In June 2017, at the outset of their European tour ahead of the album Violence, British post-punk band Editors from Birmingham—whose early works like The Back Room (2005) revived Joy Division's brooding sound in danceable form—debuted at Lollapalooza Paris, the inaugural European edition of the iconic American festival launched in 1991, drawing 100,000 attendees to the Hippodrome in the Bois de Boulogne. Their hour-long set, rich with atmospheric guitar textures and Tom Smith's emotive delivery, capped the day, fusing melancholy with festival drive under summer sun. As part of Lollapalooza's continental expansion, this performance underscored the band's evolution from underground roots to mature command, transforming the Parisian stage into a realm of emotional trance.