Idles performing at The Fillmore in San Francisco (Wade Atkinson for Live4ever)
Idles are back in North America for their latest visit after the release of Joy As An Act Of Resistance last year. It was at The Fillmore in San Francisco on October 10th where Live4ever got our taste of the tour, the gallery comes courtesy of Wade Atkinson.
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During their last tour of the States in the spring, we were at Brooklyn Steel and found those in attendance ‘lapping 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. 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.”
