From these beginnings...
This is one of two shows donated by a new friend to the Archive, TheServant. Files are being released in their original FLAC format in accordance with the taper's wishes. Many thanks to you for the share, and for contributing to our little online museum. It's appreciated ;)
If you're accustomed to the more slick and rehearsed version of later Editors, this will give you an alternative view of their personality. Their origin story, if you will. This was Chris Urbanowicz, Tom Smith, Russell Leech and Ed Lay putting in the road miles and hard work that would provide the basis for their future success. It may just have been limbs and hearts under the control of youthful energy and adrenaline, but some of these songs sound undeniably raw in their delivery. You can feel the passion.
The running order contains some tracks that you just don't get to hear any more, including Fall, Let Your Good Heart Lead You Home and Find Yourself a Safe Place. What he have on this set is also one of the earliest live takes of Bones currently available at the Archive. I think it actually made it's official live debut at the Debaser in Sweden earlier in February 2006, unless I'm mistaken? It sounds brand new, and includes a few little mistakes and structural differences. These would vanish later on due to being repeatedly played and reworked in the studio for An End Has a Start, an album that wouldn't be released until almost a year and half later. First, they had to tour The Back Room.
Listening to this is like re-reading love letters from the beginnings of a long-term relationship. I found Editors in 2006, and this set should give you an explanation as to why that appreciation continues to endure. Enjoy the music ;)
If you're accustomed to the more slick and rehearsed version of later Editors, this will give you an alternative view of their personality. Their origin story, if you will. This was Chris Urbanowicz, Tom Smith, Russell Leech and Ed Lay putting in the road miles and hard work that would provide the basis for their future success. It may just have been limbs and hearts under the control of youthful energy and adrenaline, but some of these songs sound undeniably raw in their delivery. You can feel the passion.
The running order contains some tracks that you just don't get to hear any more, including Fall, Let Your Good Heart Lead You Home and Find Yourself a Safe Place. What he have on this set is also one of the earliest live takes of Bones currently available at the Archive. I think it actually made it's official live debut at the Debaser in Sweden earlier in February 2006, unless I'm mistaken? It sounds brand new, and includes a few little mistakes and structural differences. These would vanish later on due to being repeatedly played and reworked in the studio for An End Has a Start, an album that wouldn't be released until almost a year and half later. First, they had to tour The Back Room.
Listening to this is like re-reading love letters from the beginnings of a long-term relationship. I found Editors in 2006, and this set should give you an explanation as to why that appreciation continues to endure. Enjoy the music ;)
FLAC Audio
1. Lights - download here
2. Blood - download here
3. Bones - download here
4. All Sparks - download here
5. Fall - download here
6. Bullets - download here
7. Let Your Good Heart Lead You Home - download here
8. Find Yourself a Safe Place - download here
9. Camera - download here
10. You Are Fading - download here
11. Munich - download here
12. Open Your Arms - download here
13. The Weight of Your Love - download here
14. Someone Says - download here
15. Fingers in the Factories - download here
All in a Zip - download here
2. Blood - download here
3. Bones - download here
4. All Sparks - download here
5. Fall - download here
6. Bullets - download here
7. Let Your Good Heart Lead You Home - download here
8. Find Yourself a Safe Place - download here
9. Camera - download here
10. You Are Fading - download here
11. Munich - download here
12. Open Your Arms - download here
13. The Weight of Your Love - download here
14. Someone Says - download here
15. Fingers in the Factories - download here
All in a Zip - download here
Bonus Material - Boombox Featurette
Here's some more lost treasure from 2006, as Tom gets interviewed by Boombox prior to Editors' show in Bochum Germany, 20th February. It's a mixture of Q&A merged with some live footage from the gig that night, and there is a full take of Blood to enjoy at the end of it. As ever, there's a sense of frustrated longing that accompanies this kind of thing because you just know, with horrible certainty that more from this set was probably committed to tape but never used once the final edit was secured. Then again, how many bands have been afforded this kind of exposure only to be gone within a few years, thus diminishing the importance of retaining everything you film? Proof that you just never can tell.
I remember Tom saying in interviews that getting to play with R.E.M. in 2008 was a turning point in his development as a frontman for a band. Being that close to a group of musicians that he had admired for so long and being able to see how they handled life on the bigger stages, really seemed to promote a change in his own persona that would carry on to this day. As this encounter was recorded a full 2 years earlier, you can still sense the discomfort he's feeling from having to engage in the media-go-round and surrender to the process of making the personal into something for public consumption. I would guess that relaying confessional lyrics which are backed by a decent wave of noise in a live environment, is so much more manageable than a silent person to person encounter where you're being asked directly to explain yourself.
Even in 2006, there were subtle verbal tells that suggest Mr Smith was forseeing Editors being here beyond the standard expiry date for a new band:-
"As we grow as a band, the set length will grow as well."
Luckily they did, and it did. 16 years later and counting.
brought to you with lots and lots of lemming-love :) x
