Elbow Reading and Leeds Festival

Hello. Welcome back to Reading, 2011. It is a beautiful sunset and

a close to a fantastic day of live music. We've had a great day.

have. There is an excitement building for Muse. There has been a

lot of talk about how their set will run. You will see a big chunk

of that on BBC Three. We are here until 12.30 tonight. It is time for

a special moment. This band connect with their audience so well. It is

a spiritual experience. It is almost religious when they are on

stage. There is a definite feeling in the air when they come on.

has milled around all weekend chatting to bands and festival-

goers. Greg, I do believe you are with Elbow? Elbow there about to

come up the ramp right now. I hope to have a chat with guy.

Guy, good evening. How are you? Welcome to BBC Three! I will take

my earings off. How do you do this with the weather? The most perfect

setting for your band again. Have you set it? A huge cannon, some

chemicals, see the clouds for everyone else and then turn them

off when we are about to go on. has been a brilliant summer? It has

been great. This is our last performance of the festival season.

It has flown by. It has been good vibes T boys are happy? It's Pete's

birthday today. Is it? Are you going to do a dedication? I would

imagine so. I will see what comes to mind. You have 100,000 people

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out there, a great sunset. Good evening, Reading.

# Keeper of our secrets # Where we lay

# In the deepest grass of spring # And they want to make a

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# The birds, though I wore your # The birds are the keepers

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# The birds are the keepers Good evening, Reading.

How are you holding up? Everybody OK?

Is everybody OK? AUDIENCE: Yes!

Good. This is the last festival of our season. This is the last one

this year. You've an awful lot to live up to,

Reading. OK, just to let you know.

# Charging around # Overdraft speeches

# Cramming commitments like cats in a sack

# Telephone burn and a purposeful gait

# When out of a doorway the tentacles stretch

# Of a song that I know And the world moves in slow-mo

# Straight to my head like the first- cigarette of the day

# And it's you, and it's May And we're sleeping through the day

# And I'm five years ago and three thousand miles away.

# Do I have time? A man of my calibre?

# Do I have time? A man of my calibre?

# Stood in the street like a sleepwalking teenager?

# No And I dealt with this years ago

# I took a hammer to every memento

# But image on image like beads on a rosary pull through my head

# As the music takes hold And the sickener hits

# I can work till I break but I love the bones of you

# That I will never escape

# And it's you, and it's May And we're sleeping through the day

# And I'm five years ago and three thousand miles away

# And I can't move my arm for fear that you will awake

# And I'm five years ago and three thousand miles away. #

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# Ooh

# Ooh

# And I'm five years ago and three thousand miles away. #

# And I'm five years ago and three thousand miles away. #

# And I'm five years ago and three thousand miles away. #

# And it's you, and it's May And we're sleeping through the day

# And I'm five years ago and three thousand miles away

# And I can't move my arm for fear that you will awake

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

As

As the

As the sun

As the sun goes down on this beautiful scene, I would like to

dedicate this song to Melanie, half a world away. Nobody knows those

people, but you can guess what's Do this for me.

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# And the street # And dawn gives me a shadow

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# And we made the moon # We took the town to town

# We took the town to town # And now I know

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# Don't point fingers # Fingers are for pointing at the

Da-da-d a # Ya-da-da-da-ya-da

# Lay those bones on the cobble stones

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# Polishing a compass # Down comes him on sticks

# There's a Chinese cigarette case # There's a

# There's a hole in my neighbourhood

# Down which of late I cannot help but fall

# Mondays is for drinking to the seldom seen kid

# Monday's is for drinking to the seldom seen kid

# Ooh

# Ooh

# There's this whispering of jokers doing flesh by the pound

# There's this whispering of jokers doing flesh by the pound

# To a chorus of supposes from the little town hoods

# There'll be twisted karaoke at the aniseed lounge

# And I'll bring you further roses But it does you no good

# And it does me no good

# And it does you no good

# There's a hole in my neighbourhood

# Down which of late I cannot help but fall

# There's a hole in my neighbourhood

# Down which of late I cannot help but fall

# There's a hole in my neighbourhood

# Down which of late I cannot help but fall

# Someday we'll be drinking with the seldom seen kid

# Someday we'll be drinking with the seldom seen kid

# Someday we'll be drinking with the seldom seen kid

Ready?

# Someday we'll be drinking with the seldom seen kid

Ready? Do

Ready? Do it

Ready? Do it for

Ready? Do it for Pete! # Someday we'll be drinking

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Please welcome back on to stage our # Now I live off the mirrors

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# Now I live off the mirrors # Though I never perfected

# Do they know those days are golden?

# Build a rocket, boys

# Build a rocket, boys

# One long June I came down from the trees

# And kerbstone cool

# You were a freshly painted angel

# Walking on walls

# Stealing booze and hour-long hungry kisses

# And nobody knew me at home any more

# Build a rocket, boys

# Build a rocket, boys

# Build a rocket, boys

# Lippy kids on the corner again

# Lippy kids on the corner begin

# Settling like crows

# And I never affected that simian stroll

# No

# Do they know those days are golden?

# Do they know those days are golden?

# Build a rocket, boys

# One long June I came down from the trees

# And kerbstone cool

# You were a freshly painted angel

# Walking on walls

# Stealing booze and hour-long hungry kisses

# And nobody knows me at home any more

# Build a rocket, boys

# Build a rocket, boys

# Build a rocket, boys

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Let me see your hands. All the way to the back.

They are remarkable -- remarkably clean for festival hands. Let me

see them - wiggle them! # But neither should you walk the

# So with finger rolls # We can be there

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# The man you are will know the boy # And you're not the man who fell to

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# And we've love enough to light the # The moon is out looking

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# The moon is out looking # Yeah, kiss me

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# One day like this a year # One day like this a year

# One day like this a year # One day like this a year

# One day like this a year # One day like this a year

# One day like this a year # One day like this a year

# One day like this a year # One day like this a year

# One day like this a year # One day like this a year

# One day like this a year # One day like this a year

# One day like this a year # One day like this a year