Editors opened the set with my personal favorite Editors song, “Bones.” Bassist Russell Leetch was far more impressive in person than he is on live video. Never using a pick and playing driving bass (my style of bassing), he tore up and down the fretboard and moved all around the stage, evoking a mobile Adam Clayton of U2.

Unexpectedly, Ed Lay’s drumming stood out the most. It was immensely powerful, considering it’s relative quietness on Editors’ studio albums.

Tom Smith was all reaching and contorting mannerisms, which lended heaps of emotion to the performance. It’s as though Editors’ polite, proper, financial-district exterior held in raw emotions that tried their best to escape through Tom’s hands, mouth, neck, and eventually whole body as they forced him to climb up on his piano, as though he couldn’t take any more as he sang “Come on, now/You knew you were lost/But you carried on anyway!/Oh come on now/You knew you had no time/But you let the day drift away!”

Totally engrossing.

Editors did not disappoint in concert, from the front row, at the House of Blues.

**The only thing that could have made it a better show (other than more volume for Urbanowicz’s guitar) would have been for Editors to play their song, “Push Your Head Towards the Air.” Given the recent tragedy in Central Florida--the 70-car accident on I-4-- “Push Your Head” would have been uncommonly appropriate. “There’s people climbing out of their cars/Lining the roadside/Trying to glimpse at the dead..../Now don’t drown in your tears, babe/Push your head towards the air.”

Bryan Lounsberry

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