Well, the Ivor Novello Awards 2006 have been awarded at the Grosvenor Hotel in London. And here they all are:

International Hit Of The Year: Madonna, 'Sorry'


Album Award: Arctic Monkeys, 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not'

Best Contemporary Song: Amy Winehouse, 'Rehab'


Best Television Soundtrack: Martin Phipps, 'The Virgin Queen'


Best Selling UK single: Leona Lewis, 'A Moment Like This'


Outstanding Song Collection: Yusuf Islam


The Ivors Classical Music Award: John Rutter CBE


PRS Most Performed Work: Scissor Sisters, 'I Don't Feel Like Dancin''


Best Original Film Score: John Powell, 'Ice Age The Meltdown'


PRS Outstanding Contribution to British Music: Norman Cook


Best Song Musically & Lyrically: Scott Matthews, 'Elusive'


Songwriters Of The Year: The Feeling


Lifetime Achievement Award: Peter Gabriel


The Special International Award: Quincy Jones


The Academy Fellowship: George Fenton

 

Now Music Towers can't fault a lot of that...after all, as much as their tepid brand of bland-rock makes me want to pierce my eardrums with knitting needles, The Feeling did get a disturbingly large amount of radio play last year. The Arctic Monkeys blew every other album out of the water, off the land, into the sky and all around the stratosphere in 2006, and as for Amy Winehouse - at the bus stop to work today we heard some kids threatening to send each other Back To Rehab. If the kids are using it as slang, then that's a modern classic.

 

Although what the fuck they were thinking giving an award to Madonna for that song we'll never know.