Sunday, 31 January 2016

Italia Wave Love Festival 21st July 2010 (video)

"When I'm a gun in a fist-fight....."

In the interest of honesty, I'll say this upfront. The picture quality here is absolutely not the Gold Standard in terms of clarity. Every time there's a strobe effect it screws up the frame rate, so it ends up looking like the kind of bad visual effects that they used to do on Top of the Pops back in the 80s. Unfortunately for us this is the exact, unaltered stream that was originally broadcast at the time of the event,  so we're at the mercy of the material we're given, I'm afraid. In its favour, I do believe that this is the only professionally shot version of the event that covers the entire set. I know there's some fan-shot videos online but I don't remember seeing this anywhere else.

 If you treat it just as a streaming listening experience rather than a visual feast (which it most certainly isn't), then this is a really fun Editors show. A lovely lost relic from the last campaign undertaken by the original line up of the band. Ciao to Mari and the Italian Pop Kids ;)

The Setlist
In This Light and on This Evening
An End Has a Start
Bones
Bullets
Escape the Nest
Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool
A Life as a Ghost
All Sparks
Blood
Munich
You Don't Know Love
The Racing Rats
Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
No Sound but the Wind
You Are Fading
Bricks and Mortar
Papillon
Fingers in the Factories

Video
stream it here or download here

brought to you with lots and lots of lemming-love :) x