Better. Than. Southside.
**UPDATED 9th December 2021 - Added Johnny Silver's HDTV rip as bonus material**
No disrespect to Southside Festival, but this set absolutely buried that one. I'd love to think that all it took was removing all the daylight to end up with a performance like this, but I'm sure there's more to it than that. Maybe...
Time restraints mean that the running order is different to the one they played for the Italian Pop Kids in Pistoia last night (Ciao, Italian Pop Kids). Unfortunately, it also means that Life is a Fear, Two Hearted Spider, NSBTW, All the Kings, Nothing, The Pulse all got benched. I missed the return of The Pulse, dammit! I hope you folks that attended the Pistoia show appreciated what you got. I'm simultaneously thrilled for you and possessed by horrible, gloomy envy at the same time. And if you want some salt rubbed into that open wound...
This was the beginning of another exciting part of the Editors story,
where we went from having never heard Cold, Hallelujah and Magazine to
finally being able to compare different live versions. It was only the
second time that most of us had a chance to digest the 3 new numbers
outside of the fan-footage that had been made available, but even then
you could hear little differences. Some of it is probably down to the
way it's all been mixed, but there may have been some tinkering on the
part of the band themselves in the way they played them. One thing is
for sure on the night, King Leetch's bass is the boss. Way up in the mix
and making eardrums shake. Nice!
Of course, having potential access to as yet unreleased material meant that there was a problem being created if you were a hardcore Editors fan. The more you listened to the live versions, the more imprinted they became on your memory and the weirder it would seem when you finally heard the studio takes. But there was no need to panic, because there was always another option. You could always be a total purist and just ignore these recordings altogether, waiting like a monk with cotton wool in your ears for E6 to drop.
Ah ha ha ha haaaaaaaaa!
It cracks me up to even write that down. It's a certainty that if you're reading this then you're already a lost cause. Yay! Enjoy the music ;)
Of course, having potential access to as yet unreleased material meant that there was a problem being created if you were a hardcore Editors fan. The more you listened to the live versions, the more imprinted they became on your memory and the weirder it would seem when you finally heard the studio takes. But there was no need to panic, because there was always another option. You could always be a total purist and just ignore these recordings altogether, waiting like a monk with cotton wool in your ears for E6 to drop.
Ah ha ha ha haaaaaaaaa!
It cracks me up to even write that down. It's a certainty that if you're reading this then you're already a lost cause. Yay! Enjoy the music ;)
stream it here or download here
MP3s
Cold - download here
Sugar - download here
Munich - download here
Blood - download here
Hallelujah (So Low) - download here
ERM=BD - download here
An End Has a Start - download here
Smokers - download here
Magazine - download here
Ocean of Night - download here
A Ton of Love - download here
The Racing Rats - download here
Marching Orders - download here
Papillon - download here
All MP3s in a zip - download here
This is a video that was contributed by a new friend to the Archive Johnny Silver, sourced from HDTV instead of the live webcast. It's always inportant to me that I make sure we have the best quality possible when we're preserving the band's history, so I'm very grateful for the share.
(uploading)
If you want to check out Editors last appearance at Eurockéennes a decade ago, you can do so by clicking here.
being brought to you with lots and lots of lemming-love ;) x
