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30
May 2006
KT
Tunstall Single Tops
Ivor
Awards
Singer-songwriter
KT
Tunstall
has won the prestigious
best song at the Ivor
Novello Awards for her
2005 hit Suddenly I
See.
James
Blunt
picked up two awards for
most performed song and
international hit of the
year for You're
Beautiful.
Damon
Albarn and Jamie Hewlett
of Gorillaz were named
Songwriters of the Year
at the awards ceremony
in London.
Kaiser
Chiefs' Employment won
best album. The Ivors
honour UK songwriters,
composers and music
publishers.
KT
Tunstall said her win
was an
inspiration.
"I've
been writing songs for
15 years and it's
amazing to just sit in
your room and do
something that you like
doing and it turns into
this. It gives you a
kick up the arse to
carry on," said
Tunstall.
James
Blunt joked to
journalists about his
song winning the most
performed work
award.
"I'm
going to be rude about
this before anyone else
has the chance - thank
you so much for the
award for most
overplayed
song."
Kaiser
Chiefs' Ricky Wilson
attended the awards on
crutches after being hit
by a car earlier this
week.
KT
Tunstall, Blunt,
Gorillaz and the Kaiser
Chiefs all won awards at
the Brit Awards earlier
this year.
Coldplay
missed out on an Ivor
after being nominated
for three awards - their
single Fix You was up
for best song, with
Speed of Sound included
in the international hit
of the year
category.
Best
contemporary song went
to Athlete for
Wires.
Swedish
film Evil beat off
competition from The
Chronicles of Narnia:
The Lion, The Witch and
The Wardrobe to win best
original film score -
composed by Francis
Shaw.
Channel
4's Elizabeth I picked
up best television
soundtrack.
The
Bee Gees, Ray Davies,
Ian Anderson of Jethro
Tull and Kenny Gamble
and Leon Huff all picked
up career achievement
honours.
New
Order won the best
outstanding song
collection award, while
That's My Goal, written
by Jorgen Elofsson,
Jeremy Godfrey and Bill
Padley for X-Factor
winner Shayne Ward, won
best-selling UK
single.
The
classical music award
went to composer Sir
Harrison Birtwistle, who
took the opportunity to
have a swipe at modern
music.
"Why
is your music so loud?
You must all be
brain-dead. This isn't
me against pop music, I
didn't know so many
cliches existed as I've
heard in the last
half-hour," he said at
the ceremony.
Birtwhistle's
works include operas The
Mask of Orpheus and The
Last Supper.
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