Elbow working on children's album

Elbow have revealed that their next project will be an album of music aimed at children.

The band, who recently won the Mercury Music Prize for The Seldom Seen Kid, are set to enter the studio to lay down some preliminary work for the project before heading off on tour on 6 October 2008.

Band members cited their own children along with Jeff Wayne's classic 1978 album The War Of The Worlds as inspiration behind the project.