elbow's next single?

[frag]

what?
when?

why not switching off now?

[greendemon]

i know! nuffin on the website for ages, except info about tours etc. i DEMAND that "switching off" is out in england when i can buy the single...

is this making sense? what am i trying to say...

[frag]

of course! they're waiting for your return...

and get back in that other thread that's deaded aswell

[Sofie]

Glenn, do a poll to see which single people would like as the next single?

[frag]

hmm, let's see... 'switching off', 'switching off', or how about 'switching off'?!

[Sofie]

Fragolata said:

hmm, let's see... 'switching off', 'switching off', or how about 'switching off'?!

;D

[greendemon]

are they or AREN'T they? i'm beginning to suspect it might be the latter, given that there's no inkling of another single, and by the sounds of it they're spending the whole summer on tour

if they don't release "switching off", i will... erm... be angwee. and break things. yesh.

[frag]

greendemon said:

are they or AREN'T they? i'm beginning to suspect it might be the latter, given that there's no inkling of another single, and by the sounds of it they're spending the whole summer on tour

if they don't release "switching off", i will... erm... be angwee. and break things. yesh.

we'll release it for them ;D *makes two copies*

[ManicKangaroo]

The news is in and its.......

not "Switching Off"

ELBOW will record their new charity single at this year’s GLASTONBURY - and they're giving you the chance to sing backing vocals on it.

'Grace Under Pressure' will be the last single to be taken from second album 'Cast Of Thousands'. Part of the original version was recorded at Glastonbury 2002. Singer Guy Garvey asked the crowd to sing the line 'We still believe in love, so f*** you', which was recorded and used on the album track.

For the single version, the song will be recorded live and released for charity on July 5, just days after it is recorded.

Garvey told NME.COM: "That was the first line written on the album and it was written at Glastonbury. We thought it might be a neat little thing to end it at Glastonbury as well. So the single's gonna be themed on the festival, which is everyone's favourite time of year. We're gonna get everyone to sing again and It's such a high turnover we just go in with a direct recording and whatever happens we'll put it out."

The single will raise funds for the charity MAG - the Mines Advisory Group.

Garvey explained the organisation's work. He said: "In the first year since the Iraq war, MAG cleaned up their millionth landmine in Iraq. That's in one year, that's an incredible amount of work. It's very easy to get figures of how many people have died, but it's very difficult to give figures of how many people would have died if MAG weren't around doing what they're doing."

Elbow play the Pyramid Stage mid-afternoon on Friday June 25.

[frag]

Hm...

It'll be interesting to hear how it sounds, I suppose... 'Switching Off' will have to remain one of the unsung brilliant tracks

[greendemon]

oh well...

it's not going to happen (at least not for a LONG time), but i wish they'd re-release "newborn"... it was done a grave injustice by that censorship, and now they're a little more popular...

[frag]

Perhaps they'll do that once they've finished touring... I hope they don't become one of those bands that endlessly releases and re-releases everything, mind

[greendemon]

yeah, me too... and they take ages putting out new stuff

[frag]

greendemon said:

yeah, me too... and they take ages putting out new stuff

But it needs a lot of time to be savoured