Editors
330 Ritch, San Francisco, CA
January 19, 2006

I have to praise Editors for their wonderful show at Popscene on Thursday night. V and i picked up Jenz and Dionne in the Mini before heading to 330 Ritch. Despite Popscene kingpin Aaron's repeated assurances that the show would be sold out, i maintained my doubts as i was unsure where all these people had heard of Editors ... they're not in regular rotation on the radio, and i haven't seen them on MTV2 either. Nevertheless, the bay area audiophiles did show and the venue was full, although not quite the same kind of crunch as when Kasabian played their anniversary party. The dashing four men who make up Editors came on just after 11:30pm and launched into "Lights". The volume was not quite loud enough for my liking, but the band sounded great. The guitar dynamics from the Back Room were represented very effectively live, and frontman Tom Smith's voice resonated wonderfully. To be my nitpicking self, i did think the drummer had some problems keeping time ("Fall" began at an inexorably slow pace, and accelerated and decelerated randomly thereafter), and something weird happened during "Munich" when Smith abandoned the lyrics during the central breakdown. But all in all they fully met my expectations.

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