Awards

DMAs presented

By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 1 October 2010

British Telecom and awards, hey. If only there was an award for Most Incompetent Company In The History Of All Human Civilisation, BT would win that no contest. Or, perhaps, one for Rudest Call Centre Staff Who Don’t Have The Brains To Realise That Just Because They Are Reading A Script Full Of Polite Words It Doesn’t Mean They Are Being Polite When They Adopt A Narky Tone And Put The Phone Down On You Award. That one would be a dead cert for BT also.

Or may be the Grand Prize For Signing You Up For A Two Year Contract For A Product You Specifically Said You Didn’t Want And Without Telling You And Then Refusing To Call You Back To Discuss The Matter Until You Call The Corporate Press Office And Rant At A PR Guy. They’d get that too. I had a bit of a run-in with BT earlier this year, can you tell? 

Anyway, the BT Digital Music Awards isn’t about the terrible phone firm winning awards, it is dishing them out here. In a futile bid to convince us all that the company is staffed by a bunch of cool, sexy digital dudes with an ear for a beat, and not a load of money-grabbing arseholes exploiting a virtual monopoly to force us all to buy their second-rate over-priced services while single-handedly slowing down Britain’s digital development. Did I mention the run-in with BT?

Anyway, DMAs, yes, they were presented yesterday to these people:

Best Female Artist: Cheryl Cole                       
Best Male Artist: Robbie Williams               
Best Group: JLS                         
Best International Artist Or Group: Lady Gaga                         
Best Independent Artist Or Group: Dizzee Rascal
Best Newcomer: Tinie Tempah        
Breakthrough Artist Of The Year: Professor Green                 
Artist Of The Year: Gorillaz     

Best Song: Cheryl Cole – Fight For This Love
Best Video: JLS – Everybody in Love

Best Place To Discover Music: BBC Introducing
Best Place To Hear Music: Youtube     
Best Place To Buy Music: iTunes

Best Event: Nokia presents Rihanna Live
Best Music App: Pendulum Witchcraft Experiment Facebook app                     
Best Innovation or Gadget: Songkick

Best Artist Promotion: Gorillaz ‘Escape to Plastic Beach’ games
Best Official Site: muse.mu
Best Fan Site: muselive.com
Best Blog: The Music Fix
Best Radio Show Or Podcast: Adam Buxton’s Big Mixtape

PS: I should stress most BT engineers are brilliant, it’s a shame they are all employed by idiots and represented by clueless monotone drones.