Editors to close 2023 tour with huge Bristol show

Posted on: 09 Jun 2022

The indie-rock titans are embarking on a small-scale tour of the UK and Ireland in January and February.

 

Birmingham group Editors have revealed a full list of dates for their latest headline tour, which will see them with an appearance at Bristol’s Marble Factory.

 

Known for their unique blend of pop sensibilities and dark, angular guitar, Editors will be going back on the road in support of their upcoming seventh studio album, EBM.

 

Tickets for the Bristol show, which is scheduled for 2 February 2023, go on sale tomorrow (Friday 10 June) and can be found here.

 

 

Editors were brought together in 2003 in the midst of the buzzing post-punk revival scene that included contemporaries such as White Lies and Interpol and drew influence from bands Echo & the Bunnymen, Joy Division and many more. 

 

Fronted by the enigmatic Tom Smith (pictured below), the band began to turn heads with a string of promising singles under indie label Kitchenware as well as a standout performance at Glastonbury in 2005.

 

Their eagerly-anticipated debut The Back Room was released in the same year with the single ‘Munich’ entering the UK top 5 and going platinum, and the album ultimately earning a Mercury Prize nomination.

An End Has a Start, Editors’ sophomore LP, again earned platinum sales and saw the band embark on a mammoth run of shows over the next two years, including a European tour with US giants R.E.M.

 

In the following years, Editors began to experiment with genre a great deal more. The band’s next record, In This Light and on This Evening (2009), debuted a brand-new electronic sound and The Weight of Your Love (2013) proved far more ambitious brand of stadium rock.

 

2015’s self-produced fifth record, In Dream, was followed by Violence in 2018. The group’s seventh album, EBM (see album art below), was announced earlier this week.

 

It will be the first full-length release to feature new member Benjamin John Power and is set to be released on 23 September.

Early next year, Editors will head out on a UK and Ireland tour, beginning at Nottingham’s Rock City in January 2023 and visiting Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin and London before culminating at The Marble Factory, an expansive warehouse space located within the sprawling Motion complex.

 

The Bristol show will take place on 2 February and tickets go on sale tomorrow - find out more and get yours here.

 

To find out what else is coming up at The Marble Factory in 2022 & 2023, visit the live section of the Motion website.

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