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Editors played the last gig of their UK tour at Rock Sweaty Rock City on Thursday, which I have to confess I had already been looking forward to for some time.
The first band on were Ra Ra Riot, who were like a smaller version of Arcade Fire (although perhaps not as epic). In my opinion, they weren’t bad and were perfectly “listenable”, but nothing outstanding. This was then followed by The Kissaway Trail, who I’m afraid weren’t great at all. They consisted of three guitars and a bass lined up, with a drummer behind them - a fairly unusual format but not one that worked. Quite shouty and mostly incomprehensible, although to be fair this might not have been their fault.
None of this especially mattered though, as Editors were on next. And they were good. Really good.
Rock City appears to be a much smaller venue than Editors would normally play, and it was absolutely packed. The crowd were pretty happy as soon as the band came on and the opening bass drum of An End Has A Start was played, before generally going ballistic.
Tom Smith was much more of a showman than I expected, spending a lot of time jumping around and dancing on the piano, before at the start of the encore responding to the water thrown by the crowd by throwing some back and starting a mini water-fight.
Pity poor Chris Urbanowicz, who as someone who comes from Nottingham got a lot of attention from the crowd and was at one stage referred to by Tom Smith as “your local hero”. Still, he seemed to take it all very well.
All-in-all, a superb gig. I certainly wouldn’t object to seeing Editors again, whoever their support is.
There is also a very good review of the gig on Sarah’s Soul Drift Music Blog.
After the jump, the set list.
- An End Has A Start
- Bones
- Bullets
- Blood
- Weight Of The World
- All Sparks
- Escape The Nest
- Banging Heads
- When Anger Shows
- Spiders
- Lights
- Heads In Bags
- The Racing Rats
- Munich
- You Are Fading
- Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors
- Fingers In The Factories
One old B-side (Heads in Bags from Blood), one special edition track (You are Fading), and one new B-side (Banging Heads from the soon-to-be-released Racing Rats).
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October 27th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Great review
did you manage to get any good photos?
October 27th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Thanks! Sadly only one very blurred photo. I learnt my lesson from the Shins gig in Manchester where I spent so much time taking photos that I actually didn’t spend nearly enough time enjoying the music!