Brit Awards 2000

20th BRIT Awards
Date	3 March 2000
Venue	Earls Court
Host	Davina McCall
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The 2000 BRIT Awards were the 20th edition of the biggest annual pop music awards in the United Kingdom. They are run by the British Phonographic Industry and took place on 3rd March 2000 at Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London.

Live performers

• Basement Jaxx — "Bingo Bango"
• Five and Queen — "We Will Rock You"
• Geri Halliwell — "Bag It Up"
• Macy Gray — "I Try"
• Ricky Martin — "Livin' la Vida Loca / The Cup of Life / María"
• Spice Girls — "Spice Up Your Life / Holler / Say You'll Be There / Goodbye"
• Stereophonics and Tom Jones — "Mama Told Me Not to Come"
• Travis — "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?"
• Will Smith — "Will 2K"

The awards

MasterCard British Album	Best British Single
Travis — The Man Who Basement Jaxx — Remedy The Chemical Brothers — Surrender Gomez — Liquid Skin Stereophonics — Performance & Cocktails	Robbie Williams — "She's the One" Basement Jaxx — "Red Alert" Supergrass — "Moving" Moloko — "Sing It Back" Blur — "Tender" Travis — "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" Fatboy Slim — "Praise You" Manic Street Preachers — "You Stole the Sun from My Heart" The Chemical Brothers — "Hey Boy Hey Girl" Shanks and Bigfoot — "Sweet Like Chocolate"
Best British Video	Best Soundtrack
Robbie Williams — "She's the One" Aphex Twin — "Windowlicker" Fatboy Slim — "Praise You" The Chemical Brothers — "Let Forever Be" Supergrass — "Pumping on Your Stereo"	Notting Hill Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Fight Club The Matrix
Best British Male	Best British Female
Tom Jones David Bowie Ian Brown Sting Van Morrison	Beth Orton Beverley Knight Gabrielle Geri Halliwell Melanie C
Best British Group	Best British Breakthrough Act
Travis Blur Gomez Stereophonics Texas	S Club 7 Honeyz Phats & Small Shanks and Bigfoot Wiseguys
Best British Dance Act	Best Pop Act
The Chemical Brothers Basement Jaxx Fatboy Slim Jamiroquai Leftfield	Five Geri Halliwell Ann Lee Martine McCutcheon S Club 7 Steps
Best International Male	Best International Female
Beck Eminem Moby Ricky Martin Will Smith	Macy Gray Britney Spears Jennifer Lopez Mary J. Blige Whitney Houston
Best International Group	Best International Breakthrough Act
TLC Beastie Boys The Cardigans Mercury Rev Red Hot Chili Peppers	Macy Gray Britney Spears Eminem Jennifer Lopez Semisonic

Outstanding Contribution to Music

• Spice Girls

Notable Moments

Robbie Williams and Liam Gallagher

Around the time of his departure from Take That, Robbie Williams had begun a friendship with the Gallagher brothers from Oasis at the Glastonbury Festival. However, it was short-lived and the two parties regularly traded insults in the press with Noel Gallagher referring to Williams as "the fat dancer from Take That". Having won Best British Single and Best Video for "She's the One", Williams challenged Liam Gallagher to a televised fight, saying: "So, anybody like to see me fight Liam? Would you pay to come and see it? Liam, a hundred grand of your money and a hundred grand of my money. We'll get in a ring and we'll have a fight and you can all watch it on TV, what d'you think about that?". Liam Gallagher was not in the country at the time.

Ronnie Wood and Brandon Block

Dance DJ Brandon Block was told by his friends that he had won an award and had been summoned to the stage to collect it. Because of his advanced state of intoxication he believed them and walked on to the stage, eventually ending up next to a bemused Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood and actress Thora Birch, who were about to present the award for Best Soundtrack Album. After Block was removed from the stage by security, Wood aimed an insult in his direction, at which Block broke free to square up to the guitarist. A series of insults were then traded between the two, both of which were audible through the stage microphone, causing claims that the whole event may have been staged. Wood then threw his drink into Block's face, and the DJ was ejected from the event. Some time after the incident, Block claimed that he had subsequently apologised to Wood for his behaviour, and Wood had merely brushed it off.

Geri Halliwell and The Spice Girls

The Spice Girls were set to receive the Outstanding Contribution award at the 2000 Brit awards, reportedly to mark their dominance of the music scene in the past decade. There was much media speculation before and even during the event as to whether or not former Ginger Spice, Geri Halliwell would accept the award with the four remaining members of the group. On the night, however, Halliwell declined to join her former band mates and instead ensured front page coverage the following day by performing her solo number 1 single "Bag It Up" straddling a pole between a pair of giant inflatable legs.