Originally released on 7th May 2001, elbow’s debut album introduced tracks including ‘Red’, ‘Newborn’, ‘Powder Blue’ and ‘Scattered Black and Whites’, and was later shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize.
To mark the anniversary, a selection of archive videos, live footage and clips from the long out-of-print ‘Asleep in the Back’ film are now being made available on the band’s official YouTube channel for the first time.
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Guy recently took BBC Radio 6 Music listeners on a virtual train trip from Brixton to Manchester, the journey where so many timeless elbow lyrics were written, for ‘Lose Yourself with…’.
If you missed it, you can listen to the whole show via BBC Sounds here.