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their live set is pretty much the rest of Brutalism, with bells on. The infectiously catchy, pot-shot slinging of 'Well Done' stirs up a frenzy in the crowd and even a minor vocal false start on the punk-as-you-like 'Stendhal Syndrome' only intensifies the rest of the ...
(January 15, 2024) - A new year comes around and IDLES are already ramping up anticipation for the 16th February release of their new album ‘TANGK’, plus the major UK tour that will follow it.And today, the band have unveiled the new single “Gift Horse”, which has just received ...
Having had much experience of both the MLA and WP platforms, the system tech notes improvement in the rigging system with the newer PA. “The 3-point rigging system has definitely shortened the time from build to tuning,” he commented. “On this tour there have been two of us flying PA...
(2015) Imposter completes this special trilogy which saw Gahan fully embracing his love for bluesy rock and gospel and gave him a much needed spiritual home besides his arena-filling main band. Following an extensive tour to the group’s latest recordSpiritGahan felt quite burned out and wasn...
The Bristol band have now released four albums in as many years, landing their first No.1 withUltra Mono. That record was, admits Bowen, “like a caricature of our identity that helped us see it for all its flaws”. It left some critics wondering if the band might have run out of id...
wanted to thank him for his openness and divulge their own difficult times. It has the feel of a group therapy session. “Our fans, I think they feel like they own us as a band, which is exactly what we want,” he says. “There’s a sense of responsibility that goes with ...
At the moment, IDLES are taking their sweaty, visceral performance of punk empathy down the west coast, in the home stretch of a North American tour that offers nightly proof of the upward trajectory the band is on in this part of the world, having already grabbed their homeland by its th...
band in a long since cancelled intimate Southampton show. Since the world changed so irrevocably earlier this year,IDLEShave done nothing to stop my heart grow increasingly more fond in their live absence, with a series of killer tunes and videos. And in anticipation of their tour in 2021 ...
Walla is also mulling a solo tour, which would return him to club-sized venues for the first time in several years. “One of the things I miss so much now that Death Cab is playing such big places is driving the van,” he admits. “I was the driver on the last five tours before...