2018 is officially over. Nothing left to do but tidy up...
Weclome to the last Editors' Instagram collection for the year 2018. As with previous posts around this time I've included the December material as a single file, and the entire previous 11 months in a zip. For everyone that has visited the Archive this year, thank you, and I hope you discover to your surprise that 2019 is full of amazing possibilities.
December was a month that had some noteworthy achievements within it. One of them being that on the 4th when In Dream was certified as gold for sales in the Netherlands, and PIAS posted a snap of the band receiving their celebratory mounted disc. That means half a million people in that part of the world have the same good taste as us, so kudos to them and also to the band for reaching that marker. It must be an exceptionally sweet reward because In Dream really was the album where they employed the motto "do it yourself" to the full, making a record which was at that time the purest distillation of their ideas and creativity.
Also on the 4th was an event that we hadn't seen before, and that was Rahi filming the band live for the first time and sharing the footage as it happened. The event took place in Utrecht and I think a lot of people were expecting a multi-camera, slick and arty affair with Rahi directing the action from a booth somewhere. What we got was something very different, and I rambled on about it at length in this post so if you want my take on it then feel free. I watched it again recently and in an audio/visual sense it still has a very dream-like quality, as if you'd imagined yourself to be onstage with the band and this is exactly what it looked like. If the video wasn't around as proof then I'd even question if it even happened at all.
Then on the 6th there was an announcement that the band were going to release their Studio Brussel Showcase from the 12th March on vinyl, with money raised going to Oxfam with whom Editors have always had a tight relationship. It was part of Studio Brussel's Music for Life campaign of events and this show had its excellence as its selling point. This was an occasion where Studio Brussel really made a lot of effort to be as welcoming as possible to their guests, provide them with a beautiful venue to play and then just letting them do their thing.
The press release detailing the vinyl release caused me a great deal of anguish because I wasn't expecting it. All of a sudden this concert that been such a wonderful spectacle and one of my favourite blog entries was about to go legitimate, which meant that it could no longer have a place at the Archive. Reverting the post back to an invisible "draft" state was a very, very hard thing to do becuase it was loaded with bonus materials and unlike the version you can watch on the Studio Brussel YouTube channel, mine had the full intorduction and outro from Eva De Roo. These things are ridiculously important to me as a fan, but so are the rules of self policing in the interests of the band. So it's now "on hiatus". Not gone forever, just temporaily absent.
There was a pre-sale link given, as the album itself isn't out until the 25th of January 2019. This was a marvellous little echo from the past, specifically the time when they first put out the limited edition Bullets single. The date for that? The 24th January 2005. The same thing happened in both cases; the Studio Brussel vinyl sold out the same day it became available. Just like Bullets 14 years earlier. Everything moves in a circle, speaking of which...
On the 19th of December the old foe NME published its list of hardest touring bands of 2018. Editors came in at number nine, having outperformed their previous tour mates Franz Ferdinand by a mere 3 gigs. When did the band first tour with Mr Kapranos and company? 2005.
The end of the month was approaching and on the 21st Elliott decided to grudgingly join Instagram with a personal account. What's that you say, you think I'm using the word "grudgingly" incorrectly? I'll allow Mr Williams to tell you what prompted the decision to open his shiny new account?:-
Finally sorting all this “Social” shit out. Part of me hoped it would all die a slow and painful death but it hasn’t and this is the world we live in now :)
That there is the sound of a grown-assed man having his spirit bruised by the relentless surge of online living. Ironic given that the latest album by Editors is partly inspired by the violence of a continuous bombardment of media that we're under every day. Technically, he's already been on the 'gram since January 2017 as his alter ego Elliott Lion but that was more exclusively about his own work rather than Editors. But hey, one more avenue to stroll down and collect material from is OK by me.
And that was it. 2018 has been a very full year for Editors fans, with new recordings and lots of shows to enjoy. I suspect that the pace will slow dramatically over the next 365 days, as they return to being civilians and writers rather than performers and travellers. There are a few gigs here and there in 2019 but to all intents and purposes the VI OLENCE campaign is done. It's been fantastic, and thank you to the band and Team Editors for making it such a wonderful time. Looking forward to whatever's next. Enjoy the snaps ;)
Complete 2018 Collection
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For all of Editors' previous Instagram posts, go here.
brought to you with lots and lots of lemming-love :) x
