Elbow to produce children's tunes

Updated 12.27 Thu Sep 25 2008

Keywords: kids, music, children, album, Mercury Prize, Elbow

Elbow are planning to produce an album for kids.

The band, who picked up the Mercury prize for their album The Seldom Seen Kid, have children of their own and thought they'd record something to inspire them.

The band, who picked up the Mercury prize for their album The Seldom Seen Kid, have children of their own and thought they'd record something to inspire them

Singer Guy Garvey said: "We initially thought that it would be great to make music for children because the lads in the band have kids. They were saying how little decent music for children there is.

"The first thing to do is find the story and that's great fun to research.

"I want to do something that really fires their imaginations. I think you can go somewhere in writing for children that you can't do with adults.

"I think adults would just say 'Oh, that's bizarre' and shut their ears. Whereas you can go nuts and kids will follow you and love it."