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Guy Garvey on Elbow’s One Day Like This: ‘Every week, someone tells me they got married to it’
‘We threw strings at the track and it exploded into Lion-King-esque euphoria. I once got sent footage of a few hundred people on either side of a tube track singing it at each other’By 2007, we’d had a nerve-racking couple of years. We were on the V2 label for our first three albums but they were slowly folding. We signed with Fiction without them having heard a note of our fourth album, Seldom Seen Kid. As the money was running out, it was looking like “proper job” time. I would have been behind a nightclub till. Mark Potter would have been a chef and his brother Craig would have been an auxiliary nurse. But thankfully we got an advance and we were over the bloody moon. Continue reading...
‘We threw strings at the track and it exploded into Lion-King-esque euphoria. I once got sent footage of a few hundred people on either side of a tube track singing it at each other’
By 2007, we’d had a nerve-racking couple of years. We were on the V2 label for our first three albums but they were slowly folding. We signed with Fiction without them having heard a note of our fourth album, Seldom Seen Kid. As the money was running out, it was looking like “proper job” time. I would have been behind a nightclub till. Mark Potter would have been a chef and his brother Craig would have been an auxiliary nurse. But thankfully we got an advance and we were over the bloody moon. Continue reading...
