Some Enchanted Evening
EDITORS’ new album finds them re-booting their sound with the help of super-producer Flood and the Prussian soldier’s helmet gifted to him by Bono. Also on the agenda when the band meet Stuart Clark are fatherhood, baby poo, Brooklyn block parties and stealing Michael Stipe’s megaphone.
Stuart Clark, 17 Nov 2009
Never mind crack cocaine or heroin, Editors’ new In This Light And On This Evening album was recorded under one of the most potent influences known to man – a baby!
“Yeh, there were definitely times writing and recording this album when my head was in a totally different place to where it’s been before,” admits proud dad Tom Smith who welcomed his little lad Rudy Brae Bowman Smith into the world on June 10th 2008. “I don’t think I’ll know whether it impacted on to any of the songs until a couple of years’ time when I’ve caught up on my sleep! There’s nothing consciously on the record about being a father, but I’m sure as a parent you look at the world through different, perhaps slightly less selfish eyes. I can’t quantify it, to be honest.”
Apologies if you’re tucking in to your dinner as you read this, but did anyone warn Tom about the colour of baby’s poo?
“Yeah, though it was still a shock to the system the first time I saw it – and a shock every time after that because it’s always changing!” laughs the super-svelte 28-year-old. “My only piece of advice for prospective fathers – actually, it’s more of a warning – is no matter how many books you read or pre-natal classes you attend, you haven’t a clue what it’s like until the baby’s actually there in front of you.”
Also affecting the dynamic of this record is Editors lead guitarist Chris Urbanowicz and bass-player Russell Leetch both relocating to Brooklyn. Are the streets there really lined with hip new bands?
“The streets are lined with really poor concrete paving, which for a man with delicate shoes is tricky,” Urbanowicz deadpans. “It is the case that bands from arsehole of nowhere parts of America flock there because of the ‘Brooklyn scene’, which is actually pretty fragmented. Apart from the guy living upstairs from me with a massive, scary dog who works for a punk label and Dev from Lightspeed Champion and Keith from We Are Scientists who are both living nearby, my neighborhood isn’t particularly rock ‘n’ roll.
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