Editors who didn’t stop the rain

Positivus festival, July, 15th, 2011
Salacgrīva, Latvia

Photo by Margarita Ogoļceva

The main headliners of the first day at Positivus festival came right after Hurts whose romance and emotions were naturally flown away by indie rockers Editors from Birmingham. 

The four-piece is not about to be introduced as their music speaks itself. The band with oustanding and highly awarded three albums have finally come to play to Latvia and show their passion to the music fans of Positivus festival. They have been looking forward to it. Russel Leetch, the bass guitarist of the band said it in the interview to Latvian webbportal TVNET shortly before their visit to Latvia.

Though in the beginning of their perfomance they seemed to experience some technical sound problems, the show went on. Moreover, shorty before Editors arrived on a stage the audience was showered with rain, but even that didn’t stop enjoying the long awaited band and its performance.

As Russel Leetch said in the interview the playlist of their show will not much differ from the other venues they have played. They started with the song „Camera” from the first album „The Back Room” and kept playing some more songs from their debut album. Then the three albums were mixed inviting the audience to dance each time they hear well known singles, such as „Bullets”, „Munich”, „The Racing Rats”, „All Sparks”, „Smokers outside Hospital doors”and others. For sure, the crowd were not missing Tom’s piano solo. Tom introduces the band and they go off the stage to come back with three more songs. „Papillon” from the newest album „In This Light and on This Evening” is one of them.

The lead singer Tom didn’t talk much to the audience, but surely the bands greatest hits did giving to the crowd what they wanted. Everyone, especially in the front rows seemed enjoying, dancing and yelling, however, I must admit that the band doesn’t make such an emotional link with the audience as previously mentioned Hurts did. I guess, these are just different approaches and can’t be compared though.