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Tag Archives: Idlewild
Idlewild – The Garage, London
Idlewild Web /FB/Myspace/@IdlewildtheBand Fatherson Web /FB/ Myspace/Big Cartel Last gig of the year, most likely, and this time it is Idlewild in the hot, sweaty and gritty (you know what that aphorism means) Garage in Islington, accompanied by the Lad. This … Continue reading
Idlewild Wolverhampton
Almost goes without saying that its a bit of a schlep up to Brum or Wolverhampton at the end of the day for a gig, but needs must. Deeply irked that I missed both the Bristol and Gloucester Idlewild shows … Continue reading
Idlewild – Birmingham Academy
The Lad, Mr International Decorator Supremo and I lined up a little forlornly outside the new Birmingham Academy with another couple of dozen people to see the perennially wonderful Idlewild. Alongside us were 2000 of Birmingham finest 15 year olds … Continue reading
The Twilight Sad – Forget the Night Ahead
The second full length offering from the Twilight Sad sees them, if anything, darker and more unsettled than on Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters or the intervening EP’s. Titles like I Became a Prostitute, The Neighbours Can’t Breathe are testament … Continue reading
Idlewild – Post Electric Blues
This has been a bit of a marathon new music week, and the third new CD to plop through the letterbox was the oh-so eagerly awaited new Idlewild offering. Having fallen out with, walked away from, or somesuch, their last … Continue reading
Idlewild at Dingwalls
There is still something profoundly exciting about lining up for a gig, appropriating your selected spot and waiting in anticipation with a few hundred others for your chosen band. This time we had to trek up to Camden Lock and … Continue reading
Drever, McCusker and Woomble -Before the Ruin
I have long had a deep affection for Idlewild, regrettably now a tad out of fashion – the Scottish undertow, the sort-of punky attitude but with a slice of literary influences and probably, it has to be said , my … Continue reading




