Any help would be gratefully received!

Last year was my son's 21st Birthday, and for it I purchased one of the original Elbow cover artworks by Michael O'Shaughnessy from the 'Leaders of the Free World' album. As he has been a huge fan of Elbow for some time. I was hoping to have this artwork framed alongside the CD album cover; I thought that it would make it a very special gift if it might be at all possible to have the CD album cover signed by the members of the band.

Unfortunately, I don't really know how to go about contacting the band (I have been looking for any possibilities for well over a year now) and would greatly appreciate any advice, please. I did try to contact Elbow's management company, TRC Management, but to be honest, was a little upset when the person I spoke to seemed to infer that I perhaps had intentions of selling it on eBay, so they wouldn't be able to help me. I realise that the band must be incredibly busy, but would be most grateful if anyone could please help?

Thanks.

Well Craig has been known to post on here and three of the band (Craig, Jupp and Pete) are on twitter, i think there are a few avenues to go down, anyone else have any ideas?

You could try contacting Guy via his 6music email address?

Sorry it's taken so long to reply - thank-you all very much for your help. I'll try your suggestions, and hope we are successful!

I've sent you a private message !
I don't know if you'll be able to read/answer to it as you have only 3 or 4 posts here, but all I can say is : good luck...
I'm in the same situation, impossible for me to contact them for months... A real pain !
Just let me know here if you had my message, if you're not allowed to answer it.
xx

Mr Woman wrote:

You could try contacting Guy via his 6music email address?

Guy doesn't check this messages unfortunately.
All Janet will have in return is an auto reply :

"Thank you for your email to Guy Garvey at BBC 6 Music. Please note that due to the sheer volume of emails received, although every effort will be made, we are not always able to respond to everyone individually. "

BBC6 check the messages and gives him the "best" ones (well, when they read them....) and only if it's a BBC6 music message related.

Open arms wrote:

I've sent you a private message !
I don't know if you'll be able to read/answer to it as you have only 3 or 4 posts here, but all I can say is : good luck...
I'm in the same situation, impossible for me to contact them for months... A real pain !
Just let me know here if you had my message, if you're not allowed to answer it.
xx

Mr Woman wrote:

You could try contacting Guy via his 6music email address?

Guy doesn't check this messages unfortunately.
All Janet will have in return is an auto reply :

"Thank you for your email to Guy Garvey at BBC 6 Music. Please note that due to the sheer volume of emails received, although every effort will be made, we are not always able to respond to everyone individually. "

BBC6 check the messages and gives him the "best" ones (well, when they read them....) and only if it's a BBC6 music message related.

Thank-you very much for all of the help in your private message - I'm so sorry I've only just picked it up. I'm sorry to hear of the difficulties you've had, but fingers crossed that there's still hope for us both! Sadly, when I tried to reply by private message, it said that I hadn't reached the post limit.

Thanks again.

you're very welcome !
As far as I remember when you have 5 messages posted you'll be able to reply to private message (it's to avoid pm spam ) so just one message left somewhere on the forum and you'll be able to answer me