Sunday, 25 February 2018

The 2018 BRITs.

I watched the BRIT awards on Wednesday and if I am being honest, they were terrible.

Host Jack Whitehall's jokes /interview questions with guests didn't really go down too well, and I was cringing a few times.

Damon Albarn's drunk ramblings about brexit was cut off twice, and then some random women starting rambling. And then the camera cut to Jack Whitehall looking confused and blank. TWICE.

Rapper Stormzy thanked God for his 2 awards about a million times. And then when he performed at the end, he asked Theresa May where the money was for Grenfell. There was a bucket of water also poured on his head during his performance for some odd reason, and people behind him on stage wearing balaclavas.

Kendrick Lamar was described as "the greatest rapper in the world" (he isn't) and then they muted his performance. He was joined on stage by some guy who, for reasons known to themselves, was vandalizing a car.

Nile Rogers couldn't read the autocue.

The Foo Fighters went AWOL when they were gonna be interviewed.

Ed Sheeran was awarded an award and they wheeled Ronnie Wood to present the award, and then it cut to Elton John (wearing the worlds dodgiest tracksuit) to talk about his "close friend" Ed Sheeran. And he got his name wrong. That's how close they are.

I did think it was sweet when Dua Lipa brought her younger siblings on stage with her so they could experience "magic".

Liam Gallagher sang "Live Forever" and then the second the song finished, he just walked off stage. And he was introduced by Gary Barlow.

Half of the nominations I didnt even know and I think (with the exception of Lorde and Harry Styles) they just gave the award to whoever turned up.

It was fun to watch and it wouldn't be the BRITs if it wasnt terrible. Thats its reputation.

'All Together Now' BBC1.

I am really loving this Saturday night show. Its nearly finished its run but I really hope that they bring it back.

Its a fun, quirky little show.

On the surface it's a singing competition where the winner wins £50,000. Nothing unique there.

But the singers have to sing in front of the 100. A panel of judges who are involved in all kinds of singing (including Geri from the spice girls) and if they like the singer and performance, they put on a light and stand up and join in.

The singer that has the most number of people who stand up goes through to the final and the 2 runners up go to the sing off, where the same rules apply. Whoever gets the most number of people join in, goes through to the final.

There's a variety of singers and its not like 'the x factor' or 'the voice' where its treated like life or death. Its fun and it gives everyone a chance to shine.

There's no sob stories ("please put me through because my neighbours friends dogs brothers owners hamster has died") and because the variety of judges are widely different and some of the 100 like singers some of the others don't, theres no obvious winner and no favourites.

The singers support each other and they are having fun.

And host Rob Beckett's sarcastic/witty comments just make it even more brilliant.

I really love the show. Its perfect Saturday night entertainment and they should bring it back.

Sunday, 4 February 2018

Football: I'm gonna talk about my team's rival. Sunderland.

I'm a Newcastle United girl. I know that we're not exactly in our glory days but we're better than Sunderland.

Sunderland's days of being a premier league club are long gone, in my opinion. They have no big players, they are struggling in the championship and in real danger of being relegated to league 1.

They also have a manager who hasn't managed a "real" club for years; Chris Colman  said it himself that he found the transfer window brutal, and thats another problem they have; the manager isn't used to relegation battles. He doesn't have the experience (or the knowledge) to lift a club out of the danger zone.

Managing Wales is very different to managing Sunderland.

There's little to no investment and I don't see any passion or desire from the players. Even the fans seemed to have given up and deserted the team.

I think that unless the team get some big investment, along with some big players, they are destined to become (and stay) a mid division team.