Switching Off is beautiful :wacky: And Weather To Fly. I used to love Tower Crane Driver but gone off it a bit lately...

 

I'd love to see/hear Fugitive Motel live, they didn't play it in Manchester and I wanted them to </3

I don't really get Fugitive Motel, it's a decent song but for me it's nowhere near their best... :\

Well, for me it's the first Elbow song I heard so will always be special :D

Switching Off Acoustic is wonderful

Switching Off is beautiful :wacky: And Weather To Fly. I used to love Tower Crane Driver but gone off it a bit lately...

 

I'd love to see/hear Fugitive Motel live, they didn't play it in Manchester and I wanted them to </3

 

It's not a good live song :\

 

I don't really get Fugitive Motel, it's a decent song but for me it's nowhere near their best... :\

 

Top 5 for me.

 

Switching Off Acoustic is wonderful

 

:awesome:

Massive Attack team up with Elbow's Guy Garvey for War Child EP

Yay!

Elbow Make Xfm's Top 1000 Songs of All Time

 

It's with great pride that Elbow can announce that they're featured in the soon-to-be-released Xfm Top 1000 Songs of All Time book.

 

In fact, the band have a grand total of eight songs on the list.

 

The list is based on Xfm listener votes over the years and this just makes the honour that bit sweeter. Thanks to all the amazing Elbow fans out there.

 

The book is available from 8th October and should you want to pick up a copy you can pre-order yours right here.

Elbow Return - UK Arena Tour March 2011

 

Ladies and Gentlemen, it's the news you've all been waiting for... Elbow will be making their return to live action this coming March with a string of very special arena dates.

 

Their first shows since September 2009, Elbow have spent the last year working on the follow up to ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’ due out in early 2011.

 

 

 

Tickets for the shows go on sale to Elbow fans on Tuesday 28th September at 9am sharp. An email with the pre-sale link will be sent to fans on the Elbow mailing list - to sign up go to http://www.elbow.co.uk/mailinglist.

Here's the full list of dates:

 

 

March

 

Tue 15th - Glasgow, SECC

 

Wed 16th - Newcastle, Metro Radio Arena

 

Thu 17th - Nottingham, Trent FM Arena

 

Sat 19th - Sheffield, Arena

 

Sun 20th - Liverpool, Echo Arena

 

Tue 22nd - Birmingham, National Indoor Arena

 

Wed 23rd - Cardiff, International Arena

 

Fri 25th - Manchester, MEN Arena

 

Mon 28th - London, O2 Arena

 

 

Tickets will be on sale to the general public from 9am on Friday 1st October.

 

More details on the new album will follow shortly.

I was just coming to post that!!!

 

Can I go - YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!! :D :D :D

 

Frontman Guy Garvey told NME that fans going to the gigs should expect some surprises from the band.

 

"There will be some theatre involved," Garvey said. "There are a few very special guests on the record, and hopefully they’ll be coming out with us live as well."

 

-nme

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEAAAHEWWW!:freak:

 

I'm totally psyched. The theater could go horribly wrong, though :anxious:

I was just coming to post that!!!

 

Can I go - YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!! :D :D :D

 

 

 

-nme

 

Lucky bastards! WHY are gigs on week days :bomb:

Crossing my fingers for a longer tour :bomb:

I'll probs go to the Manchester one....a friday YAH baby :dance:

 

But also album = 'early next year' :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

:dance::dance::dance:

 

And special guests :surprised:

 

Gonna try to go to one :bomb: Must persuade parent(s)

No gigs in the South West :(

 

Not even the BIC :(

Bummer :( (Sometimes it's great living up North :P)

 

I'm sure they'll be other gigs after this tour, and they often play the less-obvious venues and towns. They even played Llandudno last year, no-one plays Llandudno ffs. I hope they do it again tho. Was a great gig :D

 

Here's the full article :)

never seen Elbow live, seriously considering this! :D

 

Elbow: 'Music pirates are going to hell'

 

Elbow's Guy Garvey has said that file-sharers who can afford to buy music but decide not to are "going to hell". The 36-year-old singer said he understood if people who couldn't afford music "rip it" but that for others there is "no excuse".

 

"Without the live side nobody's making any money," he said. The band's 2008 LP The Seldom Seen Kid won the Mercury Prize and sold more than 600,000 copies in the UK. Garvey was asked if he was worried about their as-yet-untitled fifth album being leaked before its release in spring 2011.

 

"If you genuinely can't afford music then of course you're going to rip it," the singer said. "If you can afford it and you don't pay for it then you're going to hell and you've got your own room. Especially when it's a smaller band. There's no excuse."

 

He added that he felt his band were in a privileged position 20 years into their career to now have a supportive record label. "You come across people [record labels] who've dropped Elbow all the time. If you throw a rock in London you'll hit one. We're lucky to have a paymaster in the current climate. It's not lost on us."

 

The Bury band experienced a significant upturn in sales after they won the Mercury Prize in 2008. "We've got a dedicated fanbase who've always been there since the very first record," Garvey remarked. "To have it suddenly expanded in that way. It must be 700% more people listening to the stuff - it was just incredibly flattering. If we never have a record that's as successful as that one again, it's still going to be something amazing."

 

However, he admitted that it has put a certain amount of pressure on the group as they apply the final touches to the new album. "We get asked a lot of whether the success of The Seldom Seen Kid has put any pressure on us for this new record - I'm sure it has. We've never taken writing and recording records that lightly. I can't remember an album where we weren't concentrated on it for a long time. It's not like we're suddenly now thinking more about the numbers than we are about the music."

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/11388044

:embarrassed: Guy says I'm going to hell...?

 

Anyway... all this news of the new album excites me :dance:

I rarely pirate, and when I do, it's to sample. If I like, I'll buy it. Come to think about it, if it's a smaller band I usually just buy it. I'm definatly gonna buy this one :D

I buy as much as I can, then I pirate the rest. I always buy from the bands I really love, because I want to support them. Elbow will most certainly be paid for

^ This

Looking at possibilities for March...