This is a recording of Editors live at Vive Latino with the emphasis on the word bootleg. It was assembled with the hardcore fans among you in mind and in the interest of being completely honest, here's its back story. Hannah from the band's forum worked the Dark Nightshift and stayed awake to capture the live stream from this show which aired in the tiny hours of the morning European time. Having done this myself on several occasions I can confirm that it's exciting and exhausting at the same time, but because we love the band we'll take the lack of sleep and general feeling of crappiness for the rest of the day. It's worth it. Thanks again, Hannah.
Unfortunately this time around the stream was geoblocked and really, really unstable. It kept cutting out and actually dropped away entirely at times. It meant that at the end of the set in addition to various clicks and pops in the picture only half of Darkness at the Door remained and Munich was broken up. The festival organisers also decided that Foals were far more interesting to watch than Editors, and cut away to them just as the band were getting ready to play Magazine. So this was always going to be an incomplete recording. With the video being as sketchy as it was Hannah grabbed the audio from the stream and did some fixing, to improve upon what she already had and then she passed it along to me. The bulk of the surgery here was done by her, I just stitched up the patient afterwards.
There were some fan shot videos on YouTube from the night and so I used the audio from them to replace the damaged songs in the setlist, and to add Magazine on to the end of the show. One thing you need to know, and this is very important, is that Darkness at the Door is a hybrid. The first half of the song is from Vive Latino and the rest is from a live take recorded at a different show at the end of last year. It was a simple choice between dropping Darkness... entirely from the show because we don't have a complete recording in any form, or doing a patch in the interest of continuity. I chose the latter, and Hannah agreed on the condition that we made you all aware of it up front. The majority of what you hear was from the Vive Latino live stream but Darkness at the Door is a mash-up. The purists among you will be disgusted by this, and I'm not here to change your mind, but it was done with respect for the band and their fans in an effort to retain as much of the original broadcast as possible. If you're OK with that...
The show was a solid one hour setlist, with all the favourites in place. I'm sure that in the back of our minds there was always a twinkle of hope that we'd hear something new from the mysterious Jacknife Lee sessions, but it wasn't to be. They have opted to keep a poker-face resolutely in place and not reveal anything just yet, and that's fine. We're Editors fans, and we love anticipation. Goodness knows, we're used to it.
I would also just like to add that in my opinion, Mexican fans are awesome. So much passion. Enjoy the music, everyone ;)
The Setlist
Sugar
Hallelujah (So Low)
An End Has a Start
Blood
Darkness at the Door (hybrid)
Munich
Violence
The Racing Rats
A Ton of Love
Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
Ocean of Night
Papillon
Magazine
Bonus Materials
Apologies up front for the turly abysmal sound quality on this clip. It cuts out all the way through, something that was inherent in the source material. The stream was choppy as hell (sound familiar?) and this was the result. I tried to locate a better copy from the Bizarro FM Facebook page but unfortunately it's exacly the same there. Those of you who hang out at the Archive regularly will roll with it and take it for what it is, but I am aware that there's a more casual audience who will probably want to scowl at their devices while consulting their "Big Book of Colourful Internet Insults" for something to say about it. I feel your pain but we're at the mercy of bad technology, I'm afraid.
The interviewers here are great, especially the gentleman with the Libertines tattoo who proudly shows it to Tom mid interview. He's a live-wire, that one. Lots of energy and what appears to be some genuine love for the band. It's still a source of pride for me to know that folks who live so far away from where this band are from are so passionate about their music ("Hola!" to all you lovely fans in Mexico).
There are no big reveals during this chat, other than the fact that the band are going back to Los Angeles after the festival to continue recording, presumably with Jacknife Lee again. I'd say "Enjoy the chatter" or something similar at this point, but this will actually be more of a game of trying to decipher exactly what's being said unfortunately. Once again, I do apologise ;)
stream it here
Press Conference
All credit to Hannah for finding and sharing this one. Thanks again, H. Here's the band receiving questions at a press conference for the Vive Latino Festival in Mexico on the 16th March 2019. Considering how far they came you would expect there to be more "once in a lifetime" enquiries thrown at them, but the whole thing only lasts for about 5 minutes and the chat is a bit...fluffy. I'm obviously biased because I'm too close to be objective to any of this, but things like "Are you going to be playing any new material tonight?", "What can you tell us about the sound of Barricades", "What has working with a familiar producer but in a new lineup, with all the shifts in dynamic that situation brings been like?" or "Will Rahi continue to be a part of the band going forward?" seem like relevant entreaties. Alas, it was not to be. I feel like everybody's time wasn't utilised to the fullest, unfortunately. But then this is why I would make a bad journalist. They would literally be dragging me out by my limbs because I'd been completely undisciplined with my time, making a five minute presser last for an hour or more. I can't help it, I'm curious about these things.
With those complaints being made the answers to the question about the last song you would want to hear if the world was ending is classic. 4 responses all of which are amazing selections (especially Justin and Elliott's) with one Editor abstaining entirely. I admire the way Mr Lay actually puts some thought into his reply as well. Nothing is trivial to powerful Ed Lay. Oh no.
stream it here
All credit to Hannah for finding and sharing this one. Thanks again, H. Here's the band receiving questions at a press conference for the Vive Latino Festival in Mexico on the 16th March 2019. Considering how far they came you would expect there to be more "once in a lifetime" enquiries thrown at them, but the whole thing only lasts for about 5 minutes and the chat is a bit...fluffy. I'm obviously biased because I'm too close to be objective to any of this, but things like "Are you going to be playing any new material tonight?", "What can you tell us about the sound of Barricades", "What has working with a familiar producer but in a new lineup, with all the shifts in dynamic that situation brings been like?" or "Will Rahi continue to be a part of the band going forward?" seem like relevant entreaties. Alas, it was not to be. I feel like everybody's time wasn't utilised to the fullest, unfortunately. But then this is why I would make a bad journalist. They would literally be dragging me out by my limbs because I'd been completely undisciplined with my time, making a five minute presser last for an hour or more. I can't help it, I'm curious about these things.
With those complaints being made the answers to the question about the last song you would want to hear if the world was ending is classic. 4 responses all of which are amazing selections (especially Justin and Elliott's) with one Editor abstaining entirely. I admire the way Mr Lay actually puts some thought into his reply as well. Nothing is trivial to powerful Ed Lay. Oh no.
stream it here
brought to you with lots and lots of lemming-love ;) x
