This is a little treat from 2006, where all the available material is centered around the SXSW music conference in Texas.
01 KEXP Intro - download here
02 Lights - download here
03 Bullets - download here
04 All Sparks - download here
05 Interview - download here
06 Munich - download here
07 Fingers in the Factories - download here
08 KEXP Outro - download here
stream it here
Up next is a radio session which was aired live but also, luckily for us, captured by a member of the audience. The taper filmed the show for himself on a camcorder, and then carefully stored the footage away for the next 8 years where it sat unloved and unwatched in a Vans shoe box. That's the beauty of dealing in bootlegs; just when you thought you'd seen everything somebody remembers a little treasure they left in a dark place and they offer it up. Finding this came straight out of left-field because I wasn't even aware that there was any footage of the radio broadcast until it surfaced. I'm thrilled to able to post this here for all of you, with the kind permission of the taper Eenek2. Thank you so much for sharing ;)
The interview segments here enlighten us with things you may not have known. Mr Smith's mum does scrap-booking of his musical adventures (at this stage she was at Volume 7, I suspect she's had to have an extension built onto the house for storage with the years that followed). The dreaded Joy Division question comes up and the awkwardness is palpable (although you'll notice a wry grin from Russell when it lands, almost as if he knew this was coming). I think that throughout the points where Tom is grilled there's a very definite sense that he'd rather just be playing. The JD reference is swiftly and concisely put to bed. Unfortunately, it wouldn't be for very long as it became the fallback position of lazy journalists everywhere from then on. It's interesting to hear that The Back Room was recorded in the seclusion of a residential studio in Lincolnshire. As we saw with In Dream, there's clearly something about isolation that brings out great things when this band are writing.
The interview segments here enlighten us with things you may not have known. Mr Smith's mum does scrap-booking of his musical adventures (at this stage she was at Volume 7, I suspect she's had to have an extension built onto the house for storage with the years that followed). The dreaded Joy Division question comes up and the awkwardness is palpable (although you'll notice a wry grin from Russell when it lands, almost as if he knew this was coming). I think that throughout the points where Tom is grilled there's a very definite sense that he'd rather just be playing. The JD reference is swiftly and concisely put to bed. Unfortunately, it wouldn't be for very long as it became the fallback position of lazy journalists everywhere from then on. It's interesting to hear that The Back Room was recorded in the seclusion of a residential studio in Lincolnshire. As we saw with In Dream, there's clearly something about isolation that brings out great things when this band are writing.
Incidentally, the fateful Nashville concert that is referred to in the KEXP chat above is the one that's mentioned here.
The Current - 16th March 2006 (MP3s)
Intro - download here
Lights - download here
Interview - download here
All Sparks - download here
Interview Two - download here
Munich - download here
Outro - download here
4 audience-shot videos from the Diesel U-Music party 17th March 2006 (filmed by mirranova)
All Sparks - stream it here
Munich - stream it here
Blood - stream it here
Fingers - stream it here
This take of FYASP was from Editors' gig at The Blender Bar, and was filmed by friend to Archive Eenek2. It looked great, but even by his own admission the sound was all blown out. What I also had was a random MPs that I was unable to find a source for from the same gig but that sounded fantastic. So I took the file and re-did the soundtrack to the video and this is the result.
There's an intensity when they play this song that so enjoyable. Take a look at Mr Smith at the 1 minute and 30 second mark just before he stamps the shit out of his effects pedal. It's glorious. Plus, this is a song that very rarely gets played at all these days which only increases it's value. What you're watching really is a different band at this stage, but it was this group of four people that forged all the considerable groundwork that led to the success they're experiencing today. I know from posting all the material here, covering the time frame of 2003 up until 2012 when Chris was gone, that they did a ridiculous amount of work to achieve their success. From these baby steps to 80,000 people at Werchter....
stream it here
There's an intensity when they play this song that so enjoyable. Take a look at Mr Smith at the 1 minute and 30 second mark just before he stamps the shit out of his effects pedal. It's glorious. Plus, this is a song that very rarely gets played at all these days which only increases it's value. What you're watching really is a different band at this stage, but it was this group of four people that forged all the considerable groundwork that led to the success they're experiencing today. I know from posting all the material here, covering the time frame of 2003 up until 2012 when Chris was gone, that they did a ridiculous amount of work to achieve their success. From these baby steps to 80,000 people at Werchter....
stream it here
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