Hello I'm Guy Garvey and this is a download of my Desert Island discs. An absolute privilege for me to be on the program.

I hope you like it. The details of all the tracks I've chosen are on the Desert Island Discs website. The tracks have been shortened because of Rights

reasons. I hope you enjoy them anyway. Here it is. My castaway this week is Guy Garvey, front man of the group Elbow, his voice and lyrics,

have helped the band win pretty much every music prize going,

headlining Glastonbury too and playing at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics.

Yet his image is that of someone who might still be scraping gum off the carpet of Andy's record shop in Bolton, just an everyday

low-key unassuming bloke, except of course that he isn't.

He's penning and performing songs filled with intimacy, optimism and lyricism that strike a chord

with millions of fans. For a long while his devotees were well versed in the art of delayed

gratification. Elbow's debut album was released 11 years

after the band members first made music together. He writes his songs in his

journal and has been keeping a diary since he was 14. Maybe it was the piece and calm of the blank page that first

appealed. One of seven kids, he says he was brought up in a house full of women that were singing,

shouting, arguing, fighting over the bathroom I'm

ruined by these women spoiled rotten so if you were spoiled rotten then guy Garvey I wonder

if that was good training for being a star in the music business.

Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, getting used to being pampered, absolutely.

The every man image, how close is it to argue somebody? You haven't come with an entourage today.

We didn't get any riders about sort of only read smarties and

things. I suppose I do try and maintain it a little bit. I don't wear sunglasses in Manchester.

Everywhere else in the world though I feel quite comfortable with it.

You've said that when you're inside a song you're at your happiest.

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