RTVE Radio Session 18th July 2013 (audio)

Here's Mr Smith and King Leetch making an appearance on RTVE on the 18th July 2013. They took part in a brief interview with the questions posed in Spanish, but their answers given in English (and translated for the listeners in Spain). Given the time of broadcast there is a lot of talk of recording TWOYL and rebuilding the band after Chris was gone. In addition to the chatter, Tom performed an acoustic run-through of The Phone Book as part of the show and there's a standalone MP3 below to download. It's peculiar listening to this without Justin's lead guitar and Ed's brushes which are what always stood out on the recorded version for me. It's such a soft song, and I've always wondered if the line "Keep with me" was a deliberate nod backwards towards track number 7 on The Back Room, or just a coincidence.

You may disagree with me on this, but listening to most of the songs from The Weight of Your Love almost 5 years later in isolation from the hideous circumstances that birthed them, has given them a totally different look. There was so much angst, anticipation, anxiety and antipathy stemming from Chris no longer being an Editor that I don't feel like they were able to be fully appreciated objectively. Ironic, considering my Editors objectivity is severely compromised at this point, but I'm revisiting E4 now and hearing it in a markedly different way.

Although the 4th album is incorrectly referred to as The Weight of Love during the interview, it's balanced out by the way that super-cool way the DJ pronounces Sugar when introducing the track at the end of the broadcast. That's smooth.

The studio versions of both Sugar and The Weight from the The Weight of Your Love, as well as Tom's cover of Bonny by Prefab Sprout were played by the DJs. In keeping with the Archive's policy of not taking money out of the band's collective pockets, those tracks have been cunningly edited down using all kinds of sophisticated technological techniques and trickery. Impressive! Enjoy the music/chat ;)

Interview + Phone Book
stream it here

The Phone Book MP3 
download here

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