"You don't give as good as you get......."
I don't have any taper details for this recording, so if you recognise your work then let me know and I'll make sure the proper credit goes your way.
This gig at the Barrowlands on the 1st March 2006 almost saw the band playing the entire Back Room album in a single setlist, and included some absolutely killer b-sides and unreleased songs as bonus material. The only song missing from the running order is Distance, but they actually walk onstage to an instrumental excerpt from it. So although it's not played in full it does get referenced as the first thing you hear...which is in direct opposition to it's place on the Back Room where it's the last thing heard. Curious.
At the time of recording, An End Has a Start hadn't been released and Editors were still road-testing tracks prior to recording them. This means that those of you who caught the Editors bug a little later than the rest of us will be able to spot the different arrangement of Bones, which underwent some subtle changes when it finally made it into the studio. From our position 15 years later in 2021, it's actually a treat to hear songs like Fall, LYGHLYH, The Weight of the World and especially Find Yourself a Safe Place again. Mostly because they seem to have been victims of context; beautiful relics from a time when Editors were still forming their identity that rarely receive the affection they're due now that musical adulthood has been reached. Who wants to look at awkward snapshots from their teens when they're late into their twenties? That shouldn't detract from their significance, as these were the foundations upon which everything else was built, for better or for worse.
To me, each of those four songs is representative of a different stage of Editors' developement. Find Yourself a Safe Place is quintessential early Editors, given its speed, energy and ansgt-riddled fury as they bite down and stamp on the effects pedals. The Weight of the World was Tom not just writing music, but designing it to suit a specific occasion and venue. Fall sounds like them breathing a little bit slower and making more use of space to build dramatic tension, very much in the same way they did with Camera. Finally Let Your Good Heart Lead You Home is Editors oepning the creative bubble they occupied to experiment with outside inputs and writing in a different way, techniques which would become very relevant as they progressed forward into their later recordings.
Listen out for some very self-deprecating humour from Tom before camera as he announces their upcoming gig at T in the Park Festival. This was the actual lineup and venue on the day, regardless of what you may have been told ;)
Radio 1/NME Stage
Richard Ashcroft
Editors
Feeder
Dirty Pretty Things
We Are Scientists
The Delays
Morning Runner
Captain
Breaks Co-op
The Crimea
Editors
Feeder
Dirty Pretty Things
We Are Scientists
The Delays
Morning Runner
Captain
Breaks Co-op
The Crimea
Enjoy the music ;)
01 Lights - download here
02 Blood - download here
03 Bones - download here
04 All Sparks - download here
05 Fall - download here
06 Bullets - download here
07 LYGHLYH - download here
08 Find Yourself A Safe Place - download here
09 Camera - download here
10 You Are Fading - download here
11 Munich - download here
12 Open Your Arms - download here
13 Weight Of The World - download here
14 Someone Says - download here
15 Fingers In The Factories - download here
brought to you with lots of lemming-love :) x
