Photos: Idles, Fontaines D.C. share the love at Brooklyn Steel

It felt like New York’s entire music scene had descended on Brooklyn for last Friday’s (May 10th) gig at the Steel venue featuring Idles and Fontaines D.C. There were plenty of fans who’d made even longer journeys too; whether it be near, far or wide, no-one left in any doubt that what had been witnessed was two of the best bands to emerge from the UK and Ireland in a long, long time.

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“And so Brooklyn laps up Idles’ bite against the fire-stoking British tabloid press on Rottweiler as if The Sun is splashed all over their breakfast news every morning, to the eternal tug-of-war over the NHS on Divide And Conquer as if Obama Care hadn’t caused enough turmoil of its own,” Live4ever’s review reads.

“To songs written for these people, and this time. Songs held together by Jon Beavis, who’s (not so) quietly becoming one of the best rock drummers in the business. The band are tight from so much time on the road; an air of anarchy remains, but it’s slightly more organised chaos these days.”

“Only slightly more; there’s still an extended breakdown during Love Song which amounts to a mad Idles duet in which Joe Talbot and Mark Bowen scream missives at each other understood only by themselves; there’s still Where’s My Ice Cream?; there’s still a false start which results in Bowen being brought to the front of the class to explain himself. “We’ve been looking after him for 11 years,” Talbot sighs.”