With One Hand, You Calm Me

In 12 days, on March 30th, Birmingham's Editors will return to New York to take the stage at Webster Hall. Of course, I'll be in the front row for the group’s third sold-out Manhattan gig. Tickets are still available for the March 28 show at Warsaw. Mobius Band and Stellastarr* are the openers.

Editors played SXSW on Friday night before the launch of the full U.S./Canadian tour. On Thursday, singer Paul Smith and guitarist Chris Urbanowicz chatted with Ian Camfield, a deejay from London's XFM radio station, in his Austin hotel room. They discussed the venue change for their second show in New York in February. Listeners were filled in about the sound crew discovering that The Annex was still a construction site on the day of the show and that Rothko violated fire hazards by accomodating an extra 100 people. It will be a show for the history books! The guys also poked fun at the size of their tour bus by saying they are bigger in size since they are built for Americans.

After the interview, they performed a haunting acoustic version of "All Sparks." Earlier in the week, Editors performed the same track on BBC radio.

If you act now, you can download the "Munich," for free on iTunes. The debut album, The Back Room, will be released in the States on March 21st. I am still taking bets that Paul is actually saying the name on my birth certificate when he sings, "With one hand you, calm me/with one hand, I'm steal."