Never mind the bucolics, here's Editors
In which Editors, like Bloc Party before them, abandon urban ennui for the country life, recording that not-very-difficult second album in Grouse Lodge with Garret ‘Jacknife’ Lee.
Stuart Clark, 11 Jul 2007
The last time Hot Press shared a Guinness with Editors was 10 months ago in Belfast where they were on the same Tennent’s Vital ’06 bill as Snow Patrol.
Tom Smith, minus the luxuriant head of curls he has now, was in a state of hyper-excitement after hearing that U2, Bloc Party, REM and ‘Patrol man Garret ‘Jacknife’ Lee had agreed to produce the band’s second album.
“Gary Lightbody said, ‘He really challenges you in the studio,’ which is perfect ‘cause we want to make the same leap that Radiohead did when they went from Pablo Honey to The Bends,” Smith informed us at the time. “As proud as I am of The Back Room, there’s a hell of a lot more we’re capable of musically.”
While perhaps not quite as dramatic as Thom Yorke & Co’s ‘90s growth spurt, the newly released An End Has A Start is indeed a very different beast to its 2005 predecessor. Gone is the claustrophobic menace of old – who said Joy Division? – to be replaced by a lavish wall of sound that Chris Martin wouldn’t kick out of bed for eating crisps.
“I remember that Botanic Gardens gig really well,” says Smith as we renew acquaintances – and pints of stout – backstage at the Dublin Olympia. “We were coming to the end of the summer festival season and, performance wise, had hit a new high. Getting the intensity we have across in a small room is one thing, but it takes a while to work out how you do it on a giant stage in front of 15,000 people who don’t necessarily know your music. When you’ve been playing the same songs for two years – like we had by then – you stop worrying about bum notes and concentrate on the performance.
“We were also on a high in Belfast after doing ‘Bones’ and ‘Weight Of The World’ with Garret as a sort of a test session to see if we got on – which we did spectacularly. It would’ve been great if we could have gone on and recorded the whole thing there and then, but those were the only songs we had finished.”
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