Somewhere in the world, there's an Editors gig being played and the question is, where else would I rather be?
Nowhere, of course!
Before I start my usual ramblings I feel the need to just say, a great crowd turned up for this show. Even from just watching the stream you could sense they were totally into the music and unashamedly loud about showing it. Good for you, Sziget! When Mr Smith says "Have a fucking great festival!" during Marching Orders, I'd say they got things off to a very positive start for everyone with this set.
Here's the full show in what is the dusk of the In Dream campaign. It's becoming clear that the band were born to do these kinds of events. They are battle tested and Festival Friendly. These final concerts may well be a last opportunity to hear the current setlist as it stands and to listen to the song in position #10, The Pulse in its present form. Who knows what that will eventually end up sounding like once it's shackled to studio technology? Although I think that at this point if they recorded it as a banjo quartet with Mr Lay playing a washboard as percussion (whilst all wearing dungarees, in the style of Dexy's Midnight Runners circa Come on Eileen), it probably wouldn't be surprising. Just Editors being Editors. Contrary cats. Contrarily gloomy cats, obviously.
I feel extremely fortunate to live in an era where gigs are streamed and recorded, so that we can actually be present during the developmental stages of Editors' music. I've said it before but I'm a total sucker for the mechanics of how things are put together, and all the things that are added or fall away in that process. I love that, as far as we know, The Pulse only really exists as a complete song when these 5 people are on a stage or in a rehearsal room together. It's yet to take on any kind of physical form outside of the probable rough sketches and demos.
If we could just take a brief detour from the proceedings, wouldn't it be great to hear La Goswell providing vocals on The Law live? It never occurred to me because I'd grown so fixated on the idea of her dueting on Ocean of Night, and that is still on the list of things that just need to happen with this band at some juncture. But I reckon that The Law being played in the dark, in the claustrophobic and intimate style of No Harm would be awesome.
There's video and mp3s to enjoy below, dig the tunes, people ;)
Video - stream it here
MP3s
1. No Harm - download here
2. Sugar - download here
3. Smokers - download here
4. Racing Rats - download here
5. Forgiveness - download here
6. ERM=BD - download here
7. Formaldehyde - download here
8. Munich - download here
9. All the Kings - download here
10. The Pulse - download here
11. Ocean of Night - download here
12. A Ton of Love - download here
13. Papillon - download here
14. Marching Orders - download here
brought to you with lots and lots of lemming-love :) x
