Aftershow News: 25th September 2003

MOBO Awards At Royal Albert Hall 25 Sept 2003 from 8.15pm to 11.15pm.There are loads of police and security outside the venue and everyone including celebs has to go through metal detectors.The tickets cost a small fortune with arena table seat with dinner and booze at over £400 . Upstairs in the balcony the public have paid £90 for the crap view you get up there that does not include food, booze or party after . We are guests of The Evening Standard paper so there is food and booze in our ground level box. There was a lot of stop starting tonight but that happens at a lot of awards shows.Nice to see oldies like Kool And The Gang and George Benson get awards . 50 Cent was main winner with 3 awards and he was here to collect before dashing off to his Wembley Arena show. A few celebs floating around inc Bob Geldof and Simon Le Bon who both presented awards . The party after is miles away in London SE1 at The Tunnel ,London Bridge. Massive slow queue to get in as again its a full body search and the police are everywhere . We get in and stay for only an hour. Heavy bass and drum i can take only in small doses and there was no free booze here. A big crowd but not really my cup of tea. It just lacked real party atmosphere. This was the main party but maybe the smaller events held by a couple of the record companies would have been a lot better . They had a nice new style Bentley Continental on display but that was your lot.It was a good night but compare with the other award shows like BRITS ,Q or NME it was a bit lacking.

Posted 25th September 2003