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Idlewild: Glasgow 13th Note Club
The kids are alright, and they all come out for Idlewild...
- Feb 12, 2001
Idlewild: 'Scottish Fiction: Best Of 1997-2007'
'This traces their descent from brilliant to bland'
- Sep 27, 2007
- 9 comments
100 Broken Windows
[B]'100 Broken Windows'[/B] gracefully enacts the sort of awkward, jarring progression another band would take several albums to complete...
- Apr 5, 2000
Idlewild : The Modern Way Of Letting Go
...make even the most obscure emo lyrics feel like Big Grand Obvious Statements...
- Feb 18, 2003
Idlewild : London W1 Hanover Grand
The storm around them is just about to get a lot, lot bigger
- Jul 30, 2002
Kirkwall Arts Theatre
A lass shyly edges her way to the mini-moshpit in front of the stage. "What do I do?" she asks a friend. "You just jump and down like THIS!" shouts her chum...
- Aug 22, 1999
Aberdeen Glow 303
To say they are furkang broilient is to spell it wrong because you're too busy moshing to write coherent notes. ..
- Nov 4, 1998
Idlewild : American English
This week's Single Of The Week has a 'chorus so monumental it makes K2 look like a pimple on a midge's cock'...
- Jun 25, 2002
Hope Is Important
Take note, aspiring popsters: this is the way to go about making your debut LP....
- Sep 23, 1998









