Not only did the Scissor Sisters get to start the Brit Awards, they got to end as big winners—picking up three trophies at the United Kingdom’s biggest music show. “I’d like to thank everyone that called us a freak and a faggot and everybody that said we couldn’t do it,” singer Ana Matronic told the audience at London’s Earls Court Arena. The band walked away with awards for best international group, international album, and international breakthrough act. The Sisters opened the show with their hit “Take Your Mama,” joined by singing watermelons, a dancing pink bird, and dancing silver eggs. “We decided to sing with puppets from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop,” queer Sister Jake Shears revealed to The Mirror, “because we wanted a cross between Saturday morning TV and an acid trip.” The paper also reports that Shears wore an antique Navajo suit to the bash. Stated Shears: “It looks great, but it smells of fish.”