Elbow / The Slow Readers Club / Peter Alexander Jobson - Manchester Castlefield Bowl - 2nd July 2025

Elbow opened up this year's Castlefield Bowl Sounds Of The City series of shows on Wednesday night with a sold out gig accompanied by fellow local heroes The Slow Readers Club and Peter Alexander Jobson. A few surprises, most of their biggest hits and an atmosphere of joy and togetherness delighted eight thousand fans on a warm Manchester summer night.

Elbow / Peter Alexander Jobson / Jesca Hoop - Manchester Apollo - 28th September 2021

Elbow opened the first of their trio of intimate (by their standards) hometown shows with a triumphant set of tracks taken from their mid- and late-period albums with a sneak preview of their forthcoming album Flying Dream 1. Arms were raised, songs bellowed back at the band at the top of the crowd's voice in an evening that was all about celebration and coming together unified by the music. Support came from a piano interlude from Peter Alexander Jobson and Jesca Hoop.

Elbow - Manchester Apollo - 18th March 2017

Elbow's tour to support the release of their recent number 1 album Little Fictions made its way to their home town of (Greater) Manchester for the first of four sold out nights at the Apollo where they delighted the crowd with a set that spanned their last four albums.

Elbow - Manchester Apollo - 7th February 2015

Last time we saw Elbow was in the cavernous expanse of the Manchester Arena as they performed tracks from their last three albums. Whilst we love those records, we were less impressed by the lack of earlier material and the showman antics of Guy Garvey. This set of four hometown gigs at the Apollo has been heralded as a return to their roots and a career retrospective. We weren't left disappointed by what we heard and saw.

Elbow - London O2 Arena - 2nd December 2012

Elbow 

The O2, London 

Sunday, December 2nd, 2012

It's the final night of their tour before they go off for a well-earned year's break ahead of their next album, but there's no signs of eighteen months on the road supporting their album 'Build A Rocket Boys!' having taken their toll on Elbow tonight.

Joe Duddell - Interview

This Saturday, 8 September, Richard Hawley performs a selection of tracks from across his career with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at the Magna Centre in Rotherham as part of the BBC Philharmonic presents series. The show will be broadcast live on BBC 6 Music from 7pm.

The set has been specially orchestrated for the event by Joe Duddell, whose previous work includes a tour with James and The Orchestra of the Swan, two performances with Elbow and the Halle Orchestra for MIF and a collaboration with Nero and the BBC Philharmonic. We spoke to Joe to find out more about the project and how it came about.