Elbow (band)
Elbow | |
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Elbow at the Hurricane Festival 2006; v. l .: M. Potter, Garvey |
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General information | |
Genre (s) | skirt |
founding | 1990 |
Website | elbow.co.uk |
Founding members | |
Guy Garvey | |
Guitar, backing vocals
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Mark Potter |
Keyboard , backing vocals |
Craig Potter |
Pete Turner | |
Richard Jupp | |
former members | |
Drums |
Richard Jupp |
Elbow is a British rock band from Manchester .
history
Elbow comes from the Manchester music scene in the 1990s, centered around the vibrant Northern Quarter on Oldham Street .
The band is named after a quote from the BBC television miniseries " The Singing Detective ". The character "Philip Marlow" said there that the word " Elbow " (German: "Ellenbogen") is the most sensual word in the English language, not because of its definition, but because of the way it feels when pronounced.
1990: Foundation and first publications
Guy Garvey met Mark Potter in 1990 at the age of 16 at a sixth form college (" high school "). Mark invited Guy as a singer in a band in which he played with Richard Jupp and Pete Turner. Together they founded the band SOFT . By 1997 they changed the band's name to Elbow , signed a contract with Island Records and recorded their debut album with Steve Osbourne as producer .
Iceland Records was created by the music label Universal Music bought and Elbow were dropped along with many other bands. So the album never came out. They then released the EPs The Noisebox and The Newborn on the independent label Ugly Man Records , which was discovered by BBC Radio 1 and played frequently.
2000: First album "Asleep in the Back"
For their first album Asleep in the Back , which was released in 2001 by V2 Records , they received nominations for the Mercury Music Prize and the Brit Awards .
The title of the second album Cast of Thousands , released in 2003, is a reference to their appearance at the Glastonbury Festival in 2002, when they recorded thousands of people singing "We still believe in love, so fuck you". In 2004 Elbow went on tour in Cuba and was the first British band to play a concert outside of Havana . British documentary filmmaker Irshad Ashraf made a short film from this tour .
The band released their third album, Leaders of the Free World , in September 2005, after the first single Forget Myself (also known as Buddha with Mace ) was released on August 22nd. They contributed the song Snowball to the charity album Help - a Day in the Life by WAR child , which was released in 2005 .
2008: Breakthrough with "The Seldom Seen Kid"
In March 2008, the fourth album The Seldom Seen Kid was released , for which the band was proposed again for the Mercury Music Prize seven years after the first nomination and, unlike in 2001, won it. Elbow surprisingly prevailed against bands like Radiohead , British Sea Power and Estelle . When recording The Seldom Seen Kid, Elbow completely renounced the involvement of external producers, which, as they describe themselves, makes the album “Darker and Heavier”.
Since then, Elbow have been supporting many big bands in stadiums. So they did appearances as the opening act for REM , U2 and Coldplay .
In February 2009 Elbow won the Brit Award for Best Band of the Year, and in May two Ivor Novello Awards .
The fifth album Build a Rocket Boys! was released in March 2011.
On August 12, 2012 Elbow played at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in London. Then their last chart single One Day Like This rose again in the British charts and brought them their first top 5 hit.
With the album The Take Off and Landing of Everything , which was released in March 2014 , Elbow achieved their highest positions to date with the top position in the British album charts and 22nd place in the German album charts.
In March 2016 it was announced that Richard Jupp would be leaving the band.
Awards
- March 2008: Mercury Music Prize
- February 2009: BRIT Awards “ best british group ” (German: “Beste British Gruppe”)
- May 2009: Ivor Novello Award
- " Best contemporary song " (German: "best contemporary song")
- " Best song musically and lyrically " (German: "best song in music and text")
Discography
Albums
year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
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DE | AT | CH | UK | US | |||
2001 |
Asleep in the Back V2 |
- | - | - |
UK14th
gold
(10 weeks)UK |
- |
First published: May 7, 2001
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2003 |
Cast of Thousands V2 |
- | - | - |
UK7th
gold
(5 weeks)UK |
US196 (1 week) US |
First published: August 18, 2003
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2005 |
Leaders of the Free World V2 |
DE86 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
UK12
gold
(5 weeks)UK |
- |
First published: September 12, 2005
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2008 |
The Seldom Seen Kid Fiction |
- | - | - |
UK5 × 3
(144 weeks)UK |
US109 (1 week) US |
First published: March 17, 2008
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2011 |
Build a Rocket Boys! Fiction |
DE50 (2 weeks) DE |
- |
CH54 (1 week) CH |
UK2
platinum
(51 weeks)UK |
US151 (2 weeks) US |
First published: March 7, 2011
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2012 | Dead in the Boot Polydor |
DE94 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
UK4th
silver
(5 weeks)UK |
- |
First published: August 28, 2012
B-side compilation album |
2014 | The Take Off and Landing of Everything Fiction |
DE22 (3 weeks) DE |
AT29 (2 weeks) AT |
CH30 (1 week) CH |
UK1
gold
(27 weeks)UK |
US83 (2 weeks) US |
First published: March 10, 2014
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2017 | Little Fictions Polydor |
DE19 (2 weeks) DE |
AT31 (1 week) AT |
CH23 (2 weeks) CH |
UK1
gold
(14 weeks)UK |
US172 (1 week) US |
First published: February 3, 2017
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The best of Polydor |
- | - | - |
UK11
gold
(16 weeks)UK |
- |
First published: November 24, 2017
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2019 | Giants of All Sizes Polydor |
DE32 (1 week) DE |
AT58 (1 week) AT |
CH27 (1 week) CH |
UK1
silver
(12 weeks)UK |
- |
First published: October 11, 2019
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2020 | Live at the Ritz - An Acoustic Performance Polydor |
- | - | - |
UK58 (1 week) UK |
- |
First published: April 17, 2020
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Singles
year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
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UK | |||
2001 | Red asleep in the back |
UK36 (2 weeks) UK |
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Powder blue asleep in the back |
UK41 (2 weeks) UK |
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Newborn Asleep in the Back |
UK42 (2 weeks) UK |
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2002 | Asleep in the Back Asleep in the Back |
UK19 (3 weeks) UK |
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2003 | Fallen Angel Cast of Thousands |
UK19 (5 weeks) UK |
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Fugitive Motel Cast of Thousands |
UK44 (2 weeks) UK |
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2004 | Not a Job Cast of Thousands |
UK26 (2 weeks) UK |
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2005 | Forget Myself Leaders of the Free World |
UK22 (3 weeks) UK |
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Leaders of the Free World Leaders of the Free World |
UK53 (1 week) UK |
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2008 | Grounds for Divorce The Seldom Seen Kid |
UK19th
silver
(11 weeks)UK |
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One Day Like This The Seldom Seen Kid |
UK4 *
platinum
(66 weeks)UK |
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2012 | Open Arms Build a Rocket Boys! |
UK58 (1 week) UK |
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2017 | Magnificent (She Says) Little Fictions |
UK97 (1 week) UK |
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Golden slumbers |
UK29 (7 weeks) UK |
* Highest ranking after re-entry in 2012, only reached 35th place in 2008
swell
- ↑ Elbow. In: maginternational.org. Archived from the original on January 8, 2011 ; Retrieved January 8, 2011 (abstract by Elbow).
- ↑ a b Elbow elated at Mercury prize win. In: BBC News . September 9, 2008, accessed December 28, 2010 .
- ↑ Live. FALL TOUR DATES- Oct 2008 - Nov 2008 (13 dates). (No longer available online.) Remhp.com, archived from the original on November 27, 2010 ; Retrieved November 2, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ U2 360 ° TOUR Leg 1: 2009. Aug 14 2009, London, GB (Wembley Stadium). In: u2.com. Archived from the original on January 12, 2011 ; accessed on January 12, 2011 (English, Elbow in the opening act for U2).
- ↑ U2 360 ° TOUR Leg 1: 2009. Aug 20 2009, Sheffield, GB (Don Valley Stadium). In: u2.com. Archived from the original on January 12, 2011 ; accessed on January 12, 2011 (English, Elbow in the opening act for U2).
- ^ Elbow To Support Coldplay On US Tour. In: omgmusic.com. May 14, 2009, archived from the original on January 12, 2011 ; accessed on January 12, 2011 (English, News).
- ↑ a b Elbow crowned BRITs Best British Group by David Hasselhoff. In: New Musical Express . February 18, 2009, accessed December 28, 2010 .
- ↑ a b c Rosie Swash: Double triumph for Elbow at Ivor Novello awards. In: guardian.co.uk. May 21, 2009, archived from the original on January 11, 2011 ; accessed on January 11, 2011 .
- ^ New Musical Express: Elbow's drummer to quit after 25 years , www.nme.com from March 5, 2016, accessed on August 24, 2020
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ a b Music Sales Awards: UK