FEATURE:
The Lockdown Playlist
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The Best of Guy Garvey and Elbow
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BECAUSE is the frontman of one…
of my favourite bands celebrates his birthday on 6th March, I thought this Lockdown Playlist could be all about him. Guy Garvey is the leader of Elbow and, for his forty-seventh birthday, I wanted to combine his finest work into a playlist. Before that, I want to bring in some information regarding the Bury-born Garvey:
“Amongst other work, Garvey produced and recorded the I Am Kloot album Natural History (2001). Alongside Elbow keyboard player Craig Potter he also produced I Am Kloot's single "Maybe I Should" (2005, not associated with any album), their Mercury Music Prize nominated 2010 album Sky at Night and their 2013 album Let It All In. Elbow were themselves Mercury Music Prize nominees, in 2011, for the album Build a Rocket Boys! and won the prize in 2008 for their album "The Seldom Seen Kid". In addition, Garvey made an appearance on Massive Attack's 2010 album record Heligoland.
He is a member of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) In April 2012 Garvey became a patron of the Manchester Craft and Design Centre. In recognition of his outstanding contribution to music he received, in July of the same year, an honorary doctorate from Manchester Metropolitan University, to become a Doctor of Arts.
Garvey has been a presenter on BBC 6 Music since 2007(Sunday afternoon 2 pm to 4 pm, British time) and previously presented a show on Sunday evenings on XFM. He had a monthly column in the now-defunct listings magazine City Life and is a patron of the Mines Advisory Group (MAG), the Manchester-based charity responsible for clearing war zones of mines and munitions worldwide.
In 2015, Garvey presented Music Box, an iPlayer-exclusive series covering emerging and established bands.
In 2015, Garvey announced that he would be releasing his first solo studio album while continuing his duties as Elbow's lead songwriter. The resulting album, Courting the Squall, was released on 30 October 2015, by Polydor Records in the UK. On 27 October 2015 Garvey appeared on BBC Two's Later... with Jools Holland, where he performed "Angela's Eyes" and "Belly of the Whale".
Here are some brilliant cuts from the Guy Garvey/Elbow back catalogue. As the band put out their eighth studio album,. Giants of All Sizes, in 2019, it may not be too long until we get another album from the incredible Elbow. As you will see from this playlist, Elbow and Guy Garvey (as a writer and singer)…
SEEM to get better and better.