Elbow is tagged as: indie, alternative, indie rock, britpop, rock Elbow is an alternative rock band which formed in Bury, Greater Manchester, England 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 19 year career, it has released four studio albums, four EPs and ten top fifty singles in the UK. The 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. Elbow began specializing in “chilled funk”, but changed the direction of its music after unanimously deciding that they were “shit.” The new songs got notice 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. V2 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 ... Read More About Elbow Biography...  Send Elbow ringtones to your cell
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