Are you familiar with Elbow? No, not the body part, the band! Amazingly, not many people have. Maybe you've heard of their music? Songs like "The Fix" and "One Day Like This"? Still nothing? Well, you're not alone. Elbow are the 2008 Album Of The Year winners at the 2008 Mercury music awards. Their offering "The Seldom Seen Kid" is also the best selling album of the year at Britain's leading music store, HMV. This makes the band's obscurity seem rather strange.
Elbow have managed an impossible feat; they've achieved huge success and all the while maintained a sense of anonymity. In a way, we all know everything and nothing about them. But disregarding this strange turn of events, the advantage of this means that Elbow have kept every shred of musical integrity but achieved incredible success. The boys of 'bow must be proud of their strange mixture of success and invisibility.
And hey, if you're still scratching your head about "this Elbow band you speak of"...
