Beautiful South, Gomez, Catatonia *, Massive Attack
- Award was presented by Norman Wisd..er sorry, Lee Evans and Kylie Minogue.
Best Male Solo Artist :
ROBBIE WILLIAMS
Lynden David Hall, Bernard Butler, Ian Brown, Fatboy Slim * - Award was presented by Ian Dury and Jools Holland.
Best Female Solo Artist :
DES'REE
Billie Myers, Hinda Hicks, PJ Harvey *, Billie
- Award was presented by Meera Syal and another idiot from "Goodness
Gracious Me".
Best Single :
ROBBIE WILLIAMS - ANGELS (from 1997! What a swiz!)
Fatboy Slim - Rockerfella Skank
Massive Attack - Teardrop
George Michael - Outside
Beautiful South - Perfect 10
Catatonia - Road Rage *
Des'ree - Life
Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Robbie Williams - Millennium
Cornershop - Brimful of Asha
- Award was presented by Sheryl "dragged through a hedge backwards" Crow
and Meat Loaf.
Best British Album :
MANIC STREET PREACHERS - THIS IS MY TRUTH, TELL ME YOURS
Catatonia - International Velvet *
Gomez - Bring It On
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Robbie Williams - I've Been Expecting You
- Award was presented by Mariella Frostrup's flabby arms and Prince Naseem
Hamed.
Best Video :
ROBBIE WILLIAMS - MILLENNIUM (and I can't stand it!)
Jamiroquai - Deeper Underground
Robbie Williams - Let Me Entertain You
Placebo - Pure Morning
All Saints - Under The Bridge
Radiohead - No Surprises *
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Mel B - I Want You Back
Cornershop - Brimful of Asha
George Michael - Outside
- Award was presented by Helen Baxendale (Friends, Cold Feet, Cardiac
Arrest) and John Thompson (The Fast Show, Cold Feet, Men Behaving
Badly)
Best British, Dance Act :
FATBOY SLIM
All Saints, Faithless, Jamiroquai *, Massive Attack
- Award was presented by Boy George and Sharleen Spiteri (Texas)
Best International Group :
THE CORRS
Air, Beastie Boys, Fun Lovin' Criminals, R.E.M. * (I'd have given the * to The Corrs if they hadn't sold out
musically)
- Award was presented by Bjorn (Abba)
Best International Male Solo Artist :
BECK
Eagle Eye Cherry, Pras, Neil Finn *, Will Smith
- Award was presented by Ladysmith Black Mambazo and a tin of beans
Best International Female Solo Artist :
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA
Sheryl Crow, Lauryn Hill, Madonna *, Alanis Morissette
- Award was presented by Ian Wright and Miss World 1998.
Best International Newcomer :
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA
B*witched, Air *, Eagle Eye Cherry, Savage Garden
- Award was presented by All Saints
Best Film Soundtrack or Cast Recording :
TITANIC
Jackie Brown *, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Wedding Singer,
Boogie Nights
- Award was presented by Mark "Complete Wanker" Morrison, and the fact
that he's changed his name to Abdul Rahman gives you even more reasons not
to shop for Morrison's 'music'.
Radio 1 Best Newcomer Award :
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN
5ive, Gomez *, Another Level, Billie, Cornershop, Propellerheads,
Cleopatra, Hinda Hicks, Steps
- Award presented by Zoe Ball and Huey (Fun Lovin' Criminals)
Best Producer :
YOUTH : For Verve
Godrich: For Radiohead * , Howlett, Size: for Reprazent, Street
1999 Freddie Mercury Award :
Jubilee 2000 Coalition (dropping Third World debt)
- Award presented by Johnny Ball, collected by Bono and given to
Muhammad Ali who was there but also wasn't there.
Award for Outstanding Contribution :
EURYTHMICS
- Award presented by Stevie Wonder.
High-point of the evening :
The collaboration between David Bowie and Placebo
singing "Twentieth Century Boy".
High AND low-point of the evening :
Bono putting forward the fact that the Millennium celebrations are
"bollocks" (ie. a complete waste of time and money), but losing points for
getting political (again)
Low-point of the evening :
The fact that Johnny Vaughn was hosting.
Second-most low-point of the evening :
Boyzone's god-awful cover of When The Going Gets Tough
(Billy Ocean's No.1 in 1986)
Third-most low-point of the evening :
Robbie Williams' speech accepting Best Video award by shouting
"All Hail Muff Sandwich". Oh Robbie, what a card you aren't.
Fourth-most low-point of the evening :
Robbie Williams' "speech" accepting Best Video award by ripping off
FatBoy Slim's "Speechless" note. Robbie responded with "Legless".
Ha ha bonk! Whoops I laughed so much my head fell off (!)
As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B
37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier.
PC games reviewed by the editor are on:
Since Jan 2011: Intel Quad Core Dell XPS 8100, i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80Ghz, 8Gb RAM, nVidia GeForce GTS 240, Windows 7
Since Nov 2005: Intel Pentium D 830 3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb nVidia GeForce 6700XL, Windows XP
Since Aug 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb GeForce4 MX440 graphics, Windows XP
Since May 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb ATI Radeon 9600TX graphics, Windows XP
Since Jun 2002: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, 64Mb ATI Radeon 8500LE
Since May 2000: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
