IDLES pop-up art exhibition 30/31 August 2018
Exhibition: Pop-up art exhibition to raise money for Samaritans
Date: 30/31 August 2018
More info: Band website
IDLES announce pop-up art exhibition to raise money for Samaritans
Live in-store dates to promote the new album
First ever global tour, including their biggest London headliner
IDLES have announced an art exhibition to celebrate the release of their second album ‘Joy as an Act of Resistance’ out on Partisan Records. Pre-order the album here.
Open for two days, between 12pm and 8pm, and curated by the band, the exhibition will take place at HM Electrics Gallery, 65 Nile St, London N1 7RD
The gallery will contain 18 pieces of work across several mediums, with contributions from:
- Orlando Weeks
- Nigel Talbot
- Tao Lapsley
- Russell Oliver
- Robin Stewart
- Tom Ham
- Dapper Signs
- Chris Nicholls
- Ed Barrett
- Beth Cater
The gallery will be free entry and artwork on display available to buy, with all proceeds going to the Samaritans charity. Watch the IDLES gallery video here.
The band have also announced a run of live in-store dates around the album:
30 Aug UK London, Banquet Records, 9pm
31 Aug UK Bristol, Rough Trade, 3pm
31 Aug UK Bristol, Rough Trade, 7pm
03 Sep UK Portsmouth, Pie and Vinyl, 1pm
03 Sep UK Brighton, Resident, 6.30pm
04 Sep UK London, Rough Trade East, 7pm
05 Sep UK Sheffield, Record Junkee, 1pm
05 Sep UK Nottingham, Rough Trade, 7.30pm
06 Sep UK Leeds, Crash Records, 1pm
06 Sep UK Manchester, FOPP, 5.30pm
07 Sep UK Cardiff, Spiller Records, 7pm
Last week the band shared further new material in a searing takedown of toxic masculinity entitled ‘Samaritans’. A live favourite for sometime, the Theo Watkins directed music video compiles archival clips displaying traditional masculine imagery. The FADER writes: “”The mask of masculinity is a mask that’s wearing me,” sings front man Joe Talbot over the top of a tight and anxiety-laced guitar riff. It’s the third single… and one of their most confrontational songs to date.” Listen/watch here and feel free to share.
Speaking of the song’s message, front man Joe Talbot says:
“There’s been a long line of bullshit that has pushed men into a corner, where simple masking becomes a trope of masculinity and a catalyst for insanity. What we wear, what we eat, what razor we use, high performance chewing gum, go faster shampoo, how we treat women, how we treat ourselves, how we die. I truly believe that masculinity has gone from an evolution of cultural praxis to a disease. I wanted to encourage a conversation about gender roles by writing this song.”
‘Samaritans’ is the third song to be released from IDLES’s much-anticipated upcoming album ‘Joy As An Act Of Resistance’. Produced by Space and mixed by Adam Greenspan & Nick Launay (Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kate Bush), The album takes aim at everything from nationalism and immigration to class inequality – all while maintaining a visceral, infectious positivity. Singer Joe Talbot summarises: “This album is an attempt to be vulnerable to our audience and to encourage vulnerability; a brave naked smile in this shitty new world. We have stripped back the songs and lyrics to our bare flesh to allow each other to breathe, to celebrate our differences, and act as an ode to communities and the individuals that forge them. Because without our community, we’d be nothing.”
- Read Joe’s full statement on the album’s inspiration and origins here.
- Watch the video for album opener ‘Colossus’ here.
This autumn, IDLES will embark on their first ever global tour, including their biggest London headliner yet at O2 Forum Kentish Town on 18th October. Their last London headliner, at Heaven, sold out nearly six months in front. Tickets are on sale now here.
- Watch the video for pro-immigration anthem and current single ‘Danny Nedelko’ here.
“IDLES might just be the best live guitar band in Europe.” – The Quietus