Bruce’s cocktail idea in print!

A while back, Bruce and a barman at Fitzroy’s Black Pearl entered into a late night / early morning conversation about creating a cocktail inspired by the Elbow single Grounds For Divorce. It went on to win Best Whisky Cocktail in Australia and will see its creator head to London later in the year to [...]

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The Lovely Guy TM (Elbow @ The Corner Hotel)

When The Lovely Guy TM is in town you have to mind your manners.
“When is it polite to start asking for requests?” yelled Bruce as the stirring finale to Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver faded away.
“I like the cut of your jib,” replied The Lovely Guy TM.
“Switching Off,” came a [...]

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The lovely Elbow

It’s too late to get tickets for their Corner Hotel show unless anyone fancies forking out hundreds of dollars for a $60 ticket (it would be worth it, mind you) and only the criminally unstable would want to risk what’s left of their sanity to catch an hour of Elbow in the midst of dross such as Snow Patrol, Duffy, Razorlight and their ilk at V, but here’s some words from Guy and Pete anyway

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Grounds for divorce at the Black Pearl

When you receive a text from a barman apologising for the last drink you were made the night before, well… just think twice when you’re offered a Fog Cutter, even if it does come in a Tiki mug.

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Elbow are coming

Thank God for sideshows. For a few weeks there, Bruce and Fran were faced with the awful thought that they may have to attend the V Festival to see Elbow and thereby endure The Killers, Snow Patrol, Duffy, Razorlight and their ilk (God – shuddering just writing those names – may have to wash mouth [...]

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