Here's a couple of interviews that manage to pick the minds, but not necessarily pique the interest of all four Editors that were released between November and December of 2009. The first one features Altona TV, Tom and Russell. It was originally released as a video covering two bands, Editors and Findus with the latter being given an awful lot more of the airtime. I trimmed out the non-Editors stuff purely because if I know you at all, and I probably really don't, then you're only here at the Archive to listen to one band. The intro is in German but the interview itself has answers given in English. What's interesting to note, and it's something that I've mentioned before, is that the longer Editors go on for the more their contemporaries or even the media outlets they frequented along the way have vanished. "Time's tide will smother you", as Morrissey once said. Such is the case for both Findus and Altona TV.
As with the second clip on offer here I ended up having to trim out the clips of Papillon that were a part of them, purely to keep them off Merlin's radar and avoid a worldwide block on YouTube. The interview with Tom and Russell is very, very short but has the alure of Mr Smith making a very strange noise indeed when demonstrating the short attention span of the general public.
On then to video number 2 where Mr Urbanowicz has the withdrawn demeanour of a man forced to attend a birthday party at gunpoint, when he'd much rather be at home watching UFC. However, he still manages to deliver some cool, deadpan observations along the way. Given his legendary reluctance to sing the praises of touring and all the promotional exercises that come along with it, it's not really surprising he looks a little uncomfortable here. I suspect that there's a finite reserve of goodwill that you draw from when you have to constantly interact with complete strangers, especially if they are asking you to explain yourself in terms of your creative processes. Once that reserve has been depleted, the smiles probably feel a lot heavier and the ability to engage more fleeting. Most of the questions are the standard ones that they faced when ITLAOTE was released, namely:-
"Synthesizers. Why?"
"You're a bit moody, aren't you?"
Enjoy the chatter ;)
Interview 1 - Tom and Russell stream it here
Interview 2 - Chris and Ed stream it here
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