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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In 2009, elbow performed ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’ with the BBC Concert Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios, London.
You’ll be able to hear the whole concert this November on BBC Radio 2 as part of #R2InConcert50, celebrating fifty years of live music on the station.
Listen out for it on Radio 2 and BBC Sounds.