Southside Festival 25th June 2017

This cut of Editors at Southside features footage from ARTE and also IndyKid, who's work has featured here at the Archive before. I ripped the live stream myself as it happened but there were audio/visual skips in places, something that Indy's had too. When ARTE released their own recording, however, there were no problems with their picture or sound at all which is great, right?

As always, though, there's a small catch.

The folks at ARTE that put it together managed to discard both the band walking onstage and the instrumental intro to Cold, with their video starting as Mr Smith sings the first line of the song. So if you absolutely cannot live with parts of the jigsaw missing, I constructed this with you in mind. The walk-on and Cold are from Indy's rip and the rest is from the ARTE broadcast. The result is a full concert film with no stream-skip and the intro music intact.

On that subject, I would love to know what that piece of music was actually called. There are compositions in Editors' past and I have no idea what they're official titles are, like the jingle they did for Radio 1 around the time of ITLAOTE, or the scary strings and drums that preceded them during the TWOYL campaign. All of these numbers must have had their own unique identifiers, because a hard drive full of "untitled" files would have been confusing and difficult to keep in order. Anyway, back to the show.

Weeks of slow torture knowing that 3 new songs existed but we hadn't heard them all came to an end in the glorious sunshine of Southside Festival on June 25th 2017. A marked contrast to the disastrous weather that caused their 2016 appearance to be cancelled both at Southside and Hurricane. A double whammy, if you will. It was impressive to see the band committing to the new material so absolutely. In the past we'd had the odd song dropped into the setlist as a way of road testing it in front of a live audience, but to actually start the set with a new number and include two more later on was a ballsy move on their part. It was an encouraging possible indicator as to their current state of mind, as well as their state of belief in the songs they were writing. Based on the power underlying what we heard here, it didn't feel like they were going to be meekly limping back into the public view when E6 dropped 9 months later.

One thing that caused me to wince slightly was the return of the raspy sound in Tom's voice at times. It made me flashback to the bad old days recently when he wasn't in full fitness, and I hoped it wasn't an indicator of anything untoward. On the plus side, it added a lovely colour to his singing, not that I want him to have to get unwell to achieve it.

Some fun moments to watch out for during the show are:-

• Ed dropping a drumstick during Smokers.
• Ed's scarily focused and slightly manic expression, also during Smokers.
• Outro music on Hallelujah.
• An extra "Tom Swears" moment in a song that already contains a "Tom Swears" moment.
• The smooth, flowing mobility in King Leetch's dancing. Powerful King Leetch!

Enjoy the music ;)

Southside (Lemming Archive Version)
Video - stream it here


MP3s 

Cold - download here
Racing Rats - download here
Munich - download here
Hallelujah (So Low) - download here
An End Has a Start - download here
Blood - download here
Smokers - download here
ERM=BD - download here
You Don't Know Love - download here
Ocean of Night - download here
Magazine - download here
Sugar - download here
A Ton of Love - download here
Marching Orders - download here
Papillon - download here

All MP3s in a zip - download here

And you can check out the band's Southside appearance from 2007 by clicking here and 2013 by clicking here.

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