Editors at Hammersmith

While normally its comedy that gets me down to Hammersmith Apollo, but they do take the seats out and convert it to a music venue too. And this evening the Editors were playing. Somewhat to my surprise I garnered 4 friends for this gig. Editors have been going for at least a decade and have just completed a fifth album, which was the reason for this tour.

Needless to say the gig was a combination of showing off work from the new album as well as playing their old favourites. I quite like the new album In Dream (which I had hastily purchased for this gig to a do a bit of homework) but its more of a listen to it in your bedroom album than one of storming anthems. So it was most of the older stuff which worked best live.

Tom Smith was at his intense, slightly camp self, looking disarmingly like Kenny Everett these days. Unfortunately the most memorable part of this show was a bad one. We had noticed something wrong with the sound quality, a sort of cross between crackling and a banging sound. So off they went for an impromptu break while it was sorted. Back they came..and it was worse. Off again, and worse still, and then finally the sound engineers cracked the fault. But annoying. We were starting to wonder whether we should get refunds.

But for all that a good show.