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Elbow Interviewed In A Pub...With Jazz

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Fraser McAlpine | 18:11 UK time, Thursday, 6 November 2008

Elbow

If you live in Bury, Greater Manchester, seeing the members of the band Elbow in your local pub might not be all that exciting. However, settling down in an old man ale house in the middle of Cornwall with the winners of this year's Mercury Prize is an entirely different matter. Particularly when they are all there - apart from keyboard player Craig Potter - sat around a pub table, chatting like the gang of best mates they so clearly are.

It starts with jazz, and Guy Garvey getting some drinks in (I said I wasn't sure whether to drink mine or frame it), and ends with me showing the band how to do that flicky finger thing Ali G used to do. In between, we chat about the band's public image change in the wake of their Mercury Award, we chat about Face from The A-Team (ask your dad) and there's a bit where Guy Garvey flirts outrageously with yours truly. And you know what? He's so charming that, given a dramatic shift in sexual preference on both our parts, I might've...

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Here's the band playing 'The Bones Of You' on Jools. The song is on the Mercury Award-winning album 'The Seldom Seen Kid', as well you know...

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