– The Editors – Live At Trojan Horse, The Hague, Netherlands – October 6, 2015 – VPRO/3VOORFM –
Switching gears this week for things more contemporary. This morning it’s The Editors, the hugely successful and critically acclaimed Indie band from the UK, who have had a busy year in 2015 and were in the midst of promoting their latest album, In Dream, which came out on October 2nd, 2015.
This concert, a surprise show at The Trojan in The Hague in The Netherlands, was a launch for the album, which was recorded by the venerable VPRO on October 6th, four days after the official release.
Editors (as of 2024) have released two platinum studio albums, and seven in total, with several million combined sales. Their debut album The Back Room was released in 2005. It contained the hits “Munich” and “Blood” and the following year received a Mercury Prize nomination.
Their follow-up album An End Has a Start went to number 1 in the UK Album Chart in June 2007 and earned the band a Brit Awards nomination for best British Band. It also spawned another Top 10 hit single, “Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors”. The band’s third album, In This Light and on This Evening, was released in October 2009 and went straight to number 1 in the UK Album Chart. The band released their fourth studio album, The Weight of Your Love, in July 2013, followed by self-produced In Dream in October 2015. In 2018, the band released their sixth album Violence. Their seventh album, EBM, was released in September 2022.
Alongside their critical acclaim and strong success in the UK Singles Chart, they consistently enjoyed sold-out tours and numerous headlining festival slots. Their brand of dark indie rock is commonly compared to the sound of bands such as Echo & the Bunnymen, Joy Division, Interpol, The Chameleons and U2.
This show sold out quickly, so the delayed broadcast of the concert a few days later at least gave everyone who couldn’t get tickets, a taste of what they missed.
And if you missed that delay-broadcast from 2015, here it is, complete. Fans of The Editors; enjoy – non-fans, or those not familiar; check it out.
