With a new album that takes them in a completely new direction, and risked loosing some of their fans in the progress, Editors are back and started touring from the day their album was released. This tour would prove whether that was a risk worth taking or if it had been a mistake. Luckily, it was a risk worth taking!
Opening with the first track from the new album, the song In This Light and on This Evening showed that while this was not the Editors that everyone was used to, their new songs were just as good. Swapping the guitars for the synthesizers gives them a new sound that works really well. It seems like a natural progression, rather than something done just to be different.
There’s no denying their old songs got some of the best reactions, but everyone went crazy for new single Papillon with the line ‘it kicks like a sleep twitch’ shouted back at great volume. In fact, for the new album coming out only two days before the show quite a lot of people knew the songs, with Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool proving to be a favourite. They got the mix of old and new songs just right, not too many of either.
They didn’t ignore the new album however, in fact they played nearly all the songs on it.
Finishing the show with Fingers in the Factories from the debut album they left the stage and left the audience wanting more. Good job they’ve just announced a 2010 tour, I know I’ll be there again and I bet most people who see them on this tour will be too.
