Elbow Name and Speak New Album

The quite brilliant Elbow have been speaking about their eagerly anticipated fourth album ‘The Seldom Seen Kid.’

The long-player will hit the shelves in March via their new label home of Fiction, having left V2 after seven years together.

Speaking of the title, frontman Guy Garvey explains that it has a very personal meaning:  “(The Seldom Seen Kid) is a reference to our friend Brian Clancy who died a couple of years ago.

“The Seldom Seen Kid is originally a character from a Damon Runyon book, and it was also one of my Dad’s mate’s nicknames in the ’70s when he worked in Manchester on the newspapers.

“We’ve chosen it as a title as it was way to reference Brian without being mournful about losing him, cos he was a great man, and a very funny man.”

Speaking about their decision to leave V2, Garvey continued: “It was great for a few years, and It’d be unfair so say we’d outgrown them, but that’s kinda what happened. It sounds very ungentlemanly, but we weren’t moving any further forward as a band.

“It’s seventeen years now since the band have been together and this record’s been made in a pressure cooker I suppose because of the legal situation and because of the record company situation. It’s also the first one we’ve made completely by ourselves. Craig (Potter – keyboards) recorded and produced the entire record.”

As previously reported, Elbow hit the road in April playing the below dates. As always you can get tickets via Gigwise by calling 0871 230 1098 or by clicking the link below.

Glasgow ABC – April 4
Newcastle Academy – 5
Leeds Metropolitan University - 6
Oxford Academy – 8
Bristol Colston Hall – 9
Birmingham Academy – 10
Sheffield Octagon – 12
Manchester Academy – 13
Nottingham Rock City – 14
London Brixton Academy – 15