Readers! Elbow want to answer YOUR questions: any last requests?

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by Kev Kharas [Edit this content] ▾ 20 comments 16:48 May 23rd, 2008

Fresh from a US tour, Elbow will resume their summer wander around the UK on Wednesday night as they load-in at London club The Hospital. The aftermath of such a mammoth excursion can be a fairly bleak time – as nostalgia’s most immediate pangs begin their long haunt and thumbs are twiddled in earnest within the walls of sterile hotel bed-downs. You know what I mean. What to do to pass the time? Elbow want your questions for answering, curious DrownedinSound readers.

We’ll give you ‘til Friday to get your posers in. Topics can range from anything to anything – just leave them as a comment below and we’ll pick a selection to pass on to the band.

Now that you’re here, the Manchester quintet would also like to invite you to have a look at their new video. ‘One Day Like This’ is released on the 2nd of June and is taken from recent album The Seldom Seen Kid (review). The Ringan Ledwidge-directed effort was inspired by an anonymous kid down with the hawt US craze of sign-spinning - documentary through the bold, promo below.

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MILF is now a culturally acceptable phrase

Why isn't DILF?

I am determined to get this in somewhere.

SCROTUM | 19 May '08, 15:44 | X | Reply

I've recently abandoned the side-parting experiment

but I kinda miss it. Should I go back again?

bamos | 19 May '08, 15:57 | X | Reply

I want to know if Guy likes working for the same radio station as George Lamb.

If so, WHY?!

jakam0 | 19 May '08, 16:07 | X | Reply

Why does Guy Gurvey never fecking smile?

Grumby sod.

twee_loser | 19 May '08, 16:24 | X | Reply

how...

did craig become an engineering genius?

it's a bit annoying for us mere mortals, not only are elbow an amazing band but they do it all themselves.

if i didn't like them so much i might call them bastards, but i do, so i won't. lovely fellas.

jimbobbley | 19 May '08, 17:13 | X | Reply

surely it would be FILF

brusma @SCROTUM | 19 May '08, 17:45 | X | Reply

i got my e-mail read out on Guy Garvey's Finest Hour once

it made my sunday evening.

my question though: Guy's on record as saying he's got the best job in the world, but can they all sympathise with musicians who get pig sick of it all, all the attention? If Elbow were as big and famous and plastered all over the media as, say, Chris Martin from Coldplay is (not the New Zealand cricketer), do they reckon it'd end up getting to them and taking all (or some of) the fun out of being a musician?

(serious question-centric)

brusma | 19 May '08, 17:48 | X | Reply

Is he still serious

about ditching the album format and releasing no more Elbow albums (apart from the forthcoming B-side collection) and just putting out "tracks"?

We still need albums. Especially Elbow ones.

Damian | 19 May '08, 18:35 | X | Reply

my question

What happened to the propsed B-Sides album? And do you have any plans for a 'stop gap' album or DVD after you finish up with the current campaign.
A Bsides and Rarities album would go down a treat

JAMESM | 19 May '08, 19:21 | X | Reply

also

did you watch the FA Cup Final? One Day Like This was used during the closing credits. I'd be interested to know whether sales of the album rocketed in Portsmouth this past week?? I can imagine 20,000 Pompey fans forever associating that tune with the greatest day of their lives

JAMESM | 19 May '08, 19:29 | X | Reply