The BRIT Awards happened. That’s a thing that there’s no denying. But how did it happen? And why? Those are questions that may or may not be answered here.It was, of course, a night of big changes for the UK record industry’s big annual prize giving.
Awards were no longer split between genders and genre-specific prizes were reintroduced. Plus, the social distancing that made the show so odd last year was gone.It was also the first time in living memory that Jack Whitehall didn’t present, which was possibly the most exciting thing.
The appearance of Mo Gilligan on stage was the first time I think any of us can remember a BRITs presenter wearing a suit that fit them properly.As time wore on, I did start to miss Whitehall’s refusal to ever take the ceremony seriously.
Gilligan played it fairly straight – possibly having a certain reverence for the event due to being a former BRIT School pupil.
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