Editors at large: a chart-topping British indie band trades in Mum's tea for a Stateside tour. Sally Singer bunks with the boys.(ROAD SHOW)

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Publication Date: 01-SEP-06

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Editors--there is no article arc sitting in the front lounge of a tour bus driving between Seattle and San Francisco. The approach to El Cerrito, California, is spent watching a live satellite broadcast of a British Premier League soccer match between also-rans Portsmouth and Wigan. The band's four members come from unremarkable places like Ipswich and suburban Nottingham, and they feel a certain affinity for the provincial strugglers who are in effect served up as a curtain-raiser to a Chelsea-Manchester United game later in the day. For two years, Editors were themselves a supporting act for the likes of Franz Ferdinand and played constantly throughout the U.K. Now, with their debut album, The Back Room. they are England's second-biggest-selling indie band,...

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