Idles live in Manchester, January 2022 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
“IDLES are one of my favourite bands and I’ve been wanting to work on something together for a while,” Florence Welch said.
IDLES have remixed Florence & The Machine’s Dance Fever album track Heaven Is Here; the band’s guitarist Mark Bowen explaining that the record is, ‘quite a cathartic one for me’.
“Speaking a lot to the yearning for the release of performing but also introspecting on the need itself,” he added. “It lives on the line of tension between the need for release and getting it (is that not the best bit?) no more is this encapsulated on Heaven Is Here. I wanted to sit with that tension but then also lavish in the release on this remix.”
“It might be strange for people to think but I see a lot of symbiosis in what we do in terms of live performance,” Florence continued.
“Connection above all else. Joyful rage and togetherness. A lot of people wished that Heaven Is Here was longer.”
