{"id":2241,"date":"2009-03-07T08:55:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2009-03-07T08:55:10","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T13:55:10","slug":"on-the-weekly-elbow-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2241","title":{"rendered":"On the Weekly Elbow Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

A month ago I found out about Elbow’s Abbey Road concert with the BBC orchestra<\/a> in which they played the entirety of The Seldom Seen Kid<\/i>, their Mercury Award-winning fourth studio album. Not being a UK resident, I couldn’t see it, but they were releasing a CD\/DVD set of the concert direct through their website. (Region 2, no doubt, but I have a multiregion DVD player, so not a biggie.)<\/p>\n

Naturally, I had to have that. Especially once I found a *cough*bootleg-mp3*cough* of the concert. The version of “Some Riot” they played is the most heartrending thing I’ve heard in an age; it’s beautiful and tragic and moving all at once with its swell of strings, the twinkling of the piano, the backing choir, and Guy Garvey’s voice — “When will my friend start singing again” indeed.<\/p>\n

So I placed my order, and today I received an e-mail from the band about it.<\/p>\n

Abbey Road Boxset Clarification<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

For those of you who ordered the boxset via the original Trinity Street pre-order, your orders will be dispatched as normal on the release date of 30th March.<\/p>\n

The original Trinity Street pre-orders are now being handled by another party – not HMV – so please do not direct any inquiries about these original orders to HMV.<\/p>\n

We apologise for any inconvenience but we assure all Elbow fans that their orders will be fulfilled as originally planned. Thanks for bearing with us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On a completely random note, my font of English has been permanently defiled, to borrow Sherlock Holmes’ line from “His Last Bow.” Opera tells me that “apologise” is misspelled, but I know it’s not<\/i>. I’ve lapse at times into British spellings, and it’s difficult for me at times to catch them in copy I work with at work.<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

I now know when I should see the Elbow live CD\/DVD set — early April. Is it early April yet? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I love “Some Riot,” by the way. Despite Guy Garvey’s introduction to the song on the iTunes Live From London<\/i> album that “Here’s a song of impending doom and tragedy,” I find the song… hopeful<\/i>. That someone, bound up in the brambles, real or imagined, of life can find his way free to sing again and be free.<\/p>\n

Also, recording for their fifth album<\/a>, due out sometime in 2010, has begun on a remote island in Scotland. It’s also weird to me that I’m nine months older than frontman Guy Garvey, who just turned thirty-five<\/a>. Weird.<\/p>\n

I know, I’m such<\/i> an evangelist for Elbow, but how can I not<\/i> be? They write music for me<\/i>. That’s not such a bad thing to feel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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