after years of toil and trouble these
boys from Manchester are finally getting
their due hi I’m Rebecca Brayton and
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
speaking with elbow
hold in my sleep
tell us how elbow originally got
together we got together mark Pete and
jump in the band and me we’re all
skilled together they were two years old
and think that looks like 18 years ago
now something we’re on our fourth album
now this is our most successful album by
quite a long way up food and we’ve had
quite a good year and a half or so
how would you describe elbows music to
say my grandmother to put it in simple
terms we’ve been described as somewhere
in between Coldplay and radiohead but a
bit slightly Bragi attendances maybe
well your grandma’s not going to know
Bragi tendencies of OG romantic songs
can get a little bit heavy here and
there
now you often see bands that have been
together for a significant amount of
time have at least lineup changes how do
you think you guys have avoided this
somehow we get on really well one of the
major reasons a lot of band split up is
down to money and we always we split the
money five way so there’s never any
arguments you know if I was upwards a
class concerned we’re all fans of sleep
deprivation lilia find it hilarious and
everyone’s not good in airport so
there’s not there’s not much arguing a
little bit soon there but we just got on
really well I read that for the last
album you guys wrote it as an album
instead of like song by song basically
it’s very important to us to make tap
have an album that works as a whole we
even go to the extent where when we’re
about halfway through Ryan pulls for the
songs that we want or know is going to
go on before it actually in a session so
with quite often stop there right let’s
just have a listen to that song in
addition see maybe take swim influence
from a certain sound you know we’re
always taking a step back and looking at
you like that so I think we always well
yeah
not
is it at all daunting to consider that
your next album is fairly highly
anticipated a little bit but at the same
time it gives us a lot of confidence to
know that’s going to a lot of people are
going to buy the next album whether it’s
great or whether it’s rubbish you know
we’re just still going to do our own
thing we know we can do it so there’s no
problem we spoke about the fact that
we’re doing bigger venues especially
back in the UK now it’s in the back of
your mind and you’re writing some of
these songs that you’ve never had before
about play into a huge room and you know
these anthems that do go down well in
these sort of venues and you can’t help
but think about that but we try not to
it’s just whatever’s right for the song
at the time you guys have been
critically acclaimed for a while but
commercially it’s only recently that
you’ve become more successful did you
guys ever consider giving up at the end
the day we write music you don’t need to
have a record label to write music and
play music it helps we can’t do anything
else now this is what we do we didn’t
have some supporters and financing it
would still be doing it you know think
we’re just looking
boys from Manchester are finally getting
their due hi I’m Rebecca Brayton and
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
speaking with elbow
hold in my sleep
tell us how elbow originally got
together we got together mark Pete and
jump in the band and me we’re all
skilled together they were two years old
and think that looks like 18 years ago
now something we’re on our fourth album
now this is our most successful album by
quite a long way up food and we’ve had
quite a good year and a half or so
how would you describe elbows music to
say my grandmother to put it in simple
terms we’ve been described as somewhere
in between Coldplay and radiohead but a
bit slightly Bragi attendances maybe
well your grandma’s not going to know
Bragi tendencies of OG romantic songs
can get a little bit heavy here and
there
now you often see bands that have been
together for a significant amount of
time have at least lineup changes how do
you think you guys have avoided this
somehow we get on really well one of the
major reasons a lot of band split up is
down to money and we always we split the
money five way so there’s never any
arguments you know if I was upwards a
class concerned we’re all fans of sleep
deprivation lilia find it hilarious and
everyone’s not good in airport so
there’s not there’s not much arguing a
little bit soon there but we just got on
really well I read that for the last
album you guys wrote it as an album
instead of like song by song basically
it’s very important to us to make tap
have an album that works as a whole we
even go to the extent where when we’re
about halfway through Ryan pulls for the
songs that we want or know is going to
go on before it actually in a session so
with quite often stop there right let’s
just have a listen to that song in
addition see maybe take swim influence
from a certain sound you know we’re
always taking a step back and looking at
you like that so I think we always well
yeah
not
is it at all daunting to consider that
your next album is fairly highly
anticipated a little bit but at the same
time it gives us a lot of confidence to
know that’s going to a lot of people are
going to buy the next album whether it’s
great or whether it’s rubbish you know
we’re just still going to do our own
thing we know we can do it so there’s no
problem we spoke about the fact that
we’re doing bigger venues especially
back in the UK now it’s in the back of
your mind and you’re writing some of
these songs that you’ve never had before
about play into a huge room and you know
these anthems that do go down well in
these sort of venues and you can’t help
but think about that but we try not to
it’s just whatever’s right for the song
at the time you guys have been
critically acclaimed for a while but
commercially it’s only recently that
you’ve become more successful did you
guys ever consider giving up at the end
the day we write music you don’t need to
have a record label to write music and
play music it helps we can’t do anything
else now this is what we do we didn’t
have some supporters and financing it
would still be doing it you know think
we’re just looking
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