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As ‘Cast Of Thousands’ retains a peaceful Zen-like
untouchability at the top of the album-of-the-year chart
in our heads, the band responsible have been steering
a live show around Europe that hits like a ghost ship
loaded with live ammo and then stows away with your
heart. As Crud discovered when the UK tour came to a
staggering climax at the London Astoria earlier this
month, those ‘Asleep In the Back’ shows that required
all sorts of important internal organs to be picked
up off the floor were unbelievably just a band learning
to crawl. Now, they’re up and all around you, inside
your head, hitting you where it hurts then taking the
pain away. They’re still the same ugly ducking they
always were and will probably always be, feeding off
dirty plates of gruff solitude and stony heartache,
but they’ve got their swans wings now. And they are
soaring. What makes that even more heartening is that
they’re led by Guy Garvey, a man who despite a voice
that could shatter a stained glass window at 1000 yards
is in more danger by the week of becoming Maudlin Indie
Pop’s Ricky Gervais. His fumbled interactions only serve
to pull you closer though. At the beginning of the month
we fired off some questions to get inside Elbow’s head.
Between them Craig, Jupp and Pete came up with this.
Excuse their brevity though, they have just made the
album of the year…
1. Where are you now and what can you see?
Glasgow. Snooker table.
2. What was the first thing you ate today? Any good?
Banana. Yeah, bit too ripe.
3. What’s worth watching on TV?
Wife Swap.
4. What’s the next piece of music you intend to buy?
Outcast’s new album ‘Speakerboxxx’, because they are
so fresh and so clean.
5. What was the last film you saw?
Guns of Navarone, it was awesome.
6. If you could change one thing from the past what
would it be?
Should have taken a Diocalm (umm, over-the-counter diarrhoea
medication – Medical Ed) this morning.
7. How much of a bastard can you be?
A complete and utter, but a fair one.
8. What one place in the world would you visit if
you could?
Ankor Wap Cambodia, because its amazing.
9. Tell us about the last dream you had?
I was saved at the last moment from a certain death
fall and everyone ignored that it had happened – I think
it means I eat too much cheese.
10. Any plans for tonight?
Playing a gig at QMU Glasgow. Should be great.
Fugitive Motel is released October 27 on V2.
Official Site:
www.elbow.co.uk/
From the CoOrdinates vaults:
Alan
Parker (Author)
Moco
British
Sea Power
Hot
Hot Heat
The
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Erlend
Óye
The Mendoza
Line
Frou Frou
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