Better times...
There was only one pressing concern this month, and it had no connection to music at all, as we have been slowly served a timely reminder of our current status as apex predators on this planet of ours. We accomplish amazing things as a species. Through time we have expanded our knowledge and created flimsy new boundaries to our potential, all of which inevitably crumble as we progress towards even more astonishing heights where the oxygen is thin but the view is spectacular. It's pretty satisfying being human. Yet even with that in mind, a single unavoidable fact is always in play;
Nature is indifferent to our glittering résumé and bacteria rules the world.
As we begin a new month, Editors are currently on hold and it means the goodies on offer here are a little slim. There is no frame of reference for any of this, nobody to tell you what to expect from living through a global event which forces everyone apart and into solitude to avoid an invisible enemy. It means that the severity of what is happening has been a gradual realisation, rather than an immediate and familiar shock. It crept up on everyone. Things were summed up perfectly on the 12th March when Editors announced they were playing Glastonbury this year. Deep down I think everybody expected this to blow over and be in the rear view by then. I was 100% guilty of that mindset, with lack of knowledge being my only credible defence. It took just 6 days for the Eavis family to give everyone a reality check, as they cancelled the festival outright on the 18th and it's really been downhill from there.
I could have turned this into a very long diatribe about the relentless, paranoia-inducing ticking clock of death that the news coverage has become, or the chaos at the local shops (why on earth do you need that much toilet paper, people? It's a respiratory disease, and however many arses you think you currently possess, they will be fine with a regular amount). But no. Now is not the time. Maybe later.
The environment has contracted to the size of our immediate living area and to those in our family circles. When you do go outside, there's a weird vibe everywhere and I'm not sure if that's just what I'm bringing to the situation or if it actually exists. The world you're in is too heavy, as somebody once sang.
If nothing else, though, we shouldn't overlook the idea that as much as we're currently being conditioned to embrace confinement, and avoid each other en masse, we can still maintain our human connections through other means. Take comfort in the music, folks, and remember that social distancing only really applies in the physical world. Stay safe and stay in touch.
Finally, and back on an Editors related topic, something that I'd long dreaded finally happened this month. I got a comment on a video I posted featuring an Editors show from 2010. The poster asked for the identity of the guitarist to Tom's right.
They didn't know who Chris Urbanowicz was. It hurt my heart.
Enjoy the Instagram fluff from March 2020 ;)
Editors Instagram March 2020
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For all of Editors' previous Instagram posts, go here.
brought to you with lots and lots of lemming-love :) x
