One Day Like This

This was the last song on The Seldom Seen Kid to be written. Garvey explained to the Manchester Evening News: "We were buzzing, we'd just got our new deal and it was like a breath of fresh air. It was like 'thank God that's happened at last, let's chuck this song together'. It was dead simple. We wanted to do something very uplifting and very positive. That's where the line 'One day a year like this will see me right' comes from. It's very northern, and that's maybe why it's not done as well abroad. Maybe they can't get their head around it."

This won the award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically at the 2009 Ivor Novello awards. It was a double whammy for Elbow at the ceremony as another of their songs, "Grounds for Divorce," won the gong for Best Contemporary Song.

The song was chosen to soundtrack England's unsuccessful 2018 World Cup bid. It has also been used as the backing music in numerous UK television shows including "the best bits" montage for Big Brother 9, the series four finale of the drama Waterloo Road and in an episode from the third season of the Torchwood series.