Little Simz, Dave and Calvin Harris were among the winners at this year’s Ivor Novello Awards.The prestigious songwriting and composing ceremony was due to take place today (September 2) at Grosvenor House Hotel in London, having been postponed from May due to the coronavirus crisis.The Ivors 2020 were then cancelled in June, and the winners were instead announced by Matt Wilkinson on his Apple Music radio show.Dave won the Best Contemporary Song award for ‘Black’ along with co-writer/producer Fraser T Smith.
The ‘Psychodrama’ single – which the rapper famously reworked at the BRITs to call Boris Johnson “a real racist” – was described by the judges as “important, eloquent and a song that not only empowers, but is borderless in its.
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