Aftershow News: 2nd October 2003

Q Awards at Park Lane Hotel ,Piccadilly,London . Presented by Iain Lee from RISE Chan 4 Breakfast show who rates KISS as his fave band ever. Thursday 02 Oct 2003.Last year we had seats on a table but this year we are in the press area . 7pm to 8pm everyone is turning up ,loads of celebs are here like Thrills , Electric Six, Emma Bunton, Tricky , Trevor Horn , Blur, Nile Rodgers,Janes Addiction, Lemmy ,Muse, Cure, Christina Aguilera and a very rare showing by Scott Walker who was with Jarvis Cocker. Legends from the past including all 5 original members of Duran Duran and Kevin Rowland (Dexys) (one of the girls in the press area despite having worked for 10 years at Rolling Stone and 2 years at Q did not know what Kevin Rowland looked like?). Why Five Star and Liberty X were there i cannot explain. The awards were on from 8.25pm to 9.25pm . Loads of free booze and food until midnight for the 400 invited guests. Excellent goodie bag of scarf ,aftershave,books, Q diary and stuff from the gadget shop on the way out. Despite having 4 nominations Coldplay did not win anything this year so were not here tonight. Some winners like Robbie Williams , Radiohead and their producer Nigel Godrich all sent in video clips instead of being here as they have taken a dislike to recent Q features on them and even Robbie said" F*** the Editors of Q Mag". Radiohead won Best Live Act in the world today. Surprise winner was Christina Aguilera for best single " Dirty" . Blur won best album for "Think Tank". Also on the way out i picked up the gold envelope that Nile Rodgers presented Duran Duran for Lifetime Achievement Award . Really good event in this lovely 5 star hotel .

Posted 2nd October 2003