Elbow Tickets : Elbow Will Support Muse At The Reading And Leeds Festivals In 2011

Elbow are a British alternative rock band. Members of the band first played together in 1990 at The Corner Pin pub in Stubbins, Rossendale bordering the town of Ramsbottom, Bury, a borough of Greater Manchester.

The band currently retain their original line-up of lead vocalist and lyricist Guy Garvey, guitarist Mark Potter, keyboardist Craig Potter, bassist Pete Turner and drummer Richard Jupp. They have released four studio albums, three EPs and seven top forty singles in the UK. The band is named after a line in the BBC TV drama The Singing Detective. A character says that the word "elbow" is the most sensuous word in the English language; not for its definition, but for how it feels to say it.

Acclaimed for their innovative sound and front-man Guy Garvey's evocative candid lyrics[citation needed], Elbow have received vast critical acclaim and been endorsed by major artists Radiohead, Coldplay, Blur, R.E.M. and U2[citation needed] despite minor commercial success during much of their career.

The Velvet Underground's co-founder John Cale selected Elbow's "Switching Off" as one of his eight chosen songs on the BBC's Desert Island Discs radio programme. The band won the 2008 Mercury Music Prize for their fourth album, The Seldom Seen Kid.
On 14 March 2009, they played Wembley Arena.

Elbow performed at the Meteor Awards in Dublin on 17 March 2009.At this awards ceremony they also won Best International Band. On July 3, 2009, Elbow played to an audience of 80,000 at Rock Werchter and were widely regarded as one of the absolute top-acts of the four-day-festival. The next day, Elbow played a gig at Roskilde Festival, Denmark, to an audience of approximately 15,000. On stage, Garvey remarked that "last time we played in Denmark, 7 people came."

As part of the Manchester International Festival, they performed with The Halle Orchestra and Youth Choir at the Bridgewater Hall on the 8th and 9 July 2009. These concerts featured specially-commissioned orchestral and choral arrangements of material spanning all 4 albums, the band themselves playing with the Halle musicians and Garvey singing positioned just to the right of the conductor onstage.

On July 11, 2009, they played the Main Stage at Oxegen 2009 in Punchestown Racecourse, County Kildare. The band performed on the Main Stage at T in the Park on July 12, 2009 in Balado, Kinross, Scotland. And on July 18, they played the "Escenario Verde" at FIB 2009 in Benicassim, Spain.

They opened for Coldplay at several stops on the Viva la Vida Tour's 2009 North American leg. They performed at All Points West Music & Arts Festival in Jersey City and the Osheaga Festival in Montreal; Coldplay also played at both festivals. On August 4, 2009, Elbow headlined their second show at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC and on August 8, 2009, they performed at the Center Stage Theatre in Atlanta. They opened for U2 on 14 August 2009 in Wembley Stadium, London, UK and at the Sheffield Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield, UK.

On Sunday 13 September they closed the UK Festival season by headlining at Bestival on the Isle of Wight.On the 18th September 2009 Elbow played their largest home town concert to date; which featured a 2500 strong 'choir of fans' at either side of the stage.On the 21st September 2010 Elbow announced dates for an upcoming arena tour, playing venues such as the O2 arena, the MEN arena, the ECHO arena. Pre-advanced tickets were available from the 28th September, and general sales on the 1st October.

It was also confirmed that they would support Muse at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in 2011.