S7E9: Guy Garvey

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rockonteurs we welcome a true National Treasure to the series, a songwriter, a musician, broadcaster and all-round lovely bloke, it’s Guy Garvey. Guy shares his story of his working-class routes, falling in love with a broad range of music thanks to his sisters all having such eclectic tastes. He also shares how Elbow started with modest success in Bury before a slow build to the multi-Ivor Novello award winning success of ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’ in 2008. You can’t miss his brilliant story on playing Battleships on a plane to America with Richard Hawley or how he researched a song about betting shops by going direct to the source material! This is a brilliant episode with a lovely man!

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0:00.0	Hello Gary. Hello Guy. So this week we got a text from Johnny Mar. We did. We did.
0:05.2	Which is fact on a beach in Turkey. I wasn't going to say that.
0:10.3	Oh I should give that bit away.
0:11.6	You can say that. Well you can't know about power. that bit away. away.
0:13.0	You can say that.
0:14.0	Well you can know about apparently like, you know, if Harold Pentel was alive, he'd be livid.
0:18.0	Yes.
0:20.0	He's too busy putting up vote labor posters. He was alive today.
0:24.4	No, he texted correcting us, really.
0:28.0	Well, correcting adding, if you like, to the database of why, what we were talking about with Jimmy Webb a few weeks
0:36.8	ago, the songwriter Jimmy Webb, who wrote, Wish to Alignment for Glenn Campbell.
0:41.8	We were talking about the fact that there's that
0:44.4	did-e-eke-e-e-eke-e-eke-e-eke-e, in the string arrangement of that song and who we
0:49.4	thought copied it. That's right when when we thought that that's where David or probably more likely
0:57.3	Mick Ronson got it for Starman. Yeah, which...
1:01.3	Bada, on the guitar. Yeah, which gets, da, da, da da, da, da, da, da, da, da,
1:04.0	on the guitar.
1:05.0	Anyway, Johnny then text us and says,
1:07.0	and he's listening to the Brian Orga.
1:09.0	Hang on, he was listening to Brian Orga.
1:12.0	Should I, should we quote him?
1:15.0	I'm sure, he won't he?
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