Guy Garvey in Belfast

Guy Garvey is on his hands and knees in a Portacabin behind the stage at Belsonic in Custom House Square Belfast. It's a surreal,but totally Elbow type, moment. He's being helpful before we do our interview, as there's a fridge buzzing in the background and I have a thing about fridges having to be switched off before I start recording. It's usually me looking for the plug socket but Guy Garvey, lead singer with Elbow, headlining tonight, is down on his knees quicker than I can say "Throw those curtains wide"!

He is in great form, once he's sitting down, garrulous almost, talking about the song "My Funny Valentine" in his opinion the antithesis of a love song, but says that no one really listens to the lyrics and, instead, thinks its one of the greatest love songs ever; how he spent last night, drinking in a hotel in Belfast, and wrote a lullaby for a stage show, a big show that he can't tell me anything about, but he's been asked to co-write the song with Massive Attack and how he woke up after half an hour and wrote it. "I nailed it" he says with infectious enthusiasm - "it's great!"

He talks with genuine emotion about lullabies, and, in particular, his mother who would sing him and his siblings to sleep with songs that she made up herself . He also reveals the names she called him when he was a child - "chicken", "lambkin", "soldier boy". And he then laughs and says he can't believe he just told me that.

I could have spent longer with him. He's a really nice guy, as you can see from the big smile on my face as I sat beside him in that Portacabin! I'll have an even bigger smile tonight when I see them in concert. And probably a few tears too.

Elbow play Belsonic tonight at Custom House Square, with support by Foy Vance and The Villagers