Ed Lay Bio
Early Life & Career
A native of Ipswich, Lay used to play drums in various local bands since he was a teenager. Lay played drum in a marching band at a young age and got into drums through a school friend. Lay was a student of the Music Technology Program at Staffordshire University, where he met with his band members of Editors. Lay joined the Editors, who were then known as The Pride. After graduation, the band moved into a house in Birmingham in autumn 2003 and aimed at a career as a professional musician.Although often named as a member of the band from the very beginning, Ed Lay replaced Geraint Owen (who now plays drums for the Welsh band The Heights) as a drummer at an early stage in the band's history. Ed Lay made his live debut with the band in March 2003, with the new line-up they initially operated under the name Snowfield.
Albeit Editors were gaining musical popularity, the band members held odd jobs. Lay used to work in a shoe store with Editors' guitarist Chris Urbanowicz. While the band took shape in 2004, the band members gave up their respective part-time jobs in order to devote themselves entirely to music.
Instruments
Ed Lay plays Zildjian and Sonor instruments. He can also be heard occasionally in the background vocals, on the “In Dream” tour he showed up on the synthesizer at the start of the show.Discography
Ed Lay's discography as a member of Editors:Vocals
- Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors -from An End Has A Start (PIAS Recordings, Kitchenware Records, 2007)
Instruments
- The Back Room (Kitchenware Records, 2005)
- Spiders - from An End Has A Start (PIAS Recordings, Kitchenware Records, 2007)
- Unedited (PIAS Recordings, Kitchenware Records, 2011)
Writing & Arrangement
- Bullets (Kitchenware Records, 2005)
- Munich (Kitchenware Records, 2005)
- Blood (Kitchenware Records, 2005)
- The Racing Rats (Kitchenware Records, 2007)
- Push Your Head Towards The Air (Kitchenware Records, 2008)
- B-Sides And Rarities (Fader Label, Epic Records, Kitchenware Records, 2008)
- Bones (PIAS Recordings, 2008)
- Papillion (Kitchenware Records, PIAS Recordings, 2009)
- You Don't Know Love (Kitchenware Records, PIAS Recordings, 2009)
- In This Light And On This Evening (Kitchenware Records, PIAS Recordings, 2009)
- Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool (Kitchenware Records, PIAS Recordings, 2010)
- Formaldehyde (Play It Again Sam, 2013)
- The Weight Of Your Love (Sonic Seducer, 2013)
- Sugar (Play It Again Sam, 2014)
- Life Is A Fear (Play It Again Sam, 2015)
- Marching Orders (Play It Again Sam, 2015)
- Ocean Of Night (Play It Again Sam, 2015)
- In Dream (Play It Again Sam, 2015)
- Violence (Play It Again Sam, 2018)
- Darkness At The Door (Play It Again Sam, 2018)
- Cold (UNKLE Mix) (Play It Again Sam, 2018)
- Magazine (Play It Again Sam, 2018)
- Frankenstein (Play It Again Sam, 2019)
- Black Gold (Play It Again Sam, 2019)
- The Black Mass Session (Play It Again Sam, 2019)
- Upside Down (Play It Again Sam, 2020)
Reference
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