Ivor Novello Awards Winners: Clean Bandit cleans up with two awards
THE results are in for this year's Ivor Novello Music Awards and Ed Sheeran, Clean Bandit and Hozier have all come up trumps.
Electro four-piece Clean Bandit won two awards
The award ceremony at Grosvenor House this afternoon, honoring achievements in in songwriting and composing, saw Clean Bandit take home two awards with their track Rather Be for Best Contemporary Song and Most Performed Work.
Irish musician Hozier managed to triumph in the coveted Best song category with his huge hit Take Me To Church, while Ed Sheeran won Songwriter of the Year.
Best Album went to Bombay Bicycle Club for So Long, See You Tomorrow , with Black Sabbath, Annie Lennox and Boy George picking up lLifetime Achievement Awards.
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Most Performed Work - "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit, written by James Napier and Jack Patterson
Best TV soundtrack - The Honourable Woman by Natalie Holt and Martin Phipps
Outstanding Song Collection - Albert Hammond
Classical Music Award - Judith Weir
Album Award - So Long, See You Tomorrow by Bombay Bicycle Club, written by Jack Steadman
Best Song Musically and Lyrically - "Take Me To Church" by Hozier, written by Andrew Hozier-Byrne
Outstanding Contribution to British Music - Boy George
Best Original Film Score - '71 by David Holmes
Songwriter of the Year - Ed Sheeran
Inspiration Award - Manic Street Preachers
Best Contemporary Song - "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit, written by James Napier and Jack Patterson
Special Anniversary Award - Bob Geldof and Midge Ure
Lifetime Achievement - Black Sabbath
PRS for Music Special International Award - Paul Williams
BASCA Fellowship - Annie Lennox