HOT HOT Editors!

I say never! As you recall back in September I saw the Editors. It was my introduction to them - so I left the review to Club D. This time around having acclimated to them, gotten their music (2007's An End Has a Start), and now attending there show again - I will come every-single- time! Only next time I will plan ahead. The Editors had sold out!

Well people are discovering how good they are, because last September I was walked up day of the show, and bought tickets. This time - 5 days before they sold out. That left a handful of us scrambling for tickets. We managed to snag two off Craigslist (Thanks Stefanie!!) - and I got mine for face value at the venue! Lucky me! I have a feeling that the DCist tipped off DC with a good article on the Editors....

The show started with Hot Hot Heat! a group I had kinda heard of... somewhere in my head... that was because it was actually In MY Music Library already ! So when their opener went on - I was WAIT I know them! (the song was a gift from my friend Ruthie - pictured in pink with Cat - who were both also at the concert) . Hot Hot Heat (or HHH!) was a great energy band and opened up with Dirty Mouth (of which I just found out their Elevator album was produced by Neko Case of new Pornographers fame, and are an influence of the Eidtors ) and other great singles such as Oh Godammit and Goodnight. This group has some great melodies with which lead singer Steve (who I got to met later at DC9) pumps the crowd up - great performance guys!

The Editors though were truly the star & headliners. With lead Tom Smith smooth vocal (Ive heard a zillion people compare him to Robert Smith, but I say he is his own. His strange presence makes the girls go wild, and just (I guess from an untrained ear) sounds smooth & distinct from the music. That he didn't look like he was strung out on something made thsi an crisp - on target performance. But almost never mentioned is guitarist Chris Urbanowicz.

Chris's work really gives that music a frantic, energetic pace despite the dark lyrics (allot of death themes on this album). Its really quite a mix, but good enough that it garnered the group a best British Group Nomination from the Brit Awards. My bet is that soon they'll be hitting the grammys also!

Included in their set at the 9:30 club was An End has a Start, Racing Rats , Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors, Weight of the World, and Munich amongst others (click on the song to preview it below - especially An End has a Start cause all his strange quirks and hand motions etc. in the way Smith acts in the video is very much like he is on stage). This was well worth going to and will be going again. Of note for the 9:30 Club, they finally have a Dogish Brewery beer that I absolutely love: Raison D'Etre !! BRILLIANT!!