This is an Editors show from a venue they'd played 2 years previously, and that they would return to later almost exactly 6 years to the day, at the Postbahnhof in Berlin. An End Has a Start would be released shortly afterwards, putting this evening's entertainment right at the beginning of the campaign for E2 which officially began in Warrington on the 22nd May 2007.
As you might expect given the point and purpose of this little blog, the hours I spend in Editors' history drastically outweighs that devoted to their current activities. As time nonchalantly sashays forward with all of us as its awkward companions, it only increases the volume of patterns, shapes and colours that will ultimately end up being the band's legacy. Having been aware of Editors and their music for a long time means that I've been lucky to watch it all play out in real time, so you'd guess that as a voluntary curator of those elements my knowledge of all things Back Room to Black Gold would be infallible.Once I listened back to this show, I realised that it isn't and I'm happy to say that I'm still learning from things I'd forgotten.
I possessed the opinion that the band only started experimenting with merging songs during the second lineup of the band, specifically with tracks like Papillon/Marching Orders and Violence/No Harm. Then I discovered this show from the 12th June 2007 and I was forced to construct new neural pathways to replace those inaccurate synapses.
They were trying the technique out 6 years earlier that I had remembered.
They've always used the live setting to extend and alter their work (see Someone Says at Hultsfred Festival for an example), but I honestly believed that blurring of divides between compositions was a recent decision. Not so. If you listen to the end of AEHAS and right before Munich begins, you'll hear it happening, something I don't recall occurring very often at that time. Rather than taking a break between the songs, Ed just keeps the beat going and they blend from one right into the next. My only rationale is that because it was such a rarity it didn't become part of my consistent Editors narrative, and it's only through listening again that I've now updated my software, sort of speak.
If anything, this might act as flimsy proof that your intellectual borders can be expanded through reminiscence, and that looking back is sometimes beneficial to informing your present. But then...I would say that, wouldn't I?
Enjoy the Archive, and enjoy the show ;)
stream it here
MP3s
Bones - download here
Blood - download here
Bullets - download here
Escape the Nest - download here
The Weight of the World - download here
Lights - download here
All Sparks - download here
The Racing Rats - download here
Fall - download here
An End Has a Start / Munich - download here
You Are Fading - download here
Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors - download here
Fingers in the Factories - download here
All in a Zip - download here
brought to you with lots and lots of lemming-love :) x
