Plan B wins!!!

[Gob]

Rapper-turned-singer Plan B has won three prizes at the Ivor Novellos, including best songwriter - presented by Sir Elton John - and best album.



The singer, real name Ben Drew, also won most performed song for She Said, telling the audience the more popular it became "the more I hated it".

Other winners included Tinie Tempah and Mercury-nominated Irish band Villagers.

Special awards went to Muse, Steve Winwood, Free founder Paul Rodgers and musicals legend Stephen Sondheim.

Presenting the songwriter of the year award at the event on Thursday, Sir Elton said Drew's The Defamation of Strickland Banks was the best album of recent years "by a million miles".

"I've played it so many times, I've bought countless copies, I've given it to friends, I've worn it out," he said.

Accepting the award, Drew said he had written the record "to get through to the underclass that society doesn't want to talk about".

"One day I got a letter from a kid who told me my record helped him get through his time in prison and he wanted to be a better person," he said.

"It was at that moment that I realised what I set out to achieve," said Drew.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13452075

[The Hen]

Yay! Go Plan B!


This really reminds me of when I was young and I would cut out headings from papers because they mentioned my name some how. Like "The Hen wins!", and "All Australia hopes for The Hen".

What a wanker I was.

[Daisy]

We won ...

Oh, no wait ....

In all seriousness, The Defamation of Strickland Banks is one of the best albums I've heard in a long time.

[@meric@nwom@n]

Yay! Go Plan B!


This really reminds me of when I was young and I would cut out headings from papers because they mentioned my name some how. Like "The Hen wins!", and "All Australia hopes for The Hen".

What a wanker I was.

When I was young my full name appeared in a comic book as the name of a race car driver. I was pumped.

[Gob]

The only time I've seen some one with the same name as me in the newspaper, was a gentleman done for stealing knickers off washing lines....

And my name isn't Arnold Layne, before the wise arses start...

[The Hen]

I don't believe you that only ONE person with the same name as you has made a paper. Every second person in Wales has your name. You sister even MARRIED a bloke with your same name.

(I thought that was most disconcerting)

[Gob]

Yes, but for Welsh people a trip to the supermarket to buy a cake is the hight of hedonism..

He said, praying RB doesn't read this...

[The Hen]

Because then she would laugh at you for spelling 'height' wrong.

[Gob]

Bollocks...

[Sean]

LMAO

[loCAtek]

Right, copying white 'rappers' from London, is so winning; when rappin' started in black LA.

[Sean]

You're at the bottom of your cycle aren't you Lo?

[The Hen]

World doesn't end: California prophet had no Plan B

Harold Camping spent millions of dollars telling the nations it was the end of days; now his followers may need counseling

Thank you God.

[loCAtek]

This is true: a reporter asked the doomsday pastor what he would be doing on the last day and he replied, 'Watching it on TV."