Editors are pleased to announce their headlining slot at Belgium’s Rock Werchter Festival 2012 on Sat 30th June. They are also playing the Main Square Festival, Arras, France on Fri 29th June.

The band are currently recording their fourth album and will be performing new songs from the upcoming record, alongside material spanning their entire back catalogue.

Rock Werchter is one of the five biggest annual rock festivals in Europe. Other acts scheduled to perform at the festival include The Cure, Pearl Jam and Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Rock Werchter remains one of Editors favourite festivals in the world and the band are proud and excited to be headlining in 2012.

I realise it’s been a while since you’ve all heard some new music from us (apart from the couple of tracks we’ve been throwing about in recent live shows) so I thought I’d give you a bit of an update of our plans. We have been working hard on new material over the last few months and, all being well, it will be with you next year. We had a bit of a false start with what we were doing and realised that we needed to get back into a room and rehearse hard, reconstructing songs and not thinking ‘we’ll write this in the studio..’. Rehearsing the songs in a room and over a longer period of time isn’t something we’ve done since ‘The Back Room’ and in truth bands these days don’t often get the luxury of working on a record like they worked on their debut. We all felt that we needed to put that time and effort in and it’s been great to get the energy and volume up in a room where we are ready to play and record the songs rather than the other way round. You soon realize when road testing material what is working and what’s not!

Smith & Burrows’ album, Funny Looking Angels, is up on The Sun’s website to hear in full ahead of it’s release on November 28th. Funny Looking Angels is a Christmas album from Tom Smith and Andy Burrows (We Are Scientists, Razorlight, I Am Arrows).

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/3949310/Smith-and-Burrows-get-festive.html

Tom is very excited to announce the collaboration album from Smith & Burrows aka Tom Smith from Editors and Andy Burrows from I Am Arrows/We Are Scientists/Razorlight. Their album, Funny Looking Angels is released on November 28th. Visit http://www.smithandburrows.co.uk for your first taste of the album.

What started as two friends popping into each other’s houses and then home studios, putting down an idea here and a melody there, developed into a set of songs with a Christmas theme, then a theoretical album, then a real album with a release date and a title. ‘Funny Looking Angels’ includes original songs from both Tom and Andy but also features a selection of covers. The eclectic choice includes Yazoo’s ‘Only You’, Black’s ‘Wonderful Life’ and a closing track which features guest vocal from rising star Agnes Obel, in a duet with Tom singing a sumptuous version of ‘The Christmas Song’.

Editors are excited to announce that they will play an exclusive concert at Plaza Condesa in Mexico City on October 14th, the night prior to

their scheduled appearance at Corona Capital Festival.

Tickets are available at http://www.ticketmaster.com.mx or by calling 5325-9000.

Watch footage of Editors performing at this year’s EXIT Festival in Serbia over at 4oD (if it’s available in your country!). Editors are approximately 8 mins in.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/exit-festival/4od#3218041

The official Editors forum is currently down for some essential maintenance and spring cleaning. Regrettably it’s been offline for longer than we would’ve liked, but it’s coming back as soon as possible.

Editors are very excited to announce their first visit to Mexico! The band have always wanted to come and will finally be making the trip to perform at the Corona Capital 2011 festival in Mexico City in October.

http://www.coronacapital.com.mx/

Tom Smith has contributed his vocals to Japanese Popstars’ latest single ‘Joshua’.

Click here to watch the video… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4DhgRYMstc

And go here to buy the single… http://bit.ly/koOjfU

We are thrilled to announce that the YOU ARE FADING I-IV (B-SIDES AND RARITIES COLLECTION) is now available to buy exclusively from http://www.editorsofficial.com as a high-quality digital download bundle.

The bundle includes four albums of b-sides, rarities and unreleased tracks from Editors’ history. Artwork for each album is included in PDF format.

The YOU ARE FADING I-IV bundle is available now priced at €12.99/£10.99.