Editors: "Open Your Arms"

Gorgeous promo vid for "Open Your Arms." Directed by Alex Candlin and filmed at Manchester Apollo, May 11, 2006.



Word on the street is that Editors will be issuing a new album early this summer!

MacKenzieLand: Top 20 Singles of 2006

1. Nelly Furtado - "Maneater" [Video]


2. Amy Winehouse - "Rehab" [Video]


3. Jay Z - "Show Me What You Got" [Video]


4. Rogue Traders - "Voodoo Child" [Video]


5. Justin Timberlake - "SexyBack" [Video]


6. Echo and the Bunnymen - "Scissors in the Sand" [Video: Paradiso Main Hall 2005]


7. Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone - "Ridin'" [Video]


8. Lily Allen - "LDN" [Video]


9. Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland - "Promiscuous" [Video]


10. Ellen Allien and Apparat - "Way Out" [Video]


11. Battle - "Tendency" [Video]


12. Love Is All - "Busy Doing Nothing" [Video: SXSW 2006]


13. Rihanna - "S.O.S. (Rescue Me)" [Video]


14. Muse - "Knights of Cydonia" [Video]


15. Serena Maneesh - "Drain Cosmetics" [Video]


16. Editors - "All Sparks" [Video]


17. Green Day and U2 - "The Saints Are Coming" [Video: Live in New Orleans]


18. At the Lake - "I Made My Excuses and Left"


19. South - "Up Close and Personal" [Video: Filmed in NYC's Times Square, featuring Casey from Margot and the Nucear So and So's]


20. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - "According to Plan" [Video]

Editors: Album News

Say what you want about Editors. I freaking adore the band. Since making their stateside debut this past spring with the release of The Back Room (those of us snobs got the double-disc import in summer '05), Editors slayed audiences at SXSW, Coachella and Lollapalooza. With a late summer run through North America behind them, Editors are beginning work on their sophomore LP. Frontman Tom Smith shared such info via the band's official site, and myspace profile.


A message from Tom (Editors)
Body: Hello everyone,

How are you all?...good I hope. Thought I’d drop you a line to let you know what we’ve been up to and more importantly what we’re about to start. Today is Tuesday the 21st November 2006 and tomorrow we’re all off to Ireland for a month to record the bulk of our second record.

We finished touring The Back Room in Istanbul of all places on the 3rd September. My last moments on stage, of what from start to finish was a 20 month tour, were spent on my back. On the last note of Fingers I slipped clean over, on the beer I threw around earlier on in the show (so no one to blame but myself). I picked my sorry arse up from the stage and in my embarrassed confusion threw my guitar into the surprisingly rapturous Turkish audience. I’m an idiot but it’s all fun and games I suppose, and a memorable end of the tour for me at least. The rest of the band just shook their heads in disapproval.

Since then we’ve been doing a lot of writing, a fair bit of relaxing, some of us have been trying to find new places to live and we’ve seen a load of shows and even reared our heads djing a couple of times. If any of you came to Brixton or more recently Bristol and enjoyed what Ed or Russ spun then nice one, me and Chris tend to just mince about at these things, maybe offer a polite suggestion into their ears but mainly let them get on with it. Bristol the other night was particularly enjoyable; starting with The Boss (Born in the USA!) into Cold War Kids, followed by the new Bloc Party single (slapped hands! Naughty!...it’s very very good) from there on other highlights included NWA, The Twang and Kate Bush.

As some of you know, the week before the show in Turkey we recorded the two new songs we had managed to write (or re-write in the case of TWOTW) whilst on the road. Bones and The Weight Of The World both sound great, they’re not totally finished yet but I’d be very surprised if they don’t make the cut when we’re picking the record next year. More importantly that week made us realise that we could work with Garret Lee, it’s so important we move forward and don’t just make The Back Room part 2. I think we all realised that week that Garret was the man to help us.

So this week we head off to Ireland with around 12 new songs and a host of other ideas floating around. I can’t explain in words how excited we all are about the new songs; they’re without doubt the best songs we’ve ever written. To get your imagination / juices flowing here are some of the titles being thrown around at this point in time:

Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors
The Racing Rats
An End Has A Start
When Anger Shows
Push Your Head Towards The Air
A Thousand Pieces
An Eye For An Eye

The album won’t be finished before Christmas but the break will give us chance to see our families, eat mince pies, get drunk and say hi to Santa, then maybe some more writing before we start recording again in the new year.

That’s it from me for now, just saying hello really and letting you know what we’re up to. Whilst typing this I’ve been listening to the new Joanna Newsom record, Ys, it’s incredible and you can blame any spelling or grammar mistakes on her!

Bye for now,

Take care and be good,

Tom xxxx


MP3: Fingers in the Factories [XFM Session: 04.18.05]

In other Editors news: the FADER Label recently released the Editors Remix EP, which is exclusively available for download via iTunes ($3.96). In addition, bonus tracks not included on the EP (remixes by Shy Child, Pase Rock, Rubber Bullets, Trackademicks, Phones and Dr. Rocktheknobs) will debut on various websites the week of December 4th.


EDITORS REMIX EP tracklisting:
Camera (Sebastian Remix)
Munich (Ghislain Porier Remix)
All Sparks (Prince Language Remix)
Blood (P Nice Remix)