Editors Announce One-Off UK Show

Editors have announced a one-off show in June, in the band’s adopted hometown of Birmingham.

The band, who recently lost guitarist Chris Urbanowicz, will play a stand alone show at the HMV Institute Birmingham on the 27th June.

A limited number of presale tickets go on sale at 9am on Thursday 19th April, before general sale begins on the Friday 20th April.

Earlier this week, the band announced the departure of Urbanowicz after a statement on their website stated the group split was ‘entirely based upon future musical direction’.

The statement says:

‘In a decision entirely based upon future musical direction, and with huge sadness, Editors and Chris Urbanowicz have parted ways.

In ten years we’ve gone from playing tiny clubs in Birmingham to having number one records in several countries, selling out massive shows across the globe and headlining festivals as four friends together so this was a massively painful decision for all of us to make.

We wish Chris the best of luck in his future endeavours, and expect you all to do the same. The parting is amicable and however sad things are right now we all hope we’ll continue to be friends for many years to come.
From Editors side Tom, Russ and Ed are continuing to work on album four with Flood and play festival shows at Rock Werchter and Arras in June. They are super excited about working with the core of the band as a three piece and trying to introduce new elements to Editors sound.

Chris is going to take a little time to think about his future direction.’

The band’s fourth album will follow ‘In This Light and on This Evening’, released back in October 2009.

They are also due to play Main Square festival in France this June, alongside Rock Werchter in Belgium.