Idles join the bill for 2017 Neighbourhood Festival

Idles have joined the bill for the 2017 Neighbourhood Festival.

Ratboy, Peace, Cabbage, Superfood, The Amazons, The Strypes, Estrons and The Vryll Society are some of those you’ll already find on the line-up for the various Manchester city centre venues which will be a part of the event on October 7th.

We had a chat with Idles at the South By Southwest Festival in Texas earlier this year and discovered the underlying ethos which resulted in their debut album Brutalism. “We’ve always been about togetherness and being open minded, caring and focused around love and passion towards humans, humanity, but in a violent and angry sounding way,” they said.

“If you’re making music, first and foremost you have to serve yourself. You’re not going to play music for other people on the off chance. Because then there’s not going to be any authenticity in it, and there’s not going to be any love coming from you if you’re saying, ‘oh, loads of people will listen to that’.”