Which is probably very unfair of us - assuming Chris Evans has kept some of his indisputable presenting talents tonight's Brits might well prove to be more than a rather dull, slightly long episode of CD:UK, as in recent years. As previously reported,
Scissor Sisters, The Streets and Franz Ferdinand will all perform which should just about make up for horrific concept that is a duet from the Bedingfield siblings - they're going to perform a version of the Chaka Khan hit 'Ain't Nobody'.
Tonight will also see Robbie's 'Angels', Joy Division's 'Love Will Tear
Us Apart', Kate Bush's 'Wuthering Heights', Queen's 'We Are
The Champions' and Will Young's 'Leave Right Now' all compete for the title of 'Best British Song Released Since The Brits
Began' (even though we all know the best song ever made is The
Primitive's 'Crash').
Meanwhile
Bob Geldof will receive his award for an Outstanding Contribution
To Music - just make sure you don't even hint that it's really an award for his political and charitable efforts rather than his tunes.
If you're going, enjoy. If you're not - the rock 'n' roll excuse for non-attendance is "I love to go, but I'm washing my hair tonight - and anyway, I'm subject to a 10pm curfew because of those burglary and blackmail charges, and the quality of the heroin at last year's awards was shocking".