Watch with No Rock: Editors

It's a head-over-to-some-other-site deal, but at least ABC aren't blocking it to viewers outside the 50 states: Editors do Papillon on Kimmel.

Gordon in the morning: We're living in the future now

You won't have been able to sleep last night, with Gordon's announcement yesterday that he had some "amazing new technology which I'll be revealing". Whatever could it be?

Wonder no longer:

First, find the JLS video pane on my website. Then hold the star up to your webcam, as demonstrated by my colleague Lia Nicholls.

If the webcam can see the star, a performance of One Shot will start playing. If you remove the star, it will stop.

And moving the star in three dimensions moves the lads around too, with you in the background.

Oh. Augmented reality using a webcam? Sure, that might have impressed my grandfather, but - since Radio One tried and quickly abandoned the gimmick two years ago - you'd have to stretch the truth a bit to describe it as either "amazing" or "new".

You might be more interested to know that Editors have recorded a session for The Sun. Decent Editors at The Sun? That's got to be a first.

Streaming: Editors

NME.com is streaming the new Editors album through a We7-y widget.

Glastobox: Watching from a safe distance

Were The Feeling doing I Thought It Was Over live? Really live? It didn't sound like it was coming from a stage in a unseasonally autumnal field.

BBC Three is currently being anchored by Edith Bowman and Zane Lowe - Lowe, surely, must be wondering if he's ever going to get any work from the BBC besides festivals and the Evening Session slot by now. Clearly, the City Of Domes that is modern Radio One means he can't do that forever, and it looks like he's attempting to slightly reposition himself enough to open some other lines of employment. Calmer, controlled, almost suave. But he's never going to get a National Lottery themed gameshow, is he?

Bowman is laughing like a tractor sinking into a slurry tank; Rufus Hound is filling up acres of air time with those pointless roving reports that they seem to think are integral to the programme - Hound does 'em well, but it doesn't alter the fact the reason why most of us are watching on TV is we don't want to spend time with the sort of eccentrically-behatted types who clutter up the campsites like a wacky invading army, so we really don't want to hear what they have to say. Especially when, as the woman who was just on, it's "I have a different outfit each day, pink yesterday, multi-colour today... these are my friends from London, but I see them most weekends despite coming from..." Where? Wales? Scotland? Spain? Nope... "... Kent." Not all the way from Kent to London, a distance of less than no miles.

Lupe Fiasco has, somewhat optimistically, encouraged people to sing along "if you know the words." The audience tried, but thought the words were "polite cheer".

Edith and Zane are trying to talk up the Jay-Z set - "word has definitely got to him about the reaction to his set" suggests Zane, letting us into the secret we wouldn't have heard unless we had ears or eyes of some sort.

Editors were pretty good - you can see why people peg them as a bit like Coldplay - they even have the same wet beards, but it's like comparing a microwave curry with the proper deal in a restuarant. Yes, there's a sense of the flavours being similar, but only one offers a real experience of textures, and surprises, and satisfaction.

This year's entertainment value has been increased greatly by adding the Guardian's Great Lyrics booklets, allowing countless rounds of 'One song to the tune of another'.

[Part of Glastonbury 2008]

People are fragile things, you should know by now

We'd always wondered if there were people in Britain who lived in day-to-day fear of terrorism, convinced it's only the careful decanting of shampoo into 100 millilitre bottles before going through security that stops us from all being murdered in our beds.

We're really surprised that there are, and that Editors' Chris Urbonowicz is one of them:

"England is not a great place to be at the moment. I retreated high up in my flat. I tried to avoid everything that has happened."

Yes, Chris. Going to the top of a tall building - that's the best way to avoid terrorists.

"We're not copy-Editors"

Tom Smith doesn't like Editors being compared to Interpol. It makes him all sweary and everything:

"When people dismiss us as a second-rate whoever it pisses you off.

"Vocally there is a similarity with Interpol and that's fine but our first album The Back Room doesn't sound anything like them.

"What amazes me is we still get that on this record, An End Has A Start, which sounds nothing like Interpol or Joy Division. If you're a music journalist saying that then you're deaf and need a new job."

Tom, honey; the comparisons with Interpol and Joy Division should flatter you. It's the Coldplay references that you should be worried about.

Ferry nearly sinks Editors

Playing two festivals on two different landmasses nearly did for the Editors: their equipment got stuck between Oxegen and T in the Park:

The band, one of several playing Oxegen prior to their T appearance, revealed their instruments and backline had failed to make it to the ferry to Britain. Drummer Ed Lay said: "The van with all the equipment was waiting to go on the ferry but they started allowing vehicles on in reverse order."

Rather oddly, the Daily Record doesn't bother to reveal what happened in the end, so we're going to assume they went onstage using Twangers (as seen on Rainbow) and drums made from boxes.

Editors silenced by German police

With the end of the G8 conference, where are all those fired-up German police going to work out their frustrations now?

By going tooled up to march Editors off the stage in Cologne, apparently. The band were "too loud":

"The venue was an old church over the road from a load of houses and, during our set, they called the police to complain about the noise," bassist Russell Leetch told NME.COM. "The first we knew about it was when the police turned up just as we were starting our encore and told our tour manager to stop the set."

You wouldn't want to risk a bustling barbecue in the Rhineland, would you?

Something to listen to: Editors

Streaming distressingly lovingly from a Sony Records server at the moment: Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors [Flash] by Editors. For you to listen to, if you like.

Blue pencils out

Editors - second album coming this summer, apparently - are jaunting off on a spring tour:
Warrington Parr Hall - May 22;
London Roundhouse - 23;
Wolverhampton Civic Hall - 24;
Glasgow Barrowland - 25;
Dublin Olympia - 27

There's also a Glastonbury set, on The Other Stage just before the Stooges go on.

Hit St Pes (5,6,8,8)*

Coca-Cola's very own White Stripes are going to make just one jaunt to Europe this year, and that will be to headline the roaming Wireless festival. This year's event is a confusing four-day affair in London, and three in Leeds - the difference being a day featuring Faithless, Just Jack and Badly Drawn Boy at Hyde Park not being replicated in Harewood House. All shall have the Kaiser Chiefs, CSS, Editors and The Cribs, along with Jack and Meg.

* - White Stripes Headline Wireless