Bristol based IDLES have unveiled their video for new track ‘Well Done’. Displaying their increasingly quirky characteristic, it’s a brilliant blend of anger, frustration, humour and a blatant disregard for musical convention.
“Never in my lifetime has the class divide been so violently apathetic and apparent in equal measure and so ‘Well Done’ is a simple riposte to a lifetime of advice from the Saturday night TV congregation and the ivory tower fucks that think it necessary to send “helpful” quips in the direction of the working classes,” front-person Joe Talbot tells NME. “The performance video is what we hoped for: a glorious and elaborate hoax of what we are live. You can’t capture our gigs unless you’re there. That’s it. We are one of the best live bands you’ll ever see and a video will not capture that in any way whatsoever so we dressed in white to capture our inner barn owls. It was a fucking mess but we enjoyed working under the roof of the Arnolfini.”
Check out the video below, followed by many opportunities to catch IDLES live.
OCTOBER
04 EXETER Phoenix
07 BRISTOL The Exchange
08 BOURNEMOUTH The Anvil
09 OXFORD The Bullingdon
13 OXFORD O2 Academy*
14 LONDON Islington Academy*
15 LONDON Islington Academy*
21 LEEDS Wardrobe
22 BRISTOL Simple Things Festival
29 CARDIFF Four Bars^
NOVEMBER
04 REYKJAVIK, ICELAND Iceland Airwaves Festival
06 CHESTER Live Rooms
07 BIRMINGHAM Academy 3
09 READING Oakford Social Club
10 CAMBRIDGE Portland Arms
11 DERBY The Hairy Dog
13 SHEFFIELD Rocking Chair
14 WAKEFIELD Unity Works
*w/ Dead Kennedys
^w/ PILE