From left, Richard Jupp, Mark Potter, Peter Turner, Guy Garvey and Craig Potter of Elbow arrive at the 54th Ivor Novello awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Thursday in London. (Tim Whitby/Getty Images)Elbow, the British indie band that won last year's Mercury Prize, took home two Ivor Novello awards Thursday night in London.

The awards, for the best of British songwriting, are named for Welsh songwriter Ivor Novello.

Elbow, a group of five lads from Manchester, won the award for best song musically and lyrically for One Day Like This, and the prize for best contemporary song for Grounds For Divorce.

Elbow frontman Guy Garvey said the double win was "really something else."

"I'm gonna talk about being in the band for a moment," he said after receiving the second award. "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."

Welsh soul singer Duffy won the award for most performed work for Mercy, sharing it with co-writer Steve Booker.

British singer Duffy performs in Duesseldorf, Germany, in February. She won an Ivor Novello award for Mercy. (Ina Fassbender/Associated Press)"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," she said, thanking those who had supported her career.

In a surprise result, pop newcomers The Ting Tings won the best album award for their debut We Started Nothing.

Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood won best original film score for There Will Be Blood and Coldplay won bestselling British song for Viva la Vida, but neither was able to attend.

However, Motown great Smokey Robinson flew in for the day to pick up his special international award.

"I think creativity is a gift from God — some people get gifts from God," said Robinson, 69. A singer with the Miracles and later a soloist, he wrote songs such as My Guy, The Tracks of My Tears and I Second That Emotion.

"For everybody in this room, creativity is your gift and it's what you get."

Other winners of Ivor Novello Awards:

• Best television soundtrack: Julian Nott for Wallace and Gromit (A Matter of Loaf and Death).
• Outstanding song collection: Vince Clarke.
• Outstanding contribution to British music: Robert Del Naja and Grant Marshall of Massive Attack.
• Songwriter of the year: Eg White, who co-wrote Adele's Chasing Pavements and Duffy's Warwick Avenue.
• Ivors fellowship award: Don Black, 70, co-writer of Born Free and Diamonds Are Forever, as well as musicals such as Aspects of Love.
• Ivors classical music award: James MacMillan.
• Ivors Inspiration Award: Edwyn Collins.

Collins, 49, formerly of 1980s band Orange Juice, suffered two brain hemorrhages in 2005 and now walks with a cane. He has recently returned to songwriting, he told the audience.