Now, and after many years removed from all of the surrounding trauma that I experienced from my first failed endeavours as a YouTube user I've decided to revisit this gig, if not without some anxiety. When I uploaded it again to the site just over a month ago I was immediately slapped with a breach of copyright notice. In the time that followed I appealed the decision and, possibly due to the complainant's inability to follow up each and every counter argument rather than my persuasive reasoning abilities, it's available at the Archive again. So why did I do this?
Purely for preservation, should the worst ever happen to the Sziget YouTube profile.
Their presentation of the event is a collection of separate clips in a playlist format, with the full show being unavailable as a singular smooth and flowing entity. I decided that it might be fun to take all those fragments and assemble them into one video, making them easier to watch and to ensure they stay around. Luckily for us as fans, the good people over at Sziget actually remedied this situation for the band's 2016 slot by live-streaming the event as a whole, something that I don't believe happened in 2013.
The problem is that the standalone clips all had Sziget Festival idents at the beginning and end of each song, often over the top of the band as they were still performing. So you'll notice there are moments where it's just unavoidable and I couldn't remove them without affecting the music itself. Aside from that, what you have here is the 18 song set in order. I was doing some checking and the running order in 2013 is actually 4 songs longer than the one in 2016, where they were arguably a much bigger band. Comparatively, the 2016 setlist is the same length as the one they did nine years earlier in 2009. I think the principal reason being that a lot of the songs they played in 2016 were longer in length. That setlist had Marching Orders, Papillon and The Pulse which all clock in at about double the time of a regular Editors song, and therefore gobble up much more of the stage time. Not that this is a bad thing, of course ;)
As well as the music there's also some photos, an interview with Ed and Elliott, MP3s of the set and a chance to flashback to the live origins of Papillon when it was just a song, rather than being the song. Enjoy the show ;)
The problem is that the standalone clips all had Sziget Festival idents at the beginning and end of each song, often over the top of the band as they were still performing. So you'll notice there are moments where it's just unavoidable and I couldn't remove them without affecting the music itself. Aside from that, what you have here is the 18 song set in order. I was doing some checking and the running order in 2013 is actually 4 songs longer than the one in 2016, where they were arguably a much bigger band. Comparatively, the 2016 setlist is the same length as the one they did nine years earlier in 2009. I think the principal reason being that a lot of the songs they played in 2016 were longer in length. That setlist had Marching Orders, Papillon and The Pulse which all clock in at about double the time of a regular Editors song, and therefore gobble up much more of the stage time. Not that this is a bad thing, of course ;)
As well as the music there's also some photos, an interview with Ed and Elliott, MP3s of the set and a chance to flashback to the live origins of Papillon when it was just a song, rather than being the song. Enjoy the show ;)
MP3s
Sugar - download hereTon of Love - download here
Bones - download here
Munich - download here
Smokers - download here
Formaldehyde - download here
All Sparks - download here
Two Hearted Spider - download here
The Phone Book - download here
ITLAOTE - download here
AEHAS - download here
Bullets - download here
The Racing Rats - download here
ERM=BD - download here
Nothing - download here
Bricks and Mortar - download here
Honesty - download here
Papillon - download here
All in a Zip - download here
Bonus Materials
stream it here
download here
There was a time, believe it or not, when Papillon was not the all powerful, flame-thrower inducing, mosh-pit-bothering monster that we all know and love today. It was a brand new song and both the band and the audience were still getting used to it.
To put the following clip in perspective, this was at the time when everyone was getting their panties in a bunch because Editors had "gone electric". ITLAOTE was still over a month away from being in the shops, and this was a chance for fans to hear Papillon being played live in advance of its official release. If you look at the performance from 2009 and then compare it to the one from this years festival, the differences are obvious. They aren't just playing the song anymore, they're delivering it. Check it out:-
stream it here
brought to you with lots and lots of lemming-love :) x
