Editors re-issued “Munich” in January 2006, selling one and half thousand more copies than the last time it was released. The song gave Editors their first Top 10 single and an appearance on Top of the Pops . With the single release, The Back Room rose back up the album…
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A biography titled Something Incredible This Way Comes was also released, written by Paul Stenning and published in 2006.
While touring as a main act on the 2006 Warped Tour , the band began the process of writing songs for their second album. Once finished, the band flew to Los Angeles to record their record with Butch Walker . As of December 23, 2006, the band had officially finished…
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The band went on to play influential American festivals in 2006 such as Coachella and Lollapalooza .
The band’s name, according to lead singer Matt Shultz, came from an incident in 2006 when a mentally disabled man approached the band after a show. He hugged Shultz and kept repeating the sentence “You have to cage the elephant” over and over again. This explanation has been the subject…
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Shortly after this, The Back Room hit the million mark in sales worldwide and was also nominated for the 2006 Mercury Prize .
(both the AA-side “L. Wells” and the video-clip “Jeremy Fraser” are not featured on the album, recorded in early 2006 during the band’s tour of Australia in support of the album)
You Could Have It So Much Better went on to earn a nomination for Best Alternative Album at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards in 2006, as did “Do You Want To” for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
The band finished recording their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not , at Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire in January 2006 with British record producer Jim Abbiss producing. Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not became the fastest-selling debut album in UK chart history,…
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In 2006, the band received NME awards for ‘Best Album’ for Employment and ‘Best Dressed’ for Ricky Wilson.