After the dust has settled and the world and it’s dog have all had their say and the ceremony has  been long forgotten thanks to the Oscars, I’ve finally found my camera cable and can upload my photos from The Brits!

If you are following me on twitter you would have been getting my up to the minute updates from The Brits. If you weren’t, in a nutshell – I thought Take That, Estelle & The Ting Tings, U2 and Kings of Leon were the best performances but The Hoff got the biggest cheer of the night from the audience. Estelle should have won an award and the Pet Shop Boys were completely underwhelming.

To say it was my first Brit Awards, I was balling on Jim Jones proportions! I shared a table with the boss of Radio 1 and 1Xtra, Westwood, Nihal, Gemma and the Radio 2 top brass; the head of Audio and Music at the BBC and Jeremy Vine and Claudia Winkleman – a mixed bag!

I came away from the show, ducking out of the after parties (which I of course now regret having heard the stories!!) and got home with one thought in my head: the Brits is very…pop.

When you look at the American equivalent – The Grammies – they celebrate all facets of American (and international) music. Award categories for Country, R&B, HipHop, Pop and many many more genres. Then let’s look at the Brits – nothing for any genre; just pop.

The Brits should start to break it down. We have a great tradition of Rock, Indie, Dance, HipHop, R&B, Folk and Pop in this country to name but a few and we should celebrate it all. Just a thought…

Anyway, Gemma will be pleased: here are the photos!