Guy Garvey by Hassnaa
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A very young Guy Garvey of Elbow in a Manchester recording studio for sadly long gone music magazine SELECT. This was never published as the magazine shut down before this issue was printed.
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Guy Garvey - Elbow
Photographer Steve Glashier
The Sunday list: 9 REASONS WHY ELBOW IS A GREAT BAND
#1. Powder Blue (2001)
“I’m proud to be the one you hold when the shakes begin.”#2. Great Expectations (2005)
“A call girl with yesterday eyes was our witness and priest. Stockport supporters club kindly supplied us a choir. Your vow was your smile as we move down the aisle of the last bus home. And this is where I go, just when it rains.”#3. Mirrorball (2008)
“I plant the kind of kiss that wouldn’t wake a baby on the self-same face that wouldn’t let me sleep.”#4. Scattered Black and Whites (2001)
“A high-back chair. He sits and stares, a thousand yards and whistles marching-band. Kneeling by and speaking up, he reaches out and I take a massive hand.”#5. Weather To Fly (2008)
“Are we having the time of our life? Are we having the time of our lives? Are we coming across clear? Are we coming across fine? Are we part of the plan here?”#6. My Very Best (2005)
“Of the love we should say this: there were switches never flicked.”#7. Not a Job (2003)
“Words to make her stay. You said: ‘Leave me and the plants die.’ A panic smile across your face.”#8. Dear Friends (2011)
“But it struck me to say while so far away, you are with me today. You are here are in my head, in my heart.”#9. The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver (2008)
“I must have been working the ropes when your hand slipped from mine.”
*click the title to listen or check the list in Spotify
We Kissed Like We Invented It
ELBOW.
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