Guy Edward John Patrick Garvey (born 6 March 1974)[1][deprecated source] is an English musician, singer, songwriter and radio presenter.

His father was a former grammar school boy who could not afford to go to University; a Trade Unionist, he spent most of his working life as a newspaper proofreader and as a chemist at ICI.

[2][3] In the early 1990s, while at sixth-form college in Whitefield,[4] near Bury, Garvey formed Elbow with Mark and Craig Potter, Pete Turner, and Richard Jupp.

As well as vocal duties Garvey has also played a wide variety of instruments live including both electric and acoustic guitar, trumpet, and various forms of percussion.

[6] In the same year, he also featured on the re-launched Band Aid charity's single to raise funds for the 2014 Ebola crisis in Western Africa.

[14] In April 2017, Garvey appeared in the BBC television sitcom Peter Kay's Car Share, playing Kayleigh's brother-in-law Steve.

[15] In September 2018, Garvey appeared in the ITV television series The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, as the bar singer in the Episode "Fog of War".

In 2020, the singer collaborated with Wise Owl Films (part of Lime Pictures) on the Sky Arts music series, Guy Garvey: From The Vaults, which features performances and interviews from a specific year in pop and rock history.

[16] Archive footage includes Channel 4's The Tube (made by Tyne Tees), Tiswas, Razzmatazz and Get It Together, as well as clips from regional programmes such as So It Goes, The London Weekend Show and The Geordie Scene.

He started dating actress Rachael Stirling the daughter of Dame Diana Rigg in 2015[2][21] and the couple were married in June 2016 at Manchester Town Hall.