Coldplay were the biggest winners at the Q Awards yesterday, with the dull-as-paint-drying quartet winning two awards for Best Album and Best Band In The World, which is just silly. Unless watching paint dry is back in fashion with Q readers. Which it possibly is.
Amongst the other winners, Keane's 'Spiralling' was name Best Track, Kaiser Chiefs took Best Live Act, Best New Act went to The Last Shadow Puppets, Duffy was named Best Breakthrough, Vampire Weekend's 'A-Punk' was name Best Video, John Mellencamp won the Classic Songwriter award and Meat Loaf's 'Bat Out Of Hell was named Classic Song.
Accepting the Outstanding Achievement award, Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour paid tribute to Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright, who died last month. He said: "[Rick] deserves this just as much as I do. There's all sorts of music I won't be able to play without him which is a source of great sadness for me. One of the last things he wanted to do was play a big outdoor festival such as Glastonbury which we were unable to do. Anyway, as I say he deserves this just as much as I do. You could say that he worked in the position of second fiddle to the pushier chaps at the front, but his work was vitally important to our entire career".