Elbow

[SuchARush]

Okay i really like Elbow a lot but I was just thinking I don't have a clue what the words are to Asleep in the back (the song). I just can't decipher them even though Ive listen to 100s of times! Anyone else have this problem or is it just me?? Help..! :oops: :)

[Corner Kid]

Were you crushed
Did I rush you
All my time is yours
My twisted heart is yours
The faithless shit is yours
The shameless fits of love that only smother you for moments
Until I fold them up and leave
All yours

(chorus)
Oh you had to ask didn’t you (x2)
Oh you had to know

Show your scars
Not to rush you
The hieroglyphic hints in all the toilet scrawl
Guilty little pins
And all the things I never talk about
Are spilling with the gin
Test how tough you are
All yours

(chorus)

Not to rush you

[SuchARush]

Yay :D thanks.
That toilet scrawl line really threw me.

[DrPolitik]

it's time to start talking about Elbow
They just put out their new record Cast of Thousands
I just got it today, it's V good. :)
There's one song, Grace Under Pressure, where they include the crowd from their Glastonbury gig of 2002 in the song itself, singing the line, "We still believe in love so fuck you"
and in the liner notes they included names of people who were at their gig...which i guess they gathered from fan sites or something...I wish I was there now!
I think that's a classy gesture by a classy band :cool:

Check them out. Dr's orders. :D

[Dissolved Girl]

Elbow is very cool. I can tell by one song! :lol:

Elbow has been checked out Doc. ;)

:D

[Hicksy]

i bought both albums at the start of this week but have not yet listened to the properly

shall do tho

sometimes soonish :rolleyes:

[fifi]

yeah woble are good!!! they were gone for ages :embarrased:

[DrPolitik]

excellent, excellent folks, this is what i like to see. :cool:
Si, take 2 and post in the morning. :dozey:
Elbow are set to dominate w/ Muse (and Cp ofcourse!) :D

[DrPolitik]

*gives thread some ahem "elbow" room*

:dozey:

ooooooh ive listened to the album about 10 times now, LOVE it! its right up there w/ Absolution and HTTT as my fave UK albums of the year.

The 5th song Switching Off...wow..*sigh* It's sooooo beautiful

it's got this line: You the only sense the world has ever made

Lovely. :)

[Dissolved Girl]

bumping up b/c I heard an incrediable song by them last night. ;)

I wonder where it came from. ;) :lol:

[DrPolitik]

*saves thread before it falls off page. Disguises facct that this is another shameless self promotion exercise* :rolleyes:

Yes, Emma, wonder where that came from? hmmmmmm :D

more on the way babe ;)

:kiss:

[mburn]

they were awsome at the reading festival and im gonna buy there album

[Dissolved Girl]

*saves thread before it falls off page. Disguises facct that this is another shameless self promotion exercise* :rolleyes:

Yes, Emma, wonder where that came from? hmmmmmm :D

more on the way babe ;)

:kiss:

can't wait honey! :D ;)

[DrPolitik]

it's almost ready babe

very soon indeed ;)

[Dissolved Girl]

*claps hands in excitment* :D :D

[DrPolitik]

*gives thread some elbow room*

:rolleyes:

[Dissolved Girl]

*cough* bump *cough*

(helpin ya out Doc.. just helpin ya out) ;)

[DrPolitik]

:D


:kiss:

[Dissolved Girl]

:wink3:

[DrPolitik]

elbow me anytime baby :kiss:

[Dissolved Girl]

yeah.. but "elbowing" might hurt you and I don't want to do that love. :kiss:

he he...

[DrPolitik]

:blush:

[Dissolved Girl]

:kiss:

:wink3:

[DrPolitik]

wooo mamma! aiiiiiiieeeeeeee caliente chica muy guapa wooooo

:kiss:

[Dissolved Girl]

oh.. you know I love when you speak that sexy Spanish me... :wink3:

:kiss:

[DrPolitik]

*the thread formerly known as Elbow* :dozey:

:D

hola chica muuy bonita , dime un beso mi amor :wink3:

[Dissolved Girl]

:lol: :lol: poor Elbow... but... I least our flirting sessions are keeping them at the top. ;) :D


:kiss:

[DrPolitik]

yes! they owe us!! Free Publicity like this is hard to come by!!

[Dissolved Girl]

:lol:

weeeeeee :lol:

(sorry I wanted to say something funny back... but my witty side has gone into hiding.. if there ever was one.) :lol:

[DrPolitik]

awwwwwwww

there is, ive seen it

:kiss:

[Dissolved Girl]

:lol: :blush:

ok... just was doubting my self there for a bit... nothing to be alarmed about... happens aaallllll the time. ;)

weeeeeeeeeee.... :kiss:

[DrPolitik]

" i blow you a kiss, it'll reach you tomorrow,
reach you tomorrow,
on the other side of the world."

:kiss:

[Dissolved Girl]

:blush:

no one make me blush the way you do, Doc. ;)

:kiss:

[DrPolitik]

i'd be one jealous motherfucker if anyone else ever did
:kiss:

[Dissolved Girl]

:lol:

:blush:

:kiss: :kiss: :kiss:

[DrPolitik]

:blush:

[Dissolved Girl]

;)

[Marie]

I've been listening to 'Cast of Thousands', it's a good album. :)

[DrPolitik]

oh it's more than good ;)

[Dissolved Girl]

:kiss:

[DrPolitik]

nevermind a cast of thousands I want a cast of two... :wink3:

[Dissolved Girl]

:blush: :blush:

:D

:kiss:

[DrPolitik]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :blush:

[Dissolved Girl]

he hehe he :D

[Dissolved Girl]

ahhhhhhhhhh

BUMP :smug:

[radi0ed]

Another of the uk's finest bands . elbow are pure class along with Turin Brakes


HTTT :sneaky:

[Dissolved Girl]

;)

[DrPolitik]

pure class indeed, and getting some rather fine championing here at CPing by Me and Emma I might add, AND NOT getting paid for it.

oh well *Sigh* *HAIL TO THE ELBOW* nonetheless :rolleyes:

[Dissolved Girl]

:kiss: :kiss:

[Dissolved Girl]

*A-HEM*.. given some *A-HEM* "elbow" room.


BUMPERS :D

[DrPolitik]

:D

[AJay]

I've only just discovered elblow... was recomended by a pomme mate of mine. I'm loving them... am putting them down on my list of "must buy" cd's.

[DrPolitik]

:cool: nice one :cool:

[cheers2u]

"Leaders Of The Free World" - The Premier

On Wednesday 6th July, elbow offer you the chance to be the first to see the DVD version of their new album, "Leaders Of The Free World" in an exclusive screening at the National Film Theatre on London's South Bank.

For the past year, the band have been working on their third album at their Blueprint Studios in Manchester. Throughout that recording process, the Soup Collective have been documenting the recording and collaborating with the band on short films, animations and other visual delights in what is arguably the first DVD release of it's kind from a recording artist. As lead singer Guy Garvey explains:

"The Soup Collective would be throwing these images on to a big screen in the studio whilst we were recording and they were working on the DVD and that would influence us. So the music influenced the pictures but the pictures also influenced the music. It's truly collaborative."

Tickets for the showing, which preceeds the NFT's bi-monthly music video event, Antenna, will be limited. As an extra treat, members of elbow will DJ in the NFT bar after the event.

To get purchase your tickets for this event simply contact the NFT Box Office on 020 7928 3232.

Standard tickets are £8.20, concs. £6.25 - however all elbow fans will receive a £1 discount. To get your discount please quote 'Leaders' when making your booking.

Tickets can also be obtained via the NFT website from
http://www.bfi.org.uk/showing/nft/

[colduser]

Nice, thanks for the info. Can't wait for the new album :D

[colduser]

A release date has been announced :D From crudmusic.com

Elbow's new album will be called 'Leaders Of The Free World' (not 'The Stops' as previously announced by the band at a showcase in Manchester ) and will be released on September 5. There will be a DVD version of the album featuring footage shot during the recording at Blueprint Studios in Salford and animations provided by the Soup Collective who worked alongside Elbow in the sessions.

[fifi]

Brilliant! Thanks for the info ;)

[colduser]

It's my pleasure :)

[EasyToPlease]

Elbow are brilliant. They are probably my third favourite band. Guy's lyrics are just so amazing i love scattered black and whites, it is the perfect closing song to any album, it makes me feel really nostalgic and tingle all over! Can't wait til the new album....

Anyone know when the single will be out/get some air play?

[Phoenix&y]

Lately Ive started to become addicted to 'Cast of Thousands'... New album 'Leaders of the Free World' is coming out next month. Im searching for the new video online (for free). Does anyone know where I can find it?

[colduser]

No, but I heard a new track from the album and was very pleased :D

[J.]

An Imagined Affair, I'm totally addicted to that song. And to whole ''Leaders of the free world'' as well.

[The Noteburg]

I just discovered, that "Cast by Thousands" is probably one of the greatest records of all time. Incredible... "Switching off" makes me cry. Really

[J.]

I checked whole tread and I wanna ask you a question: which album is the best? Coz first I got ''leaders of the free world'' and I was just like OMG, because of ''an imagined affair'' which I found the most beautiful song from Elbow (I'm not saying that the rest is crap, no! This album is truly interesting). Then (I mean, right now), I'm getting into ''Cast Of Thousands'' and I'm impressed and surprised, because it's so different from LOTFW and yet I dare say it's better one! My point is (apart from the question above) that their music is really of high quality, masterpiece and it's amazing how their albums differ and still remain class.

[Senor Hooch]

I checked whole tread and I wanna ask you a question: which album is the best? Coz first I got ''leaders of the free world'' and I was just like OMG, because of ''an imagined affair'' which I found the most beautiful song from Elbow (I'm not saying that the rest is crap, no! This album is truly interesting). Then (I mean, right now), I'm getting into ''Cast Of Thousands'' and I'm impressed and surprised, because it's so different from LOTFW and yet I dare say it's better one! My point is (apart from the question above) that their music is really of high quality, masterpiece and it's amazing how their albums differ and still remain class.

Yeah i'm the same as you, i heard leaders of the free world first and was addicted to it the first time i heard station approach, an imagined affair and puncture repair. So i went out and bought asleep in the back and cast of thousands and was shocked because they are both completely different from leaders of the free world but i love all 3 albums. In my opinion asleep in the back and leaders of the free world are the best but if i had to pick i would choose leaders of the free world.

[Kite]

Elbow are one of my favourite bands at the moment, ever since I picked up their first 2 albums in a "double play" box-set in a sale and listened to their 3rd album. Very underrated but 'Cast Of Thousands' and 'Asleep In The Back' are two of the best albums of the 21st century so far.


They are on my list of bands I want to see before I die.

[Innocent_Joy]

Ditto... as should they be for everyone!

[Rad-Cold]

ditto! (haaiuk!:rolleyes:)
I really love their songs :nice:

[linnea]

another band I'd never heard of before.. :embarassed:
I randomly picked a cd in a library and thought "why not, might as well give this a try"

and now I've been listening to Leaders of the Free World and all I can say, I'm happy I picked that one :) it's a very good album.

so this is their third album? can't wait to hear the other two.

[Kite]

The more and more I listen to Leaders of the Free World, the more and more I think of it as one of the best albums of 2005, if not the best album of 2005.

Way better than X&Y.

[Ted]

Picked up Asleep In The Back in a charity shop for £3 the other day and I am hooked! Lovely sound but I need more of their stuff!

[bedofroses]

have to bump elbow.......i'm loving cast of thousands at the moment

[Ted]

Elbow are my world right now...I think they are in danger of becoming my favourite band...they are like Coldplay plus one. Such beautiful, perfect, brilliant songs. Buy their three albums, you will never look back.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/3/37/300px-Elbow_Picture.jpg

[bedofroses]

Elbow ...had to bump AGAIN
It's funny i discovered doves first, and i loved loved them,bought asleep in the back ages before and thought 'meh its ok,i'm content to put it away for a while' but for some reason when i wanted to find more of their stuff later on, i just loved them more this time round,and one of my favs,and i think they have infact taken over doves,maybe in part because guy's voice is amazing.

[Ted]

In some ways I am glad they are sort of hidden and underrated because if they were full on commercial I am not sure their music would remain the same. Anyway a fourth album is due apparently and I am absolutely hell-bent on seeing them live now. I am hooked!

[bedofroses]

yep same here, its due out spring i hear

[Ted]

http://www.elbow.co.uk/gallery/photo4-8.jpg
http://www.elbow.co.uk/gallery/photo4-10.jpg
http://www.elbow.co.uk/gallery/photo3-1.jpg

[J.]

Few weeks ago I was listening to three songs (just those three songs): "i've got your number", "buttons&zips" and "ripcage". My fav. ones from "a cast of..."

[Ted]

My favourites from Cast Of Thousands if that is possible to decide would be Ribcage, Switching Off and Not A Job. Those last two especially are just wonderful...cannot love them enough.

[busybeeburns]

If you haven't heard of Elbow yet, you will. A five-piece out of Manchester, England, they were nominated for “Best British Newcomer” in this spring’s Brit Awards (England’s equivalent of the Grammys) and named “Breakthrough live Band of the Year” by Britain’s Time Out magazine. Prior to the release of Asleep in the Back in England last year, NME proclaimed: “With nods to Radiohead and Talk Talk, passion overrides traditional song structure in these intense, unquiet swells of whirring organ, rustic prog textures and celestial guitars.” And after its release, The Times declared, “Asleep in the Back is all about the smouldering slowburn rather than the instant fix.” The album has since been certified silver in the U.K.

Though they seem to have come out of nowhere, Elbow have, in fact, been playing together for ten years now. All of them childhood friends—Mark Potter on guitar, his brother Craig on keyboards, Pete Turner on bass and Richard Jupp on drums—save for singer/songwriter Guy Garvey, whom they met in sixth form college. Initially they called themselves Soft and played funk-fusion, though their hearts weren't in the music. “We were just writing to get deals, so the songs we were writing weren’t very honest songs,” Turner explains. “It didn’t work out like that at all, so we decided to change the name of the band and start writing the kind of music that we loved.”

And music that the fans love, apparently. Though that’s getting ahead of ourselves; it wasn’t that simple. With a new name (chosen by Garvey from “The Singing Detective,” in which a nurse proclaims “elbow” to be the loveliest word) and a truer sound, the band was quickly noticed and signed to Island. They finished recording their album just as Island was acquired by Universal, whereupon Elbow was dropped in a corporate game of shuffle-the-deck. Another near-signing followed, this time by EMI, and then another heartbreaking withdrawal. It took Manchester indies Uglyman to finally take a chance on the lads, releasing two EPs, New Born and Any Day Now. With supporting gigs for British heavyweights Doves and Granddaddy and “record of the week” honors on the revered Radio 1, Elbow was soon signed to another album deal, this time with V2. Asleep in the Back was released May 2001 in the United Kingdom and this January in the States.

Whereas the years of hardship and heartbreak might have forced some bands to call it quits, Elbow is its own beast; the fivesome is the best of friends and rarely take time off from each other, much less playing music. “The one constant I’ve had all my adult life is the band, and I absolutely do not know what I would be doing without them,” Garvey admits (he also admits to a less-than-dependable family life growing up). Instead of splintering apart, the bandmates became even closer, believing in themselves and their abilities. There was another positive side for songwriter Garvey: “The big kick is that I’ve turned a negative experience into good songs—I can’t think of another job where you get to do that. Exorcising your demons, screaming at 200 or 300 people every night about the things closest to your heart, is fantastic therapy. It just leaves you very relaxed.”

Elbow’s songs aren’t your run-of-the-mill girl-meets-boy drivel; they’re deeper, more personal. Garvey writes about the things that touch him personally, moments that have affected his life, from witnessing a junkie being comforted by her partner in the midst of a bad trip (“Powder Blue”) to a destructive relationship Garvey had to pull himself away from (the swelling, symphonic, and hauntingly beautiful “Red”); from the desperation inherent in growing up in a working-class town with no career path (“Any Day Now”) to the gang mentality in which fear is an unfortunate and desperate substitute for respect (“Little Beasts”); to the unparalleled beauty and simultaneous horror of growing old together (“New Born”). “I don’t write irresponsibly, because I don’t like music that does,” Garvey explains. “It’s got to be honest.”

And honest it is. Garvey’s voice assumes a breathy, gentle air just before breaking into anguished howls, reminiscent of Peter Gabriel when he was with Genesis. The music is experimental and beautiful, orchestral and surreal, led by the Potter brothers’ mournful organ strains and carefully placed guitar. The songs are introspective yet universal, highly personal yet ubiquitous. Asleep in the Back is a sort of soundtrack for your life.

The PlaybackSTL Interview
with Pete Turner of Elbow

PS: Tell me about the Pete Yorn tour. How did that come about?

PT: He came and saw us at L.A. at the Troubadour and then at the in-store the day after, and he just asked us. We weren’t really too familiar with his stuff, because in England he’s not as well known as he is over here, but people were saying, listen, it’s a really good tour to get on, so you should go on it. I think it’s quite a different audience, and the gigs have been going really well, so it’s definitely worth doing.

PS: Back in February, you said you were heading home to work on your second album. I guess that’s been postponed because of this tour with Pete Yorn?

PT: Yeah. Twenty-one dates [with Yorn], we’ve got about a month off, and then we’re back out with Doves [another U.S. tour, from June 2 to 21, Seattle to New York]. Things keep popping up. We worked so hard touring Europe last year, and because the album came out over here in January, we’re pretty much doing the same thing in the States. We’ve got lots of bits and bobs that we’ve been working on individually, so we just to get together and bandalize them. We just need a writing period of maybe a couple of months to get into that frame of mind.

PS: How do you work on stuff individually when you’re always together touring?

PT: We’ll get maybe two weeks in between tours here and there, and everyone’s got little eight-track recording studios, so when we’re at home, we just kind of drop a guitar or a synth or a bass or whatever.

PS: You guys have been playing together for a long time. Was there ever anything else you saw yourselves becoming besides musicians?

PT: I went to college and studied graphic design, but it was just a backup plan, I suppose. When people ask us, you know, if you weren’t doing this then what would you be doing, it’s quite hard to say because from the age of 16 we were doing it together, so I can’t really imagine doing anything else other than this. If I wasn’t doing this, then I think I’d be screwed. We’re lucky that we get on so well, so that makes it a really good thing.

PS: Were you into the Manchester sound when you were in high school, or was that too close to home to be cool?

PT: No it wasn’t; everyone was. The summer we were finishing school, everyone would be listening to the Stone Roses or the Mondays, Spacemen Three—no, they’re not from Manchester, so that’s no good. And before that you have New Order and Joy Division, so there’s always been good stuff coming out of Manchester. It’s unfortunate that occasionally you get someone like Simply Red coming out as well, but we tend to sort of leave them out.

There’s a good vibe there now; we’ve got a lot of bands like Doves and I Am Kloot and Alfie, lots of good bands coming out and starting to do well.

PS: And they all kind of encourage each other and grow from each other, you think?

PT: Yeah. There’s no rivalry or anything, it’s cool; it’s a nice environment to be in. Good, good fun.

PS: There’s a quote by Chris Martin of Coldplay in the current NME, saying how their next album might be their last: “We’ll only do another album if we think it’ll be better. I don’t really care about the whole 15-album thing. I like the Joy Division approach, two albums then…well, not hang yourself!” You’ve been compared to Coldplay, so it got me thinking: Can you already see past the second album for Elbow?

PT: Definitely not. I think because of the experience with record companies and the way that the music industry is, until something actually happens then we tend not to dwell too much on it, really. The next album we’re thinking about at the moment, but until it’s actually down and recorded then we don’t really know what it’s going to be like.

PS: So when do you start recording the next album?

PT: Ooh, good question. I don’t know at all. As soon as we get just a little bit of spare time, we’ll do it then.

http://www.playbackstl.com/content/view/3431/162/

[busybeeburns]

http://www.playbackstl.com/images/stories/0306/elbow.jpg

“It’s difficult, because it was that stuff [drinking] that inspired the writing and it became really important through this illness. So, I suppose musically, this goal we set out all those years ago is more melancholy than I actually am, than any of us are.”

All too often, Elbow frontman Guy Garvey appears to be on the verge of some great breakdown, either physical or mental. His songs are always full of passion, grief, and brutal honesty. So of course, my first concern when talking with him is happiness. “Generally speaking, I am happy,” laughs Garvey. “I’ve got a massive, crazy, lovely family and a big bunch of very good friends that I work with. After 15 years now, the band are practically my brothers. I’m surrounded by people who care about me.”

More importantly, Garvey has curtailed some of his more alcohol-fueled endeavors. “Generally speaking, I don’t slide off the plate completely and start commiserating with alcohol like I used to.” The renewed and refreshed Garvey also appears to have a better picture of his muse. “It’s difficult, because it was that stuff [drinking] that inspired the writing and it became really important through this illness. So, I suppose musically, this goal we set out all those years ago is more melancholy than I actually am, than any of us are.”

Elbow’s third CD, Leaders of the Free World, opens with the beautiful “Station Approach,” a love song to the city and the idea of being home. “It’s exactly what we were all feeling the day it was written,” says Garvey. “The equipment was working, the room was beautiful, and we knew we were home for at least 12 months.” Leaders reflects that sense of belonging, revealing some of the band’s most assured work.

The band, while not a household name in the United States, sells albums moderately well and has toured to appreciative crowds. “People ask, ‘Do you wish you were Coldplay?’ and the answer is, ‘No, not really,’” Garvey reveals. “As much as I respect them for what they do and the level of fame they achieved in such a short time, my head would have exploded. I’m really much happier sort of making my discreet music that fits somewhere special for people; that’s the idea, anyway.

“We seem to have a special place, and that’s just the most flattering thing in the world.”

http://www.playbackstl.com/content/view/1655/157/

[Ted]

Thanks for that! :D

[Kite]

Ted, there is a new Elbow song on the "Magicians" Soundtrack album.

[Ted]

Black Magic Woman? Surely a cover isn't it? Cannot wait for new album or tour!

[Kite]

I think so.

Do you have it?

Also do you have "Beats For Two" from the "Inside I'm Dancing." film?

[erick]

anybody got all their albums?

[Ted]

Yes and they are all superb. Buy them. I have started getting their singles and eps too because I adore them.

[bedofroses]

so.....hopefully an album this year then, i read in a music magazine a while back it would expect a spring release, but obviously this will not happen now which is a shame

[Kite]

So I was in HMV this afternoon when I picked up a "new releases" leaflet.

Buried deep inside the "other album releases" list I found:

Elbow - The B-sides album released on 3rd September.

I remember last year Guy was on about releasing a b-side collection, but heard nothing else from it, so anybody got any ideas on it?

(doesn't worry me though as I have most of the b-sides)

[Kite]

http://www.polydor.co.uk/elbow/elbow.gif


After two years recording in our studio in Manchester we have finally finished album four which will be released in March. In honour of the new album we have decided to embark on our first UK tour since February 2006.

To whet your appetite there is also an audio clip of one of the new album tracks 'The Bones Of You' at www.elbow.co.uk do let us know what you think and we will see you in April.

Love,
Elbow

http://www.polydor.co.uk/elbow/footer.gif

That little clip of The Bones Of You is amazing :D

And going off the tabs in WMP, the album is called "The Seldom Seen Kid"

[Kite]

The Album Has Leaked...

...And on first listen, it is their best album to date, and is a front runner for album of the quarter.

[RadioMad]

Agreed. It's really, really good.

P.s.
The album apparently already leaked about a week ago.

[Zemy101]

Its definately their best album, I was pretty much blown away on first listen. Well done lads.

[busybeeburns]

Ed Power has the questions. Elbow's Guy Garvey has the answers...

- There are numerous references to death and divorce on your new album, The Seldom Seen Kid. Have you been through tough times?

The album is about personal experiences. There have been good and bad things happening. Both the Potter brothers [guitarist Mark and keyboard player Craig] have had babies again. At the same time, we lost a friend of ours. Bryan Glancy, a singer-songwriter, died a couple of years ago. There's nothing that makes you appreciate your mates more than losing one.

- The standard line on Elbow is that you're an "anthemic" band, in the tradition of Coldplay and Travis. Do the comparisons annoy you?

I think one of our jobs is to tackle the slightly bigger questions that a lot of contemporary music doesn't. We're an album band. I guess this record is about what's happened to Elbow as we move into our thirties. Fatherhood and the loss of a friend both make you reconsider your mortality and re-evaluate your priorities. When I wrote [2001's] Asleep In The Back, I couldn't see past getting out of Bury and getting off my head.

- One of the best songs on the record, The Fix, is a duet with [Sheffield bluesman] Richard Hawley. How did you hook up?

Me and Hawley went over to Tennessee to do a sponsored gig for a whiskey company that doesn't need any more publicity. Frank Black did it as well -- the three of us got on like a house on fire. Travelling back together, Rich and I were on the same flight. We share a love of old songs. We also share a love of battleships. We were on a long-haul flight shouting F3! or C5! across the aisle and doing quite politically incorrect impressions of German sailors drowning: "Acthung, you English pig dog!" So we decided to work together.

- You've described The Seldom Seen Kid as the most important album of your career. Do you need to take things to a higher level sales-wise?

It's not like we're just solely about the art. There are little Elbows to feed. We had the luxury at 17 of saying "f**k the man" -- these days it's more like "the baby needs new shoes". But you can only compromise so much or you should be in a different area of work. You can only compromise to a degree -- like taking a big sponsorship off whiskey companies. (laughs)

- You must have been honoured when [former Velvet Underground guitarist] John Cale chose your song Switching Off as one of his Desert Island Discs?

It was one of the greatest moments of my life. I remember watching a television programme called the Seven Ages Of Rock. One episode was called the Art Rockers -- it started with the Velvet Underground and moved through to David Bowie and early Roxy Music. We were watching it and thought "that's our heritage, this is where we come from". And John is a guy who very much has his finger on the pulse. I met Tony Christie and asked him what kind of music he liked. He was like: [adopts fogey-ish accent] "I like the old guys". John's a bit more open-minded.

- Elbow is one of the few Western bands to have toured Cuba. Your impressions?

It's not what it's projected to be. It is very much a secret police culture, much like the Soviet Union used to be. It's terrifying -- the propaganda used to be that every third Cuban national is a government informer. Locals are discouraged from mixing with tourists. We met three hip-hop guys who we really got on with. They had a little too much to say for themselves politically and were picked up in front of us and carted away. Don't give that place your money.

- As a self-proclaimed "album" band, do you fear download culture threatens the survival of the LP as we know it today?

Yes, it worries me greatly that downloading single songs is killing off the album as an art form. I don't know if you're aware of this but, with the biggest download sites, the ones you really need to get your music out there, the artist doesn't have a choice as to how you bundle the songs. You don't have the option of bundling your whole album. Which is what I understand led Radiohead to release In Rainbows elsewhere -- so that the whole album wouldn't be available as individual tracks.

- Care to comment on rumours that Shrek and Shrek II are the most popular DVDs on the Elbow tour bus?

Yes, that's right. It's down to the fact that the lads have kids. I also enjoy an old war movie. Something with John Mills in it, like We Dive At Dawn. There isn't a man alive who can watch Noel Coward in In Which We Serve without cracking up with emotion. n

- Ed Power

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/day-and-night/features/qampa-guy-garvey-of-elbow-1302290.html

[Texasluvsjonny]

http://www.rathergood.com/independent_woman/
:P

[busybeeburns]

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Quiet, steady and without much fuss, Elbow have gradually developed into one of the country's finest bands. From their debut Asleep At The Back to 2005's magnificent Leaders Of The Free World, each Elbow album has shown more depth and emotion than most bands could hope to display in their whole careers.
The Seldom Seen Kid keeps the band on this upward trajectory. This time, keyboard player Craig Potter has taken over production duties and while he's not installed any major changes in the band's sound, there's a freshness about the album that sounds instantly appealing.

As ever with Elbow, serious subjects dominate. Several members of the band have recently become fathers, and the album is dedicated to their close friend Bryan Glancy, a Mancunian singer/songwriter who died in 2006. Of course, there's also the usual Guy Garvey ruminations on love, loss and relationships, written as usual with his heart firmly on his sleeve.

Starlings sets the tone from the off, punctuated by big blasts of noise, until it settles down for Garvey to tell a beautifully written tale of pursuing a would-be lover: "You are the only thing in every room you're in, I'm stubborn, selfish and too old". The self-deprecation runs deep ("I'm asking you to back a horse that's good for glue") and Garvey's emotion-filled vocals make it all desperately moving.

There's an unlikely flamenco feel to The Bones Of You - boisterous, jostling and loud, but with that touch of vulnerability never far away, while the heavy industrial crunch of Grounds For Divorce could be the most rocky thing that the band have ever done. As ever, Garvey's lyrics shine on the latter, perfectly describing the threatening yet homely feel of an underground pub.

Although the feel of the album is very recognisable, there are moments of musical departure, such as the almost jaunty ballad with Richard Hawley, The Fix. Hawley and Garvey pair up to make the perfect alcohol-sodden team planning a horse-riding scam. As the duo swap lyrics like "the redoubtable beast has had pegasus pills, we'll buy him the patch in the Tuscany hills", Hawley's unmistakable '50s style guitar riffs echo all around.

The whispered ballad of Mirrorball is more traditional Elbow territory, as Garvey ruminates on a new arrival to the family ("all down to you, everything has changed") while the jazzy mid-paced feel of An Audience With The Pope almost feels sinister. Fans of the big 'stadium' moment won't be disappointed either by One Day Like This, a spellbinding, soaring, uplifting 6 and a half minutes that owes rather a lot to Grace Under Pressure from Cast Of Thousands.

There is definitely a quiet, stately sort of elegance to Elbow's music, as perfectly encapsulated in a song title such as The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver, and especially in the closing elegy to Glancy, Friends Of Ours. The way Garvey murmurs "love you mate" as a string section hovers nearby is enough to break the hardest of hearts.

They may never become massive in the way that their mistakenly compared contemporaries Coldplay have become, but it's likely that stardom would sit uneasily upon their shoulders. Instead, cherish this group of resolutely unstarry men from Manchester for what they are - one of this country's hidden treasures.

http://www.musicomh.com/albums/elbow-4_0308.htm

[busybeeburns]

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Elbow's fourth album proves the importance of the LP format.

Polydor, out March 17th
In a nutshell… 8/10
Autobiographical poetry of love and loss

What's it all about?

Elbow's fourth album opens with Starlings, and a disarming burst of tuning up before miniscule glockenspiel heartbeats are punctuated by a horn section signalling intent. Rather wonderfully, it's got the air of waking on a beautiful Sunday morning, with one's head mercifully clear. We're transported to another time with the sunny Spanish rhythms of The Bones of You, before the string-laden ballad regrettably plods rather than envelops.

Lead single Grounds For Divorce bursts in with a bluesy swagger and a refrain that seems drenched in scotch and Mancunian rain. It's unsettling at first as it's so at odds with the sombre, gentle facets of Elbow's work until a mournful chorus reveals Guy Garvey can still be as melancholic as the best of them. Audience with the Pope seems like a northern Bond theme thanks to its ominous strings and though Weather to Fly does reveal that Guy's had a bit of a listen to Staralfur by Sigur Ros, it's still beautifully subtle and slow-building.

Garvey shows his lyrics are still superbly vicarious, vicious and vivid on Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver before The Fix, a duet with fellow northern troubadour Richard Hawley that carries with it a feel of the down at heel reaching a last chance saloon.

Some Riot bewitches with its piano before the chirpy, hopeful and lovelorn One Day Like This can't help but provoke a grin at the wondrous joy of a soaring, MGM string section.

And fittingly, Friend of Ours closes the album with a touching tribute to Richard Glancy, the Seldom Seen Kid of the title and a Manchester singer-songwriter who died last year. There won't be a dry eye in the house.

Who's it by?

Resolutely northern, Elbow formed when frontman Guy Garvey met guitarist Mark Potter while at sixth form college, (though they didn't adopt the name until 1997). Rapturously received EPs at the close of the 20th century preceded the Mercury-nominated debut Asleep in the Back in 2001, with the "I'll be the corpse in your bathtub" darkness of Newborn announcing Garvey as a unique British lyricist. Second album Cast of Thousands was drenched with romance while centrepiece Grace Under Pressure featured a Glastonbury crowd crying along with the Bush-baiting line "we still believe in love, so f**k you". The five-piece self-produced their third album Leaders of the Free World while their Live Lounge cover of Independent Woman memorably sound-tracked a rathergood.com sketch of flatcap-clad kittens.

As an example…

"You are the only thing in any room you're ever in/I'm stubborn, selfish and too old." - Starlings

"The fix is in, the snaps of the stewards so candid/The fix is in, yes our pigeons have finally landed" - The Fix

"Throw those curtains open wide/One day like this a year will see me right." - One Day Like This

Likelihood of a trip to the Grammys

Well, it's Elbow. So the critical response will be gushing, the hardcore fans will lap it up and mainstream recognition will almost certainly remain out of reach. Grounds for Divorce is expected to go top 20 this week, which'll do for Garvey and co presumably. Let Coldplay take the awards for navel-gazing indie, Elbow can earn the respect the hard way.

What the others say

"Garvey's voice is what most distinguishes Elbow, its sweet and scruffy soulfulness projecting real empathy and lyrical wit. 'I've been working on a cocktail called Grounds for Divorce,' he sings in the single Grounds For Divorce. It's surely one of the best opening lines of any pop song in years – and typical of a record that shows Elbow at the top of their game." - Sharon O'Connell, Uncut

"Those who find Elbow drab will still probably be unmoved by this Talk Talk-inspired band's latest. But for everyone else who likes to be moved, relaxed, and cheered by superior, soulful Mancunian lullabies, The Seldom Seen Kid is essential." - Lou Thomas, BBC

So is it any good?

Deceptively so. It meanders and muddles along like every other album, and while moments like Grounds For Divorce and Weather To Fly are exemplary portraits of a band whose skill only increases with each album, it never feels like an album that will astonish. Until the end.

One Day Like This has an uplifting quiver and is this album's equivalent to Grace Under Pressure, set for thousands-strong singalongs at this summer's festivals. As its defiant, sun-worshipping refrain powers the song that you realise you've just drunk in a superbly-rendered, hugely affecting and undeniably heartfelt piece of work. The cinematic feel of the closing Friend of Ours elicits a lump in the throat and you realise that from its startling opening, through its sprightly mid-section to its mournful close that this has been an all-encompassing experience. Garvey might have seemed curmudgeonly for his recent claims that iTunes should stop selling singles, but a listen to The Seldom Seen Kid in its entirety reveals that the album still is, and should indeed be preserved as an art form.

http://www.inthenews.co.uk/entertainment/reviews/non-fiction/music/rockindie/elbow-seldom-seen-kid-$1212559.htm

[Rad-Cold]

Ooh where can i download the new album?! :wideeyed:

[Kite]

Buy it, the boys need the money

[Kite]

Anyone know anywhere I can download the Grounds for Divorce Vinyl B-Sides from?

[Bernard]

^^ I haven't seen them about as of yet. I'll let you know if I find anything.

[Rad-Cold]

Anyone know anywhere I can download the Grounds for Divorce Vinyl B-Sides from?

Buy it!

The boys need the money :rolleyes:

[Kite]

Buy it!

The boys need the money :rolleyes:

That is what I want to do, buy the b-sides, but I can't find them anywhere.

[Jpw48]

Anyone know anywhere I can download the Grounds for Divorce Vinyl B-Sides from?

I've only seen them on vinyl i'm afraid. I still don't see the point of vinyl, unless they release all the tracks as downloads simultaneously.
On another note, does anyone know how limited Grounds For Divorce was?? I noticed they're all numbered

[Kite]

*holds up number 3951*

It wasn't limited as in the sense of Editors, but it was only available for 1 week before getting deleted. So basically once the current stocks are gone, that is it.

[Jpw48]

ooh okay thats interesting!!

*holds up number 0515!*

[Kite]

I bet yours was a pre-order :P

[shesawsparks]

As someone who is new to Elbow, which album would people say is best to buy after The Seldom Seen Kid?

[Zemy101]

^ Leaders Of the Free World, most definitely. It's almost as accessible as their new one.
And just work backwards from there I think.

[shesawsparks]

Just listening to the new album (arrived in the post this morning). I'm only about halfway through it and already, "WOW!!!" :o Loving Starlings, Mirrorball and Grounds For Divorce most so far :D

[Zemy101]

Yay :dance:
I love the album too.

[Kite]

Another new fan :D

[busybeeburns]

As someone who is new to Elbow, which album would people say is best to buy after The Seldom Seen Kid?
I would say start with Asleep In The Back - some of their best known songs are on their first album (Newborn, Powder Blue, Any Day Now) :)

[Kite]

I do like their cover of Black Magic Woman

[Zemy101]

I havn't heard all of Asleep In The Back, how does it compare against their newer material?

[Briggins]

I just bought Asleep in the back. It was only $0.99. I've never listened to Elbow before, so hopefully it is good.

[Jpw48]

I bet yours was a pre-order :P

Nope, just found it in HMV, they had all the vinyls with those low numbers as well, but this was before I heard the album and really started to like Elbow so I didn't buy them. Now the powers that be have decided t-shirts and books are more important that actual records in a record store, so they've stopped selling vinyl. :(
As far as I'm aware, that means there isn't a single shop in Cornwall that sells vinyl. :(

[Kite]

Have I told you about the Zavvi (formally Virgin) shop in Salisbury. When they refitted the shelves to make it more modern they didn't include anywhere for the singles as the current management at the time thought that CD singles were on their way out.

Only a couple months later they changed their mind and putted in a singles section, abit small and only containing singles not found in Woolies.

I miss the singles section in HMV at Basingstoke, it used to have the top 40, a collection of the new singles, mix of top 40 stuff and not top 40 stuff, plus a wide selection of old singles, cds & vinyls. Now that has been changed to an end of the aisle job, top 20 plus a few new releases :(

[Jpw48]

Yeah, its hard to believe why a record store would ditch records completely.
I mean okay, we can order it all online, but there's something nice about going in to town on the day of the latest radiohead single release and picking up a shiny new 7" of the track. I'm very keen on the artwork on cd's and stuff as well, so getting it four times bigger on a vinyl is another incentive.

My local HMV have even reduced the amount of space for singles, so instead of an entire wall, we have about two shelves, which is about enough to put a few r'n'b singles and some other popular stuff, but nothing which really appeals to me anymore. :(

[busybeeburns]

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Elbow performed a secret gig for fans, friends and industry-types.

BURY-based indie underdogs showcase their forthcoming tour in familiar surroundings.

For an exclusive one off concert, Elbow agreed to perform to an intimate crowd of devout Xfm-listening fans, family and some local industry types.

The venue (Blueprint Studios) as the crowd are informed, was used for the recording of Cast of Thousands and Leaders of the Free World. Standing in the main studio - a stark reminder of Manchester’s industrialist past, with its huge ship-beam ceilings and red-bricked walls – it seems clear how Elbow have drawn inspiration from it.

Whether it’s the heat, the draped windows or the anticipating crowd, the sense of claustrophobia, a recurring theme in Elbow’s output, is tangible.

On walks the band trumpets in hands, they blast lone notes into the sky; It’s flashy, glamorous and highly effective. Elbow look match fit on the improvised stage. Kitted out in their young-creative-type shirts and suits they look, perhaps appropriately tonight, as if they’re playing a family function.

Singer, Guy Garvey is on great form tonight. With his strained quasi Peter Gabriel voice, lyric “We kissed like we invented it” arches over the crowd in Garvey’s fatigued, yet austere delivery.

Popstar

For ‘On A Day Like This’ Garvey plays the working class popstar, arm outstretched wielding an aluminium rod he strikes it elaborately with a drumstick, as though he were mining the coke, before mustering the crowd in a mass sing-a-long.

The most overwhelming feature of tonight’s performance is how neatly the new material sits in between older material; holding it’s own, it expands and drives the group’s repertoire.

Highlight of the evening came in the subtle, ‘Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver.’ Starting a little rough ‘round the edges, it picked up momentum through a slick chord change and raised the bar of expectations.

For ‘The Fix’ Richard Hawley, the tracks hired gun, props himself up onstage next to Garvey. The pair clearly get along, but in such intimate surroundings their air of rapport seems overcooked and needy, provoking a series of unbearable banter. Such theatrics should perhaps be reserved for bigger audiences.

Unfortunately, the unjustified sense of ‘Coldplay imitation’ on a playful rendition of Grace Under Pressure continues to haunt the track’s strengths and blurs the groups advances since it’s release in 2003.

As Garvey sips some throat tonic to preserve his vocals, the band drive on into the next song - the feeling that they’ve got a long journey ahead is inescapable.

The show will broadcast across the Xfm network on Sunday 13th April.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/entertainment/music/live_reviews/s/1044015_elbow__blueprint_studios

[Bernard]

New fan.

Bought The Seldom Seen Kid last weekend.

Oh my God.

This is unbelievable. :shocked2:

So I'm working my way backwards now. Really enjoying Leaders Of The Free World, especially Mexican Standoff and the title track.

[busybeeburns]

Two contemporaneous bands, both with new albums this year. Early touring partners, good friends and there pretty much the similarity ends. Coldplay can genuinely lay claim to being the biggest band on the planet just now. Elbow would struggle to put a convincing argument about being the biggest band in Manchester. Coldplay’s new album will see acres of rainforest decimated to provide the paper for the mountain of column inches they will generate. Elbow’s new album will not have any environmental implications at all. Chris Martin is a whiny, macrobiotic-obsessed, preachy gimp. Guy Garvey is absolutely icebox.

But as artists, there is no comparision. Coldplay aren’t truly evil, like Blunt-evil, but they really are the sound of EMI. They are a Tesco group for sure, but I’ll admit they have a wide reach. Young and old, boys and girls, Brits and Americans - they truly are Everyman. Elbow are tough and spiky and dark and questioning. They are unlikely to be a group which appeals to a huge demographic. But is that a bad thing? Is consensus good in pop? Should at family parties Gran, Auntie and teenager all agree on the choice of music? No! Music is great at bringing us together and all that jazz, but it is also great for helping to define who and what you are. Elbow’s music wouldn’t appeal to a specific age, it will appeal to a specific type of person, and that’s where their talent lies. Coldplay’s blandness enables them to get out more, get the filmstar wives and the patronage of Sir Bob Geldof but it means that in 20 years people are not going to look back on how great the music was. I mean, Dire Straits were the Coldplay of the 80’s, but I think most teens embarking on a musical journey of discovery these days are more likely to look to the Beatles and the Clash than ‘Brothers In Arms’.

Maybe it’s enough just to be great? Maybe knowing he has a solid body of work which stands comparision with the best guitar music of the last twenty years is plenty for Garvey? I hope so. Because in a world where, sadly, we don’t have the meritocracy we deserve, it’s Chris Martin who is standing at Live 8 and amassing a wealth that would sicken a Russian oligarch. And that’s a constant reminder that life isn’t fair. So keep ploughing away Elbow, the world needs you. Otherwise, we are going to have to take the fifth-form poetry platitudes of errant attention-seeking twaddle like ‘Fix You’ as our anthems. And that simply would not stand.

http://extremelisteningmode.com/2008/03/31/elbow-and-coldplay-why-the-world-is-a-shithouse/

[Zemy101]

New fan.

Bought The Seldom Seen Kid last weekend.

Oh my God.

This is unbelievable. :shocked2:

So I'm working my way backwards now. Really enjoying Leaders Of The Free World, especially Mexican Standoff and the title track.Yes! :dance:
I was blown away when I first got into them as well. I don't know why they're not that well known.
I still havn't heard their first album though. I'll need to hunt for that.

[busybeeburns]

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Sublime: Guy Garvey of Elbow

Matthew Magee hails the uncommon power of the Mancunian rockers as they play in Glasgow

Elbow have watched for 10 years as contemporary after contemporary have hit the big time, scoring world tours and hit singles as the mainstream has flirted with the earnest indie of the likes of Coldplay and Snow Patrol.

With their fourth album, The Seldom Seen Kid, and their current single Grounds for Divorce, Elbow are finally making a dent in the mainstream, a change evidenced by the fact that the cheers in Glasgow for newer numbers drowned out those for the old.

The five by-now slightly grizzled thirtysomething Mancunians who make up the band wrestled roars and squawls from their instruments as easily as they picked out the intricate delicacies that eddy and bubble underneath them.

Whether it was the looping, elliptical bass line in Leaders of the Free World, the pulse-shifting stutter-drumming in Grace Under Pressure or the ever-present wash of perfectly judged, sympathetic guitar atmospherics, Elbow reproduced their complex sound seemingly without effort.

The soul of Elbow, though, is the rough velvet of Guy Garvey's voice, an emotional tug of a sound whose throaty idiosyncrasies convey an honesty greater than just the sum of four albums' worth of confessional lyrics.

Garvey was sublime, letting his voice show a crack and a strain in the glimmering twist of the concert opener Starlings, a song that hinges on a single climax whose despairing rasp was as honest and unshowy as it was affecting and poignant.

Elbow showed themselves to be a band of uncommon power. The muscular blues of Grounds for Divorce stoked the fires that burned brightest in Forget Myself, an anthem that preserved some distanced dignity even among the shout-along choruses.

Down in the depths of the sound, though, lurk the precious details that raise these tales of romantic despair or vignettes of hubris and loneliness far beyond the mundanity of run-of-the-mill self-pitying indie.

After the agile, flashing melodies of old favourite New Born had slipped away, the band moved into the song's long, tantric cadence, a mesmeric burn-out of restraint, then agitation, then frenzy which ended with Garvey shrieking tortured, despairing rapture.

As the crescendo built to deafening levels, Craig Potter's organ chords first whispered then roared, dragging the ear and the mind in new harmonic directions, bringing a startling new dimension even as the song disintegrated in a feast of distorted howls.

This concert was a show of delicate finesse and brutal, booming beauty, a feast as much for the mind as the ears which showed a few of the bigger-selling indie stars what the fruits are of a decade in the relative wilderness.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/10/bmelbow110.xml

[Kite]

My verdict from last night's show is that they were fucking fantastic, the best band I have seen live for ages, well since February when I saw Travis, which they edge out to go top of my best gigs.

[busybeeburns]

http://blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whatson/elbow.jpg

ARE Elbow finally on the brink of achieving the mainstream success their cult acclaim always hinted at I wonder?

Firmly back in the public eye thanks to the universal acclaim lavishly dished out to their fourth studio LP, The Seldom Seen Kid, the Bury quintet genuinely appear to be making hefty in-roads into the public’s consciousness.

And there’s no arguing the five-piece's wry and much-loved frontman Guy Garvey and co, deserve a big break too.

As, after toiling away for the best part of decade – their ethereal, swooning melodies were criminally being largely unheard.

But what's different from their previous three offerings I hear you ask? Evidently, new found support.

After effectively going on strike until their situation was resolved, Universal sibling and fervent Elbow supporters Fiction stepped into the breach and got the bandwagon back on the road again.

This has culminated in a blanket promotional campaign and buoyed by the majesty of comeback single and radio hit, Grounds For Divorce, they arrive home in Manchester on Sunday for a long sold out date at Academy 1.

Armed and ready to showcase the tracks which make up the LP dedicated to late friend and musician Bryan Glancy - it appears, in 2008, Elbow will be seldom seen (or heard) no more.

http://blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whatson/2008/04/make_room_for_elbow.html

[Kite]

Wednesdays are for drinking to the seldom seen kid.

[bedofroses]

I wish i had seen them live now, but i've only ever heard good things about them live so....

and the seldom seen kid sounds really promising, need to listen to it more.

[Kite]

Also listen to their earlier stuff :)

So throw those curtains wide!
One day like this a year’d see me right!

[bedofroses]

Oh i have, i've been a fan for a fair while now :nice:
i still think asleep in the back is their best, but seldom seen kid may be their second best. what do you reckon?

[Kite]

They are all great in my view, as I can't really decide which is the better of the 4 albums because the next day I will change my mind

[bedofroses]

yea i see what you mean. besides new listenings of albums bring into focus new highlights and interesting points not noticed before.

[busybeeburns]

ELBOW'S music takes its audience on a rollercoaster of emotions.

From atmospheric and emotional to moody and austere, their gigs are a dark indie-pop fairground ride to heaven.

Just strap yourself in, and enjoy the adrenaline fuelled journey.

Elbow step onto the stage dressed in black, blasting out stark single notes on trumpets to the tune of Starlings.

It all seems terribly serious - until the first song ends.

'Everyone okay?' asks front man Guy Garvey, looking like a slightly, thinner version of tubby comedian Johnny Vegas.

The reply is deafening.

This two hour set at Nottingham Rock City has attracted a crowd that ranges from the balding 30-somethings to quirkily inquisitive teenagers. It is a signal of Elbow's wide-ranging appeal.

Garvey addresses the crowd as if they are friends down the pub, teasing, joking, probing and, on occasions, heckling.

He may be a thinner version of Vegas, but he is funnier. At times the crowd were in stitches listening to Garvey's stories between each song.

His free-flowing manner is reflected in the band's music.

Garvey is one of the greatest, most consistent, yet unfortunately under-rated songwriters this country has ever produced.

Iconically innovative, the set swings serenely through classic hit to classic hit - from 'Switching Off' to 'Red' and 'Newborn'.

However, it is the swirling tones emanating from the band's fourth LP 'The Seldom Seen Kid' that impress the most.

Garvey's gravel-like tones polish their way through 'Grounds For Divorce', a gargantuan rock offering, while the spine-tingling 'One Day Like This' sees the frontman lead the crowd through a gospel-style singalong.

'One day like this a year will see me right' croons Garvey.

One gig like this in 2008 has certainly seen me right.

The band are louder, prouder and better than ever. Their latest offerings of love and loss have taken them to the next level.

It seems as though Elbow have connected to the main body of music they have always wanted to play. The results are spectacular.

The only thing that slightly spoilt the fun-fuelled romp was The Fix, and an Audience with the Pope, two of the best tracks from the Seldom Seen Kid, barely getting a look in.

However, a spellbinding set - confirming Elbow's status as the best band in Britain - meant they were barely missed.

http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-leisure/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=307933

[Briggins]

I've started listening to Asleep In The Back alot this week. Its great from start to finish. Best $0.99 I ever paid for a cd :P

[busybeeburns]

The UK’s Elbow nudges back

Often referred to as one of the biggest bands that never made it, Elbow nonetheless has made a steady living cranking out moody atmospheric Brit-rock for the past ten years. Originally signed by Island Records in 1998, the band was dropped after a year, which led it to EMI, who ended up dropping the group after only a couple of months. The band finally broke through in 2001 when V2 Records released its debut full-length, "Asleep at the Back." The record earned the band a Mercury Prize nomination in its home country, which consequently earned some critical buzz in the States leading up to its domestic release in early 2002. It appeared that Elbow was poised to become the next Coldplay, but despite a consistent output of great material in the years to follow, the band never experienced the massive commercial success experienced by its similar-sounding UK peers. In the fall of 2005, it seemed as though Elbow might finally enjoy its moment in the spotlight with the release of the heavily promoted effort, "Leaders of the Free World." Despite containing some of the band’s most pop-friendly material to date, the album only managed to reaffirm Elbow’s steady position on the very outer fringes of the mainstream market. Making matters worse, a year later the band found itself a victim of the industry once again when V2 Records went bust in January of 2007.

"You have to make brave decisions in the creative world, they were on the wrong side of a couple calls and it put them in financial dire straights," says Elbow frontman Guy Carvey. "They were a great label…they got us from the bedroom to the Mercury Award, you know? It was a shame." Fortunately, Carvey and the band were able to rebound and find a new home, this time landing on the resurrected Fiction Records imprint. "We were lucky, we had friends on both sides of the agreement," says Carvey. "We had friends at V2 who knew it was more important to let the band go than it was to hold on to for the sake of making a few more pennies… and then we had the people at Fiction who were really enthusiastic about having the band."

With the business side of things finally back in order, Elbow is now back to devoting all of its attention to music and the band’s currently hitting the road in support of its latest subtle masterpiece, "The Seldom Seen Kid," which hit domestic store shelves this week.

"This is the first album that we’ve written and recorded completely ourselves. We’ve always written them before [ourselves] and co-produced them, but there wasn’t anyone else involved this time. And for that, it’s been the greatest experience," Garvey proudly declares. "Whereas ‘Leaders of the Free World’ was made in a great big space with a lot of money, this one was made in a back room, just the five of us."

The change in the recording process is quite evident upon listening "The Seldom Seen Kid." Overall, the album has more of an intimate vibe reminiscent of Elbow’s debut, especially when compared to the bigger rock sound the band flirted with on its last effort.

"This one was born in many different atmospheres," Carvey says. "Some great things have happened and some awful things have happened the last three years. V2 going under was pretty terrifying. Our friend Bryan died, which was really heavy duty. And then on the flip side of that, two in the band had babies and fell in love. So that’s all good and hopefully the whole lot is on there."

Unfortunately, even with the album peaking at number-five in the UK album charts last month and the lead single, "Grounds for Divorce," breaking the top twenty, realistically Elbow will most likely continue to be the band constantly revered by the critics but seldom seen by the masses. Like any other ambitious musician, Carvey would ideally like to remedy the latter, but in the end he’s really just happy to be able to continue doing what he loves.

"I can’t complain about the way it’s gone," he says. "We’ve all lived very comfortably for ten years off writing songs for a living. Really can’t complain about that."

Elbow plays April 29 at Park West, 322 West Armitage, (773)929-5959, at 8pm.

http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/7690.html

[busybeeburns]

Striding from the wings to the melancholic flutterings of a trumpet solo, burly north of Englander Guy Garvey looks like Ricky Gervais about to lead a charity singalong.

But when the Elbow singer closes his eyes and opens his mouth, something unexpected and quite wonderful happens: he transforms into a stadium crooner whose aching voice rings eerily across the room.

There are other contradictions, too. One of the most acclaimed songwriters of the decade -- fans include Coldplay, U2 and REM, who are taking Elbow on tour later this year -- Garvey continues to slog away in the trenches of cult adoration.

Tonight, Elbow are roared on by a sellout audience; but really, their yearning anthemic music needs to resonate across roiling arenas to make sense.

One of the reasons why Elbow are not spoken of in the same breath as Coldplay and Radiohead is that Garvey doesn't try to cut it as a po-faced frontman.

Between songs, he could be a spit and sawdust comedian entertaining a Salford working men's club. His smoothly spun anecdotes suggest a talent for knockabout stand-up -- when he fluffs the intro to one track he staggers backwards in exaggerated horror, swaying giddily from side to side like a human Teletubby.

Still, there are indications that Elbow's best-kept secret status may shortly be blown.

A moving eulogy to the late Manchester songwriter Bryan Glancy, their fourth album, 'The Seldom Seen Kid' vaulted into the UK album charts at number five.

In the flesh, the record positively pleads for mass adoration. Steeped in guitarist Mark Pott's Johnny Greenwood-esque frets and washes of horn from a three-piece brass section, anthems-in-waiting such as 'Grounds For Divorce' and 'Starlings' sound like classic rock songs that you've somehow managed to overlook all these years.

If there is any justice in the world, Elbow's belated moment in the sun is finally at hand.

- Ed Power
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/bestkept-secret-elbow-their-way-to-the-big-time-1357717.html

[fudge]

I just have to express my love for 'On a Day like this'...it's the most perfect thing I've heard in a long while

[bedofroses]

I wish i'd seen them live now (as i've probably said before so i'm just repeating myself now!)

but still enjoying seldom seen kid, its grown on me more than it had before.

[Fixed]

Guy (Garvey) sung backing vocals on Snowden by Doves.

[Kite]

^I didn't know that^

[Glossal Fragster]

Great Band! :D theyre new single is very good...videos a bit wierd though...some guy throwing a sign about lol

[Fixed]

Guy (Garvey) sung backing vocals on Snowden by Doves.
^I didn't know that^

Yeah, the full scoop's here if you're interested:

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2331410#post2331410

[hihi]

the new albums real good,nothing spectacular about them but they make constant good albums.

[bedofroses]

Guy (Garvey) sung backing vocals on Snowden by Doves.

Oh! Thats news to me so thanks haha.

[shesawsparks]

I just have to express my love for 'On a Day like this'...it's the most perfect thing I've heard in a long while


Absolutely agree with you on that. And btw, how sexy does Guy Garvey sound on An Audience With The Pope? :shocked2:

[Kite]

It's time for me to pass judgement on the album, after listening to it quite a lot in the car, at work and at home. My review is that I can't find anything wrong with the album to dock it any points, so in the strange way I do my reviews starting from 10.0 points and docking points for weak parts of the album, my review is 10.0 out of 10.

They even got some flow between songs :)

[Jpw48]

Anyone know anywhere I can download the Grounds for Divorce Vinyl B-Sides from?

Did you ever manage to track these two songs down Dave?
http://www.imeem.com/groups/RfB8ZbNj/music/1O6RDnz1/elbow_our_little_boat/
http://www.imeem.com/groups/RfB8ZbNj/music/s6opLK2S/elbow_a_regret/

I just need to work out how to rip them...

B-Sides for the next single One Day Like This (2nd June) include:
Lullaby (CD)
Every Bit The Little Girl (Vinyl)
Li'l Pissed Charmin' Tune (Vinyl)


EDIT:
Elbow: Our Little Boat
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5RG8K8U0

Elbow: A Regret
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=53AN95DR
(both stolen links, thanks to the original uploader)

[Bebop28]

Elbow are absolutely amazing, I saw them a couple of months ago in Birmingham and it was the best concert I have ever been to, the crowd just seemed to be drinking in the music, truly mind-blowing...
Anyway I came here to see if anyone here is going to see them at Delamere Forest in June, I am and I can't wait!
Totally agree fudge;2329468 'One Day Like This' is musical perfection! :D

[Briggins]

Listening to the Seldom Seen Kid for the first time.......I'm blown away. Its great.

[Zemy101]

Listening to the Seldom Seen Kid for the first time.......I'm blown away. Its great.
That's great! How come it took you this long to listen to it?

Hmm I havn't been in this section for a while... looks like I'll have to download some of those Pablo Honey b-sides.

[Kite]

Another new fan :D

[Briggins]

I'd say I've been a little bit of a fan for the past few months (After I bought Asleep in the Back)...but hearing the new album just took it to a whole new level.

[Kite]

Going to promote the album on your blog?

Nice Skoda hats by the way

[Briggins]

I probably will at some point. Most likely in December when I do my annual album countdown. Possibly before.

Oh yeah, the Skoda helmets are so funny. They look ridiculous! And the best part is that they don't even sell Skoda car's here in Canada.

[Kite]

New UK Tour:
Monday Oct 6th - Cambridge, Corn Exchange
Tuesday Oct 7th - Portsmouth, Guildhall
Wednesday Oct 8th - Truro, Hall For Cornwall
Friday Oct 10th - Cardiff University, Great Hall
Saturday Oct 11th - London, Roundhouse
Sunday Oct 12th - London, Roundhouse
Wednesday Oct 15th - Wolverhampton, Civic Hall
Thursday Oct 16th - Leicester, De Montfort Hall
Saturday Oct 18th - Leeds, Academy
Monday Oct 20th - Gateshead, Sage
Wednesday Oct 22nd - Liverpool, University
Thursday Oct 23rd - Manchester, Apollo

Pre-sale (http://www.seetickets.com/gat/event.asp?n|showname=coming&showname=elbow&e|promoter=372&dateonsalefrom=05/06/2008&filler1=gigsandtours&filler2=elbowpre)

[julissofine]

I finally get to listen to The Seldom Seen Kid today for the first time, though I've had it in my pc since April. I like it very much. :) My favorites so far are Mirrorball, Grounds For Divorce, and On A Day Like This.

[Briggins]

^ All great songs. Soon you'll realize how magnificent the whole album is!

[Jpw48]

New UK Tour:
Monday Oct 6th - Cambridge, Corn Exchange
Tuesday Oct 7th - Portsmouth, Guildhall
Wednesday Oct 8th - Truro, Hall For Cornwall
Friday Oct 10th - Cardiff University, Great Hall
Saturday Oct 11th - London, Roundhouse
Sunday Oct 12th - London, Roundhouse
Wednesday Oct 15th - Wolverhampton, Civic Hall
Thursday Oct 16th - Leicester, De Montfort Hall
Saturday Oct 18th - Leeds, Academy
Monday Oct 20th - Gateshead, Sage
Wednesday Oct 22nd - Liverpool, University
Thursday Oct 23rd - Manchester, Apollo

Pre-sale (http://www.seetickets.com/gat/event.asp?n|showname=coming&showname=elbow&e|promoter=372&dateonsalefrom=05/06/2008&filler1=gigsandtours&filler2=elbowpre)


Why isn't Truro on the pre-sale?!?!?! Its a five minute walk from college, I'm so going!!
:)


Also because its so small, bands who play there always stop to meet the fans after and sign stuff. *starts gathering vinyls and album sleeves*

[Kite]

Lovely advert for the album on the back page of the free programme for Glastonbury :)

And they were awesome Sunday night in the Queen's Head, very laid back and semi-acoustic, and they played Switching Off :D

[Jpw48]

I'M GOING TO SEE ELBOW IN OCTOBER AT TRURO!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I should be able to meet them as well!!! Yay! :D

[Pseudonym]

The only reason I heard of Elbow before this thread is I was looking up a Muse song that a friend was telling me about and somehow I ended up on an Elbow song. I was like "wtf? Elbow? What a name!"


So who is Elbow anyway?

[Jpw48]

Elbow are amazing.

Go to youtube, listen to Grounds For Divorce, then One Day Like This.
Might just be the best thing you do all day

[Pseudonym]

Elbow are amazing.

Go to youtube, listen to Grounds For Divorce, then One Day Like This.
Might just be the best thing you do all day
ok:)

[Kite]

The only reason I heard of Elbow before this thread is I was looking up a Muse song that a friend was telling me about and somehow I ended up on an Elbow song. I was like "wtf? Elbow? What a name!"


So who is Elbow anyway?

let me guess the Muse/Elbow song you were looking for was Newborn ;)

[Kite]

I'M GOING TO SEE ELBOW IN OCTOBER AT TRURO!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I should be able to meet them as well!!! Yay! :D

Lucky you :)

[Pseudonym]

let me guess the Muse/Elbow song you were looking for was Newborn ;)
must have been


I just listened to Elbow on youtube, theyre ok. Sorry I just dont think theyre that great.



*runs from angry Elbow fans*

[busybeeburns]

Guy Garvey lights up a cigarette as the interview starts and admits he quit at New Year yet couldn't stick at it. But when speaking to a man responsible for one of the best albums of 2008, with The Seldom Seen Kid a crowning glory of the Bury band's 18-year career, a little bit of vice is perfectly acceptable.

The album, named after the band's late friend Bryan Glancy, saw them become the only band to achieve four successive 9/10 album reviews in the hallowed pages of NME, and with their orchestral wonder One Day Like This soundtracking ITV1's Euro 2008 coverage and magnificent sets at Delamere Forest and Glastonbury book ending the greatest-ever show of the band's career at the Meltdown, it's looking like a beautiful year for Elbow.

inthenews.co.uk's Lewis Bazley talks to frontman Guy Garvey about life, love and the best gig of their lives.

In the programme for Glastonbury, it referred to you as 'Glastonbury legends' - how do you feel about that?

Very happy with that! Somebody called me a 'Glastonbury veteran' today, I was happy with that too!

Which Glastonbury was it for you?

The fourth one, but I've been about eight times.

Did you stay the whole weekend?

Yes, I did, I got there on Thursday and stayed until the missus had had enough! (laughs)

So where did you stand on the whole Jay-Z thing?

Of course he should have been there. It's always represented all kinds of music. I kept saying it - they've consistently thrown the best party in the world, so why wouldn't you trust them to choose the headliners? Plus, it just came from that one comment of Noel's! And I'm sure he'd not really thought about it.

Having been at your show during the Meltdown - you said it was the 'gig of our lives' - was it?

Very definitely the gig of our lives.

Are you planning to use the 28-man choir again?

I don't think we'll ever try and repeat it, because that would be to cheapen it. From the start to the finish of the Meltdown, the attitude of everyone at the Southbank Centre, etc, they were so 'can do'. John Brown, who arranged the choir, is a genius, Mary King who trained up is just so talented - it just made the gig of our lives.

With the new album, you've achieved a record of sorts by becoming one of the only bands to achieve 8/10 four times from NME, so...

It's 9/10!

Is it nine? Well, that's pretty unusual, for that magazine to stick with a band for that long - how does that feel?

We feel very fortunate to have their support, it's probably the most important musical publication in the UK.

With this album, why did keyboardist Craig produce it?

Well, we've all co-produced everything we've ever done. And over the last two records, Craig just took the helm so it seemed natural to do one on our own. And that made it very personal for us.

'Emotional' is a phrase that gets brought up again and again with you guys and all the records are very personal. But on this one, because it's your fourth album and you've been through a lot as a band, is there a difference with the others?

All our records document where we are at that time. It's not as black and white as this but - the first one was about wanting to do what we've done; the second was about being quite bewildered by it; the next was about coming home; and this one's about… some of the big stuff, the things that challenged us, which happened to everyone in their lives. The boys have had babies but on the other hand, we lost a friend of ours, which has never happened to us. So, it's all in there.

Would the record have gone in a different direction if Bryan Glancy hadn't died?

Absolutely, I don't doubt it.

As a band, you've had the great critical acclaim we've talked about, you've got an adoring fanbase but you've never been a Coldplay-esque band with mainstream success. Is that something that matters if you have the critics and the fans?

No. I had a brief brush with the paparazzi when I was going out with Edith Bowman and what very little attention there was, I found it intrusive and paranoia-breeding. And I've got friends who've had lots and lots of trouble with celebrity in inverted commas.

So fame doesn't interest you?

If you'd have asked me when I was 14 why I wanted to be in a band, part of it would have been to show off. But by the time of getting a record deal, it was more about making the music and making it with people I trust. I don't know how people get through their lives when they haven't got an outlet the way we have. And it's been my entire adult live, so I don't know where life stops and music begins.

Around the time of Asleep in the Back, you said in an interview you'd had to give up on a relationship to pursue a career in music. Do you still think you made the right choice?

It was, because we're still friends and she's got two beautiful children and a wonderful husband. Yes, it was definitely the right choice - no less harrowing at the time but it worked out very well for us. She's with someone she loves and I'm with someone I love - there's always a part of you that loves that person but you wouldn't be human if that wasn't the case.

Finally - I wanted to ask you about the Delamere Forest show in mid-June as I heard you proposed to a girl on behalf of her boyfriend?

Basically, I got the songs mixed up! As part of his proposal, he quoted one of my lyrics: 'You are the only thing in any room you're ever in'. No, it wasn't that one!

That's from the new album!

Yeah, it is! Oh, what line was it?

Was it 'You the only sense the world has ever made'?

That's right! And so we should have played...

Switching Off?

Thank you! (laughs) It's a good job you know! And yeah, I played The Stops which is about a breakup! So I f****d it basically! But they were kissing so they were all happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQIdXKz4sE8

[mc_squared]

I wonder if they're into joints??:rolleyes:

[Kite]

Well done lads :D

[WonderMan]

listened to the album, but it doesn't grab me yet...difficult...

[Jpw48]

very well deserved

[Briggins]

Great album.......but I still like In Rainbows better :P

[mountainloafers]

Seldom Seen Kid is one of the top 5 or 10 best albums of the year imho. Mirror Ball is one of the best songs of the year. As are Grounds For Divorce and One Day Like This

[zeoir]

Hm, i heard yesterday on news that they won one of the most respected awards in uk and then they played a song by them (from the new album) and i quite liked it!
I think i'll really start listening to their music from now on

[bedofroses]

I listened to seldom seen kid a couple times since they were awarded the mercury prize, i think it is so deserving. amazing album.

[Kite]

most respected awards in uk

The mercury prize being respected...

...:laugh3:

[Glossal Fragster]

most respected awards? that's the brits! :rolleyes: :laugh3:

[Kite]

I'm thinking that the NME awards are the most respected ;)

[Dejan]

Take a look @ this NEW show from the paradiso (amsterdam),they are a wonderuful live band!
http://www.fabchannel.com/elbow_concert/2008-06-25/

[Dejan]

i suggest y'all to watch that show ^

[the hitcher]

Just found this on youtube, Tom Jones saying on the red carpet at the Q Awards that a collaboration with Elbow is "in the works" Very interesting. Tom also gives Coldplay a mention aswell, good work Tom that's what we like to see :D

YouTube - Tom Jones at the Q Awards

[Jpw48]

*cough* Guess who's going to see these guys live tomorrow? *end cough*
:P



SQUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Glossal Fragster]

who is it jake!?!?! :rolleyes:

[Kite]

Looks like there is a largish Elbow interview and feature in this month's Word magazine.

[Bebop28]

*cough* Guess who's going to see these guys live on Wednesday? *end cough* ;)

[Kite]

*cough* guess who saw them back in April before they were famous *end cough*

[Glossal Fragster]

*cough* anyone got any cavornia? :rolleyes:

[Kite]

I know ;)

Someone at work has just discovered them and he acting like he knows everything about them :rolleyes:

[Glossal Fragster]

i hate it when people do that....my mate suddenly decided she was a bigger coldplay fan than me...and im pretty sure she hasnt even bought any of their albums :laugh3:

[Bebop28]

*cough* Guess who also saw them back in April, and saw them in Delamere Forest and nearly caught pneumonia, so will actually have seen them three times this year *end cough* ;)

[Kite]

Of the 2 elbow shows I have seen this year, the acoustic set they did at Glastonbury beats Bristol.

Mainly for Switching Off

[lizkinwuzhir]

*cough*

they really deserved Mercury Prize :)

[Fixed]

What time have Jessica Hoop and Elbow been coming on at?

[RedGirl76]

Went to the gig at Liverpool Uni last night - they were awesome. I saw them once before in 2001, and they were good then, but now they are truly brilliant.

Top night - though the crowd left a little to be desired

[Fixed]

I was there too Alison, one of the best gigs I've ever been to. Newborn was gorgeous, Weather To Fly was amazing, Leaders Of The Free World was mental, as was Grounds For Divorce. I got a set list at the end too - I'll post it... unless anyone who's going to see them soon doesn't want it spoiled?

[mountainloafers]

jealous! SPOIL ME!

[RedGirl76]

He's so good live.

We got there late because of all those bloody roadworks! Missed the support entirely and was stuck quite near the back, where people just decided to talk whenever they felt like it! :angry:

Think Weather to Fly was my favourite - that and One Day Like This (I'm a sucker for confetti! :P)

[Fixed]

Starlings
Bones Of You
Leaders Of The Free World
Mirrorball
The Stops
Grounds For Divorce
Mexican Standoff
The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver
Newborn
Great Expectations
Weather To Fly
One Day Like This
--------------------------
Some Riot
Station Approach
Scattered Black And Whites

I bought Jesca Hoop's CD and EP after the gig so I'll upload them for you if you want.

[RedGirl76]

What kind of music did she do?

I loved how Guy gave her album a little plug and then laughed at the fact that "no one calls them records anymore"

[Fixed]

Jesca's 'genre' on MySpace is down as "Mad Music". Quite quirky, dreamy - acoustically anyway, not listened to the full band CD yet. Guy introduced her and said, "It's only her becuase we couldn't afford to bring the rest of her band!" - bless.

Have a listen here...
http://www.myspace.com/jescahoop

Guy: "Mark's kid did his first poo in a potty today! It'll be 'Here's a tenner now f**k off to the cinema' before you know it" :P

Fan to Guy: "I want your kids!"
Guy: (In shock) "You have my kids or you want my kids?!"

[RedGirl76]

Thanks for the myspace link - will check it out this weekend.

Guy was really funny. I believe he has a show on Six Music. I never normally listen to that station, but I'd love to hear what kind of stuff he plays

[Kite]

Elbow Live At Abbey Road
With The BBC Concert Orchestra

Elbow played an historic gig at Abbey Road Studios on Saturday, 17th January.

The band performed their Mercury Prize winning record, 'The Seldom Seen Kid', in its entirety with the help of the BBC Concert Orchestra together with the Radio 3 choir of the year 'Chantage' - a truly stunning combination.


Live On Radio 2 - Saturday 31st January

Fans can catch this historic Elbow performance when it's broadcast on BBC Radio 2 from 9pm-10pm on Saturday 31st January.

Click here to visit BBC2's website for more information and to listen live online. Straight afterwards fans can also enjoy a special Elbow documentary on the excellent 6music.

Completing the fantastic multi-media experience fans can press the red button on any BBC TV channel after midnight on Saturday night and watch the gig in all its glory via the wonders of digital TV. So there's no excuse for missing this excellent evening of music.

Limited Edition Box Set Of Abbey Road Show
To Be Released

In more exciting news, Elbow will also release a very special box set of the recording, which will be exclusively available from www.elbow.co.uk

This highly-desirable collector's item will be presented in a clamshell box, including a CD of the show in a card wallet, a DVD of the evening's magic, 4 commemorative photo postcards of the event and a 16 page booklet.

This strictly-limited piece of Elbow history will be released this March, exclusively from the band's website. Click here (http://elbow.trinitystreetdirect.com/store/page4.asp?suptype=&t=1&sub_type=4&prod_id=17&col=30) to pre-order yours now.

. www.elbow.co.uk .
. www.theseldomseenkid.com .
. www.myspace.com/elbowmusic .

[cephaus]

is anybody gonna be recording the broadcast on saturday???

[Fixed]

I hope so! If someone can record the documentary on 6music too please that'd be great because I'm out tonight (just in case it's not put on the iPlayer for some silly reason!)

[Fixed]

Does anybody know what single George Lassoes The Moon was the b-side for?

Edited: It was on the Noisebox EP and Any Day Now EP.

[Kite]

Does anybody know what single George Lassoes The Moon was the b-side for?

Edited: It was on the Noisebox EP and Any Day Now EP.

Just suck on your plastic spoon ;)

I'm still on the lookout for the early EPs if anybody has any links to them (I have Noisebox)

[Briggins]

That BBC thing looks cool. Hope a recording pops up somewhere here.

[cephaus]

The performance is up! http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio2_aod.shtml?radio2/2100_sat

It sounds freaking amazing (especially Ground for Divorce)

Anybody here knows how to record/download it?

[deaths_friend]

listened to their cover of the U2 classic Running to a Stand Still and its brilliant!! U2 made a very good choice in having Elbow cover it. its been all over the radio down here in aus and deservedly so. i hope they do it at the Sydney V Festival next month

[busybeeburns]

there's a repeat currently on the BBC red button, digital or sky :)

[Briggins]

listened to their cover of the U2 classic Running to a Stand Still and its brilliant!! U2 made a very good choice in having Elbow cover it. its been all over the radio down here in aus and deservedly so. i hope they do it at the Sydney V Festival next month

I'll have to check that out.

[Briggins]

Its good.

Thats one of my favourite U2 songs, and that was a pretty good cover.

[busybeeburns]

http://akamai-static.nme.com/images/76_Elbow261005.jpg

An alternate version of 'The Seldom Seen Kid' is available to order now

Elbow have made a limited edition, alternate version of their Nationwide Mercury Prize winning album 'The Seldom Seen Kid'.

The band recorded the alternate album in its entirety during a recent performance at London's Abbey Road studios, where they were joined by Richard Hawley, the BBC Concert Orchestra and Chantage.

An invited audience also attended the show, which took place on January 17.

The band release the 'new' version of the album on CD and DVD through Elbow.co.uk, and extra features include postcards of the band taken at Abbey Road and a photo booklet with exclusive images from the day.

Fans can order the album from today, with copies set to be delivered in March.

Elbow are currently preparing to head out on a UK tour.

The band play the following venues:

Brighton Dome (February 26)
Southend Cliffs Pavilion (March 1)
Bournemouth Solent Hall (2)
Sheffield Academy (3)
Newcastle Academy (5)
Edinburgh Corn Exchange (6)
Blackpool Empress Ballroom (7)
Llandudno Arena (9)
Bristol Colston Hall (10)
Plymouth Pavilions (11)
Newport Centre (12)
London Wembley Arena (14)

http://www.nme.com

[mountainloafers]

:)CHARLOTTE IN AUGUST WITH COLDPLAY!!!!!!!!! WOOT!

[Briggins]

Nice combo.

[Kite]

Elbow will outshine Coldplay

[Briggins]

I always think of Elbow as a more mature Coldplay for some reason.

[Kite]

I always think of Elbow as a more mature Coldplay for some reason.

Even though both bands released album 4 last year, Elbow has been going around for a good 8 or so years longer than Starfish/Coldplay ;)

[deaths_friend]

Elbow is what Coldplay would have been if they had not sold out.

[Kite]

Trinty Street have gone under, so whatever will Elbow do with the orders for the live album

[magodeoz]

Have you seen this video? It's like the most amazing thing I've ever seen ;) Especially the end part.

YouTube - Elbow - The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver

[Fixed]

Trinty Street have gone under, so whatever will Elbow do with the orders for the live album
The Abbey Road DVD? Yeah, might be a good idea to email them and check. I'm sure they'll still send it out when it's released. They better had anyway, I pre-ordered it last week lol.

[Briggins]

Elbow is what Coldplay would have been if they had not sold out.

I agree with you on that one. :glasses2:

[J.]

I'm glad they got Brit Award, not that they needed it when it comes to their value as artists, but... I'm glad.

[Watto]

Has anyone here pre-ordered the Live At Abbey Road CD/DVD?

Trinity Street ran Elbow's webstore, and, lucky me, the day after I pre-ordered it, they went into administration. They still managed to take my money though, fuckers.

Elbow's news page insists all orders will be honoured, but the boxset is now being sold through HMV.com. Will I be getting the album from HMV, then?

I'm starting to get a bit worried. I mean, £20 is a hell of a lot to spend on an album, and I'd like to be sure I'm going to get it for the price...

Is anyone else in the same boat as I am?

[Kite]

The Abbey Road DVD? Yeah, might be a good idea to email them and check. I'm sure they'll still send it out when it's released. They better had anyway, I pre-ordered it last week lol.

The Elbow site is linking to HMV now, so it depends what the management team will do, if they can get a list of who has paid for the boxset and try and get refunds, because the cards have already been charged.

[Kite]

Has anyone here pre-ordered the Live At Abbey Road CD/DVD?

Trinity Street ran Elbow's webstore, and, lucky me, the day after I pre-ordered it, they went into administration. They still managed to take my money though, fuckers.

Elbow's news page insists all orders will be honoured, but the boxset is now being sold through HMV.com. Will I be getting the album from HMV, then?

I'm starting to get a bit worried. I mean, £20 is a hell of a lot to spend on an album, and I'd like to be sure I'm going to get it for the price...

Is anyone else in the same boat as I am?

I'm with you.

If nothing can be done in recovering your money, and if you used a Visa card, you might try your luck with the Visa Debit Chargeback Program (http://whatconsumer.co.uk/visa-debit-chargeback/ or http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/section75-protect-your-purchases#debitcard

[Kite]

Yay my live at Abbey Road CD/DVD package come today :)

[deaths_friend]

just listening to the Abbey Road CD now on the radio. sounds pretty awesome!!

[ariadnasquire]

Listened two of their albums today (Asleep in the back and The Seldom Seen Kid), pretty good music.
one of their songs sounded like Radiohead or Joy Division for me :thinking:
any other albums that i should listen next? :)

[Chavi]

Listen to Cast of Thousands and Leaders of the free world, Ari. They're all good :D

[tauiwi]

these guys were SO good live!

[ariadnasquire]

Listen to Cast of Thousands and Leaders of the free world, Ari. They're all good :D
thanks i'll try to listen those ones asap. :)

[Graceful]

I've tried and tried and tried but I'm finding it reay hard to get into these guys :(
I reay want to though cos everyong says how good they are :S

[Graceful]

I've tried and tried and tried but I'm finding it reay hard to get into these guys :(
I reay want to though cos everyong says how good they are :S

[tauiwi]

Try 'Grounds for Divorce' - thats the song that got me into them. And seeing them live completely changed my opinion.

[Infogatherer]

^ Same Here

[tauiwi]

It's just a great, rockin tune

[Ziggy]

I was fortunate to see them open for Coldplay in Toronto. I'd atched the "One day like this vid and love both song and video. Live, they were like a huge wave carrying you on with the power of their music - very forceful! I'm a fan now and will be collecting thier tunes. Thanks to CP for the introduction!

[Open, Politik]

Try 'Grounds for Divorce' - thats the song that got me into them. And seeing them live completely changed my opinion.
same, so cool

[SueDeNimes]

I am listening to "Grounds for divorce" on repeat for days already...
And reading the reviews they must be amazing live!!

I'm still waiting for the delivery of my Snow Patrol albums but "Seldom seen kid" will be the next thing to buy on my list!

[Ziggy]

Had to order a copy from Amazon - 10 days till it's in stock and shipped. Tic, tic, tic. Will have to use up braodband space watching them on U-Tube till then! :lol:

[SueDeNimes]

OMG!!
How cool is their website!! :stunned:

Mind you - I didn't manage to come further than the main page and I think I was "playing" piano for too long :lol:

http://www.elbow.co.uk/

This is sooo fun!
Ok, I'll try to click something now and get past that main site :laugh4:

Anybody else as crazy as me and playing there for too long to be considered mentally normal?
(Sorry, I'm sure this was discussed earlier already but I just discovered it)


EDIT: The whole website is amazing!!! :stunned: :stunned:

[nihcoldplay]

They're great, I like their new album. Mirrorball and Weather to Fly are my favs at the moment.

[w1ll1am7]

anybody know anything about the record they are going to release within the year?
there was an interview on the Coldplay website, anyone know more?

[Kite]

Releasing a record this year?

I ain't heard anything about it, unless it's going to be a b-sides collection.

[w1ll1am7]

well they are in the studio, not like 2009, but within the span of 12 months

[Kite]

Makes sense, but what other bands can say in the same month they have supported 2 of the worlds biggest bands?

[w1ll1am7]

not many! :P

I think in the interview Guy said that this album won't get as much acclaim as The Seldom Seen Kid, but they like it, and if they like it, i know i will! :)

[Boreas]

I listened to Elbow for the first time yesterday. It's The Seldom Seen Kid. i immediately like Grounds of Divorce, Mirrorball and An Audience with the Pope.

I think I'm gonna like them.