The history of this blog is a one that is poorly and tackily decorated with all manner of glorious mishaps and missteps on my part, some of which earned me the highest penalty in the court of social media justice on a couple of occasions; deplatforming. This nuclear deterrent has only been employed twice on me, once by YouTube and again by Vimeo but the consequences were appropriately serious and damaging. It required a complete restart in terms of replacing dead links here, but more than that it meant that I got deprived of some important personal milestones. "Such as", you ask? Well...
Before the Archive's original channel on YouTube was nuked by the BBC and Skynet, Pinkpop 2014 was comprehensively the most popular video on it. Along the way it had somehow managed to collect just under half a million views, and with good reason because it's a great concert. It was my hope to get it all the way to an icy cool million, but corporate hands intervened and all that went away. It's not that getting so many views would mean some form of legitimacy for this den of illicit audio activities, I'm aware that train ain't coming anytime soon, but I liked the idea of having a part in pushing Editors music in front of that many people. Before you tell me, I know that a million views doesn't mean that a million people watched it (folks watch videos multiple times), but it would have been an important achievement regardless. It never happened, and it still bugs me.
That's the negative part of this post, it's all positive from here.
Editors' return to Pinkpop in 2014 is ours courtesy of a contribution from a wonderfully kind soul called Nikola (thank you!). It's a chance to view the festival set that they'd performed on a couple of occasions prior to this in full, and even though the sunshine is normally an uninvited guest at Editors' gigs, it brought something this time around. Everyone, band and audience just seem happier which I would guess made the normally hard work of having to win over a large and mixed group of festival goers a little easier. I think that using Nothing as a set opener really helped set up the mood for the rest of the performance. It is, as you'd expect given the venue, a selection of their more mainstream numbers except for the hardcore fans' favourite, Life as a Ghost. It was also another show that featured Nic Willes as guitarist and keyboardist while Elliott swam in the oceans of electronica for a while.
Great music, happy faces (even a few familiar ones in the crowd shots, you know who you are) and even a "Tom swears" moment as he laments the beautiful weather. Editors gonna Edit. Enjoy the music ; )
stream it here
Before the Archive's original channel on YouTube was nuked by the BBC and Skynet, Pinkpop 2014 was comprehensively the most popular video on it. Along the way it had somehow managed to collect just under half a million views, and with good reason because it's a great concert. It was my hope to get it all the way to an icy cool million, but corporate hands intervened and all that went away. It's not that getting so many views would mean some form of legitimacy for this den of illicit audio activities, I'm aware that train ain't coming anytime soon, but I liked the idea of having a part in pushing Editors music in front of that many people. Before you tell me, I know that a million views doesn't mean that a million people watched it (folks watch videos multiple times), but it would have been an important achievement regardless. It never happened, and it still bugs me.
That's the negative part of this post, it's all positive from here.
Editors' return to Pinkpop in 2014 is ours courtesy of a contribution from a wonderfully kind soul called Nikola (thank you!). It's a chance to view the festival set that they'd performed on a couple of occasions prior to this in full, and even though the sunshine is normally an uninvited guest at Editors' gigs, it brought something this time around. Everyone, band and audience just seem happier which I would guess made the normally hard work of having to win over a large and mixed group of festival goers a little easier. I think that using Nothing as a set opener really helped set up the mood for the rest of the performance. It is, as you'd expect given the venue, a selection of their more mainstream numbers except for the hardcore fans' favourite, Life as a Ghost. It was also another show that featured Nic Willes as guitarist and keyboardist while Elliott swam in the oceans of electronica for a while.
Great music, happy faces (even a few familiar ones in the crowd shots, you know who you are) and even a "Tom swears" moment as he laments the beautiful weather. Editors gonna Edit. Enjoy the music ; )
stream it here
02. Racing Rats - download here
03. AEHAS - download here
04. All Sparks - download here
05. Life as a Ghost - download here
06. Formaldehyde - download here
07. Honesty - download here
08. Sugar - download here
09. Munich - download here
10. Smokers - download here
11. A Ton of Love - download here
12. Papillon - download here
All MP3s in a zip - download here
brought to you with lots of lemming-love :) x
