The Elbow TV Thread

Powder Blue on Countryfile (again) - do you think John Craven's a fan?

Not really a tv thing but one of our radio stations here is now using 'The Fix' as a sig tune!

Not incidental music this time, but the band's pic was a clue on Victoria Coren's 'Only Connect' quiz. The question was of course 'People named after parts of the body'.

Apparently they were a question on the Weakest Link last night - the question was something to do with Guy Garvey leading the singing of ODLT on Children in Need - he's the lead singer of which band? (The woman answering the question didn't know of course... ) Sorry for the vagueness, I didn't see it but Mr G (himself a former Weakest Link finalist ) told me.

Just before Jonathon Ross on Fridays on BBC HD there have been various bands performances from Jools Holland screened. Elbow were on the last couple of weeks (not this week) I had recorded last weeks and only watched it yesterday. One Day Like This

More Elbow in F1...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8600711.stm

There were a couple from SSK on 'What Katie did next', not that I watch it of course.......

The Q music channel has been doing studio sets from Abbey Road lately. Last Friday night about 11pm was flicking throught he usual bollocks trying to find something to listen to and came across Elbow - think there were three tracks but i'd missed the first two. Can't actually remember what they were - (too much wine by that time !) One Day Like This was one, possibly Grounds

(Soon followed by an accoustic older looking Alanis Morrisette, singing some of her Jagged Little Pill album, which was pretty good too !)

It's halfway through already, but the Elbow Takeover is on MTV Rocks right now. Sky ch 355.

GFD is used on a playstation 3 game - Colin Macrae's Dirt Race 2 (my son's, I hasten to add).

Mirrorball in the background on high street dreams bbc1 - now

Sky Comedy Channel 304 19:47:

I don't know if this has been reported/spotted already, but the sleeve of TSSK is shown clearly in the closing credits of the film "The Boat That Rocked" as part of a montage of iconic album covers showing that rock n roll has done pretty well in the 40 years since 1967.

Slightly OT (but Guy and Craig did produce it...) following Elbow's bid to take over Countryfile I heard bits of three I Am Kloot tracks from Sky at Night on Secret Britain last night.

Hugh Laurie said the word "elbow" on a rerun of House last night!!!

........OK, I know that doesn't count, it's just that there's never any proper Elbow references on US telly and I feel so left out....

I was just catchingg up on last week's programme in the series about British home movies and there was a lovely bit about Terry Jones' amateur videos of the Monty Python team, including a bit where John Cleese was "attacking" him... to the riff from Grounds for Divorce.

It was great to see them on Jools last night - what a lovely surprise!

I know!
I was just getting into my bed and flicked the telly on, and there they were...!
Ah, I'd forgotten how lovely that song is...

Glendarian wrote:

(...) including a bit where John Cleese was "attacking" him... to the riff from Grounds for Divorce.

ticky wrote:

It was great to see them on Jools last night - what a lovely surprise!

Jones wrote:

I know!
I was just getting into my bed and flicked the telly on, and there they were...!
Ah, I'd forgotten how lovely that song is...

What song did they play? Has anyone a recording of this?

This particular edition of Later was a highlights package to celebrate the forthcoming 250th edition of the show and contained a variety of artistes from the previous 249 editions.

The Elbow perormance shown was "One Day Like This" from (we think) 2008: MrsW thought it was Elbow's appearance on the show just after they'd won the Mercury prize.

For those with access to BBC iPlayer, the show is still available to see. It also says on the Later homepage that the show is going to be repeated on BBC2 this coming Saturday (18th), so if you missed out there is a chance to see it again.

I'm not certain, but this particular Elbow performance could also be tucked away somewhere on Elbowfans somewhere, or maybe even on YouTube?

Don't know how I missed it first time around but so good to see it now. For anyone else that wants to see it it's on between 45-50 mins and is available until Sept. 25th.

One Day Like This...in the background on Children in Need.
was bound to be really...

Give generously !!

(and to the National Autistic Society)

My school were filmed today. I work for a special needs school in the west country who go big into fund raising. If you see a couple of guys, dressed as girls, dancing to "i got a feeling" that us. Don't judge us, the kids bloody love it. As does the PE teacher... worryingly!

nice work Sarah !
I bet you enjoyed it really....

Mirrorball!
on Coronation Street, just now!

One Day Like This was used as part of the England Bid Presentation for the World Cup today.

Prince William, Cameron, Beckham & Garvey . Now that's what I call a mixed bunch.