If the recent past has taught us anything, it's that Tom tends to post these videos when other things are going down, or are about to. There's some intimate tour dates on the way this week, and this month is also the 20th anniversary of The Back Room being released.
As part of a record that served as a first "Hello" from Editors to the World, and a test to see if they could capture and translate what they were capable of live into a long form studio artefact, Munich was a song that really connected. It will forever be jokingly referred to as "The Hit" and continues to be a staple of Editors' live set whenever they play. I don't think that it's quite the essential supporting structure to the band that it once was, their catalogue has lots of strong alternatives now, but you can't deny the fondness it evokes when it's played. People loved Munich, and rightly so.
It was not about the German city, and it was not about Munich the cat that lived in their manager's house and used to pee on everything when they slept there. The apparently blatant meaning of "people are fragile things..." seemed to concern the universality of human frailty, even though it was actually written about the feeling associated with being hungover.
This is Tom in the middle of an English heatwave giving us an acoustic run through of The Hit. Given his tendencies to occupy the darker corners of music, I'm amazed he got to the end of the track without melting into a slick pool of mournful goo.
Enjoy the music ;)
Video - stream it here
Audio - download here
brought to you with lots and lots of lemming-love ;)
