Elbow Glastonbury

Welcome back to the first day of this year's Glastonbury Festival. It

has been one of delight and surprises so far, and that is set to

continue now as we welcome some special guests to the Park Stage. As

yet unannounced, this is precisely the sort of surprise Glastonbury

specialises in. Who can forget Barry Gibb strolling out of Coldplay's set

last year? Now it is Elbow! Good evening Glastonbury!

Let's see your hands. # The birds, though I wore your

glacial patience # The birds are the keepers of our

secret CHEERING. How are you doing,

Glastonbury? Have you got your Glastonbury on? Is

this the best stage at the festival. Is this the best festival in the

world? What does that make you lot? It was quite tricky, that, wasn't

it? Let's see you do this right of the back of the field. There will be

lots of this. Mr Mark potter on guitar.

# Charging around with a juggernaut brow

# Overdraft speeches and deadlines to make

# Cramming commitments like cats in a sack

# Telephone burning and a purposeful gait

# When out of a doorway the tentacles stretch

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

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

# Stood in the street like a sleepwalking teenager? No!

# 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

Hands in the air! Let me see you, Glastonbury!

Peter Turner, ladies and gentlemen. CHEERING.

APPLAUSE. You beautiful creatures. In this place filled with peace and

love. Everybody gave everybody on the hill a wave. Everybody on the

Hill, give us a wave! Beautiful. Here is another song

about peace and love. # Where all the biggest

questions meet # With little feet

stood in the sand # The echoes swell

to nothing on the tide # And sets it as

a sapphire in her mind # Throwing both her arms

around the world # Throwing both her arms

around the world # It's all going to be magnificent.

# You know what it is? Do this with

your hands. Keep them there. Flags. Left. Right. Left. Right.

OK quadruple speed everyone. Wow.

# My sorry name has made it to graffiti

# I was looking for someone to complete me

# And we made the moon our mirrorball

# The city sirens violins Everything has changed

# We took the town to town last night

# And now I know what every step is for

# Hands black with smudging the night into day

# There's lend time in the alley, you could slip away

# But there are still fences to squeeze through

# And I'll reach you, spirits to cancel

# What does it prove if you die for a tune

# Let's join the yellow eyed snuck flies

# Let's be the bird laughing at not having learned

# Let's be a hundred and five, you and I

# And sing out a tune of regret to the moon

# Perverted old timers I'll feed you one liners

# What does it prove if you die for a tune

# What does it prove if you die for a tune

# Don't you know it's all disco

# I can hear how deep you're going

# What does it prove if you die for a tune

# What does it prove if you die for a tune

This is a song about arguing. Yeah, it is.

# A muffled battle cry across the kitchen table

# A baffling contretemps that shakes the day unstable

# Confessions from the cab a habit that I got from dad

# The flurry of departure in a cyclone of cologne

# Would often devastate the gate and hedge

# To knock it on the head that's what I'll do

# A muffled battle cry across the kitchen table

# Bridges up portcullis down and round the Tower of Babel

# I'm babbling in my dreams of blue berserkers coming at me

# It's nice to know how much you care

# Decided I should spend my life with you

# I'm trying to focus on the issues of the day, please

# These little tremors that are ripping through our rituals

# Though I never perfected that simian stroll

# The cigarette senate was everything then

# Do they know those days are golden?

# You were a freshly painted angel Walking on walls

# Stealing booze and hour-long hungry kisses

# And I never effected that simian stroll

# Do they know those days are golden?

# Stealing booze and hour-long hungry kisses

# And nobody knows me at home anymore

CHEERING. APPLAUSE.

Shall we sing together again, Glastonbury?

# One day... Come on!

# One day a dairy farmer had an idea.

# Row and that's why we are here. # He decided...

I should have thought this through. # He decided year on year # To throw

the best party in the world. In the world. In the world!

Just Bay Hill. That might just the Hill!

# I've been working on a cocktail called

# Polishing a compass that I hold in my sleeve

# Down comes him on sticks but then he kicks like a horse

# There's a Chinese cigarette case and the rest you can keep

# 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

# Mondays is for drinking to the seldom seen kid

# 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

# Down which of late I cannot help but fall

# Down which of late I cannot help but fall

# Down which of late I cannot help but fall

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

Everybody still OK? One more duty to perform Glastonbury. No! It's a

large whisky. I'm not getting involved with your

infantile drinking games. I'm having a bad one now. Shall we

sing together one last time? Can I just say Spider-Man... You've been

cracking me up all the way through this. Because that's a really good

outfit, I know it is really you and everything but you have been

literally doing this. Very distracting.

We love you Glastonbury, from the bottom of our hearts. Thanks you

lot. # Yeah, kiss me when

my lips are thin # One day like this a year'd

see me right # One day like this a year'd

see me right # One day like this a year'd

see me right # One day like this a year'd

see me right # One day like this a year'd

see me right # One day like this a year'd

see me right # One day like this a year'd

see me right # One day like this a year'd

see me right # One day like this a year'd

see me right # One day like this a year'd

see me right OK listen to this. Harmonyings.

# One day like this a year'd see me right

That's beautiful. Do it a bit loud ever.

# One day like this a year'd see me right. #

All right gang. Just you on your own # Throw those curtains wide

# One day like that year'd see me right.

# Throw those curtains wide # One day like that year'd see me

right. Do one more really loud. # Throw those curtains wide.

# One day like that year'd see me right. Two more together.

# Throw those curtains wide # One day like that year'd see me

right. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE