Amy Winehouse won another music award yesterday but, true to form, arrived too late to pick it up. It was left to the singer’s father to accept the Ivor Novello songwriting trophy on her behalf.

“I don’t know what I’m doing up here,” Mitch Winehouse said, as he took to the stage. “Amy unfortunately couldn’t make it but she’s getting better and she sends you all her love.”

Mr Winehouse’s 24-year-old daughter arrived just after he began addressing the audience at the event, where she won the award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically with her track Love is a Losing Game.

She was also nominated in the same category for You Know I’m No Good. Organisers said that it was the first time that an artist had been twice-nominated in the category since the awards began in 1955.

Last year Winehouse was awarded the Ivor Novello for Best Contemporary song for her autobiographical track Rehab, which she wrote about her refusal to seek treatment for her drinking.

Mr Winehouse told the audience yesterday: “She’s asked me to thank the Ivors for being the first to recognise her talent.”Take That were also winners at the awards, for Most Performed song: Shine, one of their comeback tracks. It beat Just Jack’s Starz in Their Eyes and Kaiser Chiefs’ Ruby.

In Rainbows, the Radiohead album that was sold online to fans who could pay as little as they liked, won the Album Award. Phil Collins took the International Achievement title, saying: “I have a few of these from the Eighties and Nineties and I never thought I would get the chance to get another.

“This is out of the blue, so thank you very much whoever is responsible for putting their career on the line and giving it to me.”

Mika, the Lebanese-born star, was named Songwriter of the Year. The Grace Kelly chart-topper, who studied music in London, said: “I don’t think I’ve ever been more nervous about anything in my life but it’s all right now. It makes me feel quite humble but it’s just a beginning and I’m going to go now and get on with my next record.”

The Soul II Soul singer Jazzie B won the first Novello Inspiration Award for being “a pioneer” and “the man who gave black British music a soul of its own”. He said: “Who said black people can’t make it in Britain? This means a lot, not just for me but for the young kids coming up knowing they have support. We’re British and we’re proud of it.”

Ivor Novello winners

Best Song Musically and Lyrically Love is a Losing Game. Written and performed by Amy Winehouse

Best Contemporary Song People Help the People. Written by Simon Aldred, performed by Cherry Ghost

Best Original Film Score Atonement. Composed by Dario Marianelli

Best Television Soundtrack Oliver Twist. Composed by Martin Phipps

PRS (Performing Right Society) Most Performed Work Shine. Written by Take That and Stephen Robson, performed by Take That

Bestselling British Song Beautiful Liar. Written by Ian Dench, Mikkel Eriksen, Amanda Ghost, Tor Erik Hermansen and Beyoncé Knowles. Performed by Beyoncé and Shakira

Album Award In Rainbows. Written and performed by Radiohead

Outstanding Song Collection Gabrielle

Ivors Classical Music Award Jonathan Dove

Ivors Inspiration Award Jazzie B

International Achievement Phil Collins

PRS Outstanding Contribution to British Music Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook

Songwriter of the Year Mika

Lifetime Achievement David Gilmour

Special International Award Diane Warren

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