The Elbow Excitement Thread!

[A13]

Caught them from the back at Glastonbury, my mate is a fan and went down the front for it. All sounded the same to me but pretty unoffensive. Won tickets to see them at iTunes Festival next Friday, so taking my mate along - maybe will 'get it' more this time..

[bocumaroy]

I saw the last twenty minutes or so at Glastonbury. I’d never normally chose to listen to them, but I actually thought they were pretty good. There’s a nice spirit to their music.

[Roonwilldo]

Scattered Black and Whites has regularly been appearing in recent setlists. That, on its own, is enough for me.

[stuartbert two hats]

Scattered Black and Whites has regularly been appearing in recent setlists. That, on its own, is enough for me.

Yeah, was the highlight of the Jodrell Bank set, although admittedly, that's some time ago now.

I never thought fireworks could drift into the sky so slowly and gracefully.

Edited September 4, 2014 by stuartbert two hats

[efcfanwirral]

Having seen them for the first time at V 2009 I'm definitely going to one of the Apollo nights. Even if its just a handful of old songs thats still more than I'll have seen before, and seeing them in a smaller venue (and one of my favourites) will be brilliant

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I have to listen to them quite regularly as my wife likes playing their music. Not my cup of tea though. That's actually putting it very politely.

[Gnomicide]

I loved them at Glastonbury, floated away in bliss.

[dingbat2]

Check out the iTunes festival performance, it's showing lthe full set until 31st October. Wonderful stuff, a great performance, and stunning versions of great Expectiations and Scattered Bkanck and Whites - they are the only pre SSK tracks they play, but the rest sound great still, even though we have heard them loads over the last few years.

Still wondering whether to get tickets for one of their shows in London, not many tickets left. They have said they will be playing some oldies, and I really am wondering whether these will be their last ever live performances.....?

[dingbat2]

Shitty shit. Seems from recent facebook clips that Elbow will be playing the likes of Powder Blue, Newborn and Any Day Now to name a few, at the forthcoming gigs in February

... Need to get a ticket now. Fingers crossed Garveys voice can cope these days, his first attempt at Newborn after 8 years needed some work!

Won't be surprised if thies are the last gigs they ever play

[russycarps]

Wow I didn't think guy was capable of singing powder blue anymore. What are the clues on Facebook?

[dingbat2]

Nothing really, only that they are clearly giving it a go. Only a few seconds of each, the only one with Guys vocals was him ballsing up the first line of Newborn

[dingbat2]

... Actually there are vocals on Any Day Now as well, but the part of that they show are the low bits which dont really test Guys vocals much!

[russycarps]

Ha I've seen him balls up the start to newborn more than once when I've seen them!

Edited January 12, 2015 by russycarps

[dingbat2]

I would love to see therm one more time at Glasto doing the oldies. They have been 'on the gravy train' a bit since they appeared in 2008 - it would be great to see them playing the stuff they wrote 2004 and earlier again. Saying that, their 2008 queens head set was the best gig I have ever been to. It's a bit hazy but I think they had a few oldies that evening, I remember feeling a bit in awe that evening, there were people welling up in that tent that night. And I wasn't on the booze because I had to drive home that night, straight after the wondrous performance from the Verve that night

[Badlands]

I'm regretting not getting tickets to Manchester now. I thought I was finished with them but that last album grew on me towards the end of the year. Whilst they're still great live, their setlists have been far too boring in recent tours, its good to see them mix it up a bit.

I'm sure I read that they're recording stuff again, but that Guy is doing a solo album first. A hiatus wouldn't be too bad a thing to be honest.

[kingcrawler]

I'm regretting not getting tickets to Manchester now. I thought I was finished with them but that last album grew on me towards the end of the year. Whilst they're still great live, their setlists have been far too boring in recent tours, its good to see them mix it up a bit.

I'm sure I read that they're recording stuff again, but that Guy is doing a solo album first. A hiatus wouldn't be too bad a thing to be honest.

http://www.qthemusic.com/7890/elbows-guy-garvey-making-a-solo-album-was-terrifying-q343-preview/

This makes it sound a bit like Guy's finished his album, wasn't expecting anything from him for a while.

[let's 'ave it!!!]

The set lists they've been playing for these shows have been great. Listening to their Hammersmith show live on the radio. They just played 'Newborn' it sounded fantastic, gave me goosebumps.

Would never happen, but I'd love them to bring this type of thing to Glastonbury.

[jeffie]

Isn't this thread an oxymoron?

[The 38 year old virgin]

The set lists they've been playing for these shows have been great. Listening to their Hammersmith show live on the radio. They just played 'Newborn' it sounded fantastic, gave me goosebumps.

Would never happen, but I'd love them to bring this type of thing to Glastonbury.

without sounding like a hipster, i love their first few albums

[let's 'ave it!!!]

Same, I love all their albums to be fair. They've grown into an arena band, but after working hard for so long you can't begrudge them becoming huge.

Just nice to hear the older stuff played live. They also played Switching Off earlier it their set, but I missed that part, bet that was good!

[russycarps]

I see they have played powder blue on this tour too. Amazing how terrible the last couple of albums have been in comparison

[dingbat2]

Listened to the Hammersmith set on the radio last night, I was a little disappointed to be honest. The set did have a few oldies, Swithing Off sounded particularly great, any day now and newborn (I thought Guy struggled a bit on the high notes to be honest) and a few others, but they seem to have dropped Powder Blue since the first gig, any ideas why, could Guy struggle during the first performance? I thought it could, and should have had more oldies in it as they were promoting the gigs as such. What did it sound like live, it was difficult to get that excited listening to it on the radio? Perhaps I am just jealous i didn't have a ticket!

[ICGenie]

I think they just mixed up some of the older songs. We got Switching Off last Friday and Station Approach on Sunday. I was surprised they played quite so many "staples" and didn't mix it up more.

The fact that Bitten By The Tailfly and Take Off And Landing were both utterly brilliant and that The Birds just seems to get bigger and bigger every time they play it speaks volumes to me of the depth of the band and their strength as a band. Bloody brilliant.

[dingbat2]

... fugitive Motel sounded great as well

I am interested about Powder Blie though, I might be wrong but I only think they played that at the first gig and not since. If it still sounded great then they wouldn't surely have dropped it, it's probably one of their greatest, and most missed songs. They seem to be playing Newborn, Any day now and Fugitive Motel at all the gigs as far as I can tell

No Scattered Black and Whites either, although they have been playing that occasionally during the last few tours anyway

[SloopJohnB]

I went to see them at the Manchester Apollo on Friday. Really enjoyed it to be honest