Celebrating Guy Garvey's 50th birthday, born 6th March 1974.
If you hadn't guessed already, this week I'm celebrating life and particularly those that might be blowing out some candles on a cake or having some form of knees-up on each day.
Guy is of course best known for his work with Elbow...unless you only listen to Heart FM and are a Peter Kay fan, in which case it'll be Car Share.
Guy's also released one solo album to date (Courting The Squall in 2015) and collaborated with a select few artists over the years. He's appeared on three Massive Attack songs and Robert "3D" Del Naja got Guy back in the studio to release the one-off Battle Box single a couple of years later.
Elbow themselves re-recorded a version of Kindling with John Grant and Guy teamed up with Mike Lindsay (Tuung, LUMP) to contribute to an album of Nick Drake covers last year. Guy also found time to deliver a solo song to the BBC drama anthology Life, a lockdown TV highlight in 2020.
Elbow kindly supported my 'Leap Year' post last week by releasing a new single. They've only gone and done it again by dropping another new video, this time for Balu, on Friday.
From one guy to another, er, guy, have a great birthday, Guy!
Flat Of The Blade: Massive Attack ft. Guy Garvey (2010)
Battle Box (Main Mix): Del Naja / Garvey / Dickinson (2012)
Kindling (Fickle Flame): Elbow ft. John Grant (2017)
Guy Garvey: My Angel (2020)
Saturday Sun (Cover of Nick Drake): Mike Lindsay ft. Guy Garvey (2023)
Balu: Elbow (2024)
I saw them in Liverpool on 29th November inside this time at the M&S Bank arena.
ReplyDeleteSet list:
Risingson
Girl I Love You (with Horace Andy)
Black Milk (with Elizabeth Fraser)
Take It There
Gone(with Young Fathers)
Minipoppa (with Young Fathers)
Voodoo in My Blood (with Young Fathers)
Song to the Siren (Tim Buckley cover) (with Elizabeth Fraser)
Inertia Creeps
ROckwrok (Ultravox cover)
Angel (with Horace Andy)
Safe From Harm (with Deborah Miller)
Unfinished Sympathy (with Deborah Miller)
Karmacoma
Teardrop (with Elizabeth Fraser)
Levels (Avicii cover)
Group Four (with Elizabeth Fraser)
In My Mind (Dynoro & Gigi D'Agostino cover)
The live band were great too. Audio visual overload after the DJ set support. Best gig I have seen by miles for a very long time (probably Prince with Maceo Parker and band at the Dome in 2007, with special mention of an imense cover of Garls Barkley's 'Crazy' by Shelby J).