And just like that, a whole month of this new year was done. There wasn't a lot of overt business being conducted by Tom/Editors in January. You would have to suppose that the rehearsals for Tom's upcoming Spring tour have begun, as well as tackling logistics of awakening the dormant machine that is Editors. Speaking of which, they announced another festival date for the summer, this time at Splendour in Nottingham on the 19th of July. It should be noted that as of this moment, it's their only UK date so far in 2026, although plans have a habit of evolving given time. Belgium already has three dates, not including Tom doing Werchter solo, which is just clear and unabashed favouritism. If they keep doing this, rumours will surely begin to circulate about there being some kind of special relationship between that country and the band...
One thing you may, or may not have noticed was that Tom has nuked his TikTok account. The timing for that seems weird, given the promotional cycle for There is Nothing in the Dark... is still ongoing. Yet the situation has a familiarity about it that I knew I'd experienced before.
Tom signed up to Twitter in 2013 and even then the impression given was that it was an act of subtle, quiet coercion rather than an entirely freely-made decision. There's a very obvious hint at that during the interview he gave backstage at the Olympia in Dublin in November 2013, which you can check out here. He lasted under three years on that platform, before shutting it down completely in March of 2016. From then on he continued, and still continues to post on Instagram.
I think the difference between that platform and Twitter is that the latter as always been more about instantaneous communication between poster and reader. If you participate, then you accept that unwritten rule. I know that one of the stated aims of punk rock was to remove the barrier between audience and performer, to challenge that elevated status that is often afforded musicians and bring everyone to the same level of connection. To make everybody more accessible. However, I think even most people proposing that belief would agree that there still needs to be a defined boundary line in respect of privacy. If you are someone who is already protective of your life away from your band, which Tom has demonstrated on occasion previously, it must be quite unnerving for example to receive active enquiries at 2 or 3 in the morning, from a distant fan who hasn't allowed for time differences. A fan who then gets bent out of shape when you don't reply in a very, very timely manner. This is the kind of thing that can happen should you choose to make yourself available on social media, and I would guess that the juice just wasn't worth the squeeze upon reflection. He is primarily, after all, a musician and not a content creator.
Again, we've never met or interacted but I'd guess that Tom has probably never burned with a secret desire to have a TikTok profile. It has exactly the same kind of immediate back and forth between parties that Twitter has, and so I wondered how long he would continue taking part. From a promotional awareness perspective the platform served it's purpose in widening the optics for his solo record. However, unless you're the kind of person who lives on social media, which I don't think he does, in the long term it's just another distraction or even an obligation that you'd rather not be shackled to.
Your time in this life is finite and very, very precious. Social media will happily separate you from it for as long as you allow, leaving you with only dopamine-fuelled remorse and persistent emptiness as a reward.
The biggest drawback from him closing his profile completely is that all the videos posted there are now gone. That is, unless some weirdo on the internet with both the innate sensibilities of a stalker and a hoarder has collected it all somewhere. Unlikely, but you never know...
Editors Instagram - December 2025
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