No Rock And Roll Fun

"I'M REALLY SURPRISED A BAND LIKE YOU LIKING AN ACT LIKE THAT": We were wooshed back to the days of the Mark Goodier era Evening Session with the news that Elbow have got a cover of Massive Attack's Teardrop on their new bside, and the tendency for every indie-schmindie-down-at-Syndrome band to trot up to the studio for an interview to say "actually, we really like Massive Attack, us"; always this would lead to Goodier (or, not much later, Jo and Steve, to wow in utter astonishment that a band with guitars would even consider listening to music that wasn't another band with guitars. There was a similar effect last year with Outkast, oddly enough. And Beyonce for the more timid.