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Elbow crowned BRITs Best British Group by David Hasselhoff

Guy Garvey and co triumphant

February 18, 2009 | 3 Comments
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Elbow were presented with the Best British Group award at the BRIT Awards 2009 tonight (February 18).

The Bury band were announced as winners by actor David Hasselhoff, with frontman Guy Garvey later saying how honoured he was to meet the 'Knight Rider' star.

"You wouldn't believe how long it's taken us to get this close to The Hoff," quipped Garvey.

The acts nominated for Best British Group were:

Radiohead
Coldplay
Girls Aloud
Take That
Elbow

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Museician

Feb 18, 2009

Brilliant =)

IndieWriter

Feb 19, 2009

this award was like Radiohead vs the 15 dullest men and music and the 5 fittest. Elbow? Better than Radiohead? Honestly, does anybody actually believe that - all sympathy for how long it took Elbow to achieve anything aside?

Moriyosi

Feb 19, 2009

I'll believe it. Speaking as somebody who owns everything they've put out, Radiohead is a fantastic band, but they've been coasting these past few years. In Rainbows was wank, a half-assed collection of poorly produced song-sketches pitched halfway between 'boring' and 'irritating'. It's like Renoir deciding that stick figures are the future and expecting everybody to play along.Yeah, The Seldom Seen Kid is uneven and has a few clunkers junking up the tracklist. But in terms of heart and songcraft, it kicks the piss out of Radiohead's recent output. This was a well-deserved win considering the field.