Elbow is a musical group from Manchester, consisting of singer Guy Garvey, keyboardist Craig Potter, bassist Pete Turner, drummer Richard Jupp and guitarist Mark Potter. The Group was founded in 1991 under the name Mr. Soft, later changed to Soft and the band got the present name in 1997. Their first album was released In 2001 and in 2003 their second, that was very well received. The group is now a band with growing popularity, as can be seen on the chart performance of their last albums. The music from Elbow consists of well-founded musical landscapes with there over the bearing voice of the singer Guy Garvey. In 2008, Elbow the Mercury Music Prize for their album The Seldom Seen Kid and in February 2009 the Brit Award for best British band.
In september 2010, the band announced on its site to the successor of The Seldom Seen Kid will bring out in early 2011. The album Build a Rocket Boys! appeared in March 2011. The first single Lippy Kids gave them their first Top 40hit in the Netherlands. The song came to the 29th position in the list.
In 2011, Elbow in Netherlands on during Pinkpop and Lowlands. This includes recordings made for a live album.
In the autumn of 2013 came Live from Jodrell Bank , a dvd and two CDs, recorded at the foot of the Lovell radio telescope (diameter 76 m) of the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Manchester, United Kingdom.
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Discography[Edit][]
Albums[Edit][]
| Album (s) with any charts in the
the Dutch Album Top 100 |
Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asleep in the back | 07-05-2001 | - | |||
| Cast or thousands | 18-08-2003 | - | |||
| Leaders of the free world | 12-09-2005 | 17-09-2005 | 69 | 2 | |
| The seldom seen kid | 17-03-2008 | 22-03-2008 | 39 | 25 | |
| Build a rocket boys! | 08-03-2011 | 12-03-2011 | 5 | 38 | |
| Dead in the boat | 2012 | 01-09-2012 | 11 | 5 | |
| The take off and landing of everything | 18-03-2014 | 15-03-2014 | 4 | 1 * |
| Album (s) with chart positions in
the Flemish Ultratop 200 albums |
Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leaders of the free world | 2005 | 17-09-2005 | 31 | 5 | |
| The seldom seen kid | 2008 | 05-04-2008 | 7 | 50 | |
| Build a rocket boys! | 2011 | 12-03-2011 | 3 | 38 | |
| Dead in the boat | 2012 | 01-09-2012 | 73 | 12 | |
| The take off and landing of everything | 2014 | 22-03-2014 | 2 | 1 * |
Singles[Edit][]
| Single (s) with any charts in the
the Dutch Top 40 |
Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lippy kids | 2011 | 26-02-2011 | 29 | 2 | No. 36 in the Single Top 100 |
| Single (s) with chart positions
in the Flemish Ultratop 50 |
Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One day like this | 2008 | 30-08-2008 | tip9 | - | |
| The bones of you | 2008 | 29-11-2008 | tip13 | - | |
| Weather to fly | 2009 | 30-05-2009 | tip14 | - | |
| One day like this | 2009 | 11-07-2009 | 19 | 3 | |
| Lippy kids | 2011 | 12-03-2011 | tip20 | - | |
| Neat little rows | 17-01-2011 | 12-03-2011 | tip36 | - | |
| Open arms | 14-03-2011 | 16-07-2011 | 47 | 2 | |
| Lippy kids (Live at Rock Werchter 2011) | 11-07-2011 | 23-07-2011 | 6 | 9 | |
| Dear friends | 03-10-2011 | 22-10-2011 | tip25 | - | |
| The night will always win (Live from Antwerp Lotto Arena) | 05-12-2011 | 17/12/2011 | tip25 | - |
Radio 2 Top 2000[Edit][]
| Number (s) with markings
in the Radio 2 Top 2000 |
' 99 | ' 00 | ' 01 | ' 02 | ' 03 | ' 04 | ' 05 | ' 06 | ' 07 | ' 08 | ' 09 | ' 10 | ' 11 | ' 12 | ' 13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lippy kids | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1442 | 586 | 599 |
| One day like this | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 228 | 285 | 237 |