On the 24th October 2007, Mr Urbanowicz and King Leetch stopped by the 6 Music studios to shoot the breeze with George Lamb. In addition to being interviewed they were asked to pick a couple of tracks to play on air by artists they were digging at that time. They chose Any Day Now by Elbow and Don and Sherri by Matthew Dear and, in keeping with the Archive's policy of not ripping folks off, both of those tunes have been surgically removed from the broadcast.
As well as the usual fluff talk about how the touring has been going and Chris' appalling choice of breakfast food that day, there's an opening for more Editors diplomacy when the subject of Nickelback is brought up. It ushers in a wonderfully withering comment from Mr Urbanowicz:-
George - "They're actually quite nice fellas, Nickelback."
Chris - "I'm sure they are, George."
(cue awkward laughter)
Just before the Matthew Dear track George Lamb makes an interesting remark. Chris talks about both he and Russell being dance music fans and George replies "You'd never have told that from your music", which in 2007 was probably very true not just for him, but for a greater number of people who were fans of the band. Their first two records had been all about the guitars and so everyone probably assumed that E3 would follow suit. Maybe the band's third album would be more guitars just bigger and louder? A couple of years after this, however, they released In This Light and On This Evening, which is heavily styled around precise, electronic instrumentation and proved that their frequent statements in interviews about not wanting to repeat themselves had been legitimate.
Before I go, if you want to watch the band performing with the string quartet mentioned in this interview then you can by checking out this clip from the Jonathan Ross Show, 14th December 2007
Enjoy the chatter ;)
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