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Elbow name new album

Plus band announce plans to return with new UK tour

December 17, 2007 | 5 Comments
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Elbow have exclusively told NME.COM that their fourth album will be called 'The Seldom Seen Kid'.

The album was recorded at Blueprint Studios in their hometown Manchester and was produced by their keyboard player Craig Potter.

The follow-up to 2005's 'Leaders Of The Free World' will be released in March 2008.

Meanwhile the band will hit the road after the record's release, playing the following dates:

Glasgow ABC (April 4)
Newcastle Academy (5)
Leeds Metropolitan University (6)
Oxford Academy (8)
Bristol Colston Hall (9)
Birmingham Academy (10)
Sheffield Octagon (12)
Manchester Academy (13)
Nottingham Rock City (14)
London Brixton Academy (15)

Tickets are on sale from 9am tomorrow (December 18). To check ticket availability and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.

If you're on O2 you can get Priority Tickets to The O2 and O2 Academy venues up to 48 hours before they go on general release. Register at o2priority.co.uk. Terms apply.

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cobbyshambles

Dec 17, 2007

possibly the most bland band in the world.

cobbyshambles

Dec 17, 2007

having said that this album shouldn't do them any arm...

alan26uk

Dec 17, 2007

God this album took a long time, they must have put a bit of elbow grease into the making of it! BOOM BOOM

Bronte38

Dec 18, 2007

Bland...yet you're still reading about them and bothering to comment!

AnthonyThornton

Dec 18, 2007

Absolutely fantastic band, from the Newborn EP onwards. There's not many bands that could take the atmospheric beauty of Talk Talk and rend it into some new.