The epic pop four-piece return.
The Guy Garvey fronted four-piece from Bury who won the Mercury Music Prize in 2008 return with their epic alt rock and progressive pop originals.
Taking their name from a memorable line in the BBC TV mini-series The Singing Detective, alt rock and progressive pop four-piece Elbow celebrate a rich and varied career fronted by Guy Garvey that has garnered them numerous plaudits including the Mercury Music Prize, Ivor Novello Award and a BRIT Award for Best British Group.
Elbow is an alternative rock band which formed in Bury, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom in 1990 while at sixth-form college. The band consists of Guy Garvey (vocals, guitar), Mark Potter (guitar, vocals), Pete Turner (bass), Craig Potter (keyboards) and Richard Jupp (drums). Over the band's 20 year career, it has released five studio albums, four EPs and ten top fifty singles in the UK.nnThe band is named after a line in the BBC TV mini-series The Singing Detective which says that the word "elbow" is the most sensuous word in the English language, not for its definition, but for how it feels to say it.nnElbow began specializing in "chilled funk", but changed the direction of its music after unanimously deciding that they were "shit." The new songs were noticed from both Island Records and Universal, but the band was dropped before anything was released after it signed with both labels. The band then released two critically acclaimed EP's on the independent Ugly Man Record label which caught the attention of V2 Records.nnV2 released Elbow's debut album: "asleep in the back." The album was a surprisignly moderate success, gaining substantial critical acclaim and, ultimately, a nomination for the mercury music prize in 2001. The single "Newborn" received attention after being banned by radio 1 for the lyric, "I'll be the corpse in your bathtub."nnWord of mouth then began to work in Elbow's favor. Its 2003 album, "Cast Of Thousands," entered the UK Charts at #7 to critical acclaim. The lead single, "Fallen Angel," charted at #19.nnIn 2004, Elbow became the first British band to ever play a concert in Havana during an unofficial Cuban tour. The tour was made into a short film by British documentary maker Irshad Ashraf.
