– Elbow In Concert At Glastonbury 2008 – BBC 6 Music
Elbow this morning. An appearance at the 2008 Glastonbury Festival, recorded and preserved by BBC 6 Music and features the band during The Seldom Seen Kid (released in 2006) period.
Since lead singer Guy Garvey has been a familiar voice at BBC 6 Music, with his own show, the British audience is in the band’s pocket.
Elbow have released ten studio albums: Asleep in the Back (2001), Cast of Thousands (2003), Leaders of the Free World (2005), The Seldom Seen Kid (2008), Build a Rocket Boys! (2011), The Take Off and Landing of Everything (2014), Little Fictions (2017), Giants of All Sizes (2019), Flying Dream 1 (2021) and Audio Vertigo (2024). Their studio albums, as well as their B-sides compilation Dead in the Boot (2012), all reached the top 15 of the UK Albums Chart. Seven of their singles placed in the top 40 of the British singles chart.[5] Their most recent album, Audio Vertigo, was released on 22 March 2024.
In 2008 Elbow won the Mercury Music Prize for their album The Seldom Seen Kid, and in 2009 they won the Brit Award for Best British Group. The same year, the song “One Day Like This” won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In October 2011 NME placed it at number 41 on its list of “150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years”. After featuring in the 2012 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony, the single peaked at No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart. In 2012, they released “First Steps”, the BBC theme for the 2012 London Olympics.
Catch them and have a listen to what they were up to in 2008.
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