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Idlewild have announced details of a special UK and Ireland tour, marking their 25th anniversary as a band.
The Scottish rockers, who released their most recent album, ‘Interview Music’, in 2019, will head around the country in November.
- Read more: Idlewild – ‘Interview Music’ review
The dates begin in Cardiff at Tramshed on November 4, before the band play London, Manchester, Dublin and Belfast, before finishing the tour with a hometown show in Edinburgh at the Usher Hall.
Tickets for the new dates go on sale on Friday (March 13) at 9am.
To celebrate 25 years we are delighted to announce a series of anniversary shows in the UK and Ireland this November.
Tickets go on general sale this Friday at 9am, but members of our mailing list can access a special pre-sale from 9am Wednesday – https://t.co/toJiR9O8kK pic.twitter.com/leNy1AMD2Y
— Idlewild (@IdlewildtheBand) March 9, 2020
Speaking of the tour, frontman Roddy Woomble says:”When Rod, Colin and I met and formed idlewild in 1995, I don’t suppose any of us expected that we’d still be playing shows and recording songs together twenty five years later.
“It feels great to get the chance to celebrate the records and songs we have made together over the last quarter of a century with our fans, and these very special concerts will feature all the band members who have been part of the Idlewild family and story since 1995.
Idlewild will play:
November
4th – Tramshed, Cardiff
5th – Electric Brixton, London
9th – O2 Ritz, Manchester
10th – Button Factory, Dublin
11th – The Empire, Belfast
14th – Usher Hall, Edinburgh
‘Interview Music’ came out last April. In a four-star review of the album, NME wrote: Free from commercial constraints, Idlewild are reinvigorated.
“‘Interview Music’ is their best work in 17 years. They seem driven by the joy of making music great again. It won’t change the world, but record is a wonderful world all of their own.”
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