
Jennifer Saunders in the BBC comedy Blandings.
e meL i sAndé
Virgin / EMI Music
Clapham-born Jessie Ware is the new girl on the block
but she’s not the type to be seen and not heard. The
former Jack Penate backing singer made UK No.5 with
her debut studio album Devotion in August 2012; not
bad for a girl who’d played her first solo gig just 18
months before. Heavily influenced by American r&b and
hip-hop, Ware will try her hand in the US in 2013. ‘I feel
like I’m on the threshold of a lot of things,’ she says.
This time last year, that’s exactly how Aberdeenshire’s
Emeli Sandé was feeling. Seven singles in, her success
is astounding; she bagged 2012’s BRITs Critics’
Choice gong, enchanted the world at the Olympic
ceremonies, and her four-times platinum LP, Our Version
Of Events, was Britain’s biggest-selling of 2012. Emeli
begins 2013 touring on both sides of the Atlantic.
A new single, Clown, has just been released.
Meanwhile Bat For Lashes, otherwise known as Natasha
Khan, is contrary enough to buck every trend. The
creative crossroads that followed plaudits – including
three previous BRIT nominations – for 2006’s Fur
And Gold and 2009’s Two Suns brought the difficult
birth of her partly self-funded third outing, The
Haunted Man, last October. Hailed as Khan’s
‘strongest yet’ by critics swayed by its passionate,
unrepentant and often dreamlike affirmations,
Khan’s own description in typically lyrical; like
‘an inventor living in a lighthouse,’ she says.
AEG LIVE CONGRATULATES
EMELI SANDÉ
ALICIA KEYS
STOOSHE
ON THEIR NOMINATIONS
Jessie WA re
Island / PMR / Universal Music
PLUS THE 2013 BRITs CRITICS’
CHOICE WINNER
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British Group
British Breakthrough a ct
Top 5 selected by Voting Academy. Winner identified by
public vote promoted by brits.co.uk and BBC Radio 1.
Think your favourite solo artist has a fight on
their hands if they want to go home with a
BRIT? Spare a thought for the shortlisted acts
in the British Group category. Winning out
here could take true determination and grit.
Leading the field are two highly-praised acts, Alt-J and
Mumford & Sons. Both bands need to get their hands on
this trophy if they want to go home with a potentially
strong haul of three 2013 BRITs. Just one thing – they
need to get past Muse, The xx and One Direction first.
Of our gang, Muse have the strongest form over
distance. Formed in Teignmouth in Devon in 1994,
they released the No.1 record and sixth studio
collection The 2nd Law, last October. The album is
more funky and filmic that pervious work, but still
features their trademark heavy guitars. Muse have
received eight BRIT nominations over the years, and won
two, but have yet to triumph in this particular category.
Can they break their British Group duck in 2013?
One Direction also know what its like to go home with
a trophy. After winning the British Single award last
year the boy band continue to ride their Beatle maniastyle
wave with Take Me Home, a second album full
of great pop songs. It has sold more than one million
copies, both here and in the US, since its November
release. With the Simon Cowell-signed act’s first LP
Up All Night still charting high, they are now more
successful that any UK pop band since the Spice Girls.
The xx are rather more reticent hopefuls. The band’s
self-titled debut album got them two BRITs nods in 2011
but no BRIT trophies; can the September 2012 follow-up
Co-Exist change that? This three-piece are understated
where the others are unashamedly stomping, and are
tense, minimalist and enigmatic in image as well as
sound. Written individually and on garageband, The xx
come together on tracks including singles Angels and
Chained, not in harmony, but in patterns and spider
web sonic symmetry, to carefully create a hooky,
trance-pop, some would say perfect, whole.
Alt-J, too, do their own thing regardless of fashion.
Their debut An Awesome Wave brought them a
reputation as experimental pioneers, melding
folky dub pop with alternative rock and much in
between. They’ve stormed the stage at just about
every festival you can mention in 2012; expect them
to export their sound across the world in 2013.
Meanwhile, Mumford & Sons deliver a reassuring good
time on their every outing, wherever they are in the
world. Their raucous sound, which carouses its way
into the brain and hangs out there, is incomparable.
Watch out however – the band have promised a
departure in style on the next collection. Will album
three really feature synthesisers and electric guitars?
AlT -J
Infectious Music
Alt-J
Infectious Music
Perhaps eras defined by musical
movements – Britpop, new wave,
punk, emo (you name it) are over.
instead, the best that every genre has
to offer bursts on to the scene in one go.
the British Breakthrough nominees reach
out to the world with fabulous, fractured
motives. inspiration is drawn from a
thousand juxtaposed sources. in style, they
couldn’t be more different. But they share
the freedom of knowing anything goes.
MuM f ORD & SO n S
Gentlemen of The Road / Island / Universal Music
MuS e
Helium 3 / Warner Bros / Warner Music
Ben HOWARd
Island / Universal Music
J A ke Bugg
Mercury / Universal Music
Rita Ora is a wham, bam, thank you ma’am pop superstar
in the making. If chart placement has any bearing, the
Notting Hill native announced 2012 as her year. Signed
to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation label, and in demand for genre
busting collaborations, the 22 year-old celebrated
number one singles in February with DJ Fresh on
the drum’n’bass anthem Hot Right Now before R.I.P
featuring Tinie Tempah triumphed in May and How We
Do (Party) provided a hat trick by high summer. Rita’s
debut album Ora knocked Emeli Sandé’s Our Version Of
Events off the number one spot on its August release.
Clapham singer songwriter Jessie Ware’s fans are no
less ardent. Indeed her debut album Devotion, which
peaked at UK No.5 the same month, is well named.
Described as ‘the missing link between Adele, SBTRKT
and Sade,’ her silky vocals lace soul, hip hop and an
electronic twist on old-style blues together; linked
by the ethos ‘less is more’ on production. Singles
Running, 110%, Wildest Moments and Nightlight will
top the playlist when she tours in March this year.
Two male solo stars are our more low-fi contenders.
Forget the whistles and bells of production, they are
poster boys for the homespun; the art of allowing the
song to shine through. Devon’s 25 year-old Ben Howard
purveys rootsy folk to shake the souls of Nick Drake and
John Martyn; at the heart of October’s multi-instrumental
album Every Kingdom is a lyrical darkness five years in
the making. The tracks on the Burgh Island EP, which
came next, add to an outstanding live reputation.
Meanwhile Nottingham son Jake Bugg won an
‘introducing’ slot at Glastonbury in 2011; since then
the sizzle and buzz around mod-meets-blues hookladen
singles Trouble Town, Country Song and Lightning
Bolt has kickstarted his career with a jolt. In October,
the eighteen year-old’s self-titled album knocked
Mumford & Sons off the top of the chart making him
the youngest ever male solo star to debut at UK No.1.
And Alt-J are the only band in our line up. The quartet
met at uni in Leeds in 2007 before moving to Cambridge
to combine multiple musical genres on May-time
debut release, An Awesome Wave. Self conscious
to the point of refusing to show their faces in
photos they have sent their songs – including
Breezeblocks and Fitzpleasure – into battle at
festivals and support slots aplenty and come out
triumphant. The quirky mix of pop, hip-hop and
synth heavy riffs has struck a chord with the nation.
“Next year we’ll grow a bit more, “ says keyboardist
Gus. “How big are stadiums… massive, right?”
One DIRecTIOn
Syco / Sony Music
Jessie WARe
Island / PMR / Universal Music
The xx
RitA O RA
Young Turks / XL / Beggars
Columbia / Roc Nation / Sony Music
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British Li VE Act
WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE ALL ITS ARTISTS ON THEIR BRIT NOMINATIONS
British Male Solo Artist: Richard Hawley
British Female Solo Artist: Bat For Lashes
British Single: Coldplay & Rihanna - ‘Princess of China’
British Live Act: Coldplay
British Producer of the Year: Damon Albarn
MuM foR d & SonS
Gentlemen of The Road / Island / Universal Music
The RollI ng SToneS
Polydor / Universal Music
Coldplay
Parlophone / EMI Music
MuS e
Helium 3 / Warner Bros / Warner Music
Seeing your favourite live act can be
like freezing a moment in time – a
moment where nothing else matters
but you, the band and the music. It’s not
enough to simply recreate studio sound - no
matter how well - to an audience. Creating
an atmosphere, building emotion, and
capturing hearts requires a different skill.
Concertgoers, these days, are much more discerning.
Standards are high and when money is tight music
fans want to know the show will not disappoint.
Despite a tough year for most on the live music
scene in 2012, five acts are shortlisted today.
The Rolling Stones push all the right buttons. The rock’n’roll
legends began their 50th anniversary tour with two O2
shows that sold out in seven minutes. Their set of “songs
that make you want to do bad things,” saw Mick Taylor and
Bill Wyman rejoin the band in celebration. And across the
five-night tour Mary J Blige, Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen
and Florence Welch helped things go with a swing.
Coldplay began their fifth major concert tour,
named after the album Mylo Xyloto, in October
2011. It snaked its way from the UK to the UAE,
across North America, then back to Europe and
Australasia. The biggest-grossing tour of any UK act,
playing to more than a million people. Fans were
also treated to support slots from a just-startingout
Emeli Sandé, Rita Ora and Tinie Tempah.
While Coldplay completed their tour with an
extravagant New Year’s Eve show, Mumford & Sons tour
like they’ve no home to go to. The band’s worldwide
profile grew through great, sweaty gigs followed by
word of mouth recommendations. After spending most
of 2012 touring in the US the band returned to the UK
in November for two months of rousing homecoming
shows. They are back on the bus in March, with dates
in the US, across Europe, and at July’s T in The Park.
Muse have picked up this award already, triumphing
in 2005 and 2007. The 2nd Law tour, in support of their
sixth album, began in August 2012 and will continue
right through until September 2013. Its grand effects
are de rigueur for a Muse show. This time around
there is a giant pyramid on stage, lavish use of strobe
effects, and lasers that burn to the ceiling. Well you
would expect Muse to do some futuristic thinking.
Meanwhile The Vaccines’ live reputation continues to grow
apace. The four-piece made their name impressing festival
crowds and now celebrity fans including Debbie Harry
come down to see their Ramones-style shows. The
Vaccines embarked on their biggest tour so far in 2012,
in support of their second album Come Of Age. Their
biggest headline show, in front of 10,000 people at
Alexandra Palace, will go down in the venue’s history,
as The Vaccines were one of their youngest-ever
headline acts. It will be superseded in size in March
2013 when they continue their tour here at the O2.
The VaCCIneS
Columbia / Sony Music
45

Britannia
rules the air
waves!
UK acts triumphed overseas
in 2012. No wonder we say
being British is great!
B rits GloB al s uccess a ward
The winner of this award will be announced at the show on Wednesday 20th February.
It has been called the new British
Invasion. It has been called the
export coup of the year. UK acts are
selling like hotcakes right across
the planet. But who will win the
special BRIT Award celebrating
Global Success in the last year?
According to BPI figures for 2012, British acts
accounted for 13% of worldwide music sales.
With a population accounting for less than
one percent of the world’s people, our music
industry is certainly punching above its weight.
Of course British people have always been loyal
to their own homegrown talent. Sixty percent of
all albums sold in the UK last year were by bands
and singers proud to say they belong here. The
continued investment record companies make
in home markets means our culture of creativity
can flourish. And as internet sources now make
it easy to discover new talent, that same British
creativity is in huge demand across the globe.
How exciting to see that four out of the top
five best-selling albums in the US Billboard
charts 2012 were by British artists.
Adele’s second LP 21 sold 4.41m million copies
in 2012, on top of the 5.8 copies it shifted in
2011, its year of release. Its all part of the day
job for the Tottenham singer. She’s sold more
than seven million copies of her debut 19, and
27 million copies of the follow up, 21, overall.
What’s more, Babel by Mumford & Sons
notched up sales of 1.46 million copies by
the end of December. And not one but two
One Direction collections – Up All Night
(which sold 1.62 million copies) and the
follow-up, Take Me Home (The November
release quickly sold 1.34 million copies);
both made US No.1 by the end of the year.
It’s hard to imagine three more diverse
talents. Yet each won American hearts in
their own way. Adele has been listed one of
Time Magazine’s people of the year. Her only
release of 2012, the single Skyfall charmed
music fans. And they – like us – can’t wait
for the release of album number three.
American teens have lost their hearts to One
Direction, who just like The Beatles, took
six tracks into the Billboard 100 in one go.
Meanwhile, Mumford & Sons take their brand
of folk on the road, from LA to the Appalachian
Mountains. Sales of their tour tickets are huge.
Don’t forget, a host of other artists have
triumphed Stateside of late. Coldplay’s Mylo
Zyloto sold 5.3 million copies on the other side
of the pond in 2011. Boyband The Wanted shot
into the Billboard chart in March 2012 and were
greeted by screaming fans wherever they went.
Marsha Ambrosius, formerly of Floetry, saw her
collection Late Nights and Early Mornings kept off
the top spot in March only by her BRIT school
compadre Adele. Don’t forget Ellie Goulding,
who saw her single Lights top Billboard’s
pop chart, while Tinie Tempah can add a US
platinum disc to his existing haul. For Jessie J,
America is just one more country to add to her
success in 22 nations: the album Who You Are
topped the US ITunes chart in Spring 2011.
The world just can’t get enough of UK
music, and the British Music Industry is
delighted. Congratulations to all who are
flying the flag for our great little nation.
As Jessie J put it: “I feel like I’m part
of a cool little crew. It’s amazing that
I’m given these opportunities to take
UK music around the world!”
One Direction, Adele with George
Michael and Mumford & Sons (right)
photos: jmenternational.com
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British single
Voted for by the Academy. Top fifteen British
singles based on the biggest sales success
in 2012. With Capital FM and iTunes.
Ready for a quick chorus of Happy Birthday?
The Official UK Chart countdown celebrated
its 60th year in November 2012, with the
calculation that 3.7 billion singles have
been sold in the UK since its 1952 launch.
Happily, single sales have never been stronger,
with the number of tracks downloaded or bought
up six percent year-on-year, giving an all-time
record high total of 188.6 million sales in 2012.
Choosing the songs that make it onto the British Single
shortlist is straightforward. The top fifteen British singles,
based on the biggest sales success in 2012 are automatically
nominated in this category voted for by the Academy.
One quick glance down the list shows that British music
is indeed in impressive health. Of the forty biggest hits
in the last calendar year, eighteen were made right
here on our very own shores (spare a thought for the
other three: Cheryl, Wiley and Little Mix just missed the
shortlist). James Arthur was our biggest-selling British
artist in the singles category. His song Impossible had sold
almost a million by the end of the year (and has since
surpassed that magic mark), making him the highest
charting British Male, as well as the fastest-selling artist
of 2012. It was an impressive showing, considering the
late timing of his year-end single release. Meanwhile,
Jessie J’s single Domino earned her the biggest selling
single by a British female, shifting 749,000 by the year’s
end. And Hackney band Rudimental featuring John
Newman sold 619,000 copies of their single Feel The Love,
notching up the biggest selling song by a British group.
After last year’s excitement, British music ambassador
Adele’s career continues triumphant with the Bond theme
Skyfall, her only release of the year. Surprisingly the soaring
hit was one of six listed here that missed the number one
slot by a whisker (although it did top the chart in sixteen
countries worldwide). Tracks by Alex Clare, Rizzle Kicks
and Stooshe were also of the slow-burn sort, staying in
the air week after week. Meanwhile Coldplay & Rihanna,
Emeli Sandé and Florence & The Machine blasted back
up the charts as part of the soundtrack to the Olympics.
It is important to note that an artist can only appear
on the shortlist with one song per calendar year, so
while Rita Ora and Florence & The Machine had two
No.1 singles, only the biggest selling appears here.
Don’t get confused then, that Rita Ora and Emeli
Sandé appear on two shortlisted tracks – one is as a
main artist and one as a featured singer. Therefore if
Beneath Your Beautiful or Hot Right Now grab the gong,
it will in fact be Labrinth or DJ Fresh going home
with a trophy. Similarly while American acts Rihanna
and Flo Rida are mentioned as featured artists, it is
their GB-based creative partners Coldplay and Olly
Murs who take the credit and could claim a BRIT.
Just two artists here have won the British Single trophy
before. Coldplay, represented this time around by the
single Princess of China, won in 2006 with Speed of Sound.
Prodigal favourite Robbie Williams, whose big single
was Candy, has won before, three years in a row, with
Angels (1999), She’s The One (2000), and Rock DJ (2001).
His early years in Take That offered up three more.
Voting in the British Single category goes right up
to the wire so recent weeks have been tense for
our favourite chart stars. Good luck to everyone…
and thanks for letting us all sing along!
A D ele s kyfall
XL Recordings / XL / Beggars
FlORence & t he Machine
SpecT rum (S ay my name)
Island / Universal Music
JaM es aRthuR
i mpoSSible
Syco Music / Sony Music
Alex ClARe Too Close
Island / Universal Music
Jessie J Domino
Island / Lava / Universal Music
l abR inth Ft eMeli s andé
b eneaT h y our b eauT i F ul
Syco Music / Sony Music
CO l D plAy & RiHANNA
P R i NCess of CH i N a
Parlophone / EMI Music
Olly MuR s Ft FlO Rida
Troublemaker
Epic / Sony Music
Rita OR a Ft t inie t e M pa h
r . i . p.
Columbia / Roc Nation / Sony Music
DJ FR esH F T RiTA O RA
HoT RigHT Now
Ministry of Sound / Ministry of Sound Group
Rizzle KicK s
m ama Do The h ump
Island / Universal Music
R O bbie w illiaM s c anDy
Island / Universal Music
e meli sANDé NexT To Me
Virgin / EMI Musicº
RudiM ental
Ft JO hn n ewM a n
Feel The love
Asylum / Black Butter / Warner Music
s tOOshe b lack h earT
Future Cut / Qworks / Warner Bros / Warner Music
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49

InternatI onal
male Solo a rtISt
Official Watch of the
F RAnk o ceA n
Def Jam / Universal Music
J Ack WhITe
XL Recordings / XL / Beggars
B R uce SpRIngSTeen
Columbia / Sony Music
g oT ye
Island / Universal Music
Age ain’t nothin’ but a number for
the artists in the International Male
category. The levelling agents of chart
success and ticket sales see the elder
statesmen of rock line up against R&B’s
young contenders: in the end, it is the
quality of the music that will tip the scale.
Gotye – otherwise known as the Belgium-born, Australiaraised
Wouter De Backer – has had a phenomenal year. He’s
been plugging away in the music business since 2001 but
it was his breakthrough single featuring Kimba Somebody
That I Used To Know that made his name. Released in
December 2011, the worldwide hit was Britain’s biggestselling
single in 2012, remaining at No.1 for five weeks and
selling 1,318,000 copies to date. The song comes from
Gotye’s third off-the-wall pop album, Making Mirrors.
Frank Ocean is the newest act on the list, and one of the
most talked about acts on the planet. The 25 year-old
New Orleans native cut his teeth ghost writing for artists
including Brandy, John Legend and Justin Bieber. He
gained interest from Kanye West and Beyoncé with the
Nostalgia, Ultra mixtape before releasing his debut studio
album, Channel Orange on Def Jam records in July 2012.
The singles Thinkin Bout You, Pyramids, Sweet Life and
Lost showcased his nu-soul smooth style, mixing
syncopated beats with rich vocal tones and falsetto.
If you like your men smooth then look no further
than the easy-listening charmer Michael Bublé.
He followed up his 2009 best seller Crazy Love
with October 2011’s Christmas, jam-packed with
the croonmeister’s special brand of seasonal cheer.
Bublé’s seventh studio album includes duets with
fellow Canadian Shania Twain on White Christmas (as
well as posthumous pairing with Bing Crosby) and The
Puppini Sisters on Jingle Bells. The album – like Bublé – is
a cheeky success story; selling 2,100,000 copies so far.
After Jack White made his name as the main creative
force in The White Stripes, a band that won a BRIT for
Best International Group in 2004, he joined up with
fellow Detroit musicians to form The Raconteurs in
2005. The four piece released two successful albums
before a third musical incarnation, The Dead Weather,
came into being in 2009 with Alison Mosshart from The
Kills. He has dabbled with outside projects throughout
although his first solo album, Blunderbuss, wasn’t released
until April 2012. Multi-instrumentalist White worked,
wrote, recorded and produced the blues-rock album
himself releasing singles including Love Interruption and
Sixteen Saltines, and wowing the crowds with sell-out
shows at London’s Alexandra Palace in November.
And the undisputed king of the live show is Bruce
Springsteen, who is nominated for the International
Male award for the fourth time. Bruce’s fans were
left disappointed when the plug was pulled early
on his duet with Paul McCartney during his Hard
Rock Calling shows last summer. Can they be
cheered up with a win at last for The Boss, who
at 63 is nominated for his seventeenth studio
album. Wrecking Ball was released in March 2012.
M I chA el BuB lé
Reprise / Warner Music
51

InternatI onal
F e male Solo a rtISt
AlI c IA KeyS
RCA / Sony Music
One of the biggest battles at The BRIT
Awards 2013 is between the ladies up
for an award in the International Female
Solo Artist category. Behind the smiles is
a steely determination to succeed, and
stamina that would make your head swim.
Rihanna’s schedule is so busy it’s hard to imagine when she
sleeps. This is the sixth time the Barbadian singer has been
nominated for this award, with trophies already collected in
2011 and 2012. Can she make it three years in a row on the
back of her seventh studio album, Unapologetic? Preceded
by the single Diamonds, the November 2012 release
features production collaborations with David Guetta,
Labrinth and Chase & Status, as well as guest vocals by
Eminem, Mikky Ekko, and her on-off boyfriend Chris Brown.
cAT P O weR
Matador / XL / Beggars
Alicia Keys, fresh form her star turn at President Obama’s
inauguration ball, could have another win to celebrate.
She has followed up the success of The Element
of Freedom (complete with its massive hit Empire
State of Mind pt 2) with the album Girl On Fire,
released in September 2012. Its title track was
released as the lead single, accompanied by
a Nicki Minaj remix, while Emeli Sandé cowrote
the second single, Brand New Me.
Proud, passionate, pleasure-seeking; if there’s one thing you can
rely on at an event in Scotland, it’s a great crowd. Scotland’s music
festivals are renowned the world over for their unrivalled atmosphere,
diverse settings and the calibre of the performers they attract.
From home-grown festivals such as Wickerman and RockNess, to
global music events like the MOBO Awards, EventScotland continues
to provide funding for an array of music events that embrace our
ambition to develop, attract and host world-class music.
For more information about what we do, visit: eventscotland.org
To find out what’s on in Scotland, visit: visitscotland.com/events
R I h A nnA
Def Jam / Universal Music
lAn A Del Rey
Polydor / Universal Music
Red is the fourth studio album from country star
Taylor Swift. At 23, she has achieved what most
artists would not manage in a lifetime. Entirely
at home in Nashville’s country communities, her
voice transcends genre to mesmerise pop fans over
here. Swift has sold over 26 million albums to date,
with Red chalking up a 2.8 million-strong chunk of that
tally. The collection features co-writes with Max Martin,
Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol and Ed Sheeran –
who will support Swift on her 62-date world tour.
If it’s emotional depth you’re after, Cat Power will tear
at your heartstrings with the slow guitar songs and
bold electronica experimentation that mix to make Sun,
her self-produced September 2012 album. The ninth
collection from Power – born Charlyn Marie Marshall – was
preceded by a single, Ruin, recorded with her backing
Band, the Dirty Delta Blues. Cat Power was forced to
cancel winter 2012 tour dates due to an allergic reaction
called angioedema. She hopes to reschedule for 2013.
Finally, 50s inspired Lana Del Rey is one of the hottest
names of the season. After the success of her first single
Video Games, she released her debut album, Born To Die,
in January 2012. It sold 2.8 million copies worldwide,
and paved the way for Paradise, an EP launched in
November and packaged as a Born To Die deluxe
edition. It included the single Ride and the track
I Sing The Body Electric, unveiled at the BBC’s
Hackney Weekend. Lana’s side projects include a
modelling gig for H&M, and a song, Ghetto Baby,
written for Cheryl Cole’s album, A Million Lights.
TAylOR SwIFT
Mercury / Universal Music
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The b l Ack k e YS
Nonesuch / Warner Music
The k illerS
Vertigo / Universal Music
AlA b A m A ShA keS
Rough Trade / XL / Beggars
Fun
Atlantic / Fuelled By Ramen / Warner Music
You know the old adage: “Do what
you love, and love what you do.”
The five acts in The BRITs’ category International
Group have stayed true to their own sound
without compromise. After all, if the music is
good, the world will eventually listen.
Like fellow contenders The Script and The Killers, The
Black Keys have been in the music biz for over ten
years. The December 2011 collection El Camino is their
seventh studio outing, although global success for the
Ohio duo came on the slow burn. A 2009 fifth LP, the
Damon Dash-helmed Blakroc wooed critics. Later, a
favourite radio single Tighten Up, from their sixth, 2010
album Brothers was a breakthrough hit. The Black Keys’
blues-rock, glam-rock sound began when Dan Auerbach
and Patrick Carney jammed in Carney’s basement.
Now as the translation of El Camino suggests, they play
recent singles Lonely boy and Gold On The Ceiling in
cavernous arenas: a very different life on ‘the road’.
The Script, too, know what it’s like to put hope in the
future. After the boy band MyTown floundered, Danny
O’Donoghue and Mark Sheenan paid their dues as studio
assistants in LA before coming home to Dublin, a life
in The Script alongside drummer Glen Power – and
the big time. Their self-titled debut was released
in 2008; album two - Science & Faith – came out
in 2010, and a third, entitled #3, was released
in September 2012. A piano-led single, Hall of
Fame, featuring a rap from O’Donoghue’s fellow
judge on The Voice, Will.i.am, went to UK No.1.
The Killers got their record deal soon after their
formation – but they moved to London from their
Las Vegas home to achieve it. The band’s fourth full
studio album, the September 2012 release Battle Born,
is expansive rock from the heartlands they come from.
After an eighteen-month break The Killers worked
with producers Steve Lillywhite, Brendan O’Brien and
Daniel Lanois to secure their No.1 chart placement.
Anglophile Brandon Flowers and Co. complete the Battle
Born world tour in Wembley Stadium in June 2013.
Still finding their way, Fun made it onto the list after
We are Young, the mammoth and million-selling
February No.1 featuring Janelle Monáe, turned people
onto Some Nights, the band’s second album. Formed
of Nate Reuss, Andrew Dost and Jack Anthoff in New
York in 2008, Fun worked with hip hop producer Jeff
Bhasker to produce the close harmonies on the Queentinged,
self-effacing, smile-as-you-sing collection.
And Alabama Shakes are the newest act on our shortlist,
but at 23 the band’s soulful singer-songwriter Brittany
Howard is a star in the making. The band’s sound
is an authentic, soul/blues-steeped, deep south
jam heard on The Shakes songs including the
single You Ain’t Alone. You can hear it on the April
2012-released album Boys & Girls - or better yet,
listen in person. The band count Jack White
among high profile fans, but a host of festival
appearances soon switched the record-buying
public onto their debut collection, raising it to No.3
in the chart. There will certainly be more to come.
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The ScripT
Epic / Phonogenic / Sony Music
55

An exhibition celebrating War Child’s
unique relationship with popular music.
19 February – 28 March 2013
The British Music Experience at The O2
britishmusicexperience.com/warchild
Proudly
supported
by
“i’ve got souL…
…but i’m not A soLdier”
the brit AWArds mArks 20 yeArs oF WAr ChiLd
They have filled huge concert halls, claimed
chart-topping records and brought the biggest
names in the music business together.
They have the goodwill of industry players,
knowing A-list artists will answer their calls.
The team behind War Child have, in the
last twenty years, made a tremendous
contribution to music, as part of their
ongoing fundraising work to ease the
suffering of children born into war zones.
And as the charity celebrates its 20th year,
The BRITs aims to highlight the work that
they do, always in the toughest of conditions,
and the most heartbreaking circumstance.
The BRITs’ annual Outstanding Contribution
To Music Award, in recognition of a body
of work of a particular artist, will be rested
in the year 2013. In its place, The BRITs will
bestow a discretionary tribute. The Special
Recognition Award goes, very deservedly, to
our good friends at the charity War Child.
BRITs Chairman David Joseph explained: “The
BRITs are proud to give recognition for their
vital work as well as saying thank you to all
the artists who have given their time, help
and energy to something so important.”
And War Child’s Music and Fundraising Director
Ben Knowles said: “This is fantastic news for
us. When we began in 1993, in response to the
Bosnian conflict, we had one simple belief – that
children are the innocent victims of war and no
child should be affected by it. Twenty years on,
our belief remains the same. Our relationship
with artists and the music industry means that
we’ve helped children born into some of the
most violent conflicts. Music has been a powerful
tool in rebuilding children’s lives. This award
helps further highlight our work. Everybody
who works for War Child and everybody who
has helped War Child should feel fantastically
proud of all our ongoing achievements”.
Sir Paul McCartney spoke for a plethora of
celebrity supporters; the stars who make the
music on which the grateful charity thrives:
“A lot of people say that music cannot change
the world. I think it really can make a difference.
“Music can make people aware, put the
issue into focus and shine a spotlight on the
bad stuff. It also eats away at the horrors
and alleviates some of the pain by raising
the money to help these children.”
So far, War Child has changed the lives of
more than 800,000 children, giving them
hope in the bleakest of situations.
War Child was founded in 1993 by two British
Filmmakers, Bill Leeson and David Wilson
when they returned to the UK after covering
the bloody conflict in the former Yugoslavia.
Shocked by the sights they had seen, they began
fundraising and soon returned to the war torn
region with a convoy of aid and a mobile bakery
to provide for the children caught up in it all.
These days War Child is an international
organisation, fundraising across the globe,
with established grass-roots programmes
of aid and education in the world’s most
dangerous places - Iraq, Uganda, the Central
African Republic and the Democratic Republic
of Congo, and, of course, Afghanistan.
As well as providing for the immediate
needs of the most marginalised and
vulnerable, War Child change lives though
advocacy, education and vocational training,
empowering children to claim their own
basic rights such as the right to an education
and the right to live without violence. They
are nurtured in a community setting in the
hope of leaving life as a child soldier, a child
prostitute, or homeless refugee behind.
No-one knows what the year 2013 bill
bring in terms of global conflict. But the
War Child team know, that sadly, their
services will again be much in demand.
The last word – before the music begins – goes
to Sir Paul, a long-term believer. “I have been
supporting War Child since 1995. Their work
saves lives. I urge everyone to support War Child.”
To learn more or to donate £3 a month,
go to www.warchild.org.uk
With A LittLe heLp
From our Friends…
War Child is the work of 27 people crammed
together in an old false teeth factory in
Kentish Town, teams of dedicated NGOs and
a support staff of community volunteers
in war-torn places, and the biggest hearts
the entertainment industry can offer. Let’s
remember some magical, musical moments…
HELP! (1995)
War Child’s wonderful relationship with the
music industry began in 1995 with the release of
the legendary collaborative charity album Help.
The great and the good of Britpop gathered,
and in just one day recorded the collection,
which raised more than £1.25m and publicised
the plight of the families caught up in the
violent Balkan conflict. Contributions came
from artists including Oasis, Blur, Radiohead,
The Stone Roses, Portishead, Massive Attack,
Sir Paul McCartney and Paul Weller.
MISS SARAJEvO (1995)
U2 teamed up producer Brian Eno, Howie B and
Pavarotti under the pseudonym Passengers to
record a haunting single about a beauty pageant
held while the bullet-ridden city of Sarajevo
was still under siege. Single sales funded War
Child’s work in Mostar in Herzegovina. The opera
singer would go on to invite his famous friends
including Stevie Wonder and Elton John to join
him in a series of glittering fundraising concerts.
1LOvE (2002)
The NME asked acts including Muse, Elbow,
Oasis, Manic Street Preachers, and The Prodigy
to cover a single which had hit the top spot
in the fifty years the music paper had been
printing the official chart. Muse covered House of
The Rising Sun by the Animals, and Matt Bellamy
explained, “it’s a cause that bands we respect
are involved with, and have been in the past”.
HOPE (2003)
As the second gulf war exploded, Travis, New
Order, Sir Paul McCartney, David Bowie and
George Michael donated exclusive tracks to
this fundraising album, which raised money
for projects on the ground in Iraq. The charity
is still deeply involved in the country.
WARCHILDMUSIC.COM AND PASSPORT
BACK TO THE BARS (2004)
As war raged in the middle east, Britain’s
musicians pulled together. First, The Arctic
Monkeys became the face of the charity music
download website warchildmusic.com before
stars from Amy Winehouse and The Cure to
The Darkness and The Pet Shop Boys took
part in an acclaimed series of Barfly gigs.
FUNDRAISING CONCERTS
(2007 ONWARDS)
The annual new band evening Army of You
was launched in 2007. Now firmly established
in the music calendar, it has welcomed the
cream of British talent on the cusp of success.
While Hot Chip, White Lies, Friendly Fires, The
Noisettes and more all made their mark at
Camden’s Koko, the Keane and Friends gigs of
2007 welcomed the most established acts to
London and Manchester. The Pet Shop Boys,
Lily Allen, Guillemots, Brendan Benson, Peter
Kay and The Magic Numbers all took part.
BRIT AWARDS PARTIES
(2009 ONWARDS)
When the curtain comes down on The BRITs,
the curtain comes up across town on more
mighty fine music. Kasabian, Mark Ronson,
and Blur have delighted crowds in previous
years’ aftershow parties, and the inaugural
BRITs celebration in 2009 featured The
Killers, Coldplay and Bono, who said, “That
chant, I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier
has a whole new meaning when there is
a War Child banner behind your head.”
War Child is delighted that Muse continued
the fundraising tradition in 2013, bringing
down the house just two days ago at
Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Thanks guys!
Photo credit: Katharine Sidelnik/ War Child UK
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HEY SEXY LADY…
…AND HANDSOME BLOKES!
We’re delighted that The BRIT Awards Backstage
Spa returns to the O2 for our 2013 event.
Bringing together the biggest names in grooming
and style, this pop-up relaxation haven ensures
that celebrities taking part in tonight’s event can
be confident in their red carpet-ready looks.
Tonight’s performers, all BRIT Award nominees
and our many guest presenters can access
The BRITs Backstage Spa for treatments
including massages, hair and nail treatments,
make-up, tanning and skincare.
A great big thank you to the globally
renowned Brand Partners and top class
beauty experts who are on hand backstage to
groom and pamper every celebrity need!
DECLÉOR are delighted to be working with The BRIT Awards
2013 as the Official BRITs Backstage Spa Skincare Partner,
with MasterCard, for the third year running.
To celebrate this partnership, DECLÉOR are thrilled to announce an exclusive
preview of their NEW BB Cream, the must-have professional product
designed to provide optimum skincare benefits. A 5-in-1 multi-action
cream, it’s no surprise it’s the beauty experts’ secret weapon. It expertly
delivers 24-hour hydration and protection while refining the skin’s texture
with an adaptable shade that creates a luminous and even skin tone.
Alongside the exclusive preview, at the heart of the DECLÉOR product collection
are the 100% natural, 100% active award-winning Aromessence Super
Serums. Backstage, DECLÉOR Skincare Experts will be on hand to professionally
match artists with their Aromessence Super Serum and introduce the NEW
BB Cream; the perfect pick me up post flight, post tour, post rehearsal.
DECLÉOR have also designed three bespoke mini-treatments to recharge
busy artists including the Radiance Reviver, Re-VitalEyes or Jet Lag Energiser,
all of which provide 15 minutes of pure skincare indulgence.
Renowned DECLÉOR Skincare Therapy & Development Manager, Fiona
Brackenbury will also be available to offer artists the acclaimed Aroma
Expert Facial. A firm celebrity favourite with artists such as Adele, The
Saturdays and Alexandra Burke, the treatment is adapted to suit individual
skin needs using the expertise of the brand’s Aromessence Super
Serums, complete with new post-facial finishing touch; BB Cream.
The DECLÉOR expert blend of Aromessence Super Serums, BB Cream and
Professional Spa Treatments are the ideal combination for award-winning skin.
decleor.co.uk
Revlon are proud to be the Official Backstage Spa Make-up & Nail
Partner at The BRITs 2013. Their skilled team of industry make-up
artists and nail technicians will be on hand backstage to keep a host
of top celebrities, performers and guests looking red carpet ready.
World famous for creating the first ever opaque nail enamel in
1932, Revlon has gone from strength to strength celebrating
its 80th anniversary in 2012. The Revlon name has become
synonymous with beauty and glamour, inspiring a huge cult
following and popular with celebrities and make-up artists alike.
To mark its partnership with The BRITs 2013, celebrity manicurist
and Revlon UK Nail Ambassador Jenny Longworth has created
five bespoke nail designs to celebrate a selection of the most
popular genres in music: Pop, Urban, Indie, Soul & Rock. These
music-inspired nail looks, created using cult favourite shades
of Revlon nail enamel, will be on offer backstage from Jenny
and her team to give ‘BRITspiration’ to everyone they touch.
revlon.co.uk
Champneys is proud to become the Official BRITs Backstage Spa
Men’s Lifestyle Partner for 2013, celebrating the recent launch of
its men’s High Performance Sports Therapy range. Leading athletes
regularly turn to Champneys for its cutting-edge training, recovery
and rehabilitation, and backstage at The BRITs, male stars will be able
to experience the men’s Sports Therapy range first hand. What better
way to ensure all male artists and presenters taking part in The BRITs
feel relaxed and energised – just in time for their star performance!
champneys.com
Fake Bake are proud to announce themselves as the
BRIT Spa Official Tan Sponsor at the 2013 BRIT Awards.
Backstage, they are poised and ready to treat this year’s
nominees with the most flawless, luxurious golden tans.
Award-winning Fake Bake is the UK’s largest independent self-tan
company and a favourite amongst beauty experts and celebrities
alike, picking up a string of accolades and awards, notably from
Stylist, Grazia, The New York Times and This Morning. Fake Bake’s
range of tailored products were the first to combine specialist,
naturally-derived tanning agents which guarantee longer lasting,
more natural looking results that work with individual skin tones
to create a beach-holiday look. Fake Bake are committed to
constantly strive for self-tan perfection, and by using advanced
botanical ingredients they have been able to remove harmful
parabens and artificial preservatives from their products.
A name associated with glitz, glamour and red carpets, Fake
Bake is a favourite of celebrities worldwide. As well as this
year’s nominees Rita Ora and Olly Murs being fans of the range,
Fake Bake has an army of celebrity followers across the globe
including Nicole Scherzinger, Jessica Alba, Cheryl Cole and
many more. Fake Bake are delighted to provide their top quality
tanning treatments to all backstage at the BRIT Awards Spa.
fakebake.co.uk
Celebrating 21 years as a leading, cult hair styling brand,
Fudge is proud to be the Official BRITs 2013 Backstage Spa Hair
Partner. Fudge is about individuality and shouting about who
you are; Fudge is about setting yourself apart. It’s an attitude
and a brand for people who choose how they want to express
themselves. Whether you consider yourself evolutionary or
revolutionary, Fudge has a styling or colour product for you.
John Vial, Creative Director for Fudge comments: “The BRITs 2013 is
an ideal partnership for us. We’re honoured to join the team at the
Spa and work with the world’s leading musicians backstage. Fudge
chooses to work with brands and personalities we feel truly embody
our own identity. This can be seen in past collaborations with Lady
Gaga and hair stylist Charlie Le Mindu. We’ve also transformed models
at London Collections: Men, worked with Meadham Kirchhoff and
Philip Treacy, and filmed with the influential photographer Rankin.”
Join us backstage with the Fudge Senior Art Team who are on
hand to provide cutting and styling services for both men and
women during rehearsals as well as on show day. Get involved!
fudge.com
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There were a few murmurs when, in 2008, The BRITs’ Critics’
Choice Award came into being. Would there be enough
standout talent to claim the prize? And if there was, surely it
would be impossible to predict which artists the Great British
Public would take their heart? Then along came a parade
of wonderful women; Adele in 2008 then Ellie Goulding in
2009 and Florence & The Machine in 2010. The year after,
Jessie J got the nod. And everything in 2012, including
the Critics’ Choice gong, belonged to Emeli Sandé.
From Adele to odell
meet the BrIts’
CrItICs’ ChoICe wInner, 2013.
In 2013 The BRITs’ Critics’ Choice statuette
belongs to someone different; a bloke
called Tom Odell. Now the 22 year-old from
Chichester, a new-generation piano man
whose October-time debut EP Songs From
Another Love brought plaudits aplenty, is on
the cusp of the big-time. Here, he tells us
how he got his passion for music – and how
a chance meeting with Lily Allen Cooper
gave his career a welcome kick-start!
Hi Tom! Congratulations - you’ve
beaten off great competition to win the
BRITs Critics’ Choice Award 2013…
Thank you, it’s pretty amazing! I didn’t expect
to win because I’m a big fan of the other two
acts nominated. It’s kind of a weird moment,
to get such recognition so early on, but I’m so
pleased that people have liked the music!
Previous Critics’ Choice winners have taken
the music world by storm. Is the pressure on?
It is, but I always put pressure on myself
anyway. When you look at the last acts,
they’ve all done so well, so I do have some
big footsteps to follow in. But I don’t want
to think about that. I’m the first guy to
win it, and I’ll just be the best I can…
The Critics’ Choice Award suggests
overnight success but you’ve been
perfecting your craft for ages…
I’ve always made music. I remember seeing a
band at a fete aged three or four and being
engrossed, and then I loved the piano at my
grandparents’ house, and we eventually got one
of our own from the neighbours. By 13,
I was obsessed; coming home every night and
sitting in front of it for two hours, writing music.
And then I started doing a little bit at school.
When did you think,
‘I could make a career of this?’
At school I was very secretive about making
music. It was a personal thing. Then a
teacher called Simon Skinner found out, and
he encouraged and inspired me. I started
playing in bands when I was fifteen, and
at eighteen I made a serious, conscious
decision that music would be my career.
I decided to study music at the Brighton
Institute of Technology, where I wrote songs
during the day and did gigs every night.
What can we expect from your debut
album, Long Way Down, due in April?
If you listen to the EP, it’s not a million miles from
that, but it’s more upbeat. It’s based around the
piano. Hopefully, it has a balance of feelings
and emotions in music. Lyrically, the theme
is about the four stages of a relationship…
What was the process of making it like?
As soon as I signed I said, I want to go and
make this album right now. I rented a room,
it was a cupboard on the end of an art gallery
in East London, and I went there to write
every day, strict hours. Then I met a guy
called Dan Brett and worked with him to
record the songs in quite a traditional way.
So we did that, a song a day, quite quickly.
You’re just back from a US tour and you’re on
the road again in the UK in a couple of weeks.
How would you describe your live show?
I can’t wait for my tour in March, because it’s
only a couple of months ago I was playing
those same venues, supporting Jake Bugg.
To be headlining really excites me. It’s a
different game, because now people are
coming out to see me. I want people to come
away after it feeling a bit shocked and a bit
blown away. There’s a lot of energy. When it’s
sad I want to make it as sad as possible. And
when it’s up, I want people to go mental!
And are you ready to party at
the O2 on BRITs night?
Yes, I’m definitely coming down. It’s funny; I
grew up with The BRITs as a kid. I’d be really
excited to sit down with my mum every year
to watch the performances. I’m so happy.
It’s mind-blowing to be part of it all now.
So if you could have a singsong at
the aftershow bash with a musical
hero, who would it be?
You don’t understand how amazing it
would be to sing with Elton John – maybe
the track Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters. To
sing with him, or maybe Bruce Springsteen,
would be a dream come true for me…
Tom Odell will tour the UK in March. His
second single, Hold Me, is out April 1. The
album Long Way Down follows on April 15.
There is only one Critics’ Choice
winner 2013 but there are many
stars in the making. Sitting alongside
Tom Odell on the shortlist are two
other acts that also have what
it takes to reach of the sky…
Laura MvuLa
Laura Mvula is a 26 year-old singer songwriter
from Birmingham. Classically trained, her music is
a fresh blend of smooth jazz-soul with orchestral
overtones; the acclaimed EP She precedes
the LP Sing To The Moon out on March 4.
aLunaGeorGe
After showcasing their stomping electronica
on the September single Your Drums, Your
Love, the London-based boy/girl combo
AlunaGeorge promise understated silky
grooves and sex jams. Expect a summer album
to accompany a whirl of festival shows.
Tom o dell
Columbia / Sony Music
Your appearance on Later… brought
you to people’s attention. What
was your other big break?
When I moved to London, my management deal
and writing deal fell into place quite quickly
and one night, when I was doing a night called
Ruby Sings upstairs at Ronnie Scott’s, Lily Allen,
or Cooper as she is now, was in the audience
and really liked the music. She took me into
Columbia records, made the introductions
and signed me to her imprint record label.
THE CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARD IS PRESENTED IN
ASSOCIATION WITH WAR CHILD. THE WINNER IS
IDENTIFIED BY A PANEL OF MEDIA MUSIC CRITICS.
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British Producer of the Year
If you want someone who
really knows about music,
call the producer. The
often-overlooked role is
reserved for those who
value their precious craft
above everything else, on
the never-ending search
for something rarely found:
that very elusive - but oh so
perfect! - studio sound.
The Music Producers’ Guild knows that music
courses the veins of studio-dwellers. The
organisation’s BRIT-sponsored gala held at
London’s Café De Paris on Thursday, February
7th distributed fifteen shiny trophies plus a
lifetime achievement award to Sir George Martin
for excellence in production-related spheres.
The winner of the night’s biggest award, the
UK Producer of the Year, also receives the BRIT
Awards’ British Producer trophy. Step forward
Paul Epworth, whose working partnership
with Adele continues to enchant the planet.
Special mention also goes to shortlisted
talents Jake Gosling and Damon Albarn.
PauL ePWorth
What skills should a producer bring to the
table? According to Paul Epworth, who has
scooped the British Producer Award for a second
time in 2013, it’s “infinite patience, a strong
work ethic, and a handful of crazy ideas”.
The tracks he has worked on, and the tunes he
co-wrote, are the most recognisable songs on
the planet. It all started simply: “I messed around
with keyboards and cassette decks as a kid,
played in a band, and when I finally came to use
a studio I realised that the difference between
making a good recording and a bad one were
the production techniques used. It took 10 years’
solid graft until I finally recorded as a producer.”
The decade since has seen Epworth’s star in
the ascendant, working with Friendly Fires,
Foster The People, Plan B, and Florence and
The Machine, amongst others. And then there
is the artist who has shone brightest, reaping
the rewards of those after dark studio days.
After producing Adele’s 21, an album that has sold 27
million copies and counting, he reprised his role, cowriting
her Bond theme single. Says Paul, “Recording
Skyfall at Abbey Road was a moment I will never
forget. And the year was rounded off nicely with the
inclusion of a track I did with John Legend on the
soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained”.
Such diverse talents ensure his style keeps evolving.
“In artists, I look for originality, honesty, artistry,
depth and desire. Great artists have vision which
makes it easier to work towards a goal together.”
“I’m thrilled and flattered to receive this BRIT Award.
It’s an enormous accolade. I think the producers,
engineers, tape ops and runners who work 16-20
hour days on albums that really matter to people but
don’t receive the credit or critical spotlight
deserve more. I would like them
to get the recognition they
so dearly deserve for
enriching people’s
lives.”
JaKe GosLiNG
Jake Gosling is a five-times platinum music
producer. He worked alongside Ed Sheeran
on early EPs including the No.5 Collaborations
Project, with artists including Wiley, Devlin and
Wretch 32. In 2011 his work on Sheeran’s album
+ was a breakthrough, and Gosling went on to
collaborate with Paloma Faith on her second
LP Fall To Grace, alongside Nellee Hooper. He
produced tracks on One Direction’s debut,
Up All Night and their second album, Take Me
Home, No.1 in twenty countries worldwide. He
and Sheeran also wrote the single Little Things
for the band. Jake Gosling runs his own studio
complex, Sticky Studios, a management company,
and a publishing company, The Movement.
daMoN aLBarN
Damon Albarn continues to diversify in music.
He is nominated for his production work on the
acclaimed Bobby Womack comeback album, The
Bravest Man In The Universe, released in June 2012.
Albarn had coaxed Womack out of semi retirement
to sing on the Gorillaz’ tracks Stylo and Cloud of
The Unknowing, thus encouraging a new wave of
musical creativity on the LP. Albarn’s production
credits also include new Blur tracks Under The
Westway and The Puritan, but it is in world music
that he began racking up production credits;
with Abdel Hadi Halo & The El Gusto Orchestra of
Algiers, Amadou and Mariam, and DRC Music.
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Thank you
for The music
Tonight’s stars will receive a gift of an
amazing goodie bag…
Everyone lucky enough to see tonight’s
show will leave the O2 with wonderful
memories. But the A-list attendees taking
part in this evening’s proceedings will also
receive a brilliant selection of booty with
our heartfelt thanks.
All the performers on tonight’s
show, the guest presenters and the
BRIT Award winners will receive a
sumptuous his or hers goodie bag
filled with hand-picked, must-have
products. Here’s a sneak peek at the
gifts those stars will discover when
they look inside…
LUCKY VOICE
The Lucky Voice Karaoke Kit turns your computer
into the ultimate karaoke machine, with access
to over 8,000 karaoke songs on demand. All you
need is a broadband-connected computer and
a hi-fi, iPod dock or computer speakers. And this
Limited Edition kit includes a gold-coloured mic!
Perfect for birthdays, house parties,
hen parties, children’s parties, and
office parties at home or away.
luckyvoice.com
PAPERBLANKS JOURNALS
Paperblanks create uniquely designed and
exquisitely crafted journals which are inspired
by great artists, writers and the richness of
world art and culture. Paperblanks believe
that the written word matters, which is
why conscientious bookmaking, innovative
design and careful handiwork all go into the
production of each journal, dayplanner and
address book. The Old Leather Black Moroccan
Journal and the Silver Filigree Natural Journal
are current favourites in our range.
paperblanks.co.uk
HUGO RED & BOSS NUIT
POUR FEMME
HUGO Red is a contemporary blend of contrasting
ingredients, grapefruit, rhubarb, cedarwood
and hot amber, full of cold and hot tension that
stimulates the wearer and leaves him feeling
energized and ready to challenge himself.
BOSS Nuit Pour Femme features a modern
composition of feminine florals blended
with sparkling top notes. It is the perfect
complement to the little black dress, serving
as the uplifting finishing touch to the BOSS
woman’s evening preparation, ensuring
she feels ‘perfectly put together’.
fragrances.hugoboss.com/uk
EMMA J SHIPLEY
Emma J Shipley is a luxury label founded
by the eponymous designer, blurring the
boundaries between fine art and fashion.
The scarf collection ‘Hyper Nature’ is inspired
by evolution and patterns of asymmetry in
nature. All designs are taken from Emma’s original
drawings, creating unique, wearable artworks.
emmajshipley.com
TI SENTO MILANO
Ti Sento Milano is a sophisticated and cool
fashion jewellery brand from Europe, now
making waves in the UK and the US. It won
the Jewellery Brand of the Year award at
the UK Jewellery Awards – known as
the ‘Oscars’ of the jewellery industry –
and is available in over 250 stores
across the UK and Ireland. With a vast
range of the highest quality silver
jewellery, all hand set with sparkling
stones in seasonal collections,
Ti Sento celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2013.
Ti Sento is delighted to kick off these celebrations
in collaboration with The BRIT Awards 2013.
tisento-milano.com
JACK FRENCH LONDON
Jack French London aims to empower women
to live life – whatever life they lead. They are
the ultimate accessories brand and one of
the fastest-growing handbag names in the
country. A homage to understated elegance,
the Primrose is the everyday must-have for one
and all. A velvety soft leather bag, it features
a striking python snakeskin print, finished
so well with our imperial purple lining. The
Primrose is a maxi-style bag to hold a lot of
your everyday life with comfort and style – as
well as a sense of self-indulgent glamour.
jackfrenchlondon.com
HIGHLAND ANGEL
Button Cufflinks
Highland Angel is a boutique jewellery brand,
designing unique gifts, which can be personalised
to carry a special message. Our collections
include cufflinks, sterling silver and freshwater
pearls – a contemporary take on classic
pieces, making the ordinary extraordinary.
highlandangel.co.uk
TWENTY8
Described as James Dean meets James Bond meets
Robert Pattinson, the newly-launched designer
label Twenty8 from J4L delivers on its promise
to produce high quality leather accessories.
Twenty8’s luxury accessories, from
messenger bags to iPad covers, cater
for the current yet classic man who
seeks to stand out from the crowd,
with a blend of urban city chic!
Company founders Debbie
Davies, Dan Vine and Kartik
Bagga are proud to introduce
‘The London Collection’ and
have one of it’s signature
pieces gifted to this years
male ‘crème de la crème’ of
the music industry in Britain.
Contact dani@tigerworldpr.com
just4leather.co.uk
COLIN LESLIE BAMBOO EYEWEAR
Colin Leslie creates stylish and ethical fashion for eyes.
A UK designer and London Fashion WEEK success story,
Colin Leslie Eyewear Ltd supplies optical fashion frames
to ethical eyewear stores worldwide.
All our designs are eco friendly; made from recycled
acetates and featuring unique hand-crafted bamboo
temple arms in every design. Celebrities everywhere
are turning to Colin Leslie Eyewear. Crafted from
durable and fast-growing plantation bamboo, it
does not harm the environment or local wildlife.
colinleslieeyewear.co.uk
JBL J 55I
HIGH PERFORMANCE ON-EAR HEADPHONES
The JBL J 55i headphones put you at the centre
of professional-grade audio. Drawing on years
of expertise and building some of the finest
loudspeakers in the world, JBL engineers
created lightweight, on-ear headphones
with uncompromising JBL sound quality. A
unique, DJ-pivot mechanism lets you rotate
either ear cup up to 180 degrees, and the
bold styling makes the JBL J 55i headphones
both an aesthetic and an acoustic triumph.
JBL.com
JBL FLIP
PORTABLE WIRELESS STEREO SYSTEM
The JBL Flip is the ultimate wireless portable
stereo speaker for any environment delivering
the legendary JBL sound with exceptional bass.
You can connect the JBL Flip wirelessly to any
Bluetooth-equipped device, and enjoy up to five
hours of playback time from the built-in Li-ion
rechargeable battery. Used in either vertical or
horizontal positions, the Flip will always deliver
an impressive and powerful JBL sound.
JBL.com
CHEWTON GLEN HOTEL & SPA
Enjoy an overnight break for two in a Treehouse
Suite at Chewton Glen. You’ll have a sumptuous
breakfast hamper delivered direct to your
Treehouse, plus full use of the spa facilities. Or
choose an overnight break for two in Spring
Cottage, situated on the banks of the River
Thames within the Cliveden Estate, including
breakfast and full use of the spa facilities.
chewtonglen.com
SKYCIG FREEDOM
Designed to simulate the act of smoking
tobacco, a SKYCIG e-cigarette contains just a
small dose of nicotine, delivered in the form of
water vapour, to allow you to enjoy the act of
smoking without the 4,000 harmful chemicals
found in traditional cigarettes. With a selection
of seven unique and great tasting flavours –
Classic Tobacco, Tobacco Gold, Menthol, Vanilla,
Cherry, Cinnamon, and Crown Tobacco – SKYCIG
e-cigarettes are available in three varying
strengths – Bold, Regular and Light. SKYCIG is a
product that guarantees satisfaction, without
compromising on taste or the user’s enjoyment.
skycig.co.uk
PANDORA’S LOUNGE
Pandora’s Lounge is thrilled to have put together
The BRIT Awards 2013 Goodie Bag! We’re experts
in Celebrity Gifting and our aim is to give brands
access to the most exclusive events and talent.
As well as creating carefully chosen Goodie Bags,
we can add that little extra to your event by
creating an exclusive Gifting Lounge where your
guests are able to personally select their gifts. We
can also help provide competition prizes, great
sampling opportunities and direct gifting.
So if you’re an artist looking for some great gifts,
you want to put your brand in
the hands of the right talent, or
you aim to add that little extra to
your event, we can help!
pandoraslounge.com
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The BRIT Awards 2013 is a charity event.
Money raised from this evening’s event – from
ticket sales and bar bills to TV rights and
merchandising revenue – will be channelled
toward deserving organisations by the
BPI’s charitable arm, the BRIT Trust.
The Trust has raised over £20million since its
1989 inception. More than £14m of that total
has been raised by the glittering BRIT Awards,
the flagship occasion in an annual calendar
jam-packed with fundraising events.
The BRIT Trust distributes funding to organisations
that embody its guiding ethos – to educate
and encourage young people through the
medium of music. As well as awarding grants
to grass roots community projects, it has
a long and fruitful association with three
exceptional causes; Nordoff Robbins Music
Therapy, War Child, and The BRIT School.
brittrust.co.uk
Nordoff robbiNs
Nordoff Robbins is a music therapy charity, dedicated
to transforming the lives of vulnerable children
and adults. They deliver over 50,000 music therapy
sessions every year to people with a range of
challenges such as autism, dementia, and depression,
as well as physical and learning disabilities.
Music therapy is a specialist use of music to help
people in many different ways. For some, it has physical
benefits; for others, profound emotional or social
ones. It also helps many to communicate where they
have previously struggled. As one user said recently, “I
simply couldn’t live without this music every week”.
Nordoff Robbins receives no government funding.
They derive a significant amount of their income
from individual sponsors, including their largest
benefactor, the BRIT Trust. With continued support
from Annie Lennox, Paul McCartney, Muse, Emeli
Sandé, Bill Nighy, Gary Barlow and many more,
and through events like the Silver Clef Awards
and the MITs, Nordoff Robbins continues to build
awareness of its services and transform lives.
They carry out their invaluable work in their own
dedicated music therapy centres and units, in schools,
day centres, hospitals and care homes. Nordoff
Robbins also collaborates with a number of third-party
partners, including Great Ormond Street Hospital.
The briT school
The BRIT School is the UK’s leading non-fee paying
performing arts and technology school. Jointly
funded by the BRIT Trust and the Department
for Education, the Croydon-based centre
celebrates its 22nd anniversary this year.
The school offers talented 14 to 19 year-old students
a complete learning experience; juxtaposing excellent
academic standards with strong vocational training in
the fields of media, technology, and the arts. Staff can be
just as proud of first-rate exam results and meaningful
community links as they are of the school’s impressive
alumni; Adele, Jessie J, Rizzle Kicks and Kate Nash are
among the current chart stars who studied there.
The BRIT School, which offers equality of opportunity
regardless of race, background or social status, has
educated over 10,000 dedicated students since 1991.
The BRIT Trust is proud of its relationship with The BRIT
School, and together we will continue to encourage the
development of musicians, technicians, film makers,
producers, painters, lighting designers, choreographers,
composers, DJs, games makers, teachers and
community artists in order to make a positive impact
throughout society and the creative industries.
brit.croydon.sch.uk
War child
The charity War Child believes that since children don’t
start wars, their lives should never be torn apart by them.
A small charity with a big impact, War Child has been
in existence for 20 years. During that time it has
provided life-changing and life-saving support to over
800,000 children in Bosnia, Afghanistan, D.R. Congo
and beyond. Staff remain on the ground in some of
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sexual violence. But they also stay long after the TV
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War Child emerged in response to politicians’
inaction, and their failure to protect children from
war in the former Yugoslavia. The music industry, and
the musicians who contributed to the iconic HELP
album in 1995, made a difference. Two decades later,
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sure that the children of Syria aren’t forsaken.
The charity is hugely grateful for the support of artists
like Sir Paul McCartney, Oasis, Coldplay, Kasabian and
Paul Weller over the last 20 years. With their help, War
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Avenues Youth Project,
Bigga Fish, Black Arts
Alliance, Blackheath Halls,
Blantyre Music Project,
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Musicians Benevolent
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School, Portishead Youth,
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Walters, Release, Rock School,
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Commonwealth Society,
Save The Children, St David’s
Hall, Cardiff, St Luke’s School,
Terrence Higgins Trust, Tim
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West Lothian College, Young
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iAn grimBle • iAn mcAndrew • iAn moss • iAn neil • iAn titcHener • iAn youngs • isABel sierrA • jAck foster • jAck melHuisH • jAck sinnott • jAckie dAv i d s o n •
jAcqui rice • jAde joHnson • jAke jAckson • jAmes BArton • jAmes BArton • jAmes BAss • jAmes Bursey • jAmes cABooter • jAmes clArk • jAmes currAn •
jAmes fitzHerBert-BrockHoles • jAmes HAcket t • jAmes Hurley • jAmes ingHAm • jAmes mAnnion • jAmes mullAn • jAmes rAdice • jAmes sAndom • jAmie Allyn •
jAmie Binns • jAmie Burgess • jAmie griffitHs • jAmie oBorne • jAmie sutcliffe • jAmii lAyton • jAne ArtHy • jAne clemetson • jAne curtis • jAne dyBAl l •
jAnet cHoudry • jAnice Brock • jAson crimmins • jAson ellis • jAson iley • jAson mArcus • jAson perry • jAsper Hope •
jAvier lopez • jAzz summers • jeAn coffey • jeff smitH • jeffrey jones • jemmA dw yer • jenitA rAHmAn • jennie wAllAc e •
jennifer ivory • jeremy mArsH • jess Bendien • jess eldridge • jez Bell • jim cHAncellor • jim king • jim mAw d s l e y •
jim tHomAs • jimi fAmurewA • jls • jo elvin • jo HArt • joe HAddow • joe mott • joe munns • joe tAy l o r •
joe williAms • joff Hopkins • joHn Aizlewood • joHn cornwell • joHn cronin • joHn dyer • joHn eAr l s •
joHn HAll • joHn Hodge • joHn mArsHAll • joHn mclAren • joHn mulvey • joHn silcock • joHn wAller •
joHn dingwAll • joHn kAye cooper • jon mAis • jon turner • jon weBster • jonAtHAn cr o s s •
jonAtHAn dickins • jonAtHAn green • jonAtHAn HeAf • jonAtHAn morrisH • jonAtHAn sHAl i t •
jonAtHAn woods • jonny dAwson • josepH newBle • josH HollidAy • josH sAunders • joy elt o n •
jude rogers • juliAn deAne • juliAn wAll • julie eyre • julie weir • justin Bulley • justin morris •
kAren simmonds • kAte longmAte • kAte wrigHt • kAtHArine douglAs • kAtHerine BAw d e n •
kAtHy leppArd • kAtie gwytHer • kAtie Hind • keeley grAy • keitH Ames • kelly wood • kelvin Avon •
ken mArsHAll • kevin Buckle • kevin HugHes • kevin mccABe • kevin milBurn • kiAron wHiteHeAd •
kim BAyley • kim cArr • kim tAylor Bennett • kings of leon • kordA mArsHAll • kwAme kwAt e n •
kylA mullins • lAnA weBB • lAurA keAne • lAurA lukAnz • lAurA sAyer s • lAurA wo o d • lAuren BrennAn •
lAurence Bell • lAurence BoAkes • lAurie pegg • leAH cHAlmers • lee jenson • lee tHo m p s o n •
leo wyndHAm • lewis corner • leyton BrAcegirdle • liAm Howe • liAm tootill • lisA BAttistA •
lisA sHenton • lisA smitH • lisA verrico • lisA young • liz goodwin • lizzie frAncis • louis Bloom •
louise court • louise kovAcs • louise mAyne • louise stAnners pow • luciAn grAinge • lucy forster •
lucy fulford • lucy jordAcHe • ludovic Hunter-tilney • luke BlAckAll • luke mitzmAn •
lynne mcdowell • mAggie crowe • mAlcolm mAckenzie • mAndy pArnell • mAndy plumB • mAnjit AujlAstArr
• mArc picken • mArc roBinson • mAriAnne petersen • mAriAnne tHomsen • mArie-clAire giddings •
mArion mAyger • mArk AdAms • mArk BlAckstock • mArk BroAd • mArk findlAy • mArk fletcHer •
mArk foster • mArk frAnklin • mArk fritH • mArk george • mArk gillespie • mArk HAgen • mArk mitcHell •
mArk muggeridge • mArk pAlmer • mArk plAnt • mArk rAmpton • mArk ronson • mArk rose • mArk ste i n •
mArk sutHerlAnd • mArk terry • mArk sAvAge • mAroon 5 • mArtin tAlBot • mArtyn lee • mArtyn lowesmitH •
THE BRIT AWARDS
would like to thank
everyone who helped choose
our deserving winners tonight.
Some awards, such as British Breakthrough Act, reach
out to knowledgeable music fans through public voting,
to measure the mood of the nation. But elsewhere, we
call upon the 1,000-strong BRIT Academy to use their
unrivalled industry knowledge to pinpoint standout
acts deserving of our applause and recognition.
The BRIT Academy is made up of experts who excel in
their respective fields. Music producers, managers,
promoters, retailers and publishers, as well as
students, DJs, and a wide range of taste-making
media execs all share a desire to celebrate
the brightest artists Britain has to offer. A
hundred thousand thanks to all!
mAtt everitt • mAtt mAson • mAtt mundAy • mAtt newmAn • mAtt pHillips • mAtt riley • mAtt wAr d •
mAtt woolliscroft • mAttHew Amos • mAttHew cHAmBers • mAttHew crosswAite • mAttHew todd • mAttHew tuc k •
mAx Bloom • mAx lousAdA • mAx velody • mAx Hole • megAn conner • meHdi Aoustin-sellAmi • micHAel Betton •
micHAel Bonner • micHAel cleAry • micHAel crAgg • micHAel roe • micHAel smitH • micHAel sweeney • mick glossop • mick meAdows • mike Allen • mike BAt t •
mike Box • mike dAvidson • mike diver • mike dut ton • mike HAnson • mike mccormAck • mike pArker • mike pickering • mike smitH • mike wAlsH • miles leonAr d •
miller williAms • mirAndA collinge • morris stemp • murrAy rose • mustAfA BilAl • nAdine BiBi • nAdine pArker • nAnette rigg • nAt clAr k s o n •
nAtAlie jAmieson • nAtAlie jennings • nAtAsHA lyncH • nAtHAn tHompson • neAle eAsterBy • neil HugHes • neil mccormick • neil sAxBy • neil sloAn •
neil west • niAll wHite • niAmH o’reilly • nicHolAs dunn • nicHolAs goree • nick Burgess • nick ford • nick glynn • nick moore • nick neAds • nick rApHAe l •
nick roBinson • nick sHymAnsky • nicolA tuer • nicolA wisemAn • nicolle weeks • nigel elderton • nigel HArding • nigel morton • niHAl ArtHAnAyAk e •
niki sAnderson • ninA jAckson • oliver scHusser • ollie slAney • olly rice • omAr mAskAtiyA • one direction • orlA lee-fisHer • oswin Brenner • pAddy kelly
Bunce • pAlomA fAitH • pAul Burger • pAul Burrows • pAul BurscHe • pAul cArdow • pAul cArey • pAul clifford • pAul cole • pAul connolly • pAul crAi g •
pAul crockford • pAul emmines • pAul fenn • pAul firtH • pAul flynn • pAul HAwkins • pAul ingleBy • pAul joHAnnes • pAul joHnston • pAul kinder •
pAul krAmer • pAul lisBerg • pAul mAck • pAul mcnAmee • pAul muller • pAul quirk • pAul redding • pAul roBerts • pAul scAife • pAul sHeeHAn •
pAul smernicki • pAul stokes • pAul williAms • pete jArrett • pete wilson • pete gArdiner gArdiner • peter BArnes • peter BlAck • peter coulston •
peter duckwortH • peter goodAll • peter HArt • peter HutcHinson • peter knigHt jr. • peter mcgAugHrin • peter price • peter purnell • peter rud g e •
peter selBy • peter tHomAs • peter roBinson • peter ‘mistAjAm’ dAlton • pHil cHAdwick • pHil dA costA • pHil HeBBletHwAite • pHil Heyes • pHil Hope •
pHil kielty • pHil mAtcHAm • pHil mcgArvey • pHil middleton • pHil nelson • pHil youngmAn • pHill HArding • pierre perrone • piers BrAd f o r d •
pietro pArAvellA • pixie lott • pj HArvey • plAn B • priyA elAn • pru HArris • rAB noAkes • rAcHAel edwArds • rAcHel colley • rAcHelle ferron • rAlpH BAk e r •
rAye cosBert • reBeccA Allen • reBeccA eBBs • reBeccA HuxtABle • reBeccA lewis • reBeccA nicHolson • rene renner • renee jAmieson • reynold d’silvA •
ric BlAxill • ricArdo fernAndez • ricH clArke • ricH roBinson • ricH tHAne • ricHArd Bignell • ricHArd BrAy • ricHArd connell • ricHArd dAw e s •
ricHArd ford • ricHArd griffitHs • ricHArd ligHtmAn • ricHArd mAnners • ricHArd mollet • ricHArd pArk • ricHArd rAmsey • ricHArd wHeeler •
ricHArd wHite • rick fulton • ricky durkin • roB copsey • roB crutcHley • roB fitzpAtrick • roB owen • roB wells • roB toulson • roBert linney •
roBert spiers • roBerto HeArt fm • roBerto neri • roBin Brown • roBin osterley • roHit prAsAd • rosAlind sAck • rosAmund deAn • ross jon e s •
roz cocHrAne-gougH • ruAridH nicoll • ruBy mulrAine • rumer • rupert witHers • russ evAns • russell mcnAmArA • russell wArBy • rutH pArrisH •
ryAn AdAms • ryAn snook • sAleem sHeikH • sAlim mukAddAm • sAlly BevAn • sAm eldridge • sAm jAckson • sAm pArker • sAm potts • sAm rowe • sAm rum n e y •
sAm stuBBings • sAm tAylor • sAmmy jones • sAmuel pAlmer • sAndor pirotH • sArA cox • sArA louise wilson • sArAH BoormAn • sArAH HAll • sArAH ordidge •
sArAH stuArt • scott coHen • scott rodger • scouting for girls • seAmus murpHy-mitcHell • seAn AdAms • seB weller • sefton woodHouse • selinA weBB •
sHAdi HAlliwell • sHAne o’neill • sHeenA mAson • sHyAmAlA tHArmendirAn • simmy ricHmAn • simon AltHAm • simon BArnABAs • simon cosyns • simon di x •
simon drAke • simon gogerly • simon jones • simon pitt • simon porter • simon roBson • simon sAdler • simon wArd • simon wilson • sineAd oldnAll •
sioBHAn grogAn • sonny tAkHAr • stAcy BlAckmAn • ste softley • stefAn demetriou • stefAn kyriAzis • stepHen Ackroyd • stepHen Budd • stepHen clAr k e •
stepHen long • stepHen mAndy • stepHen miron • stepHen nAvin • stepHen jones • stevAn krAkovic • steve BArnes • steve clements • steve dAl e •
steve gotkine • steve Homer • steve lAzArus • steve levine • steve pritcHArd • steve redmond • steven A williAms • stewArt green • stuArt Bell •
stuArt cAin • stuArt clArke • stuArt gAlBrAitH • stuArt mcgurk • stuArt stuBBs • stuArt wortHington • sue fowler • sue HAntscH • sunil singvi •
susAn mAsters • suzi Aplin • syBil Bell • tABoo • tAnsy diplock • tAponeswA mAvungA • tAsH sHAH • ted cockle • terry mArsH • terry underHil l •
tHe temper trAp • tHe wAnted • tHe xx • tHomAs green • tHomAs HAimovici • tim ingHAm • tim vernon • tim young • timotHy vigon • tinA HArt • tinA mAttHew s •
tinA skinner • tinie tempAH • toBy donnelly • toBy leigHton-pope • todd interlAnd • tom BryAnt • tom dArk • tom green • tom mArcH • tom pAkinkis •
tom tHorogood • tommy d • tony collinge • tony cooke • tony grist • tony Hutton • tony morris • tony plAtt • tony wAdswortH • tony wAn g •
trAcie young • trevor dAnn • trevor giess • trevor mcnAmee • vAccines • vAl Bird • viBicA Auld • vic sindermAnn • victor Aroldoss • victoriA needs •
victoriA simpson • virginiA monAgHAn • viv youell • will Amery • will Hodgkinson • will.i.Am • williAm luff • williAm sABAtini • yemi AdesHinA • zoe wHeeler •
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BRITS COMMITTEE 2013
Chairman David Joseph (Universal Music)
Ben Beardsworth (XL Recordings), Jason Iley (Universal
Music), Miles Leonard (EMI), Colin Barlow (Sony Music),
Christian Tattersfield (Warners), Geoff Taylor (BPI),
Hannah Strickland (Universal), Maggie Crowe OBE
(BRIT Awards Ltd), Adrian Carter (BRIT Awards Ltd), Mark
Fletcher (BPI), John Kaye Cooper (ITV), Suzi Aplin (BRITs
TV Exec Producer), Craig Gledhill (BRITs TV Producer),
Stuart Bell & Richard Dawes (DawBell PR)
FOR THE BPI, OCC & VOTING ACADEMY
Tony Wadsworth CBE, Geoff Taylor, Kiaron Whitehead,
Mark Fletcher, Guiseppe de Cristofano, Carole Lampard,
Chris Austin, Omar Maskatiya, Martin Talbot,
Chris Walker.
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THE BRIT AWARDS 2013 SHOW PROGRAMME
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