There's an upside to this post but also, I'm afraid, a downside. Editors at T in the Park 2006 has long been a digital thorn in my side in terms of putting it together. Nowadays with events like Glastonbury etc, we get highlights shows on the BBC and on some occasions a band's entire set is broadcast. Sadly, this wasn't the case for the band when they appeared at T in the Park on the 9th of July 2006. Through still being a relatively new band at the time, their performance was overlooked by the TV networks in favour of bigger named acts. This of course would change by the following year, when they appeared regularly on festival highlights shows and often did TV/radio interviews at the time. It meant that if you wanted to hear them, you had to listen to multiple highlights shows on various radio stations and just hope you got lucky.
Editors originally made their debut at the T in the Park festival on the 16th of July in 2005 when they played the "Futures" stage. This performance from 2006 on the BBC Radio 1 NME stage was streamed online, but the set is incomplete and the quality is utterly crap. No amount of squinting and pretending it's "not that bad" can change the fact that it just flat out sucks. So I'm not sharing it here. That, my fellow Editors junkies, is the bad news.
The good news is that I have the full set played on the day in audio form, although I ended up having to collect it from different outlets. You'll spot the seams between the songs on occasion, but I did my best to eliminate it to a low level of intrusion. The pace is pretty quick on this set, none more so than during Munich which is played at a slightly faster tempo than usual, and contains a guitar sound from Tom in the chorus resembling a group of hornets getting really, really angry. Awesome. Plus, I have a standalone video of that very song so you can take a look at how it all went down. Enjoy the music ;)
MP3s
1. Lights - download here
2. All Sparks - download here
3. Blood - download here
4. Bones - download here
5. Fall - download here
6. Bullets - download here
7. You Are Fading - download here
8. Munich - download here
9. Fingers - download here
Bonus Material - Munich (video)
brought to you with lots and lots of lemming-love :) x
