Mercury Prize winners Elbow to star at Venue Cymru, Llandudno

Nov 19 2008

ELBOW, currently enjoying the most successful year of their career, have announced a UK tour for March 2009.

In addition to their previously announced largest show ever at Wembley Arena, the band will visit many venues across the country for the first time including Venue Cymru in Llandudno.

Having secured the Nationwide Mercury Prize for their current album, The Seldom Seen Kid, and made themselves arguably the most popular winners of the award ever, Elbow have recently completed a sell-out UK tour including three incredible nights at London’s Roundhouse and a valedictory double header at their home town’s Manchester Apollo.

The Seldom Seen Kid was proclaimed as one of the albums of 2008 by many critics on its release in March of this year and has gone on to be the band’s most successful album to date.

Lead single, Grounds For Divorce rapidly became a classic and the soundtrack for the trailer of the current Coen Brothers film, Burn After Reading while second single One Day Like This has been the musical accompaniment to the Beijing Olympics coverage and Euro 2008.

The band is named after a line in the BBC TV mini- series The Singing Detective where 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 candid, evocative lyrics, Elbow have received vast critical acclaim and been endorsed by major artists Radiohead, Blur, REM and U2 despite minor commercial success during much of their career.

Elbow will be Venue Cymru on Monday, March 9, and tickets are available via www.gigsandtours.com or a 24-hour credit card hotline on 0871 2200 260. They are also available from the venue on (01492) 872000 or go to www.venuecymru.co.uk