Live: Elbow - Elbow (Connect 2008)

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The rain may have subsided but the mud was slowly building by the time Elbow arrived at Connect amidst some sunnier...well, less gloomier skies. Guy Garvey led the band on and immediately seemed to capture the mood of the day and weekend. On the surface, Elbow come across as being miserable so and so's but once you get past that veneer, there's a lot of fun and joy lurking underneath.

That's why a track like 'Leaders of The Free World' may come across as a cynical warning about those in power but by the time you have lustily sang along with...