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The Mercury Award-winning quintet’s “One Day Like This” was celebrated as best song, and the track “Grounds for Divorce” took best contemporary song. 

Also on the award winning list were The Ting Tings and Duffy.  Special achievement awards were given out to the legendary Smokey Robinson and Vince Clarke; Massive Attack and singer-songwriter Edwyn Collins were also on the short list of special achievements. 

Elbow lead singer Guy Garvey said when picking up their first prize for contemporary song, “It’s a great honor against fierce opposition with some great songs.”

And when Garvey returned to the podium for a second time collect the larger honor of best song he added, “This is really something else. I’m gonna talk about being in the band for a moment. We’ve got this great support surrounding us from our friends and family but, on a personal note, I’d like to say that, if nothing else ever happens to me in my life, these four boys have made the whole thing worth every single second.”

Eg White, the songwriter behind Adele’s “Chasing Pavements” and Duffy’s “Warwick Avenue,” told the audience that it was “very exciting” to win an award for what he considers the “fun, fast, quite scary” art of songwriting. 
When Duffy took the stage along with co-writer Steve Booker to accept her award for most performed work for “Mercy,” she thanked everyone who helped her along the way: “I was a girl from Wales, I did not know what music was. I knew I had a set of pipes and that would get me a frigging long way.”