Editors - Last Day live at Pier 2 Bremen 24th April 2010 (audio)
This is Last Day, taken from Sven's 2010 recording of the band at Pier 2 in Bremen. For the rest of this show in full, drop by the Archive using this link:-
Q: How many Editors fans does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None. We like the dark.
Sven is a friend of the Archive and has contributed his live recordings before, this is his document of Editors' Berlin gig on the 28th June 2016. The sound is spectacular. You can hear musical elements here that are otherwise lost during lesser audio captures. Thanks again for sharing your work with us, Sven. It's very much appreciated.
Editors play a lot of shows, and luckily for us there are usually a few that define the campaign they represents; a day or night that becomes a perfect representative of how they sounded at a given time. Berlin provides one of those examples. Listening to this four years from when it happened, you can read the setlist and spot the songs that have been (temporarily?) retired from live duty; All the Kings, Marching Orders and The Pulse etc.
This is actually quite a timely upload, specifically relating to that last song on the list. We've long known that there were a few versions of The Pulse around, but Elliott revealed in a recent Instagram chat that there are many, many more than we thought.
This is sweet torture for the souls who have been lost to this band, and it only adds to the list of subtle agonies we have to work hard to silence at the beginning, middle and end of every day. "How many versions of The Pulse exist and what do they sound like?" has now claimed the number one item on the agenda of my own fan concerns, gently edging out "What does Dream Dark as Your Heaven sound like?".
But only just.
Enjoy the music ;)
The Setlist
No Harm 0:00
Sugar 5:23
Smokers 9:50
Life is a Fear 14:52
An End Has a Start 19:45
Formaldehyde 23:47
The Pulse 27:50
ERM=BD 34:14
Racing Rats 38:59
Forgiveness 43:22
Munich 47:25
All The Kings 51:20
Open Your Arms 55:25
The Wight of the World 1:01:30
Bones 1:05:16
Ocean of Night 1:10:18
A Ton of Love 1:15:45
Papillon 1:21:52
Marching Orders 1:29:52
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuMvCH1_lQI
Wing your gratitude for this towards Hannah for this one, I'm just a glorified middle-man passing it along (aren't I always?). Thanks H ;)
This was Tom and Ed being interviewed by Christiane Falk on Radio Eins ahead of their show at the Velodrom in Berlin tonight. For all you German fans, there's translation of the questions and answers which means everyone is a winner. Thanks to her for that and for the way she guides this encounter. Although the questions start out feeling familiar, especially for those of us who devour every piece of interaction with the media that Editors undertake, there are some sharp left turns here and there which make this a different experience than we're used to. Enjoy the chat ;)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UotvNFnZQ8
Cometh the hour, cometh the man with the mic. For those of you who couldn't make it, here's GaryUK's audio document of Editors' return to full live action in Birmingham on the 4th March 2018. The quality is everything you'd hope for, meaning you get a much better appreciation of the material. Many thanks again to you for sharing, Gary. It's appreciated.
The timing of this show meant that it happened five days before VI OLENCE was released, and introduced fans to some new music from that album in a live environment. We'd been given a small taste about a year earlier when Editors played Southside Festival in 2017, when they aired Cold, Hallelujah and Magazine for the first time but this went further and revealed a little more.
I remember above all else when I first heard this show, that there was a lot of percussive/concussive sounds on the new songs. In Hallelujah for example, they actually got Ed drumming behind the hand-clap break and it stops the song from losing any of the momentum that built up prior to that. There was also extra guitar and vocals on Magazine which made it bigger still. Given what we were hearing, it seemed that they had decided that lazy/dreamy and slow was not the way forward on this occasion, with everything being hammered home rather than allowed to float into the audience consciousness. Physical violence distilled in musical form, which is fitting given the continual external pummelling of the heart and soul that acted as the inspiration for E6.
There are little tells that this was still the band road testing the new songs, things that were tried and then erased as they became more accustomed to playing them. Listen to Hallelujah, and you'll hear Tom repeating his "I got lucky this time when I offered atonement" refrain in shotgun fashion. There's also the accessions that had yet to be included such as Tom's future, regular F-bomb during Darkness at the Door. These are the little components that are either jarring to us hardcore fans in their absence, or strangely curious in their presence.
Things to listen out for that make live shows so much more fun than listening to a professional recording:-
The loose, streetwalking sounds of Justin Lockey's guitar being allowed to feed back during Sugar.
Ed's temporarily disappearing snare drum during the first part of Lights, ironically just as Tom says "I've got a million things to say".
Elliott's more audible rhythm guitar during An End Has a Start, and his backing vocals accompanying Tom on ITLAOTE (I'm sure they've always been there, just maybe not this prominent?).
Consistently smooth (and sometimes funky) basslines from Russell.
The first introduction to the world of a new "blend" between songs, as Violence bleeds into No Harm, with an older one in the form of Papillon and Marching Orders still present.
The slight screw up in the piano intro to Papillon.
Tom holding and bending the "with a clenched fist" lyrics after the second chorus of Magazine. It sounds incredible.
Really, really aggressive shouts of "Hey!" during Cold. It's almost like the more elderly members of the band just spotted one of those damn, punk teenagers playing football on their lawns.
A member of the crowd gently, and respectfully expressing their admiration for Tom's physical appearance just before Sugar starts.
Enjoy the music ;)
The Setlist
Intro 0:00
Hallelujah (So Low) 1:07
A Ton of Love 5:08
Darkness at the Door 9:20
Formaldehyde 12:30
Violence 16:28
No Harm 22:22
Sugar 27:37
Lights 32:15
Blood 34:56
Munich 38:34
An End Has A Start 42:38
Nothingness 46:39
ITLAOTE 51:52
ERM=BD 56:07
Cold 1:00:57
Magazine 1:04:44
Ocean of Night 1:09:01
Smokers (acoustic) 1:15:03
The Racing Rats 1:19:39
Papillon 1:23:49
Marching Orders 1:32:03
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The Smiths made a song called This Charming Man, Sade sang about a Smooth Operator while Editors wrote a track called The Diplomat. What is the tenuous connection between these three seemingly different titles? In this interview, Ed Lay qualifies as all of them. Here's a chance to hear the man with the sticks discuss the Special Relationship between Editors and Belgium, as well as a few other In Dream related topics. Check it out ;)
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A false ending! We'd spent so much of 2017 believing that this was going to be the final show of the year, and of the In Dream campaign, and then the call of a charitable cause saved us from early Editors departure. This was a gig that the band actually had a hand in constructing, bringing in eardrum wreckers the Mary Chain and Slowdive as dance partners. Given that it took place in Birmingham meant it was gifted a hometown edge, and so it's an event that demanded some kind of documentation. Since it happened, however, there had been an ominous scarcity of material that suggested it would become "one that got away" in terms of archiving.
And then GaryUK reappeared.
I got an email from our favourite boy at the barrier and it just so happens that he recorded the entire show, and would I like it for the blog? It's a question that obviously needed some serious thought and consideration, so I took the 2.6 seconds required and then answered in the affirmative. Once again, thanks to you Gary for saving another Editors moment from the "missed opportunities" folder. We really appreciate it ;)
There is some melancholia hanging over this event, however, because if there was going to be an onstage collaboration involving Editors and La Goswell then it would have happened here. I don't know any of the players involved, and there were obviously reasons whey it didn't came to pass, but the thought of her onstage performing The Law or Ocean of Night with Mr Smith is an image of something-that-never-was which will eat at my fanbrain for the rest of my days.
So close.
I suppose we shouldn't write it off and as an impossibility, but it really seemed like the stars were in alignment and the gods of perfect situations were smiling at Beyond the Tracks. The door was open but nobody wanted to step through it. Damn.
The setlist has been tried and tested on the festival campaign...that is until you get to the encore. Bullets and Open Your Arms hadn't been in the running order for some time, and as much as they claim to avoid nostalgia while they're still making new music, the surroundings and the sense of occasion must have registered with them just a little. After all, when this show was planned it was going to be their swansong for the In Dream cycle. But then Oxfam came a-calling and that's another story entirely...
Enjoy the music ;)
The Setlist
Cold 0:00
Sugar 5:12
The Racing Rats 9:40
Blood 13:56
All Sparks 17:37
Hallelujah (So Low) 21:31
Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool 25:25
Magazine 30:12
An End Has a Start 34:31
Smokers 38:27
The Pulse 43:32
Ocean of Night 49:55
A Ton of Love 55:21
Marching Orders 59:26
Encore Break
Tom Talks 1:08:32
Open Your Arms 1:09:16
Bullets 1:15:06
Munich 1:18:22
Papillon 1:22:18
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zufQpkhY3-c
This is one of three videos I'm sharing that are part of a Lemming Archive repost of Editors at Wireless Festival 2007. If you'd like to see and hear lots more from this show:-
https://lemmingarchive.blogspot.com/2013/04/wireless-festival-17th-june-2007.html
In this clip, which contains hardcoded subtitles for reasons I can't remember, here's Tom and Russell chatting with Alex Zane backstage at Wireless Festival. Enjoy the weirdness.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf8aYvvyVzY
Here's some more dark co-operation between myself and Hannah of the band's forum. She did the bulk of the work, I just added some glitter to make it all sparkle. Thanks again, Hannah ;)
It's Editors at Low Festival 2018 and right away I will confess that there's some bad news attached to this one. There is way too much DJ chatter over the top of the tunes, an unholy amount, but if you've sampled other posts here at the Archive you'll already be fully aware of this phenomenon. They really don't want people bootlegging their broadcasts, but it only serves to blight the experience of everyone else who actually just wants to hear the music. It's difficult to immerse yourself in the experience if someone is in your ear distracting you constantly. As I've said previously, I don't speak Spanish (yet) but I can bet what they're saying isn't stuff that I'd prefer to hear over an Editors show.
The second piece of mood-ruining information is that Munich is missing due to some stream quality issues, mostly dropout. I've done recordings from RTVE before and their stream can be a bit hit and miss. So that's all the negativity I have to impart, and if you can work within those parameters then you have another great Editors show from the E6 promotional push to enjoy.
After listening to this a couple of times, I noted that Darkness at the Door has its regular Tom Swears moment, but something else that acts as an indicator of their continuing level of comfort playing in each others company. Right before Mr Williams comes in with his "Never lonely in town", Tom actually introduces him using his full name and it flows so perfectly. The timing is spot on, the way it bridges across the silence underneath it. These are the little joys you get from listening to them play these songs from the beginning of the VI OLENCE campaign to the present; the differences that are borne of their increased ease and familiarity with the material. Interestingly, the more precise things get they also get more gloriously sloppy. The guitars during Magazine for example, as they give off little bursts of feedback each time the chorus is finished sounds fantastic.
No Harm had become something of a surprise on this tour. Before, it was always a quiet little number but the more they play it the bigger it seems to be getting. Any opinion of it being a finished piece of work would have to reconsidered now, and I wonder what the studio take would have sounded like if it had been repeatedly road tested in the same way Bones was prior to recording? They always seem to be able to find a new angle with their music. The noise from Elliott's keys and Justin's guitar work sitting alongside the gentleness of Mr Smith's vocals, all underpinned by Russell's sliding bass and Ed's relentless, mechanical drums moving everything forward towards its end. This is a band in every sense of that word. Enjoy the music ;)
Highlights Setlist
DJ INtro and Cold (partial) 0:00
Hallelujah (So Low) 3:05
An End Has a Start 7:08
Blood 11:07
Formaldehyde 14:45
Darkness at the Door 18:47
Sugar 22:01
Nothingness 26:23
Violence 31:31
No Harm 37:22
Smokers 42:24
The Racing Rats 47:37
Ocean of Night 52:01
Papillon 57:20
Magazine 1:03:43
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iydyBV7-074
If you needed to get hyped for the upcoming Editors dates, this should do the trick. 35 seconds of energy distilled from the mind and vision of the 6th Editor, Rahi Rezvani with the sole purpose of selling the show. It works. Oh boy does it. Enjoy ;)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PLnVJn6wTg
Next up, here's an exclusive performance of Munich from 2006 by Mr Smith and Mr Urbanowicz for Yahoo Target Music. There's also a two minute interview with them about their origins, influences and how they write. Enjoy ;)
Interview 0:00
Munich (acoustic) 2:08
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdtUVlJ7YQE