Full and unreserved credit goes to Hannah over at the band's unofficial forum for finding this one. Many thanks ;)
This is Ed being interviewed on Greek radio ahead of Editors' impending festival slot at Ejekt in Greece on the 8th July 2016. Unsurprisingly, the subject of Britain leaving the E.U. comes up again and it's apparent just how much the result of that vote has upset him. For what it's worth, an awful lot of us are feeling that too.
This is Ed being interviewed on Greek radio ahead of Editors' impending festival slot at Ejekt in Greece on the 8th July 2016. Unsurprisingly, the subject of Britain leaving the E.U. comes up again and it's apparent just how much the result of that vote has upset him. For what it's worth, an awful lot of us are feeling that too.
We learn that The Pulse might come up on one of their future releases, but nothing is certain which is a very Editors way of doing things. Two songs are mentioned during this interview and are singled out as being problematic live tracks, and I'm afraid I have to put my contrary trousers on and furiously disagree with Mr Lay. The interviewer makes a request to hear The Phone Book, and then asks for an explanation of its lyrical meaning. Ed diplomatically sidesteps giving that explanation, as only Mr Smith truly knows what any of Editors' lyrics are actually about, but then says that it "never really clicked with the audience".
Hmmmmmmm.
I don't share that point of view at all and, as usual, I have ample evidence to back up my ludicrous claims.
Hmmmmmmm.
I don't share that point of view at all and, as usual, I have ample evidence to back up my ludicrous claims.
Exhibit A: The Phone Book has one of Tom's finest lyrical moments in it
It ends with a kiss
It ends with a tear
It ends with the lights out
Bathed in our fear
and some more which I suspect were painfully relevant at the time of writing
Jumping through my hoops
With dissention in the troops
And a smile and a sigh
Exhibit B: Have a listen to it yourself and prepare to vigorously shake your head at Ed's bold statement (with lots of love and respect, obviously)
If it pleases the court, the next item on the docket is the live merits of Like Treasure, which is one of the band's greatest songs. In this interview Ed believes that it didn't translate particularly well in a live setting. Once again, and with a stupidly long list of counter-evidence, here's why that is just wrong, wrong, wrong:-
I hope this adequately makes the case for the defence.
Finally, there's also a mention of the time frame to begin work on the next set of recordings. Apparently Mr Smith has been writing over the summer, and once the festival mini-campaign is over they plan to get busy working again in about 2 weeks. However, I guarantee that 2 weeks is a soft deadline, and that things will just happen as they happen. Which is how it should be. Enjoy the chat ;)
stream it here
stream it here
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