MOBO Awards

I got a late call today asking if I could cover both arrivals and inside coverage of the winners with their awards for this year's MOBO Awards.
It was all fairly straight forward as I was the only photographer shooting the artists at the winner's boards. Estelle (top photo) scooped two awards and other notable attendees included Mel B, Billy Ocean, Grace Jones and John Legend.

Q Awards

With Q magazine probably being the best established monthly music magazine in Britain, it goes without saying that their awards bash is one of the most anticipated of the year. They're able to bring in (from top photo downwards) classic stars (Roger Daltery), huge selling bands (Kaiser Chiefs), colourful guests (Grace Jones), bands of the moment (Vampire Weekend) and daughters of famous rock stars (Kimberley Stewart), which shows the kind of influence the magazine has.
I was doing the red carpet arrivals, so didn't get in to see proceedings inside, but the awards, much like the magazine, seemed to follow a mainly mainstream line. For instance, Coldplay, despite deteriorating in quality with every album they bring out, walked away with a couple of awards.

Vodafone Music Awards

I was covering this awards show at Brixton Academy for the PR. It was fairly straight forward as the Press Association had exclusive coverage of the live performances, so I was shooting arrivals and the winners of awards.
The after party proved to be one of the better ones I'd been to. It was held at Dex in Brixton and featured a huge roof terrace with BBQ, and a projection of film footage onto nearby buildings (see second from bottom photo). Free drinks flowed, celebs showed up and two girls played up to the camera by kissing each other (bottom photo).

Mojo Awards & Westlife Book Launch

I had to endure an hour of hundreds of girls and women singing along to Westlife as they queued to meet the boy band at a book launch at Waterstone's. So it was maybe better that Westlife only posed for photographers for around 15 seconds, before going on to sign books for their adoring fans. In that short space of time, it wasn't possible to get them all to look into one of the several photographers cameras at the same time, so the group shots didn't amount to much (bottom photo). Alongside that and a few individual headshots, it was all that could be had.
Much better was the Mojo Awards later that evening. Mojo magazine of course deals with a more discerning, older audience than most music magazines, and it's well respected - tonight it drew in such classic artists as John Lydon, Lemmy, Nick Cave, Jimmy Page, Genesis (all pictured below) as well as younger artists Duffy and Alex Turner and Miles Kane of The Last Shadow Puppets (also below).