Brit awards 2024: follow the red carpet and buildup live!

It’s the biggest night in British music – can Raye convert her record number of nominations? Join us as we liveblog the whole evening

I know it’s a journo cliche to say that someone has dressed up like a Quality Street, but Jacob Collier is wearing three distinct Quality Street wrappers here and you very much suspect he considered a fourth.

So all the multifarious reality TV stars who get on the red carpet at about 2pm yesterday have all filed through, leaving us with some actual musicians. Here’s Casisdead, making a brilliant effort with a phalanx of bodyguards branded with his Deadcorp project name. I wasn’t a huge fan of his album last year – I felt like the lyricism didn’t meet the ambition of the overall endeavour – but he admirably does a lot more world-building than most British artists, creating an entire cyperpunk dystopia as a backdrop for his tales of crime and trauma. He’s the outside bet in the rap genre category, up against some big beasts in the form of Central Cee, Dave, Little Simz and J Hus – but it’s fan-voted, and his fans adore him, so he’s got a chance.

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