Wow...back from the Atlanta gig and am completely over the moon! Phenomenal show, and I will add details later as well as some pics (hopefully, if my crap camera managed to capture anything worth looking at!).

But just to give y'all the basics, here is the setlst:
Starlings
Bones Of You
Leaders
Mirrorball
The Stops
Mexican Standoff
Grounds For Divorce
Tower Crane Driver
Switching Off
Newborn
Weather To Fly
One Day Like This
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ENCORE:
Some Riot
Station Approach
Scattered Black & Whites

Not too shabby, right? I was thrilled - that's as good a set as I could have asked for on this tour (8 selections from TSSK and 7 blasts from the past), and every one sounded gorgeous! Also managed to shake Guy's hand when he came round to visit us down the front, got HALF of Guy's set list (it was ripped in two but I got the better side!), and managed to get a shout-out from Guy and a wave from Craig after I held up a sign to identify myself as the founder of the Craig Potter Appreciation Thread. That's right folks, I have no shame.

All in all, a perfectly amazing evening and I hope I got at least a few good pics worth sharing. Flying home tomorrow and it is mega late, so though I'm still buzzing I will try to get my head down now...will add any decent pics when I get home. As they say in Atlanta, YEEEEEE-HAWWW!

Ha, we must have been typing at the same time! I was at the show and agree with everything above! Fantastic gig!

Thrilled you 2 had such a good time - inevitable of course! So.... what was on your sign Chrissie!?

That was my first Elbow show and it was one of the greatest concerts I've EVER been to! I had a really rough week and was struggling with some serious stress and depression, but that concert made it all go away! Guy's voice is just.....WOW. My friend and I had goosebumps as soon as he started singing! It's been a long time since a band has made me feel that happy.

Hi Ayala - I know exactly what you mean. I only saw my first show last March and, to be absolutely honest, it was the best gig I've seen in DECADES. As with the majority of us here, I am now utterly hooked! Welcome to the forum.

Cracking earrings and photos Chrissie! That must have felt wonderful when you got recognised. It sounds absolutely ridiculous and childish I know, but I have been feeling a twinge of jealousy recently, knowing that there are Elbow shows going on AND WE'RE NOT THERE!!! It must make it all the more special when you know that the band have had to travel such a long way to put on a show. I'm thrilled that you got one of my badges that was knocking around - before the Halle shows, I bought a whole load of them to distribute to fellow ERO-ers.

I totally get the jealousy thing, ticky...that's how I am pretty much all the time when I come on the board and see all the reports of shows that y'all get to see over there! So if you're "ridiculous and childish", then I'm "ridiculous and childish" to the tenth power! Ah, we can't help ourselves...we just love Elbow's music too much and I know if we could, we'd be at every gig, everywhere!

And yeah, it was kinda cool that Guy noticed my little sign, but I have to be honest. The highlight of the show for me personally was the realization that people there loved it so much. I mean, it was really a good crowd - lots of singing along and lots of honest enthusiasm. I was pleasantly suprised! Only downside was that it was way harder to get hold of a set list this time round. In Chicago last year I was literally hanging on to the lip of the stage, and people weren't too crazy about asking for the setlists. This time, there was a barrier up to allow photographer access to the stage, so I couldn't get too close. And there were scads of folks yelling for setlists! Guy's was the last to come up off the floor, and he had been kicking and stomping the shit out of it all evening, so it was in 2 pieces. But the half I got had enough on it so you could see what's what, so I'm delighted to have it (one and a half set lists gathered after 2 shows...not bad, I reckon!). Here's the shot of it:

Hehe! That really looks like you fought to get that one! What did the other person look like?!