CK Zamek, Poznań April 10 2010

I've updated this post with a bootleg video from the show. It was recorded by jacolb (many thanks to you for this), and although it is incomplete, it's still fun to travel back 11 years and see just what it was that had all of us on the road to full blown Editors addiction. Plus, there's a description of the recording from the cat behind the camera and I'm reproducing here because it's awesome. Take it away, J.B.:-

Hi to all Editors fans around the world.

This is my second Editors video bootlegs, so sorry for all shakes, losing the focus, and other mistakes. It was the only concert in Poland in spring part of the tour after releasing new album. The second concert - in Wroclaw was cancelled. So you may think what was the atmosphere of the concert. Fans, fans, fans, and not many people who were on this concert by accident. The gig was great, and I beleieve that fans showed the band that they love them.

Unfortunatelly "shit happens". Due to very unfortunate accident this is INCOMPLETE recording. Only beginning of An End has a start was recorded and 4/5 of Bones are recorded. You Don't Know Love is missing in full. The rest of songs is recorded in full.  

I was sitting at the balcony - 1st row on the left side. 

Share it, give it, but do not sell it or you will burn in hell!   

 

Amen to that.

Polish fans are a passionate, song-literate bunch of folks and this gig proves it. They show up screaming at virtually the beginning of every track, staying with the band for the duration. There were a whole lot of people with croaky voices the morning after this one, I reckon. On the audio only version  if you listen to the very start of track 15, where Mr Smith casually plays just a single chord before the song has even actually started properly, you can hear a girl in the audience recognise it instantly and she says "Smokers". When the drums do begin to signal its commencement, everyone in the room goes nuts. It's fantastic. In competitive terms, and decibels generated, Polish always set the bar admirably high for future audiences.

This is a concert that benefits not only from an enthusiastic crowd who know all the words, but also from good mixing. You can really hear the extra percussion during Last Day, and some beautiful small flourishes of guitar from Chris just after two minutes. There are little aspects of a song that sometimes get lost along the way, and they can really have an impact when you discover them again. 

I love the way the band play with atmosphere and mood during the show, and it feels at it's most obvious during The Big Exit. I've always found that song to be a very claustrophobic experience, and I don't know if that was the original intention when they were doing it. If it was, then they really hit the mark because the combination of that music and Tom being tied to a keyboard for its duration to restrict his movement just makes it a tense, brooding affair. All framed in a sickly green light.

It actually seems like a four part act, like the band formulated a setlist that begins with the exuberance of Bullets before abruptly walking the listener into something very unsettling, then engaging the less threatening (but muted paranoia) of Racing Rats as a way back to the bouncing, brightly lit singalong that is Munich. It's like it takes two songs to fully escape the gravitational pull of The Big Exit. As a fan I want to believe they meticulously planned it that way, but I'll take happenstance as an alternative. Whatever made it work, it worked.

Enjoy the music ;)

J.B.'s Bootleg Video Version

stream it here

Full Show Audio Recording
stream it here

MP3s
In This Light and on This Evening - download here
Lights - download here
An End Has a Start - download here
You Don't Know Love - download here
Bones - download here
A Life as a Ghost - download here
Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool - download here
Blood - download here
Escape the Nest - download here
Last Day - download here
Bullets - download here
The Big Exit - download here
The Racing Rats - download here
Munich - download here
Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors - download here
No Sound but the Wind - download here
Bricks and Mortar - download here
Papillon - download here
Fingers in the Factories - download here

All in a zip - download here

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