It was the South Bank Awards in London yesterday, an interestingly cross genre affair which saw the really rather wonderful Archie Bronson Outfit beat West End reality show winner Connie Fisher, Spooks actor David Oyelowo, artist Jamie Shovlin and comedian-come-TV-presenter Simon Amstell to take the Best Breakthrough prize.
Other music based awards went to Amy Winehouse who won the Pop Music prize for her album 'Back To Black', the BBC Philharmonic who took the Classical Music prize for their season of Shostakovich symphonies, 'His Heroes And Comrades', while recently appointed ITV chairman Michael Grade presented an Outstanding Achievement award to the surviving members of The Who.
The awards event will be screened on ITV this coming Sunday at 11.45pm.