This snap was taken by an Editors superfan called Hawkmoon, and he posted a collection of his shots on the band's official forum at the time of the show. You can see more by clicking here. I hope you're still out there doing your thing, Hawk :)
Many thanks to you, Gary for another excellent recording job and for preserving a very special evening in Editors history for us to enjoy almost a full 12 years later. It's very much appreciated.
This show was to serve as a warm-up for their Glastonbury slot the next day, something you can check out in part using this link. It acted as a chance to test out the running order, and make sure that the stage time constraints weren't going to be breached. So not only do you get a festival slot in an indoor environment, you also get something more valuable.
Editors regularly operate effectively on the muscle memory that comes from having played songs like Munich and Bullets 5,000,000 times. Now imagine being asked to perform something like Heads in Bags for the first time in a long time, and on relatively short notice, and you've got the recipe for a shock to the system accompanied by an instant migraine. It may be all in my head but I think you can actually hear the smoothness that was present in the main set dissolving into jitters for those last four songs, understandably. Heads in Bags is actually so rare that it only appears here at the Archive in 3 posts. They are this one at Frome, Bristol Carling Academy 15th October 2007 and finally Bologna 23rd November 2007. It's introduced by Tom as being for "Someone who works on animals". Nope. Not a clue.
It's not to say that Editors giving fans a treat by running through some of their older songs wouldn't ever happen in the future, I just think that this experience may have educated them sufficiently that they would rather it was on their own terms rather than ours. Deep down they know that if they gave us the keys to the song selection bus again, we'd drive it straight full speed over the cliffs of Obscure Editors or into the lake of The Seldom Played. We're strange like that.
As well as the full band electric version of NSBTW, the evening also marked the very first time that Open Up was performed live and, although Tom speculates that it might also have been the last, it has since gone on to reappear a few more times:-
Helsinki 2008
Verona 2008
Twickenham 2008
Haldern Pop 2008
Arena di Verona 2008
Bazant Pohoda 2008
Paredes de Coura
All in all it's a dream gig for the super-obsessed fans that enjoy the forgotten numbers, but more casual listeners who just want a good singalong with Editors are catered for too. Enjoy the music, folks ;)
Editors regularly operate effectively on the muscle memory that comes from having played songs like Munich and Bullets 5,000,000 times. Now imagine being asked to perform something like Heads in Bags for the first time in a long time, and on relatively short notice, and you've got the recipe for a shock to the system accompanied by an instant migraine. It may be all in my head but I think you can actually hear the smoothness that was present in the main set dissolving into jitters for those last four songs, understandably. Heads in Bags is actually so rare that it only appears here at the Archive in 3 posts. They are this one at Frome, Bristol Carling Academy 15th October 2007 and finally Bologna 23rd November 2007. It's introduced by Tom as being for "Someone who works on animals". Nope. Not a clue.
It's not to say that Editors giving fans a treat by running through some of their older songs wouldn't ever happen in the future, I just think that this experience may have educated them sufficiently that they would rather it was on their own terms rather than ours. Deep down they know that if they gave us the keys to the song selection bus again, we'd drive it straight full speed over the cliffs of Obscure Editors or into the lake of The Seldom Played. We're strange like that.
As well as the full band electric version of NSBTW, the evening also marked the very first time that Open Up was performed live and, although Tom speculates that it might also have been the last, it has since gone on to reappear a few more times:-
Helsinki 2008
Verona 2008
Twickenham 2008
Haldern Pop 2008
Arena di Verona 2008
Bazant Pohoda 2008
Paredes de Coura
All in all it's a dream gig for the super-obsessed fans that enjoy the forgotten numbers, but more casual listeners who just want a good singalong with Editors are catered for too. Enjoy the music, folks ;)
MP3 Setlist
Intro - download here
Bones - download here
Racing Rats - download here
AEHAS - download here
Escape the Nest - download here
All Sparks - download here
NSBTW - download here
Bullets - download here
Blood - download here
You Are Fading - download here
Munich - download here
WOTW - download here
Fingers - download here
Smokers - download here
Encore - download here
Banging Heads - download here
Heads in Bags - download here
Colours - download here
Open Up - download here
brought to you with lots and lots of lemming-love :) x
