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Elbow are British alternative rock band. They have played together since 1990 and recorded five studio albums, the most recent of which is Build a Rocket Boys!, released in March 2011. In the UK all of their albums have made the top twenty and seven of their singles have been in the top forty.
In 2008 they won the Mercury Music Prize for their album The Seldom Seen Kid and in November 2011 it was announced that they will be composing the BBC's 2012 Olympic coverage theme tune.
Lead singer Guy Garvey met guitarist Mark Potter at Stand College in 1990 at the age of 16. Potter asked Garvey to sing in a band he was in with drummer Richard Jupp and bassist Pete Turner. Together, the four men formed the band Mr Soft. (The name was later changed to Soft.) Mark Potter's brother Craig Potter joined the band soon after on keyboards. That year members of the band first played together at The Grants Arms pub in Ramsbottom, Bury, a borough of Greater Manchester).
By 1997, they had changed their name a third time to Elbow, after a line in the BBC TV drama The Singing Detective. A character (Philip Marlowe) says that the word "elbow" is the most sensuous word in the English language; not for its definition, but for how it feels to say it and how it looks on the page. The band signed a deal with Island Records, and recorded an album that was to be their debut, produced by Steve Osborne. However, when Island was bought out by major label Universal, the band was dropped in a mass cull and the album never released.
Actors: Daniel L. Fordham (editor), Daniel L. Fordham (director), Daniel L. Fordham (writer), Lamar Kukuk (actor), Chiffona Thompson (actress), Ronnie Banks (actor), Eric Sabin (actor), Sharia Benn (actress), Rickie Zahir (actress), Damian Rexroth (actor), Troy DaVessel-Djvex Conway (actor), Owen Brown (actor), Andre Ellis (actor), Aaron Bomar (actor), Olga Zinchuck (actress),
Genres: Action, Drama,Actors: William Shakespeare (writer), Anabelle Munro (actress), Simon Phillips (actor), Simon Phillips (producer), Trevor Hughes (editor), Trevor Hughes (producer), Simon Brandon (actor), Kristopher Milnes (actor), Paula Baker (editor), Daniel Roberts (actor), Danny Idollor (actor), Hanne Steen (actress), Dawn Murphy (actress), Emma Agerwald (actress), Josephine Rogers (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Harvey Hart (director), Timothy Carhart (actor), Patti Tippo (actress), Kari French (actress), Merrie Lawson (actress), Leland Crooke (actor), Judi Evans (actress), Jerry Jones (actor), David Beaird (director), David Beaird (writer), Karen Bankhead (actress), Debby Lynn Ross (actress), Mark Israel (producer), Lucy Roucis (actress), Matthew Causey (actor),
Plot: Pondo Sinatra is a college boy with a problem: women will have nothing to do with him. It's not that he was raised on a chicken farm and, literally, came to school on the back of a turnip truck. It's not that he is a virgin and jinxed, and every move he makes around a woman backfires. The problem is that god and heaven have set themselves against Pondo loosing his virginity. That is until Pondo discovers the secret formula to the most powerful aphrodisiac in the world and becomes....... "The Party Animal"!
Keywords: aphrodisiac, college, drugs, female-flatulence, female-nudity, female-stockinged-legs, independent-film, male-stripper, pantyhose, virginActors: Kate Nelligan (actress), William Shakespeare (writer), Alun Armstrong (actor), Tim Pigott-Smith (actor), Kenneth Colley (actor), Kevin Stoney (actor), Adrienne Corri (actress), Neil McCarthy (actor), John McEnery (actor), John Wilders (miscellaneous crew), Frank Middlemass (actor), Alan Shallcross (miscellaneous crew), Cedric Messina (producer), Desmond Davis (director), Harry Jones (actor),
Plot: When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sentenced to death for premarital sex. His sister, Isabella (a nun-in-training), however, is a very persuasive pleader. She goes to Angelo, but instead of freeing her brother, she gets an offer from Angelo to save Claudio's life if Isabella sleeps with him. The only sympathetic friend Isabella has is a priest who, in actuality, is the Duke in disguise...and he has a plan.
Keywords: based-on-play, shakespeare's-measure-for-measureActors: Marcel Bluwal (director), Fernand Berset (actor), Roger Blin (actor), Marcel Bluwal (actor), Jean-Pierre Cassel (actor), Marcel Cuvelier (actor), Max Desrau (actor), Jacques Lalande (actor), Armand Meffre (actor), Fred Personne (actor), Jean Turlier (actor), Catherine Arditi (actress), Francine Bergé (actress), Marcel Bluwal (writer), William Shakespeare (writer),
Genres: ,Before leaving get to the bar
No one round here makes you pay
Never very good at goodbyes
So gentle shoulder charge
Love you mate
Love you mate
Salford skyline gloom
Always you
Could fly round any corner
But until you do