Editors making the headlines
10:35am Tuesday 9th March 2010
THEY’RE one of Britain’s biggest bands, yet they hardly ever appear in the music press. You can almost certainly hum one of their songs, but probably know nothing about the actual band members.
Who are we talking about? Editors, of course, the band named not so long ago as the second biggest in the country, and whose largely sold-out UK tour started this week.
A few tickets for their Manchester gig at the Apollo on Tuesday were still available at the time of going to press, and lead guitarist Chris Urbanowicz says fans of a nervous disposition might be in for a scare.
“We’ve got quite a few concepts,” he says. “It’s a bit abstract and a bit industrial-looking, like we’re in a factory from the future. It’s a bit scary.”
The perfect match for Editors’ own brand of industrially-dark indie-disco, then.
Formed in 2002 after Chris, singer Tom Smith, bassist Russell Leech and drummer Ed Lay met while studying music technology at Staffordshire University, Editors went through three name changes before releasing their debut album, The Back Room.
The million-selling album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, but Chris says the foursome’s path has not been smoothed out by support from the music press, unlike some other bands.
“We’re often misconstrued as being popular in the music press, but no one magazine has really championed us,” he says. “I think the only magazine who has always been positive about us is Artrocker, and there’s not a lot of bands that can say that."
Read the full interview in this week's 24:7.
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