Glorious photos from Elbow's Manchester homecoming show

5 February, 2015: Kicking off their string of intimate shows, Elbow stun a hometown crowd with a breath-taking performance at Manchester Apollo. Check out our beautiful photos from the show here. 

Now used to arenas and the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, it's indeed a pleasure and a privilege to see Elbow in a setting so relatively humble as this, and the band are well aware of the sense of occasion - dropping in fan favourites, rarities and early classics such as 'Mexican Standoff', 'Newborn' and 'Powder Blue' along the standard anthems of 'One Day Like This' and 'Mirrorball'.

See them in London next week at all costs.

Elbow played:
This Blue World
Any Day Now
Fly Boy Blue / Lunette
Fugitive Motel
The Bones of You
Mexican Standoff
One Day Like This
Powder Blue
Real Life (Angel)
Mirrorball
Bitten by the Tailfly
Grounds for Divorce
Lippy Kids
The Take Off and Landing of Everything (Live debut)
Newborn
The Birds
My Sad Captains