Craig David hates the Brits

Apparently the Brits aren't that good. It's not just us saying that, but an expert. Craig David, no less:

The star, who was nominated for six gongs in 2001 [...] said he had now "lost interest" in the event, which is being held on Wednesday.

"It's great for artists who pick up awards, but in terms of representing what's really going on, I think they've missed the eight-ball," he said.

Of course, part - all the reason - for Craig believing this is that when he was nominated for all those awards, he didn't win one of them.

This, Craig has decided (apparently after thinking about it for seven years), proves what a farrago the whole affair is:

"The year that I was nominated for six, I couldn't have sold any more records or had any more number ones," David, 26, told the BBC News website.

"To still not pick up one proved to me that however the voting system is and whatever the excuses were made, it just didn't really represent what was going on."

Although, if anything, the decision to ignore David actually is one of the rare occasions of the Brits awards getting it right - normally, a briefly successful but not especially talented artist is lauded even as the dumper door is giving way beneath them. The weakness of Brits judging is the years The Darkess and Scissor Sisters go home with an armful, not the time Craig went home empty-handed.

After all, history has proved that in terms of knowing what was going on, Craig was as much in the dark as the Brits.