Guy Garvey live in concert.
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Guy Garvey

15
critic concert reviews
rock

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

75
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Critic Consensus

Based on 15 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Guy Garvey is rated as an enjoyable live performer, with decent shows overall. Guy Garvey concert reviews describe live shows and performances as polished and playful.

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Latest Release

Life (Music from the BBC Programme) (12 October 2020)

Artist Info

Genre
rock
Origin
Bury, Bury, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom (3/6/1974)
Bio
Guy Edward John Patrick Garvey (born 6 March 1974, in Bury, Greater Manchester, England), is the singer/guitarist to Manchester based, Mercury Music Prize winning band Elbow, as well as a presenter (Sunday evenings 10-12 GMT) for BBC 6 Music and A&R manager of Skinny Dog Records. He previously presented a show on Sunday evenings on XFM.
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Critic Concert Reviews

The Independent (UK)

June 20, 2016
80
%
And you can hardly blame him; it's 10 days into his stint as curator of Meltdown festival at London’s Southbank Centre.

The Upcoming (UK)

June 18, 2016
80
%
As he strode onto stage pint in one hand audience in the other it felt more like a best friend’s wedding than a packed concert hall.

RockShot Magazine (UK)

December 5, 2015
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O2 Empire Shepherds Bush, London, UK

Manchester Evening News (UK)

December 5, 2015
80
%
Anyone who has shared a Manchester show with Guy Garvey's band Elbow knows just how capable this particular Bury-born home bird is of turning a local gig into a love in.

Birmingham Live (UK)

December 3, 2015
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O2 Academy 2, Birmingham, UK

Music-News.com (UK)

December 2, 2015
80
%
With his playful persona Garvey puts in a less-polished performance than we’ve come to expect from his days for arena-filling Elbow.

The Guardian (UK)

December 2, 2015
80
%
When Thom Yorke branched off from Radiohead he used the opportunity to make music even more gnomic and esoteric than his parent band’s.

Past critic reviews published in

Cleveland.com (USA), Salt Lake Magazine (USA), Maine Music News (USA)

Image Credit

Anna-Jane Niznikowska [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Wikimedia Commons