The Brit awards 2012: predictable and parochial

This was never going to be a year to branch out. These days the record industry's shindig has an eye for commercial successEarlier this week, a blog called Yes It's Number One spotted that an enterprising soul had uploaded the 1989 Brit Awards in their entirety to YouTube. It's worth watching, if your cerebral cortex can stand it, as a useful counterpoint to last night's event. That, you may recall, was the calamitous year they let Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood present The Brits. But what's strikin...

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