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Russell: You know, they're funny things, festivals – you turn up, no sound check, wheeled on stage and just go and do it, and that's kind of the fun element. Sometimes it's not – you can't hear what you're playing, things keep breaking and it's just a nightmare, but that's part and parcel. But last year we played second headline slot on quite a few festivals [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and playing in the dark in front of so many people was very cool.
Suite: The new record is a lot more expansive sounding. Has the songwriting process changed any since your debut, or do you feel it's a natural growth?
Russell Leetch Interview
Suite: What was it like playing places like Istanbul on that tour?
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When UK indie band Editors first broke onto the scene in 2005 with their darkly melodic album The Back Room, people were quick to compare them to The Killers and Interpol. Maybe it was the keyboard/guitar combination or the hook-laden melodies that inspired this comparison, or the majestic build of their songs. However [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it was an easy and lazy comparison at best. Better songs than Interpol and less drama queen than The Killers, Editors more than stood on their own feet.
Russell: Not really, no. We were surprised how many copies it sold [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to be honest. It just seemed to keep growing and growing, we kept re-releasing singles – I think that was the thing in the UK, along with a lot of word of mouth, and I think that's what gave us the success with the album. Even when we went to the States, though, we were hoping to maybe play nice-sized places, but then the album stepped up and we'd play bigger shows, so it was really good for us.
Now back with the equally impressive follow-up An End Has a Start, from which the soaring first single Smokers outside the Hospital Doors comes from, we caught up with bassist Russell to talk about the new record and the expanding sound of Editors.
Genre: Indie / alternative / rock Tom Smith (vocals / guitar), Chris Urbanowicz (guitar), Russell Leetch (bass), Ed Lay (drums) Sounds like: Echo & The Bunnymen, Joy Division Home: Birmingham, UKEditorsStepping out of the Shadows
Suite: It's been a hectic 2 years since the release of The Back Room. When you released that record, did you expect it all to take off the way it did?
My thanks to Russell for taking time out of an incredibly hectic schedule (the band are in Germany for a festival tomorrow, then fly to perform at Glastonbury on Sunday, then back to Germany!) and to Dani Lovett at Cornerstone Promotion for arranging everything.
Suite: You have Glastonbury this weekend, as well as other festivals over the summer. Do you now see yourselves as a bona-fide festival band?
Russell: It's amazing when you go to places like that and play. I mean, we'd go play a festival in Portugal or in Greece, places we'd never been before, and there you are playing in front of a crowd of about 10,000 or 20,000 people, and they'd seem to know every single word (laughs)! So yeah, that's just absolutely bizarre.
Russell: I think it's a