The capital dominated the major venues' league, with Wembley Stadium and Wembley Arena winning the respective Best Venue Teamwork (Stadium/Arena) awards, although the O2 Academy in Newcastle beat London's Koko to Best Venue Teamwork for a major club.
Other winners included Spectacle of the Year - Muse at Glastonbury, Best Festival (below 15,000 capacity) - Bloodstock Metal Festival and Agent of the Year - Geoff Meal of The Agency Group.
Breakthrough Artiste was won by Mumford & Sons, while the Outstanding Contribution award went to Mark Cooper and Alison Howe, co-directors of BBC Television's Later ... with Jools Holland, for the boost the programme has given to the live careers of so many artistes.
"It was great to see indie promoters and relatively small venues receiving awards alongside the bigger players, and that winning had the same importance to each of them," says the event's executive producer and LIVE UK managing editor Steve Parker.
"We saw Brighton win two awards - with Best Club Teamwork [under cap. 800] for the Concorde 2, with Indie Promoter of the Year going to Josh Dean of Family Entertainments - while Muse swept the board with Best Festival Performance [at T In The Park], Spectacle of the Year [at Glastonbury], Artiste Manager of the Year [Anthony Addis] and probably contributed largely to Agent of the Year [Geoff Meall] too."
The polling process involved voting panels of professions, expert in their respective sectors, reducing the nominations for each category to a shortlist of three finalists, which were then submitted for open online voting. Thousands of votes were cast across multiple criteria by the 1,500-plus business people who registered to take part.
More than 200 industry executives and their guests attended the sold-out ceremony, which will now become an annual fixture, with a significantly increased capacity. The Live Music Business Awards followed two-day live music business conference The Summit .
