Elbow rock at Live at the Marquee in big Cork show

Elbow may not be at the top of anyone’s list of favourite body parts, but you can see why this band is the number one act on so many iPod playlists.

It’s probably because their delivery seems so personal, deeply intimate. It’s all so effortless.

“Hands,” says vocalist Guy Garvey. A sea of hands are raised. But this is not master and servant control.