And here are the list of winners:
Best act in the world today - Muse
Best album - Kasabian, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Best track - Lily Allen, The Fear
Best live act - Arctic Monkeys
Outstanding Contribution to Music: Robert Plant
The Q Icon: Marianne Faithfull
Classic Song: Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Best New Act: White Lies
Breakthrough Artist: Mr Hudson
U2, meanwhile, won the classic album prize for The Unforgettable Fire.
Amy Winehouse and her brand new breasts made an appearance, but, according to the Press Association, she managed to mess up her appearance on stage twice. That doesn't sound like Amy...
She was due to present an award to The Specials alongside record producer and film maker Don Letts, but she failed to appear on stage at both attempts.
Letts eventually handed the prize to the band, with the Al Murray, the award's host, attempting to fill her place, telling guests: "What do I do if I'm Amy?" before downing a pint of beer in one. And then hurling the pint glass at James Blunt (oh no wait, that's what we'd do).
Other guests included, er, James Blunt, Kate Nash, Kasabian, Fearne Cotton, Robert Plant, Sonic Youth, Jarvis Cocker, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Steel Panther and Matt Bellamy...
WAIT! THERE'S MORE!
Lily Allen celebrates retirement by getting her own fly-on-the-wall documentary show
Courtney Love and Lily Allen fight goes on Twitter, Lily to launch fashion range
Lily Allen drowns her sorrows after losing out on Hottest Woman at the NME Awards
NME Awards held, not even Shane McGowan makes it exciting
Courtney Love brands Lily Allen "lame" - and other stories
Big Brother winner Pete Bennett gets married, amazing photos
P Diddy pays tribute to Notorious BIG by acting like an absolute cockend
Peaches Geldof and Eli Roth continue their thinly-veiled bout of self validation
Ronnie Wood visits the country with girlfriend, look like murderers
Jennifer Aniston & Gerard Butler get sexy for W Magazine ahead of Bounty Hunter release
Elton John's Oscar party, posh looks drunk, Cowell's breasts
Chanelle Hayes still pregnant, goes out with Robbie Coltrane
Take That's Mark Owen gets busted for 10 affairs
Daisy Lowe slips into a swimsuit and pair of hot-pants for Louis Vuitton bag campaign
X Factor's Rachel Adedeji gets the Holy Moly Interrogation
Katie Price sends saucy texts to Brazilian toyboy Andre Pinto
X Factor's Lucie Jones gets a Holy Moly Interrogation
When Holy Moly met JLS
How much is your sex tape worth?
What is so damn great about Blighty?
COMMENTS (12)
What. A. Fucking. Pig
May I add -
Self. Absorbed. Cunt
Not that anything that mag says has any real relevance, but you've got to hand it to Muse, they're the best band in the word today, despite someone else releasing a better album, someone else being better live, someone else releasing a better single than they did...
Speaking of which, the only good bit of that Lily Allen single is the instrumental bit they use on Match Of The Day.
Keith Allen in new toupee shocker
Kasabian winning anything goes to show the minus level of gravitas that the Q awards has slumped to.
I overheard a group of doughnuts in the pub the other day talking about them. One said to the other "They're amazing. I saw them earlier in the year and they can actually play their instruments."
I thought she said she was retiring?
Why hasnt this happened?
I cant be the only one writhing in agony and rage when her adolescent doggerel verse comes on the wireless?
She's a totally talentless cunt - anyone who rates this fucker has zero grasp on the music scene. Nuff said about Q, therefore...
q magazine - music for people that don't like music.
lilly allen though eh? EH? nudge nudge. can't resist a girl with a face like an ashtray.
"I'm Lily, I'm a pop star. OK I'm bored of being a pop star now, I want to be a model. OK, bored now, can I be an actress? What do you mean no? I WANNA BE AN ACTRESS! DAAAAAAAAAAAD! THEY WON'T LET ME BE AN ACTRESS AND I WANNA! OK, I'm being a pop star again now."
Spoiled little shitbag.