Elbow frontman Guy Garvey has explained the meaning behind the title of the forthcoming Elbow album, The Seldom Seen Kid, to BBC 6Music.
“The album’s called The Seldom Seen Kid which is a reference to our friend Brian Clancy who died a couple of years ago. The Seldom Seen Kid is originally a character from a Damon Runyon book, and it was also one of my Dad’s mate’s nicknames in the ’70s when he worked in Manchester on the newspapers. We’ve chosen it as a title as it was way to reference Brian without being mournful about losing him, cos he was a great man, and a very funny man.”
An audio clip of album track, The Bones of You, is available to stream at www.elbow.co.uk .
The Seldom Seen Kid is due out in March courtesy of Fiction.
Elbow tour in April. Details attached, dates below:
4th April – Glasgow ABC
5th April – Newcastle Carling Academy
6th April – Leeds Metropolitan University
8th April – Oxford Carling Academy
9th April – Bristol Colston Hall
10th April – Birmingham Carling Academy
12th April – Sheffield Octogan
13th April – Manchester University
14th April – Nottingham Rock City
15th April – London Brixton Academy
