“It was the classic 10-year overnight success,” Jupp said of the band which would come to be known in 1997 as Elbow’s rise to fame.<\/p>\n
“We’d always been hanging out, tinkering with music until it became our main focus. <\/p>\n
“We saw everybody go off to uni, get jobs, go travelling. And we thought ‘No – we’re going to stick to this’.”<\/p>\n
After years of gigging, the band signed with Island Records after winning a Battle of the Bands competition. <\/p>\n
After being dropped, Elbow later signed with V2 and released their debut album Asleep in the Back in 2001.<\/p>\n
The album had been six years in the making.<\/p>\n
Barely a year later, Elbow were playing at the Glastonbury Festival. <\/p>\n
“We went from playing [before] 100 people to hearing 100,000 people clapping and cheering for you and singing along,” Jupp said of those meteoric days.<\/p>\n
“You’re looking at the faces of the crowd and the people that you’ve created this thing with.<\/p>\n
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