The North Wales stars who have performed and won at the Brit Awards

Under government guidence there will be an audience of 4,000 people at this year’s event, hosted by comedian Jack Whitehall, as part of the Government’s live events pilot scheme.

Audience members attending the indoor ceremony will not be socially distanced or required to wear face coverings once seated.

But over the years North Wales has been represented at the annual spectacular with a host of stars from the region receiving awards and nominations.

Here is a look back at some of them:

Coldplay

Undated handout photo issued by Coldplay of the band performing their new single with the help of French astronaut Thomas Pesquet onboard the International Space Station. Issue date: Friday May 7, 2021.

Starting with the most successful band in Brits history, Coldplay currently hold the title of being the most nominated group at the awards, with 28 nominations in total and nine wins.

Lead guitarist Jonny Buckland attended Ysgol y Waen and Mold Alun High School after his family moved to Pantymwyn when he was four. He started playing the guitar at the age of eleven, inspired by bands like U2 and the Stone Roses. He left Flintshire to study astronomy and mathematics at University College London where he met Chris Martin and formed Coldplay.

Coldplay will perform their new song Higher Power at the Brit Awards on May 11, where they will open the ceremony from a pontoon on the River Thames.

The band are also part of the star-studded line-up scheduled to play during Glastonbury’s Live At Worthy Farm global livestream on May 22.

Mansun

Mansun were an alternative rock band formed in Chester in 1995. Frontman Paul Draper grew up in Connah’s Quay and attended St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School in Flint.

It was announced in May 2003 that the band had split up earlier that year, whilst in the process of recording their fourth album, and some of their archival recording of the album later released on their final album, Kleptomania.

In 2018, Draper said: “I want to play Wrexham and Chester and one day I want to come back to Connah’s Quay and play the Civic Hall or hire a big tent and play Wepre Park.

"That’s the dream."

Mansun were nominated for British Breakthrough Act in 1997.

Steps

Some might say its a Tragedy that Steps have not won more Brit Awards.

The band won Best Live Act at the Brits in 2000. They were nominated as Best Pop Act in 2000 and 2001, as well as Breakthrough Act in 1999.

One fifth of Steps Lisa Scott Lee was born in St Asaph and brought up in Rhuddlan.

In 2012, she said: "I love travelling, but North Wales will always be my home."

She has now embarked on a new career as headmistress of a performing arts school in Dubai.

Bandmate Lee Latchford-Evans was born in Chester and grew up in Ellesmere Port.

Catfish and the Bottlemen

North Wales band Catfish and the Bottlemen were named Best Breakthrough Act at the 2016 Brit Awards.

The group from Llandudno received the award at the ceremony, which was voted for by the pubic, held at London's O2 arena.

The band members moved to the seaside town when they were children.

Van McCann, Benji Blakeway, and former member Billy Bibby, attended Ysgol John Bright in Llandudno while drummer Bob Hall attended Rydal Penrhos in Colwyn Bay.

Duffy

Aimee Anne Duffy, known simply as Duffy, was the Queen of the Brits in 2009.

Her debut album, Rockferry, released in 2008, became the best-selling album in the United Kingdom that year and led to worldwide attention. It spawned the successful single "Mercy".

She won British Female Solo Artist, British Album and Breakthrough Artist in 2009. Mercy was nominated for Best Single in the same year.

Duffy was born in Bangor and brought up by her parents in Nefyn, near Pwllheli. She studied Commercial Music Production and Performing Arts at the University of Chester.

Gary Barlow/Take That

Photo by Brent Jones. Forest Live, Delamere Forest - Gary Barlow

Gary Barlow Barlow was born in Frodsham, Cheshire, but North Wales is close to his heart.

His first public performance at Connah's Quay Labour Club in the late 1980s, for which he was the princely sum of £18 per performance on Saturday evenings.

Since then he gained worldwide fame with Take That and is now regarded as one of the United Kingdom's most successful songwriters, having written fourteen number-one singles.

Take That won eight Brits, notably British Group in 2011. The band performed at the awards in 1995, 2009, 2011 and 2015. Gary was nominated as British Solo Artist in 1998.

More on Coldplay...

Coldplay have premiered their new single with the help of French astronaut Thomas Pesquet on board the International Space Station (ISS).

A special performance of Higher Power featuring dancing alien holograms was sent up to Mr Pesquet, who gave the track its first play after midnight on board the station.

The award-winning band, fronted by Chris Martin, also joined the 43-year-old aerospace engineer for a conversation via video call.

Martin told Mr Pesquet: “Right now we aren’t able to play for anybody on Earth, so we thought we’d just play for you. It’s like our one-man concert.”

In the recorded performance, the four-piece are seen playing in their trademark colourful outfits in front of shipping containers, while a troupe of hologram dancers perform in front of them.

The Max Martin-produced song was teased last week via a cryptic video and website referencing an Alien Radio.

A snippet of the track later appeared on TikTok for a 24-hour period.