Airborne Lemming's video: Smith and Burrows - Live at Babylon 17th September 2011

Strictly speaking the Archive is all Editors all day long, with not much room left for the various side projects that have happened down the line (Magnus, Electrically Charged Boy, Y.O.U. etc etc.). However, there's a new Smith and Burrows album imminent and so I'm posting a gig from their 2011 Funny Looking Angels tour to hopefully get you all in the mood. The setlist contains some S&B favourites as well as covers of tracks by Black, Longpigs, Yazoo, Razorlight, R.E.M. and even a run through of some Editors favourites. They may have the polish and endorphin-provoking pop sounds that seem to know the most direct pathway to your heart, but as a band Smith and Burrows only seems to exist in times of extreme crisis. Their first album, around which this show is built, was released at time when Tom's other group were slowly disintegrating towards a barely avoided full stop as they attempted to prepare their fourth album. Now here we are a decade later, and their second record was released in the middle of a global pandemic. One so bad that its nearest equal was about 100 years ago. If this escalation in severity continues at its current pace, we should see Smith and Burrows returning for their third album in 2031. It'll hit the stores just before the entire planet unavoidably goes off orbit due to an unexpected meteor strike and hurtles into the sun, killing us all. I'll see you then for the fireworks. Enjoy the music ;) Setlist 1. Wonderful Life 0:00 2. Funny Looking Angels 4:51 3. Papillon 9:53 4. The Weight Of The World 13:50 5. Only You 17:35 6. America 20:54 7. No Sound But The Wind 25:14 8. Walk the Fleet Road 29:31 9. Half A World Away 33:56 10. On And On 37:45 11. Before I Fall To Pieces 42:04 12. In The Bleak Midwinter 45:22 13. Christmas Song 48:18 14. As The Snowflakes Fall 50:23 15. This Ain't New Jersey 54:35 16. When The Thames Froze 59:49 If you'd like some MP3s from this show:- https://lemmingarchive.blogspot.com/2015/12/smith-and-burrows-babylon-17th-december.html For more Editors stuff, drop by the Archive https://lemmingarchive.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-archive-index.html brought to you with lots and lots of lemming-love ) x