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Bristol Gang IDLES Live From The Legendary ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS In London

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1 September 2020

When you’re a band that comes truly alive when being on stage in front of
your out-of-their-head fans it’s hard to be shut up by that evil coronavirus.

But IDLES found a way to ventilate their lockdown energy by hiring the legendary
Abbey Road Studios in London and have themselves a live session party. They
entertained each other with some covers (‘Helter Skelter’ by The Beatles, ‘Reptilia’ by
The Strokes, ‘I Wanna Be Sedated’ by Ramones) and some ripsnorters of their own.

Like these two haymakers. MERCEDES MARXIST, a stunning track destined to be
on their second, breakthrough album Joy As An Act Of Resistance, but wasn’t after
all and SAMARITANS which was one of the highlights of that sophomore LP.

So, while waiting for their third longplayer ULTRA MONO (out 25 September)
let’s join the Bristol motherrockers in London…

– MERCEDES MARXIST –

– SAMARITANS –

IDLES: Facebook

(photos top & bottom by Turn Up The Volume!)

Punk Squad IDLES Shares New Clip For Latest Single ‘MERCEDES MARXIST’…

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Clips that will have an impact on your eyes and your ears…

2 August 2019

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Bristol punks IDLES who hit big time last year with their second full length cannonball
Joy As An Act Of Resistance shared a new fiery cut called ‘MERCEDES MARXIST‘ last May. Now here’s the fresh video clip…

The single is physically & digitally out today. You can purchase it here.
The B-side is the crazily titled ‘I DREAM GUILLOTINE‘. Here’s the audio clip…

IDLES: Facebook

((photo on top Turn Up The Volume!)

Bristol’s Pitbull Punks IDLES Drop New Pounding Punch ‘MERCEDES MARXIST’…

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Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

7 May 2019

After becoming massively famous with the release of last’ year’s second album Joy As An Act Of Resistance and touring the world right now Bristol‘s pit bull punks IDLES still found some time to drop a brand new smack called ‘MERCEDES MARXIST‘. Another characteristic power punch for all pogo fanatics out there. A hitting hammer, both maniacally muscular and madly melodic.

Singer Joe Talbot said in a press statement: “You can see the progression and regression in some ways. It’s us, but a year older. We got bored of certain things and excited by others. We want to write more techno, we want to write more noise, we want to write more pop, and we want to write more country. We’ll just write it until it sounds like something we love, then we’ll put the words on top.”

Unleash the beast here…

IDLES: Facebook


(pics on top and here above by Turn Up the Volume!)