The BRIT Awards 2015

The O2, London (25th February 2015)

Tonight sees many of the best in homegrown (and international) musical talent come together for one of the biggest music award shows in the UK: The BRIT Awards. Ahead of the show, we look at who our winners would be.

You can watch the Awards streamed live here from 8pm.

British Video

• Calvin Harris – ‘Summer’
• Ed Sheeran – ‘Thinking Out Loud’
• Mark Ronson Ft Bruno Mars – ‘Uptown Funk’ – an awesome funk track with an equally great video
• One Direction – ‘You And I’
• Sam Smith – ‘Stay With Me’

British Breakthrough Act

• CHVRCHES – having brought something refreshing and new, the perfect addition to any festival line up
• FKA Twigs
• George Ezra
• Royal Blood
• Sam Smith

Mastercard British Album

• Alt-J – ‘This Is All Yours’
• Ed Sheeran – ‘X’
• George Ezra – ‘Wanted On Voyage’
• Royal Blood – ‘Royal Blood’
• Sam Smith – ‘In The Lonely Hour’ – it couldn’t be anything else, this has been on repeat for most of the year

British Female Solo Artist

• Ella Henderson
• FKA Twigs – one of the most talked about artists this year
• Jessie Ware
• Lily Allen
• Paloma Faith

British Male Solo Artist

• Damon Albarn
• Ed Sheeran
• George Ezra
• Paolo Nutini
• Sam Smith – again it couldn’t be anyone else for us

British Group

• Alt-J
• Clean Bandit – a very pleasant surprise when listening to the album, looking forward to seeing these guys live next month
• Coldplay
• One Direction
• Royal Blood

International Female Solo Artist

• Beyonce
• Taylor Swift
• Lana Del Rey
• Sia – a huge fan of her 1000 Forms of Fear album
• St. Vincent

International Male Solo Artist

• Beck
• Hozier
• Jack White
• John Legend – reminiscent of Kate’s time in the US, Legend has made a successful comeback this year
• Pharrell Williams

International Group

• The War On Drugs
• 5 Seconds Of Summer
• The Black Keys – although they cancelled their London gig, we still love the duo’s style of US rock
• First Aid Kit
• Foo Fighters

Critic’s Choice Award

• James Bay
• George The Poet
• Years & Years – well they did feature on The Magician’s Sunlight and they are equally brilliant in their own right…

British Producer

• Alison Goldfrapp & Will Gregory – big fans of their material for a long time now
• Flood
• Jake Gosling
• Paul Epworth

British Single

• Calvin Harris – ‘Summer’
• Clean Bandit Ft Jess Glynne – ‘Rather Be’
• Duke Dumont Ft Jax Jones – ‘I Got U’ – one of our summer anthems
• Ed Sheeran – ‘Thinking Out Loud’
• Ella Henderson – ‘Ghost’
• George Ezra – ‘Budapest’
• Mark Ronson Ft Bruno Mars – ‘Uptown Funk’
• Route 94 Ft Jess Glynne – ‘My Love’
• Sam Smith – ‘Stay With Me’
• Sigma – ‘Nobody To Love’

You can also visit our Flikr page and YouTube channel to see photo and video highlights from events where we have seen some of the nominees live.

 

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