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Elbow

Elbow is a group from the UK, active since 1990.

Group GB since 1990 indie rock alternative rock british

TOTAL PLAYS

5,641

SONGS PLAYED

296

STATIONS

FIRST PLAYED

2005-02-14 16:45 · 6 Music — "any day now"

LAST PLAYED

4 days ago · 6 Music — "Knife Fight"

BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026

700 525 350 175 0

'05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26

◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 3,360 60%

Radio 2 1,934 34%

Radio 1 346 6%

1Xtra 1 0%

◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 08:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT

#TITLEPLAYSLAST

1 One Day Like This 1,321 2026-05-10

2 Magnificent (She Says) 253 2026-03-21

3 Open Arms 216 2024-01-31

4 Grounds For Divorce 181 2012-05-31

5 The Bones Of You 173 2011-10-19

6 Neat Little Rows 172 2020-08-18

7 Grounds for Divorce 142 2026-05-08

8 New York Morning 136 2020-10-07

9 What Time Do You Call This? 133 2025-02-09

10 Forget Myself 127 2025-10-31

11 Fugitive Motel 123 2025-10-21

12 My Sad Captains 121 2025-02-16

◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-17 02:46 Knife Fight 6 Music

2026-05-10 21:03 One Day Like This Radio 2

2026-05-08 04:52 Grounds for Divorce 6 Music

2026-05-05 02:03 One Day Like This Radio 1

2026-05-04 13:57 Independent Women, Part 1 6 Music

2026-05-02 07:55 One Day Like This Radio 2

2026-04-23 01:34 One Day Like This Radio 2

2026-04-19 22:33 Weather to Fly Radio 2

2026-04-10 14:12 One Day Like This Radio 2

2026-03-31 06:24 One Day Like This Radio 2

2026-03-25 11:51 Starlings Radio 2

2026-03-22 05:35 Starlings Radio 2

◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

296 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z

BAR ▶

1 Thing —

1 2025-02-17 ▶

1 Thing (Live From BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, 2005) —

1 2023-10-24 ▶

1 Thing (Live Lounge) —

1 2010-05-14 ▶

1 Thing <Live Lounge> —

1 2008-01-24 ▶

1 Thing <live luonge> —

1 2006-08-21 ▶

1 Thing from the Live lounge —

1 2007-09-03 ▶

: Live From Blueprint Studios —

1 2014-02-28 ▶

Adriana Again —

55 2025-01-23 ▶

After the Eclipse —

1 2021-11-23 ▶

All Disco —

64 2023-07-10 ▶

All Disco (Radio 2 Session, 7th Mar 2017) —

1 2017-03-07 ▶

All Disco - 6 Music Live Session —

1 2017-06-16 ▶

An Audience with the Pope —

2 2023-11-29 ▶

An Audience With The Pope —

1 2008-03-18 ▶

An Imagined Affair —

1 2012-05-28 ▶

Any Day Now —

16 2025-03-18 ▶

any day now —

9 2013-07-05 ▶

Asleep in the Back —

3 2025-12-29 ▶

asleep in the back —

2 2007-10-14 ▶

Back To Black (Live Lounge) —

2 2008-06-08 ▶

Back To Black (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 5th June 2008) —

1 2019-10-21 ▶

Balu —

54 2025-11-14 ▶

Balu (6 Music Session, 27 Mar 2024) —

4 2025-05-16 ▶

Bitten By The Tailfire - Reading Festival 2001 —

4 2011-03-07 ▶

Bitten By The Tailfire - Reading Festival 2001 —

3 2014-02-15 ▶

Bitten By The Tailfly (Reading Festival 2001) —

3 2019-10-15 ▶

Bitten By The Tailfly - Glastonbury 2004 —

1 2005-08-30 ▶

Bitten By The Tailfly - Glastonbury 2005 —

2 2009-06-26 ▶

Blank of Night —

1 2015-01-03 ▶

Blanket of Night —

2 2014-08-31 ▶

Buffalo Ghosts —

2 2016-08-27 ▶

Buttons and Zips —

1 2019-07-10 ▶

Charge —

76 2015-03-07 ▶

Charge (live In Concert for Radio 2 from Maida Vale March 2014) —

1 2014-03-28 ▶

Charge (Live) —

1 2014-03-29 ▶

Charge / Lippy kids (6 Music festival 280214) —

1 2014-03-01 ▶

Colour Fields —

6 2024-07-28 ▶

Coming Second (live at the Astoria) —

1 2009-11-11 ▶

Coming Second (Reading Festival 2001) —

3 2019-10-15 ▶

Coming Second - Glastonbury 2004 —

1 2005-08-30 ▶

Coming Second - Reading Festival 2001 —

4 2011-03-07 ▶

Coming Second - Reading Festival 2001 —

3 2014-02-15 ▶

Dear Friends —

41 2023-01-23 ▶

Dexter & Sinister —

42 2024-03-04 ▶

Dexter & Sinner —

1 2019-08-17 ▶

Dexter and Sinister (Glastonbury 2022) —

1 2022-06-26 ▶

Don't Mix Your Drinks —

1 2014-07-16 ▶

don't mix your drinks —

1 2010-02-28 ▶

Down In The Hole —

9 2024-06-22 ▶

Elbow - Recorded Live At Summer Sundae —

1 2006-08-15 ▶

Empires —

88 2020-09-10 ▶

Empires (6 Music Session, 10 Oct 19) —

1 2019-10-10 ▶

Empires (Glastonbury 2022) —

1 2022-06-26 ▶

Empires (Radio 2 Session, 29th October 2019) —

1 2019-10-29 ▶

Fallen Angel —

27 2025-04-14 ▶

Fallen Angel - Glastonbury 2004 —

2 2005-08-30 ▶

Fallen Angel - Glastonbury 2005 —

2 2008-06-24 ▶

Fallen Angel. —

10 2009-01-07 ▶

Firebrand & Angel —

1 2017-02-03 ▶

First Steps —

42 2023-11-12 ▶

Fly Boy Blue / Lunette —

9 2021-01-26 ▶

Fly Boy Blue-Lunette —

2 2014-01-18 ▶

Fly Boy Blue/Lunette —

8 2016-07-19 ▶

Flying Dream 1 —

1 2022-05-15 ▶

Forget Myself —

127 2025-10-31 ▶

Friend of Ours —

5 2025-05-04 ▶

Friend Of Ours —

4 2011-09-06 ▶

Friend Of Ours (live from Abbey Road with the BBC Concert Orchestra) —

1 2020-03-01 ▶

From the River —

2 2024-04-22 ▶

Fugitive Motel —

123 2025-10-21 ▶

Fugitive Motel - Glastonbury 2004 —

1 2005-08-30 ▶

Fugitive Motel - Glastonbury 2005 —

2 2008-08-15 ▶

Fugitive Motel - Hub Session 07/09/2005 —

2 2008-10-01 ▶

Gentle Storm —

94 2021-07-04 ▶

Gentle Storm (Radio 2 Session, 7th Mar 2017) —

2 2017-03-08 ▶

George Lassoes the Moon (Reading Festival 2001) —

3 2019-10-15 ▶

George Lassoes The Moon - Reading Festival 2001 —

3 2011-03-07 ▶

George Lassoes The Moon - Reading Festival 2001 —

2 2014-02-15 ▶

Golden Slumbers —

113 2026-03-12 ▶

Good Blood Mexico City —

2 2024-03-29 ▶

Grace Under Pressure —

34 2023-10-19 ▶

Great Expectations —

12 2024-10-12 ▶

Great Expectations Hub Session 07/09/2005 —

1 2014-03-31 ▶

Great Expectations - Hub Session 07/09/2005 —

1 2008-11-05 ▶

Ground For Divorce (live Recording) —

1 2010-09-04 ▶

Grounds for Divorce —

142 2026-05-08 ▶

Grounds For Divorce —

181 2012-05-31 ▶

Grounds For Divorce (6 Music Session 10 Oct 19) —

1 2019-10-10 ▶

Grounds For Divorce (6 Music Session, 10 Oct 2019) —

1 2019-10-13 ▶

Grounds For Divorce (6 Music Session, 27th of March 2024) —

2 2024-04-07 ▶

Grounds For Divorce (Colin Murray Session Track) —

1 2008-11-06 ▶

Grounds For Divorce (Glastonbury 2014) —

2 2017-02-03 ▶

Grounds For Divorce (Glastonbury 2017) —

2 2017-07-09 ▶

Grounds For Divorce (Glastonbury 2022) —

1 2022-06-26 ▶

Grounds for Divorce (Live from Maida Vale 2014) —

1 2014-03-28 ▶

Grounds For Divorce (Live In Manchester) —

1 2011-10-28 ▶

Grounds for Divorce (live) —

3 2014-03-31 ▶

Grounds For Divorce (Radio 2 In Concert 50, 2008) —

1 2020-11-05 ▶

Grounds For Divorce (Radio 2 In Concert 50, 2009) —

1 2020-11-09 ▶

Grounds For Divorce (Radio 2 Session, 03 FEB 2017) —

1 2018-09-22 ▶

Grounds For Divorce (radio edit) —

4 2024-04-15 ▶

Grounds For Divorce (Saturday Session Archive) —

2 2017-01-21 ▶

Grounds For Divorce - live from Manchester Cathedral —

3 2011-10-30 ▶

Grounds For Divorce [Live] —

1 2011-08-25 ▶

Hap1207 Elbow All Disco —

1 2017-07-15 ▶

Harvets Moon (Radio 2 Session, 12 Nov 2021) —

2 2021-12-15 ▶

Her to the Earth —

3 2024-03-28 ▶

High Ideals —

1 2015-07-19 ▶

Honey Sun —

4 2016-03-28 ▶

Independent Woman —

3 2023-10-18 ▶

Independent Women (Live Lounge) —

1 2008-05-21 ▶

Independent Women, Part 1 —

1 2026-05-04 ▶

Independent Women, pt. 1 (BBC Radio 1's Jo Whiley's Live Lounge) —

1 2024-10-09 ▶

Is It a Bird —

1 2021-12-08 ▶

Jesus Is a Rochdale Girl —

6 2019-08-10 ▶

K2 —

1 2017-02-03 ▶

Kindling —

4 2017-02-09 ▶

Kindling (feat. John Grant) —

1 2017-12-12 ▶

Kindling (Fickle Flame) (feat. John Grant) —

57 2022-11-06 ▶

Kindling (Glastonbury 2022) —

1 2022-06-26 ▶

Knife Fight —

3 2026-05-17 ▶

Leaders of the Free World —

50 2025-11-11 ▶

Leaders Of The Free World —

35 2011-10-21 ▶

Leaders Of The Free World - Glastonbury 2008 —

2 2008-11-14 ▶

Leaders Of The Free World - Summer Sundae Weekender 2006 —

2 2007-08-07 ▶

Lippy Kids —

70 2025-07-23 ▶

lippy kids —

108 2013-12-18 ▶

Lippy Kids (6 Music Session 10 Oct 19) —

1 2019-10-10 ▶

Lippy Kids (Glastonbury 2014) —

4 2021-06-24 ▶

Lippy Kids (Glastonbury 2022) —

1 2022-06-26 ▶

Lippy Kids (Live at Blueprint Studios) —

1 2011-01-06 ▶

Lippy Kids (Live) —

1 2011-09-08 ▶

Lippy Kids (Radio 2 Session, 29th October 2019) —

1 2019-10-29 ▶

Lippy Kids (Radio 2 Session, 7th Mar 2017) —

4 2023-05-03 ▶

Lippy Kids - Glastonbury 2011 —

3 2011-06-30 ▶

Lippy Kids - Live at Manchester Catherdral —

1 2011-11-02 ▶

Lippy Kids - Live from the Mercury Prize 06/09/2011 —

1 2011-12-23 ▶

Lippy Kids - Live from the Mercury Prize 2011 —

1 2011-09-09 ▶

Lippy Kids [Live] —

1 2012-02-09 ▶

Lippy Kids/ One Day Like This (Glastonbury 2014) —

1 2025-06-25 ▶

Lippy Kids: Live From Blueprint Studios —

1 2014-02-28 ▶

Loneliness Of The Tower Crane Driver —

1 2008-03-14 ▶

Lost Worker Bee —

53 2017-07-28 ▶

Lover's Leap —

2 2024-01-25 ▶

Lovers Leap —

34 2024-04-18 ▶

Lovers' Leap —

69 2025-12-29 ▶

Lovers' Leap (6 Music Session, 27 Mar 2024) —

3 2025-12-19 ▶

Lullaby —

2 2024-07-07 ▶

Lullaby (Radio 2 Session, 7th Mar 2017) —

1 2017-03-07 ▶

Magnificent —

1 2016-12-05 ▶

Magnificent (She Says) —

253 2026-03-21 ▶

Magnificent (She Says) (Radio 2 Session, 11 Oct 2019) —

1 2019-10-18 ▶

Magnificent (She Says) (Radio 2 Session, 7th Mar 2017) —

1 2017-03-07 ▶

Magnificent (She Says) - Acoustic/ Live At The Ritz —

1 2020-04-24 ▶

Magnificent (She Says)(Radio 2 Session, 15 Sept 2024) —

2 2024-09-16 ▶

Magnificent - 6 Music Session —

1 2017-06-16 ▶

Magnificent She Said (Glastonbury 2022) —

1 2022-06-26 ▶

Mercy Street —

3 2013-10-19 ▶

Mexican Standoff —

27 2025-01-13 ▶

Mirrorball —

59 2023-11-29 ▶

Mirrorball (live) —

1 2015-11-17 ▶

Mirrorball (Radio 2 Session, 12 Nov 2021) —

2 2024-10-07 ▶

Mirrorball (Radio 2 Session, 29th October 2019) —

1 2019-10-29 ▶

Mirrorball (Radio 2 Session, 7th Mar 2017) —

1 2017-03-07 ▶

Montparnasse —

1 2022-06-26 ▶

My Morning (Live) —

1 2014-03-01 ▶

My Sad Captains —

121 2025-02-16 ▶

My Sad Captains (Glastonbury 2014) —

1 2014-06-27 ▶

My Sad Captains (Live) —

1 2014-03-31 ▶

My Sad Captains (Radio 2 Session, 26th Jan 2022) —

1 2022-03-21 ▶

My Trouble —

2 2024-10-19 ▶

My Very Best —

13 2005-09-16 ▶

Neat Little Rows —

172 2020-08-18 ▶

Neat Little Rows - Glastonbury 2011 —

1 2011-06-30 ▶

New York Morning —

136 2020-10-07 ▶

New York Morning (Glastonbury 2014) —

3 2014-06-30 ▶

New York Morning (Live At Glastonbury 2014) —

1 2014-07-03 ▶

New York Morning (Live for Radio 2 In Concert) —

4 2014-04-03 ▶

Newborn —

17 2025-07-20 ▶

newborn —

36 2011-06-23 ▶

Newborn (Radio 1 Session, 17th April 2001) —

1 2022-09-27 ▶

Newborn (Reading Festival 2001) —

3 2019-10-15 ▶

Newborn - Glastonbury 2004 —

1 2005-08-30 ▶

Newborn - Glastonbury 2008 —

1 2008-11-14 ▶

Newborn - Reading Festival 2001 —

2 2011-03-07 ▶

Newborn - Reading Festival 2001 —

3 2014-02-15 ▶

Newborn. —

1 2012-08-20 ▶

Not a Job —

24 2025-09-15 ▶

Not A Job —

33 2011-11-24 ▶

Not A Job (6 Music Session) —

2 2005-07-27 ▶

On Deronda Road —

1 2019-10-11 ▶

One Day Like This —

1,321 2026-05-10 ▶

One Day Like This (BBC Radio 2, May 2008) —

1 2023-10-18 ▶

One Day Like This (Glastonbury 2008) —

1 2020-06-20 ▶

One Day Like This (Glastonbury 2011) —

1 2019-06-16 ▶

One Day Like This (Glastonbury 2014) —

5 2022-06-22 ▶

One Day Like This (Glastonbury 2022) —

3 2022-06-28 ▶

One Day Like This (Glastonbury, 27 June 2016) —

2 2016-08-29 ▶

One Day Like This (Live from Glastonbury 2014) —

1 2023-06-12 ▶

One Day Like This (Live Lounge) —

4 2009-03-19 ▶

One Day Like This (live) —

3 2011-12-26 ▶

One Day Like This (Live: Radio 2 In Concert at Manchester Cathedral) —

1 2011-10-28 ▶

One Day Like This (Maida Vale Session) —

1 2012-09-08 ▶

One Day Like This (Radio 2 Session, 7th Mar 2017) —

3 2017-11-08 ▶

One Day Like This - Glastonbury 2008 —

2 2008-11-14 ▶

One Day Like This - glastonbury 2011 —

4 2016-06-26 ▶

One Day Like This - R1 Live Lounge —

5 2010-04-15 ▶

One Day Like This <Live at Maida Vale> —

1 2008-03-20 ▶

One Day Like This <Radio Edit> —

2 2008-05-07 ▶

One Day Like This performed in BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge —

2 2011-04-22 ▶

One Thing —

2 2009-07-26 ▶

Open Arms —

216 2024-01-31 ▶

Open Arms (Instrumental) —

1 2012-05-04 ▶

Open Arms (Live: Radio 2 In Concert at Manchester Cathedral) —

2 2011-11-01 ▶

Powder Blue —

20 2024-05-12 ▶

powder blue —

28 2011-10-04 ▶

Powder Blue (Reading Festival 2001) —

3 2019-10-15 ▶

Powder Blue - Reading Festival 2001 —

3 2011-03-07 ▶

Powder Blue - Reading Festival 2001 —

3 2014-02-15 ▶

Puncture Repair —

1 2013-02-23 ▶

Puncture Repairs (Live) —

1 2014-03-28 ▶

Punture Repair —

1 2014-07-06 ▶

Real Life —

2 2014-07-05 ▶

Real Life (Angel) —

78 2014-08-08 ▶

Red —

10 2025-12-17 ▶

red —

21 2011-10-21 ▶

Red (Lamacq Live Session, Radio 1, 17th April 2001) —

1 2022-06-08 ▶

Red Sky Radio (Baby Baby Baby) —

1 2021-11-23 ▶

ribcage —

1 2010-06-19 ▶

Running to a Standstill —

1 2012-01-13 ▶

Running To Stand Still —

1 2009-01-25 ▶

Sad Captains (Glastonbury 2022) —

1 2022-06-26 ▶

Scaterred black & whites —

1 2013-10-10 ▶

Scatterd Black And White —

1 2008-12-03 ▶

Scatterd Bland And White —

19 2015-03-23 ▶

Scattered Black & Whites —

6 2014-11-11 ▶

Scattered Black And Blue —

1 2007-01-03 ▶

Scattered Black And White - Reading Festival 2001 —

4 2011-03-07 ▶

Scattered Black And White - Reading Festival 2001 —

3 2014-02-15 ▶

Scattered Black and Whites —

18 2024-11-08 ▶

scattered black and whites —

6 2011-11-08 ▶

Scattered Black And Whites (live) —

1 2011-10-31 ▶

Scattered Black And Whites (Reading Festival 2001) —

3 2019-10-15 ▶

Seven Veils —

1 2019-12-20 ▶

Six Words —

51 2023-08-23 ▶

Six Words (Radio 2 Session, 12 Nov 2021) —

1 2021-11-12 ▶

Sober —

84 2025-09-04 ▶

Some Riot —

2 2025-02-23 ▶

Starlings —

13 2026-03-25 ▶

Station Approach —

50 2023-10-31 ▶

Station Approach (Glasto '08) —

1 2008-06-30 ▶

Station Approach - Glastonbury 2008 —

2 2020-06-25 ▶

Station Approach - Leeds 2005 —

1 2011-08-27 ▶

Station Approach - Live At Glastonbury 2008 —

1 2008-06-29 ▶

Stops —

1 2013-02-23 ▶

Switching Off —

5 2015-02-12 ▶

Teardrop —

5 2014-10-19 ▶

The Bewlay Brothers —

14 2024-10-28 ▶

The Bewlay Brothers (6 Music Session) —

1 2005-05-30 ▶

The Bewlay Brothers - 6Music Session —

1 2016-01-16 ▶

The Birds —

6 2026-02-21 ▶

The Birds (Glastonbury 2022) —

1 2022-06-26 ▶

The Birds (Reprise) —

1 2019-08-23 ▶

The Birds (reprise) —

1 2011-11-07 ▶

The Blanket of Night —

6 2023-12-23 ▶

The Bones of You —

48 2025-03-25 ▶

The Bones Of You —

173 2011-10-19 ▶

The Fix —

13 2025-07-03 ▶

The Fix - Glastonbury 2008 —

2 2008-11-14 ▶

The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver —

5 2023-11-29 ▶

The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver (live from the Mercury awards) —

1 2008-09-11 ▶

The Loneliness Of The Tower Crane Driver —

2 2013-10-25 ▶

The Night Will Always Win —

1 2014-10-25 ▶

The Only Road —

1 2021-11-23 ▶

The River —

1 2015-03-29 ▶

The Seldom Seen Kid —

2 2024-03-27 ▶

The Take Off and Landing of Everything —

1 2014-06-08 ▶

Things I've Been Telling Myself for Years —

4 2024-09-29 ▶

This Blue World —

3 2024-11-03 ▶

Trust the Sun —

1 2017-02-03 ▶

Way Down In The Hole (Saturday Session Archive) —

2 2011-11-26 ▶

We Have All the Time in the World (Live with the BBC Concert Orchestra) —

1 2025-12-15 ▶

Weather to Fly —

13 2026-04-19 ▶

Weather To Fly —

3 2011-07-03 ▶

Weightless —

8 2025-12-07 ▶

Weightless (Radio 2 Session, 29th October 2019) —

1 2019-10-29 ▶

What Am I Without You —

57 2022-02-27 ▶

What Time Do You Call This —

1 2015-04-27 ▶

What Time Do You Call This? —

133 2025-02-09 ▶

Whisper Grass —

1 2012-08-29 ▶

White Heat, White Noise (6 Music Session, 10 Oct 19) —

1 2019-10-10 ▶

White Noise White Heat —

80 2024-02-09 ▶

White Noise White Heat (Radio 2 Session, 29th October 2019) —

1 2019-10-29 ▶

Wichita Lineman (Radio 2 Session, 11 10 2019) —

1 2019-10-14 ▶

Witchita Lineman (Radio 2 Session, 11 Oct 2019) —

1 2024-12-20 ▶

With Love —

5 2014-10-05 ▶