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Editors
@ Cardiff University's Great Hall
21/03/10
By Nathan Chubb
Since 2005, Editors, with their debut album ‘The Back Room’, have been growing in stature, touring regularly and making headline slots at major festivals. They’ve been lauded as the second biggest British band of the decade after Arctic Monkeys by The Mail on Sunday. With this in mind, Editors coming to Cardiff - with their array of electrifying guitar work, dreamy piano, impressive vocals, ambiguous lyrics and some synthesizers (courtesy of the new album ‘In This Light And On This Evening’) - enthused me with anticipation.
So when Tom Smith strode out onto the impressive factory-esque stage and kicked off the set with ‘In This Light And On This Evening’, it didn’t take much to get the crowd involved and off their feet. With the set soon becoming a mixture of both classics like ‘Munich’ and ‘Racing Rats’, and the introduction of newer tracks such as ‘Papillion’, the 1,000 plus crowd that
turned out on a Sunday night were treated to an exceptional gig.
Notably ‘Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool’ surprised with Kraftwork Synths and stage graphics in full
flow, “You, Him, Her” lighting up the hall to the android call chorus bringing new depth to the
performance. Tom Smith then swapped guitar for piano to perform ‘Well Worn Hand’, the stage again allowing the whole hall to experience the performance in full with a camera invading Tom’s
face on the piano bringing out this emotive track; the whole crowd was treated to a power-ballad piano masterpiece, a testament to the range of their back catalogue. The combination of ‘End
Has A Start’, ‘Munich’ then followed by ‘Smokers Outside The Hospital Door’ once again brought the crowd jumping with Tom Smith’s words pouring out to the crowd entering into a magnificent echo of vocals in the great hall.
When the encore arrived, it did so in style and made certain to me the Editors are one of the best live bands touring today with the brilliantly timed ‘Fingers In Factories’.
Retro’s Grade: 1st
