Another new fan :D

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.

Going to promote the album on your blog?

 

Nice Skoda hats by the way

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.

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

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.

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

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

 

 

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*

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

I'M GOING TO SEE ELBOW IN OCTOBER AT TRURO!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I should be able to meet them as well!!! Yay! :D

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?

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

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:)

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 ;)

I'M GOING TO SEE ELBOW IN OCTOBER AT TRURO!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I should be able to meet them as well!!! Yay! :D

 

Lucky you :)

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*

Elbow: I don't know where life stops and music begins.

 

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

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

Well done lads :D

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

very well deserved

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

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

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

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