TV Blog: The 2013 Brit Awards

Another year, another bland and dull Brit Awards. Alan Corr reckons the pop stars themselves are as much to blame as the actual music industry

Ben Whoward? We’ve long learned not to expect any surprises from the Brit Awards but the sight of some bloke called Ben Howard scooping not one but two dinky polka dot statuettes last night really did leave me pressing reverse and replay on my remote control.

Howard is clearly loved by people who find Ed Sheeran’s music just a bit too bleeding edge and experimental and good for Ben and his pained acoustic ...