Brit Awards 2013: stars gather for ceremony

Mumford & Sons: "We have surpassed expectations"

Some of the better names in music from Britain and above are accession for this year's Brit Awards in London.

Scots accompanist Emeli Sande is hot favourite to win best British anthology and female, while folk rockers Mumford and Sons are angled for best British group.

Stadium rockers Muse will accessible the commemoration at the O2 Arena.

There will aswell be performances from Robbie Williams, One Direction, Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake, but it is not bright whether Adele will about-face up.

The acknowledged accompanist abundantly showed her acrimony if one of her achievement speeches was cut abbreviate endure year.

Brit Awards administrator David Joseph has said he will accomplish amends, cogent the Guardian: "I can adumbration that something is traveling to appear this year to appropriate that wrong."

Adele is the bookmakers' favourite to win the best British individual cost for her Bond affair Skyfall, but she is rumoured to be in the US call for an actualization at the Oscars on Sunday.

Amy Winehouse's father Mitch made sure her presence was felt

Sande has four nominations, including two in the best individual category. She is abiding to the accident a year afterwards acrimonious up the Critics' Choice approval for ascent stars.

Speaking on the red carpet, she told BBC News: "I've been actuality for the endure three years and you go from cipher alive who you are, to Critics' Choice endure year, and now to be actuality just feels great."

There are three nods apiece for Mercury Cost winners Alt-J and Mumford and Sons, who took the anthology of the year bays at the Grammy Awards in the US endure weekend.

Other nominees cover Amy Winehouse, who is posthumously shortlisted for best British female, and The Rolling Stones, who are up for best reside act, 35 years afterwards they were shortlisted for the aboriginal anytime Brit Awards.

Singer-songwriter Ben Howard is angled to yield home best British male, while pop brilliant Rita Ora leads the contenders in the British advance category.

Emeli Sande

The winners all accept a bays advised by arguable British artisan Damien Hirst.

One Direction will accord the aboriginal reside achievement of their Comic Relief single, a assortment of Blondie's One Way Or Another and The Undertones' Teenage Kicks.

US country brilliant Taylor Swift is said to be putting calm a blaze and ice-themed set, while Timberlake is bringing forth the big bandage that accompanied him at the Grammy Awards.