Elbow frontman Guy Garvey says the band don’t have time to pursue world domination because they are too committed to family life.
Despite moving into the Arena league on the back of their Mercury Music Prize win this summer, Garvey told Q Radio that breaking the US was “not on the cards” because of the time commitment it would take.
He said bands such as U2 had carefully worked on breaking different markets with a view to “world domination”. “They very deliberately targeted areas of the world and went and took them over,” Garvey said during an interview for last night’s Q The Jury programme.
But he continued, “It’s just not on the cards for us - most of the band have families and we want to do it closer to home. If something great happens in America then brilliant but there’s no way we want to spend three or four years of our life there.
The singer, whose band won the Mercury with fourth album The Seldom Seen Kid in September, said contemporary acts should be more honest about their debt to prog rock.
“Nobody had mentioned prog rock for ages and if they had it had been a filthy word …. I thnk that’s so dishonest of a lot of guitar bands. There’s no way Radiohead haven’t listened to Yes records. Jonny Greenwood has particularly. Prog was ridiculous and overblown, it got bloated and had its face painted somewhat, but as with any period of wild experimentation it led to some permanent, classic, brilliant sounds that have enabled people to make really brilliant music.”
The band have begun work on their fifth album and have also talked about an album aimed at children.
You can hear the programme again here or listen to it again on Q Radio on Sunday, November 9, at 4pm. You can listen live to Q Radio here.
10:23 AM | 06/11/2008
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