Oct 05, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Elbow and Under the Radar go way back. It was 2001 when we first met the band at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. The British band were in LA to promote their debut album, Asleep in the Back, and play a set at the Knitting Factory opening for Goldfrapp (that band were also touring their debut album). I interviewed frontman Guy Garvey poolside, discussing the band’s long gestation period to finally releasing their debut over a decade after first forming as teenagers in 1990, taking the name Elbow in 1997. Garvey was open and instantly likable. More