Elbow 'Grounds For Divorce'

29 January 2008

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Elbow announce the first single from their fourth studio album, ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’, on March 10th. ‘Grounds For Divorce’ is a welcome return from the band, driven by a thunderous riff courtesy of guitarist Mark Potter that reminds listeners of Elbow’s love of the heavy as well as the delicate. To an extent, this is Mark’s track, the riff having been in his armoury for some years waiting for the right song to let it shine.The last two years have seen Elbow go through a rollercoaster of emotions. Two new additions to the Elbow family have arrived in the form of children for Mark and his brother Craig whilst contractual issues saw the band studio bound since their last UK tour in 2006 awaiting a now completed change of label. The time was well spent in the recording, mixing and production of ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’, with keyboardist Craig Potter firmly claiming the producer’s chair. As the band members began recording the album, their good friend and respected singer songwriter Bryan Glancy died, leaving a shadow over many in Manchester including the Elbow boys. ‘Grounds For Divorce’ lyrically is affected and inspired by that loss. Whilst other tracks on ‘the Seldom Seen Kid’ are elegies to a lost friend, the single is about the initial aftermath, the desire to flee the situation, find another life and wipe the slate clean of all the emotional entanglements that come with the death of a close friend. It also rocks.

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Elbow return to the UK touring circuit in April after that long hiatus, promising something ‘extra special’ for these long awaited dates which are as follows:

APRIL Fri 04 Glasgow ABC

Sat 05 Newcastle Academy

Sun 06 Leeds Metropolitan University

Tue 08 Oxford Academy

Wed 09 Bristol Colston Hall

Thu 10 Birmingham Academy

Sat 12 Sheffield Octagon

Sun 13 Manchester Academy

Mon 14 Nottingham Rock City

Tue 15 London Brixton Academy

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