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Idlewild is tagged as: indie, indie rock, rock, scottish, alternative

Idlewild started out at a flat party in Edinburgh in 1995 where founding band members met and found common ground in musical tastes. The starting line up was Roddy Woomble, Rod Jones, Colin Newton and Phil Scanlon. Scanlon was soon replaced by Bob Fairfoull. Appearing in 1996 as an angry band of Scottish punks with Woomble of Carnoustie leading the band, Idlewild eventually achieved commercial recognition by refining their taste for large-scale guitar rock, and combining it with an apparently unknown gift for melody and tenderness.
1996’s Queen of the Troubled Teens was their debut, a self released 7” single that got praised by popular BBC Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamaq. 1997 saw their next single “Chandelier”, which was released by Feirce Panda. 1998 saw the release of “Captain” (on Deceptive Records) a mini-album of chaotic punk, which, while achieving a significant fanbase among British teenagers, demonstrated little of the facets that would mark them out as such talented indie-rockers. Some of those were seen on that year’s full-length, “Hope Is Important”. Carrying a more subdued, top 20 hit single “When I Argue I See Shapes”, Idlewild started to make commercial and critical inroads. Jeremy Mills joined the band i...
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Top 10 Idlewild Songs
You Held The World In Your Arms
American English
A Modern Way Of Letting Go
Love Steals Us From Loneliness
Live In A Hiding Place
Little Discourage
When I Argue I See Shapes
These Wooden Ideas
No Emotion
Let Me Sleep (Next To The Mirror)
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Top 10 Idlewild Albums
The Remote Part
100 Broken Windows
Hope Is Important
Warnings/Promises
Warnings / Promises
Make Another World
Scottish Fiction: Best of 1997 - 2007
Make a New World
Captain
A Distant History: Rarities 1997 - 2007
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