Feb 25, 2008 • 1 min read

Gary Barlow criticises Brits

Take That's Gary Barlow says the Brits overlook the band in academy-voted categories, having won only the public-voted British Single and British Live Act awards.

Gary Barlow thinks the Brits are a bit rubbish because his band Take That only get audience voted awards and get ignored by the Awards' own judging academy, who give all their awards to indie kids like Arctic Monkeys. He possibly has something of a point. Though it was Academy votes that got Take That on the short lists in the first place. We didn't vote for Take That or Arctic Monkeys, though we love both.

Anyway, as you know, Take That won two awards at the ceremony last week, for public voted British Single and British Live Act, but failed to win British Group and British Album (they went to those Arctic Monkeys). Barlow responds: "It's amazing that when the public get to vote we always do well. It's brilliant. But it gets to me that whenever we have been nominated for other awards we always get overlooked. It's a disgrace. I think we were in with a shout this year but it just goes to show we don't fit the mould".

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