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Elbow: Leaders of the Free World (V2)
Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, October 2005
Third album from Mancunian quintet, self-produced at the city's Blueprint studio. ...
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Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, 30 May 2003
A somewhat wind-blown Guy Garvey and pals on the making of Cast of Thousands, prog rock, Manchester, religion and being stalked by Cameron Diaz
File format: mp3; in 3 parts, total file sizes: 88.1meg, total interview length: 1h 36' 09" sound quality: **
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Review by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, May 2001
HOORAY! MANCHESTER has delivered its first great album of the millennium. Others will doubtless follow, but few will conjure up magic as brooding as Elbow ...
Elbow: Asleep in the Back (V2)
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 4 May 2001
WHAT'S IN a name? The Bury-based indie combo Elbow found out a year or two ago when, after Universal's swallowing of their label, Island, they ...
Profile and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, September 2001
Laid-back troupe shoot from zero to Square One in just over a decade! More power to them, says Jim Irvin. ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, March 2002
"TELL YOU WHAT we watched the other night," mumbles Guy Garvey into the mic, while tuning up onstage between two intensely moving songs. "The Last ...
Radiohead: Hail To The Thief (Parlophone); Elbow: Cast Of Thousands (V2)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, May 2003
AS YOU'LL KNOW by now, rock's favourite Oxonians have hauled their guitars out of the deep freeze and put the Warp(ed) electronica of Kid A ...
Given The Elbow: The Confessions Of Guy Garvey
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, August 2003
Two years ago, Elbow released Asleep In The Back, an intense suite of prog-inflected songs that stands as one of the finest albums ever to ...
Rock This Joint: Elbow: Cast of Thousands (V2) ****
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, September 2003
Manchester five-piece follow Mercury Prize-nominated debut with more evocative, cliché-free guitar rock ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, October 2003
CAN THIS REALLY be Manchester? Two days have passed since thousands of Italian footie fans flooded the city for the Champs' League Final and the ...
Elbow: Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow
Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 7 October 2003
THERE WAS an air of resignation when the fire alarm went off at the Queen Margaret Union in Glasgow on Thursday night and the splendidly ...
Good golly Miss Polly: PJ Harvey/Elbow: Eden Project, Cornwall/Tate Modern, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, November 2003
West country girl's long-awaited return sees renewed quest for left-field status ...
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 9 September 2005
ELBOW HAVE BEEN brushed by fame almost accidentally; first, when their debut album, 2000's Asleep at the Back, was Mercury nominated, then when the singer, ...
Elbow: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 18 April 2008
WHAT A LONG, hard slog it has been for Elbow. Eighteen years in the pop trenches and still only on their fourth album. They have ...
Elbow: The Seldom Seen Kid (Fiction/Geffen)
Review by Roy Trakin, Rock's Backpages, September 2008
THIS IS THE FOURTH album from the most recent winners of the U.K.'s prestigious Mercury Music Prize and, after three releases on V2, the first ...
Interview by John Lewis, Hotline, March 2009
John Lewis asks the Mercury-winning Elbow main-man and BBC 6Music broadcaster about winklepickers, Nat King Cole and cheese on toast. ...
Live Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 5 March 2009
TODAY IS lead singer Guy Garvey's birthday, and he's in a gaming mood. "How old do you think I am?" he asks the crowd, early ...
Interview by Dorian Lynskey, Q, April 2009
People's poet, shambling everyman, leader of 18-year overnight sensations Elbow — Guy Garvey is the world's most unlikely rock star. But scratch the surface and ...
Live Review by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 17 August 2009
U2 Live Under A Slate Grey Claw. Chris Roberts reports from Wembley ...
Review by Jim Irvin, The Word, March 2011
IT'S THREE AND A HALF MINUTES into Build A Rocket Boys, and Elbow are sounding like a band. And that band is Genesis, circa 1973, ...
Elbow: Build a Rocket Boys! (Fiction) ****
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 4 March 2011
IN THE THREE years since The Seldom Seen Kid hoisted the band into the first rank of arena-rock dependables, Elbow have had plenty of time ...
Elbow: International Arena, Cardiff
Live Review by Jude Rogers, The Observer, 27 March 2011
TONIGHT, CARDIFF'S premier gig-shed has turned into a family parlour. Five picture frames hang from the stage, gold and old-fashioned, each of them holding a ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Paste, 11 April 2011
LIKE OTHER AMERICAN LISTENERS, I came late to Elbow, paying little attention to the veteran Manchester band until picking up on the U.K. buzz surrounding ...
Guy Garvey: Elbow ambassador; Joni Mitchell torch-carrier
Interview by Kate Mossman, The Word, January 2012
ANY WOMAN interviewing guy GARVEY will inevitably drift to thoughts of what he would be like to live with. This is because every anecdote that ...
Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), March 2012
ELBOW'S 2011 Glastonbury performance at sunset in front of 100,000 punters was another spine-tingling moment in the history of the legendary English festival, but beefy ...
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 3 December 2012
ELBOW HAVE BEEN describing this end-of-year arena tour as their "farewell party", and the reason for their sabbatical is a curious one. Frontman Guy Garvey ...
Profile and Interview by Andy Gill, The Independent, 26 February 2014
WHEN GUY GARVEY split from his long-time partner Emma Unsworth, he had to get away. Far away. The genial, bear-like singer knew he needed a ...
Elbow: The Take Off and Landing of Everything
Review by Mick Middles, The Quietus, 17 March 2014
THREE YEARS BEYOND the nostalgic somnolence of Build A Rocket Boys and things have changed. Guy Garvey is now beyond an amicable split from his partner of ...
Elbow: The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
Review and Interview by Andy Gill, Uncut, April 2014
FOR THEIR SIXTH album, Elbow opted for a new working method, recording in small combinations rather than all together, with the remaining members chipping in ...
With Maturity, U.K. art-rockers Elbow finally stick the Landing
Profile and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, The Washington Post, 8 May 2014
BIG HANDS, a pub in Manchester, England, that takes its name from a Violent Femmes song, has long been a watering hole for local bands. ...
Live Review by Peter Ross, The Times, 7 March 2018
Long stretches strained for effect, but at their best Guy Garvey's band make the creation of beauty appear effortless. ...
Review by Nick Hasted, The Arts Desk, 10 October 2019
Brutal times put Guy Garvey at bay. ...
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