In the winter of 2003, the band celebrated the release of its EP with a show at Montreal’s Casa del Popolo . Before a crowd packed beyond capacity, the band’s set ended (in the middle of an encore) with an argument between Butler and Reed, in which Reed quit the…
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In the autumn of 2003, after graduation, the band relocated to Birmingham, the home of their management and the nearest big city.
Howard Bilerman joined the band on drums in the summer of 2003, and they began to play shows together, and record the album that would end up becoming Funeral . The promise shown by the new band in their early live shows allowed them to land a record contract with…
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The following summer the band self-released a demo six-track EP, of which all six songs went on to become future Editors songs.
On 18 November 2002 the band released the DVD Phase One: Celebrity Take Down , which contained all of the band’s released visual content up to that point along with other extras.
In October 2002 the band won the first-ever Q magazine “Innovation Award”.
On 1 July 2002 a remix album titled Laika Come Home was released, containing most of the tracks from Gorillaz remixed in dub and reggae style by the DJ group Spacemonkeyz .
The concerts held in Paris at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy were filmed and later released in May 2002 as a live DVD entitled One Night in Paris .
The band was initially known as Pilot and played its first show under that name in 2002. While in college, the band constructed a marketing strategy which involved placing hundreds of promotional stickers across the walls of Stafford asking “Who’s the Pilot?”. They realised the name was already taken by…
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In 2002, Ann and Nancy returned to the road with a brand-new Heart lineup including Scott Olson, Ben Smith, Alice in Chains bassist Mike Inez , and keyboardist Tom Kellock.