OK, please bear in mind that I had to watch Sam Smith in order to get this. Yes, that's the level of sacrifice I'll undergo for you all. You're welcome.
Just to make things more spicy, and for once making this a problem on their end rather than mine, the festival's live stream rebroadcast clipped out Heart Attack for some reason. They let it start, then they stopped it very abruptly. Not only that, Picturesque wasn't shown at all despite it definitely being played.
Aside from all of that...
Next month will be the two year anniversary of the EBM album being released, and this is one of the closing shows marking the end of that promotional campaign. Mentally, I think that for Editors the touring cycle was already concluded months ago, and that spring/summer 2024 has been an opportunity to just get together, travel and deliver their music directly. After all, at its' machine-driven heart this is the core of what this band we enthuse over so rabidly is about; a reputation constructed while people watched and listened in real time. Editors are a stronger force and shine at their (dark) brightest when they conjure their creations in front of a crowd.
This was the band playing on the Revolut stage at the Sziget festival in Hungary, on the 11th August 2024. As you would expect from almost two years of running through these songs, everything is tight and precise. Watching ERM=BD here reminded me so much of the 2009 tour for In This Light and on This Evening, with the band all switching out their instruments, often mid-song. And did you notice Tom anticipating climbing onto his piano towards the end of that track? A decision he wisely decided against, considering "that fall" in 2017.
We saw what could be one of the last pro-shot performances of Killer, given that Editors' cover versions often vanish after each successive tour round. The ending of Papillon looks like exactly what I imagine they had in mind for the aborted festival set that was scheduled just before the pandemic hit, with a reworked dance-friendly version of Editors songs being enjoyed in a rave atmosphere. This giant sweaty tent full of people going nuts to sounds that should be making them dissolve in a pool of their own tears.
Enjoy the music ;)
MP3s
Strawberry Lemonade - download here
An End Has a Start - download here
Sugar - download here
Bones - download here
ERM=BD - download here
Karma Climb - download here
A Ton of Love - download here
Killer - download here
Munich - download here
Smokers - download here
Ocean of Night - download here
Papillon - download here
All in a Zip - download here
brought to you with lots and lots of lemming-love ;) x
