2003 in British music

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This is a summary of 2003 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events

  • 6 January – The annual Park Lane Group Young Artists festival of contemporary music opens with two concerts in the Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre, London. The first concert, given by the Gallimaufry Ensemble, included the premiere of a new wind quintet by 23-year-old Benjamin Wallfisch; the second concert featured solo bass clarinettist Sarah Watts, who premiered Marc Yeats' Vox for solo bass clarinet and Michael Smetanin's Ladder of Escape for bass clarinet with prerecorded ensemble of six bass and two contrabass clarinets.<ref>Richard Morrison, "PLG Young Artists", The Times (Wednesday 8 January 2003): 15.</ref>
  • 10 January – Following an investigation by The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and London detectives, police raids in the UK and the Netherlands recover 500 original Beatles studio tapes, recorded during the Let It Be sessions. Five people are arrested. The tapes have been used for bootleg releases for years.<ref name="beatlestapes">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 13 January – The Who guitarist Pete Townshend is arrested on suspicion of possessing and making indecent images of children and of incitement to distribute them. Townshend claims in a statement that he did not download any such images and accessed Web sites advertising child pornography because he was researching material for his autobiography, which will include passages about his abusive childhood.<ref name="townshendarrest">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 18 January – A two-day festival of the music of Mark-Anthony Turnage is given at the Barbican Centre, London, with three world premieres and chamber concerts by the Nash Ensemble and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.<ref>Ivan Hewett, "Momentum: The Music of Mark-Anthony Turnage: Barbican, London EC2, 18-19 Jan", The Times (18 January 2003): 10; Richard Morrison, "Blood on the Floor", The Times (20 January 2003): 17.</ref>
  • 21 April – S Club announce live on stage at London's Docklands Arena that they are to split after five years together. Their final single, "Say Goodbye", enters the chart at #2 a month after the announcement. Rachel Stevens from the group launched her successful solo career shortly afterwards with the song "Sweet Dreams My LA Ex".
  • 2 May – Mansun confirm that they have split up, after months of speculation and after the departure of Stove King. The remaining members had until that point worked on an unfinished 4th studio album, which was eventually released a year later as "Kleptomania" due to fan demand.
  • 7 May – Pete Townshend is cleared of the charges stemming from his arrest in January on suspicion of possessing child pornography, but is formally cautioned and placed on the sex offenders register for five years.<ref name="townshendcleared">Template:Cite news</ref>
  • 24 May
    • The Eurovision Song Contest is held in Riga, Latvia. "Cry Baby", performed by Jemini, receives no points in the voting, the worst-ever result for the UK until after 2021. Some blame the United Kingdom's involvement in the Iraq War, whilst others attribute the result to a bad performance.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Classical music

Both Andrew Glover and Peter Maxwell Davies produced several new orchestral/instrumental works. British film score composer Rachel Portman produced an opera, The Little Prince, commissioned by the Houston Opera and premièred in the USA.

Michael Nyman, during his period as Composer-in-Residence at Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, Germany, produced his Violin Concerto and an opera Man and Boy: Dada, with libretto by Michael Hastings. It was premièred at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe in the following year.

Other classical works

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Opera

Film and incidental music

Musical films

Deaths

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Music awards

BRIT Awards

The 2003 BRIT Awards winners were:

Ivor Novello Awards

The winners of the Ivor Novello Awards were:

Mercury Music Prize

The 2003 Mercury Music Prize was awarded to Dizzee Rascal – Boy in Da Corner.

Popjustice £20 Music Prize

The 2003 Popjustice £20 Music Prize was awarded to Girls Aloud for their song No Good Advice from the album Sound of the Underground.

The Record of the Year

The Record of the Year was awarded to "Mandy" by Westlife.

See also

References

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