On October 3, 2025, the band released its tenth studio album, Idlewild , on V2 Records . Produced by Jones and the band itself, the album was released to positive reviews and became the band’s highest charting album in over twenty years, reaching number sixteen on the UK Albums Chart…
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In February 2021 a retrospective book written by Woomble, In the Beginning There Were Answers: 25 Years of Idlewild, was published.
In March 2020, Idlewild announced a November tour of UK and Ireland to mark the band’s 25th anniversary but due to the COVID-19 pandemic the dates were rescheduled for November 2021.
Idlewild marked the 15th anniversary of The Remote Part by playing the album in full at two Christmas 2017 shows at the ABC in Glasgow, which sold out within a day, and Koko in London. The second Glasgow show was notable for surprise guest appearances by former Idlewild members Stewart…
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An end to the band’s hiatus was made public in September 2013, by which point Russell and Stewart had left to be replaced by multi-instrumentalist Luciano Rossi. The band started recording a new album in January 2014. Seventh studio album, Everything Ever Written , was released in February 2015. In…
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As 2001 began, the band re-entered the studio, this time with producer Stephen Street , to record songs written in the last half of 2000. While happy with the results the band put their next album aside to tour America. American music magazine Spin named 100 Broken Windows the “number…
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Initial emails indicated a release date to fans who had pre-ordered the album of mid-April, but the album was eventually mailed out on 10 June 2009. Fans who pre-ordered the album were also allowed to download their choice of live tracks that the band had recorded at the King Tut’s…
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On 21 November the band sent an email to fans on the mailing list offering them a chance to pre-order the new album (along with “exclusive packaging & including at least one bonus track”) to be “shipped within weeks of completion”. All fans who bought the album this way would…
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A new song, “City Hall”, appeared in a setlist, and the band entered the studio in January 2009. On his online diary, Woomble noted that he had: “been trying to work on lyrics for the new Idlewild record. At the moment it has the possibility of being about anything, so…
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In December 2008 the band played five shows at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut , playing each of their studio albums in full. Woomble noted that the band were “going to try to play every track [they had] ever written – including B-sides – which has to be more than…
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