Editors

Intensive touring certainly pays off. Editors are now veterans of the festival scene thanks to an all encompassing 2005 tour that saw them play Glastonbury, T in the Park, Carling Weekend, Summer Sundae and Oxygen.

The crowd is modest in size but perhaps suffers a bit from The Stroke’s set over on the Main Stage. Although the dedicated following of die hard fans pooling at the front of the stage suggests than the band are going to be anything but under supported.

From the moment they kick off with album opener ‘Lights’ Editors are compelling to watch. The songs are all soaring, mesmerising and full of potent emotion. They clearly carry their material much better these days than they did at last year’s Glastonbury.

There is a consistent theme that runs through Editors material and when the opening few bars of each song kicks in you can never quite remember which song it is, but you’re sure it’s one of your favourites. This was one of the assets that helped link together their album ‘The Back Room’ so well and it serves a similar purpose when performed live.

Latest single the re-released ‘Blood’ whips the crowd into a mass jumping frenzy until the band slow it down slightly for ‘All Sparks’ and the beautiful ‘Fall’. Taking a break from the new album the band decided to perform one of their new tracks ‘Bones’, another one word song that looks, sounds and feels just like Blood and Bullets in every conceivable way.

By the time of ‘Bullets’ the atmosphere is probably at the best I’ve seen all weekend. There is a unified party feeling accompanying this set and the prospect of The Who or Richard Ashcroft next is keeping the T in the Park spirits high.

Vocalist Tom Smith looks and at times sounds a bit pissed but after watching them a few times previously I’ve decided that its just his way of bumbling around the stage – either that or he’s a closet alcoholic. Smith also has the demeaning ability to clap with the aptitude of a less than well-gifted child.

I wandered away just after the band finished playing ‘Munich’, sacrificing the opportunity to watch the band close with the stirring ‘Fingers in the Factories’ so I could get a good place for The Who.

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