Artful gloomers Editors are celebrating the release of debut album The Back Room with their largest tour to date.
Once settled in Birmingham in the autumn of 2003, the band signed to Kitchenware, an independent label that shared their hopes of a slow burn rather than a short-lived burst of attention. With Glastonbury Festival and T in the Park behind them, they have already established themselves as one of the most promising new bands of 2005 and gained a reputation as a stunning live act.
Drawing on early REM, Joy Division and Echo and the Bunnymen, Editors focus on the grand themes of love, loss and redemption.
Introspective but always fired up, the band's songs tread a line between miserablist futility and the constant possibility of better times.
Lyrically, they delight in the ambiguous - which allows the audience to bring their own experiences and conclusions to the songs. This is a literate band in a great British tradition dotted with names such as Morrissey, Ian Curtis and Elbow's Guy Garvey. Glum rock at its happiest.
Starts 8pm, tickets cost £7.50 (SOLD OUT).
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