Idlewild

Idlewild

8 Jan 2009

ROCK RESIDENCY This was always going to be a sentimental trip, Idlewild revisiting each of their albums over consecutive nights. In my case, seeing the band for the first time on the 100 Broken Windows tour in 2000 and now again, eight years later…

Hogmanay in Glasgow and Edinburgh 2008

13 Dec 2007

Kirstin Innes looks at the options for celebrating Hogmanay in Glasgow this year while Allan Radcliffe discovers the traditional meeting the contemporary in a diverse programme of events for the capital’s Hogmanay.

Hogmanay 2008 - Glasgow Highlights

11 Dec 2008

If the live gigs from Idlewild (pictured below), Bleachie and Paolo Nutini don’t grab you, we’ve got some other suggestions for how to get your Hogmanay kicks around town. Glasgow racks up its cool points (and not just the temperature ones) with…

Idlewild - King Tut's, Glasgow, Wed 17th December 2008

18 Dec 2008

‘I think I just came in my pants!’, bellowed one excitable sort during a lull, and Roddy Woomble treated his well-intentioned contribution with the amused wince it deserved. The band, and particularly the lanky Woomble, are much too polite to get caught…

The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival

2 Oct 2008

‘Anyone can suffer from mental health issues, regardless of your walk of life,’ says Idlewild’s Rod Jones, curator of a music evening during the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. ‘It’s something I really wanted to get involved in. It’s…

Drever McCusker Woomble - Before the Ruin

4 Sep 2008

The crossing of normally disparate musical boundaries is always to be applauded, although it’s not automatically the green light to genius that reviewers sometimes make out. This collaboration from two generations of folkies – Kris Drever and John…

Music DVD Round-Up

15 Nov 2007

Oasis show their capacity to entertain remains undiminished on Lord Don’t Slow Me Down (Sony) ••• which follows Noel and Co round the world on the tour to support Don’t Believe the Truth. More accurately it shows the relentlessness and tedium of touring…

Idlewild

18 Oct 2007

ROCK A Distant History (Parlophone) Ask anyone who’s ever poured over Cure outtakes or Pulp B-sides. When you get to know a band’s back catalogue intimately, after time it’s the bits in between that hold the greatest fascination. After ten years…

Idlewild

11 Dec 2008

ROCK RESIDENCY It’s a good time to be an Idlewild fan. For one thing there’s a new album on the way, set to be released in April, and before that we have this one-off run of King Tut’s shows – that’s six brilliant records delivered live, across five…

Idlewild to perform all of their albums live

15 Sep 2008

Idlewild have announced that they are to perform each of their albums in their entirety at dates scheduled for December 2008.

Tigerfest

8 May 2008

This year’s Tigerfest once again brings some of the most exciting Scottish acts to Dunfermline and Fife, but also branches out with gigs in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Names like Twilight Sad, Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake and Paul Haig will all be gracing…

New gigs announced, 2 May - Paul Weller, White Lies and more

2 May 2008

Some more freshly-announced Scottish gigs to consider over the weekend: Paul Weller will be playing Glasgow SECC on 14 November. Tickets are on sale now. White Lies , who play the NME New Noise Tour next week, return to Glasgow with a date in…

The importance of being idle

27 Nov 2008

Idlewild have announced plans for fans to get involved in their forthcoming album. Although there will be an album release in the summer, for a limited time, fans can pre-order a special edition album, along with extras. Check out…

Music Like A Vitamin: Vitamin A

23 Oct 2008

Praise should be heaped on Idlewild’s Rod Jones, the man behind Music Like a Vitamin, for organising the double-header of concerts on behalf of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. Thursday’s show, Vitamin A, compered by the…

Exposure - Desalvo

18 Sep 2008

Desalvo’s sound is a furious battle between prog showmanship and math metal technicality, all drenched in black, black humour. Imagine the aural equivalent of watching as that fella in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom tears your heart out and shows…

West End Festival

5 Jun 2008

Best for al fresco frolicking There is of course more to the West End Festival than Scotland’s Mardi Gras (pictured), but the impact of 500+ musicians and costumed revellers stopping traffic on Byres Road (Sun 15 Jun) is not to be sniffed at. Propping…

Waterboys set for top billing at Tartan Heart

15 Apr 2008

He's a singer, he's a songwriter and he can play almost as many instruments as the London Symphony Orchestra. Now Mike Scott is set to top the bill with his band Waterboys at the Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival in Inverness-shire. Joining them…

Idlewild, Paul Haig and Twilight Sad to headline Tigerfest

4 Mar 2008

Organisers of Dunfermline’s own mini-festival Tigerfest have announced that Idlewild are among the headliners for their month-long series of shows in May this year. Around 20 bands will play in venues across Dunfermline between 2 and 30 May.

Idlewild interview

10 Sep 2007

Few bands can last 12 years these days, so it’s refreshing to hear that Idlewild are as invigorated as ever about their musical predicament. Roddy Woomble tells Doug Johnstone why ‘We’ve always been the band of bad timing, haven’t we?’ laughs Idlewild…

Idlewild - album review

IDLEWILD

13 Feb 2007

ROCK (Sequel) Around the time of his folky solo project’s first release, Roddy Woomble hinted at a return to heavy music for his main band Idlewild. And boy was he right. Make Another World sees the Edinburgh quintet get back to blasting out…

Singles & downloads

3 Jan 2007

With the annual Christmas bunfight over with, January always provides space for some decent songs to come to the fore. Step up Amy Winehouse featuring Ghostface Killah (now there’s a date to gooseberry) with ‘You Know I’m No Good’ (Island - 3 stars), a…

Idlewild

(15) 121min

2 Oct 2006

GANGSTER There is a tendency in African American cinema and culture (think Chester Himes novels) to romanticise the 1930s, a world depicted in Harlem Nights, Cotton Comes to Harlem and the first hour of Malcolm X as a time of black gangsters that…

Tartan Heart Festival returns in August

24 Apr 2008

Following its success last year, the Tartan Heart Festival returns to Beauly in Inverness-shire on 8–9 Aug. Among the acts confirmed thus far are Scouting for Girls, The Waterboys, Idlewild, Edwyn Collins and Nouvelle Vague.

Idlewild

23 Aug 2007

‘We’ve always been the band of bad timing, haven’t we?’ laughs Idlewild singer Roddy Woomble. ‘We’re perennially called underachievers or underdogs, because we’ve always put out records that are out of sync with what’s being played on the radio. We’re…

Ballads of the Book

16 Aug 2007

The relationship between music and literature has always been a strong and natural one, but never has that bond been tighter than with the Ballads of the Book project. Described by Chemikal Underground as a ‘meteoric creative hoopla’, it brought…

Singles and downloads

Singles and downloads

13 Feb 2007

An almighty Single of the Fortnight has this reviewer’s eager digits already itching to rattle off their glowing textual praise. But first credit where it’s due to some of the largely stiff short-playing competition coming your way in the next 14 days…

Dispatch - Roddy Woomble

Roddy Woomble ponders the big birthday question: a

4 Sep 2006

I never really ever expect anything for my birthday, which is why in recent years I’ve been unexpectedly surprised and delighted by the way things have turned out. This year I spent it on a beach in Iona, eating banana and pineapple birthday cake, then…