Editors - Eurockéennes 30th June 2007 (Johnny Silver Recording)

Here's a brand new recording containing the full set of Editors' appearance at Eurockéennes in 2007, and it's an absolute cracker. It was one of three video upgrades passed along to me by a fan recently, completely umprompted and out of the blue, and it's a huge improvement on the version we already had both in terms of the sound and the picture quality. Many thanks go their way for making this available. Random acts of kindness are still such powerful things.
If you'd like a brief guide to some of the finer points on display during this set:-
The drums. Mr Lay gets quite the workout during this song and if you look closely at a certain moment he's banging the foot pedals with both feet and drumming with both arms. If he was an MMA fighter, his style would probably be Muay Thai.
Tom Smith doesn't need your microphone shield, and if you put one on there he'll pull it off and throw it away in disgust (see the beginning of You Are Fading).
The way Mr Smith is testing out his vocal range way before he discovered his falsetto on the TWOYL album. There's also a moment where he's actually growling here.
The subtlety of Chris dragging the notes rather than just picking or strumming. I've said it before but he does sound like Joey Santiago of the Pixies on occasion, and this is one of them. It's a trick that messes with your equilibrium when you're listening with headphones at a silly volume.
There are other highlights, including The Weight of the World and the way that they go after The Racing Rats with a passion that would no doubt only slightly diminish after they had to play the song live 55,000 times in the years that followed.
By way of bonus material, if you ever wondered what Mr Urbanowicz would sound like if he was a newsreader, I have an interview from the day of the show that will answer that question for you over at the Archive using the link below. Enjoy the show ;)
Bones 0:00
All Sparks 4:19
An End Has a Start 7:40
Blood 11:34
Escape The Nest 15:15
Bullets 19:30
The Racing Rats 22:55
You Are Fading 27:34
The Weight of the World 33:02
Munich 37:29
Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors 42:48
Fingers in the Factories 47:37
MP3s from the show and some bonus materials
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[@riff2421]

Editors, it's one of my favorite bands; the initial formation that recorded great songs.

[@albertoreds11]

What a band!! Magical performance

[@carolinebennis9632]

Amazing Editors 🖤

[@SanFernandoLarraz]

Eurockéennes is a festival made in Belfort, France. Near that city there's another place named Sochaux (Montbèliard). There it is a large automotive factory called Peugeot (PSA Peugeot-Citroën now Stellantis). It was surely a great choice to finish the gig with "Fingers in Factories". I know by experience fingers bleed in the factories