We all remember Jarvis Cocker baring his backside while Michael Jackson performed Earth Song.
Seeing the Pulp frontman’s arse as the late singer delivered his ‘Christ-like’ performance, including the bit of dad-dancing he squeezed in before he was carted off stage, well, it’s an integral piece of music award history.
That was 20 years/Brit Awards ago and there hasn’t been another stage stormer so epic and brave since.
Calvin Harris paid homage to Cocker on X Factor in 2014 by storming Jedward’s stage with a pineapple on his head and although f**king funny, it isn’t music folklore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=300&v=CgG-XJgmXdU
This Wednesday night at London’s o2, the BRIT Awards with Mastercard 2016 will take place.
Justin Bieber is performing and you never know, a guest might get so leathered on the lady petrol (white wine) being served that they decide to join him on stage. Like Jacko, he’s another artist who grabs his crotch a lot.
Adele is up for a number of awards (she will win Best Album) and we know how sweary she likes to get. In 2012, she gave the telly cameras the middle finger for cutting her off before she had finished her speech.
Although all artists have been warned about expletives, Adele is most likely to say b*llocks to that. Legend.
Rihanna is performing on these shores for the first time in a long while, she’s not going to disappoint. I guarantee every man, women and beast in the room will be transfixed.
There are always plenty of naysayers about the event, maybe it is ‘full of suits fit enough for Alan Partridge’, but I think we should keep an open-mind. There are plenty of creative minds to keep the arena buzzing.
Rarely does a year go by without being truly entertained by a superstar, Madonna took a tumble for us last year…
My mouth was still open in shock when Kanye West arrived to steal the show with an amazing, provocative performance of ‘All Day’ featuring half of the UK’s grime and rap names, which we all thought would open the mainstream door for grime music, but nope. None of them have been recognised this year.
Why the suits would shun the likes of Skepta and Stormzy after the year they’ve had is beyond me, it’s blind ignorance. #OscarsSoWhite springs to mind.
Not to mention a dozens of other acts who deserve to be recognised.
But this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t celebrate the British artists who are up for gongs. Nominees Foals, Florence Welch, Adele, Coldplay, Jamie xx and James Bay bring joy to millions around the world through music.
So I’m embracing it (and crossing my fingers for a gangly, bespectacled man to bare his bum).
