Oasis 2010 Brit Award Listed on eBay

Video clip of acceptance speech below too.

By Fred Mills

Last night at the annual Brit Awards (details and full list of nominees and winners here), Oasis founder (and erstwhile Oasis leader) Noel Gallagher accepted the "BRITs Album of 30 Years" trophy for his band's classic album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? And in typical Gallagheresque fashion, the guitarist made sure that his appearance onstage would generate at least as much watercooler (Twitter) buzz as Lady Gaga's multiple appearances.

First, stepping to the mic, he thanked his bandmembers but pointedly left his estranged brother Liam out, saying, "I'd like to thank Bonehead, Guigsy, Alan White.... the best bands in the fucking world live forever."

Then, upping the entertainment ante, he tossed both the microphone AND the award into the audience. See the video, below - they've bleeped out the naughty words, however.

Apparently the person whose lap the trophy fell into promptly zipped home and posted it for sale on eBay. By this morning the listing had generated 117 bids with the top bid reportedly £999,999, although there's a somewhat dubious element to all this - if you click on that link you'll land on an eBay UK page that displays the message "This listing (170447301412) has been removed, or this item is not available."

At least one website was apparently able to post a small and somewhat grainy screen shot (see above) of the listing at some point during the bidding, but it looks like it's showing £250,000.06, which isn't anywhere near a million pounds.

UPDATE: A sharp-eyed BLURT reader in the UK just emailed to let us know that he heard about the eBay listing this morning so he did a search of the UK site and found the Oasis award. "I watched it go from £295 to £999,999.00 in approx 5-6 minutes," he tells us, adding, "I then went out for a couple of hours and then checked when I got home to find it had been removed from Ebay."

It will be interesting to find out what the circumstances of eBay's presumed take-down of the auction were.

Our reader also found the seller listing for the person who'd put the award up for auction, a British individual using the eBay handle "Invosis" and with 120 auctions to date since joining eBay in July of 2001. View the profile (such as it is) here.