Isle Of Wight Festival: Elbow Won't Play Olympic Song Live (VIDEO)

Elbow, the band behind the official BBC Olympic song, have revealed they have no plans to ever play it live.

Speaking before their set at the Isle of Wight Festival on Friday to Absolute Radio's Sarah Champion, the Mercury Prize-winners said the theme tune wouldn't be part of their gig at the festival and would probably never make it into any of their performances.

Bassist Pete Turner said: "We won’t be playing it live really, we think of it more as the Olympic theme than an Elbow song...

"It’s a great honour to do it and it’s really exciting, getting more and more exciting the closer it gets actually, it’s just realising what such a huge thing the Olympics is."

Elbow's frontman Guy Garvey

He continued: "It’s all done and I just can’t wait to see it and hear it on the telly now. There’s a little snippet of it, it’s like a middle-eight section on the relay trails that the BBC are putting on the telly, so people have heard that, but they’ve not heard any of the main themes and melodies or anything yet."

The band took the stage at dusk on Friday night in front of a mud-soaked crowd to perform their graceful indie anthems.

Backed by several string players, the Lancastrian quintet focussed on material from their 2008 fourth album The Seldom Seen Kid, and last year's follow-up Build a Rocket, Boys.

The extremely likeable lead singer Guy Garvey worked the crowd like a pro, announcing, "this is a song for you two [a couple in the crowd] and anyone else who is in love."

The audience went wild for Grounds for Divorce and the band finished with One Day Like This.

Later that night, Garvey posed for photos with fans for long after his day's duties were over.

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