So I bought the new Mojo and in it there is an interview with Guy Garvey concerning Peter Gabriel :wacky:

Elbow are gonna cover Mercy Street for I'll Scratch Yours and Arcade Fire will do my favorite, Games Without Frontiers :nice:

I had the misfortune to hear Gabriel's version of Mirrorball for that project, it was awful!

Don't mention it.

Ok, I won't.

The start was the worst, then it gets better. However, the news thread about it on the Elbow Room Only read "Gabriel Murders Mirrorball".

haha I'm not surprised. He well & truely murdered it, if you ask me. Ususally I'm a big fan of wacky cover versions but that was too much for me. Kudos to him for picking Mirrorball tho when he could have gone for one of the obvious hits like One Day or Divorce :shrug:

 

Will be interesting to see how Elbow return the favour, I can't imagine them doing a bad cover of anything.

Yeah, Mirrorball is the song I would pick too, it's so full of soul and yet so simple. Somehow Pete managed to screw up badly :(

I love their covers of Working Class Hero and Back To Black, and really can't envision them doing anything poor.

http://www.nme.com/rate/greatestlyricists/8

Vote Guy Garvey :wacky:

Sample lyric: "The violets explode inside me when I meet your eyes/ Then I’m spinning and I’m diving/ Like a cloud of starlings/ Darling is this love?" ('Starlings')

Voted. :smug:

I'm bumping this thread with a photo of Elbow and a few decapitated deer.

I'd rather you bumped it with some album news :P

There isn't any :( Either Elbow are very secretevie, paranoid or lazy.

Let's hope they are just busy :thumbsup:

:wacky: album by late summer? I'm going to sleep good tonight :D

:wacky: album by late summer?

 

Really...???

No :shame: I'm hoping :cheesy:

Ya got me excited then, ya bugger! :P My money'd be on November time.

I'm not a bugger, I'm a picky bugger :rolleyes:

I'd like a summer album, it can't be to close to Coldplay's next again.

Elbow's version of Peter Gabriel's 'Mercy Street' - Out Now

When Peter Gabriel recorded a version of Elbows 'Mirrorball' on his last album 'Scratch My Back' it was only a matter of time before Elbow returned the favour.

 

Peter Gabriel's 'Scratch My Back' project was conceived as a collaborative enterprise between Peter and the bands he chose to cover.

 

He would cover one of their songs, and they would cover one of his in return, creating a further collaboration 'I'll scratch yours' scheduled for release next year.

 

The build up to the album release will see one track being made available on every full moon, this month being the turn of Elbow with their cover of 'Mercy Street'.

 

You can now preview the cover and watch an excellent documentary - featuring Guy talking about the project - right here on Peter Gabriel's website.

 

Download 'Mercy Street' EP from iTunes now

For a rip-off 99p :(

 

I hate iTunes

I'm waiting for it to surface on YouTube, then I'll rip it :mellow:

Good plan Mr Watson :)

:uhoh: What?

 

And here it is :D

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmXs0kBnm9A&feature=player_embedded]YouTube- Elbow - Mercy Street[/ame]

Ripping it from youtube instead of paying Apple any money

Well, nobody's perfect :rolleyes: