Imagine, if you will, that you are the support act for Editors. You get to play on the same stage as Tom, Russell, Ed and Chris but you are aware of their reputation for being as dark and brooding as their music. You have even heard rumours that at night, Tom wanders backwards around his bedroom reading passages out of the Satanic Bible, while black candles burn all around him. They are pale and moody and obsessed with all things death related. But it's a-OK, because you're enjoying travelling and playing your music.
So this is the position that Brakes found themselves to be in, and they were playing their last show of a small tour with Editors on friday the 3rd March 2006. Prior to the gig, Russell had intimated to the folks in Brakes that they had a special surprise for them. What could it be? Live animal sacrifice? Playing a set of Fields of the Nephilim songs instead of their own and then telling the crowd that Brakes made them do it? It would definitely be something dark and shadowy, wouldn't it?
Nope.
What Brakes got was a sudden burst of pink light before a pantomime horse and a pantomime cow shimmied onto the stage while they tried to play the song "NY PIe". The two panto-mammals grooved frantically for a while, before moving back off into the shadows. The incident is not without some mystery, however, as there are conflicting reports as to exactly who was in the costumes. Popular opinion has it that it was all 4 Editors, 2 in each, but there's an alternative theory that it was in fact 3 Editors and a certain Edith Bowman. What's the truth? Only the guilty parties know.
So the next time someone in your life accuses Editors of being miserable buggers, be sure to point them in the direction of this piece of audience-filmed video evidence which refutes the claim. Enjoy the weirdness ;)
So this is the position that Brakes found themselves to be in, and they were playing their last show of a small tour with Editors on friday the 3rd March 2006. Prior to the gig, Russell had intimated to the folks in Brakes that they had a special surprise for them. What could it be? Live animal sacrifice? Playing a set of Fields of the Nephilim songs instead of their own and then telling the crowd that Brakes made them do it? It would definitely be something dark and shadowy, wouldn't it?
Nope.
What Brakes got was a sudden burst of pink light before a pantomime horse and a pantomime cow shimmied onto the stage while they tried to play the song "NY PIe". The two panto-mammals grooved frantically for a while, before moving back off into the shadows. The incident is not without some mystery, however, as there are conflicting reports as to exactly who was in the costumes. Popular opinion has it that it was all 4 Editors, 2 in each, but there's an alternative theory that it was in fact 3 Editors and a certain Edith Bowman. What's the truth? Only the guilty parties know.
So the next time someone in your life accuses Editors of being miserable buggers, be sure to point them in the direction of this piece of audience-filmed video evidence which refutes the claim. Enjoy the weirdness ;)
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