Coldplay celebrate Q Awards double

10:05am Tuesday 7th October 2008

Coldplay were the big winners at the Q Awards.

The band won Best Album and Best Act in the World Today at the annual showbiz bash.

The Last Shadow Puppets, a side project of Arctic Monkey Alex Turner, was named Best New Act.

Duffy beat Adele to the Breakthrough Artist gong and Keane won Best Track for Spiralling. The Kaiser Chiefs took the title for Best Live Act and Grace Jones was named a Q Idol.

Adam Ant won the Q Icon award and David Gilmour the Outstanding Contribution to Music title.

Gilmour paid a moving tribute to Pink Floyd keyboard player and founder member Richard Wright, who died last month from cancer.

He hinted that he would no longer play the Pink Floyd tracks that Wright had written.

He told the audience: "I'm going to dedicate this, if you don't mind, to my old friend and colleague Richard Wright who died a couple of weeks ago, (and) with whom I had worked for 40-odd years now.

"That's now come to an end. There's all sorts of music that I will not be able to play again without him. That's a source of sadness for me.

"He deserves this as much as I do. You could say that he was in the position of second fiddle, slightly behind some of the pushier chaps in the front. But his work was mighty important to our entire careers."