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Idlewild @ The Hanover Grand

added 02 July 2003 at 05.29

With new album ‘The Remote Part’ and the accompanying breakthrough single ‘You Held The World In Your Arms’ Idlewild are on the verge of exploding into the mainstream. Proving that their time is now, Roddy Woomble and co delivered a tight, impassioned performance, drawing on their impressive back catalogue as well their finest record to date.

‘(I Am) What I Am Not’ One of ‘The Remote Part’s many highlights, the trademark pummelling Idlewild guitar is well in evidence here, thundering along behind the frenetic chorus like a freight train [Dial-Up] [Broadband]

‘Little Discourage’ First single from the critically acclaimed ‘100 Broken Windows’ album, this ironically defiant biopic is one of the earlier signs of Idlewild’s ability to blend their relentless guitar attack with a pop sensibility. [Dial-Up] [Broadband]

‘You Held The World In Your Arms’ Breakthrough single from ‘The Remote Part’ and, along with ‘American English’, the song most likely to propel them to a wider audience. Epic in scope and sentiment without ever once resembling a power ballad. [Dial-Up] [Broadband]

‘I’m A Message’ From the band’s debut album proper, 1998’s ‘Hope Is Important’. Staccato guitars and vocals build to a triumphant conclusion. [Dial-Up] [Broadband]

‘These Wooden Ideas’ From ‘100 Broken Windows’. A sweeping, airborne paen to luddism. In many ways the quintessential Idlewild song. [Dial-Up] [Broadband]

‘A Modern Way Of Letting Go’ From ‘The Remote Part’. Another exploration of a favourite theme; the unpleasant drawbacks that all too often lurk behind modern society’s attempts at progress. Raucous and wild. [Dial-Up] [Broadband]

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