Favourite Elbow album is not an easy choice: I was originally going to go with Leaders of the Free World in support of its underdog status as the album that should have launched Elbow into the big time, but which somehow sank. Fugitive Motel from Cast of Thousands was almost enough on its own to get that album the nod, while Powder Blue and Newborn off Asleep in the Back are still two of Elbow’s strongest tracks. As for newer albums, well, I never really got into Build a Rocket Boys! and this year’s The Take off and Landing of Everything is a long slow pleasure, but surely too recent to be judged properly.

So, The Seldom Seen Kid it is then. Not a weak moment from start to finish, a guest appearance from the wonderful Richard Hawley, and, in One Day Like This, an anthem to guarantee their pension pots. Of course, everyone secretly knows that The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver is the album’s real killer track, but I guess it doesn’t play quite as well to the wedding crowd…

Since I’ve alread posted …Tower Crane Driver, here’s The Bones of You instead, with its beautifully choreographed video, and Guy Garvey’s balletic vocals leaping about all over the place.