IDLES announce 25 date tour and release date for album Brutalism

IDLES have announced a massive 25 date UK tour for March/April 2017 as well as the release date for their debut album.

Brutalism will come out on March 10th, while the band will set off on their trip of the UK on the 6th of the same month.

Described as ‘post-punk polemics’, the group are politically charged and not afraid to voice their opinion on whatever subject they see fit.

Steve Lamacq of BBC 6 Music has described them as: “hard to capture, because they’re not Fat White Family, they’re not Sleaford Mods, they are very much their own incarnation of uncompromising rhythmical punk rock.

“Lyrically, a mixture of dry obsessional humour and poetic slogans. But, best of all, they really get the adrenalin pumping”.

While his colleague Tom Robinson also marked them out as ones to watch for 2017 when he said they were: “Wilder than a very wild thing marked wild in the wild shop in the middle of the wild wild wood.

“An IDLES live show is not quite like anything that you have ever seen or heard. Its got all the ingredients taken from rock n roll’s rich history but the synthesis is entirely their own. The wild men of Bristol.”

Full tour dates are as follows:

March 2017
Monday 6th – Cambridge – Portland Arms
Wednesday 8th – Bristol – The Fleece
Thursday 9th – Colchester – Arts Centre
Friday 10th – London – Moth Club
Sunday 12th – Southampton – The Notes Café
Tuesday 14th – Birmingham – The Hare And Hounds
Wednesday 15th – Guildford – Boileroom
Thursday 16th – Brighton – The Prince Albert
Friday 17th – Tunbridge Wells – Forum
Saturday 18th – Bedford – Esquires
Monday 20th – Oxford – The Bullingdon
Tuesday 21st – Sheffield – The Plug
Wednesday 22nd – Newcastle Upon Tyne – Think Tank
Thursday 23rd – Aberdeen – Tunnels
Friday 24th – Dundee – Buskers
Saturday 25th – Edinburgh – Sneaky Pete’s
Monday 27th – York – The Crescent
Tuesday 28th – Hull – The Adelphi
Wednesday 29th – Nottingham – The Bodega
Thursday 30th – Liverpool – O2 Academy 2
Friday 31st – Wakefield – Unity Hall