Idlewild (band)

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Idlewild
Idlewild performing at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, December 2008
Background information
Origin	Edinburgh, Scotland
Genres	Indie rock alternative rock post-Britpop punk rock
Years active	1995–2010 2013–present
Labels	Cooking Vinyl Sanctuary Pye Parlophone Capitol
Members	Roddy Woomble Rod Jones Colin Newton Luciano Rossi Andrew Mitchell Allan Stewart
Past members	Gareth Russell Gavin Fox Phil Scanlon Bob Fairfoull

Idlewild are a Scottish rock band formed in Edinburgh in 1995. The band's line-up consists of Roddy Woomble (lead vocals), Rod Jones (guitar, backing vocals), Colin Newton (drums), Andrew Mitchell (bass), and Luciano Rossi (keyboards). To date, Idlewild have released nine full-length studio albums.

Initially, Idlewild's sound was faster and more dissonant than many of their 1990s indie rock contemporaries. However, it developed over time from an edgy and angular sound (as heard in their early material—once described by the NME as "the sound of a flight of stairs falling down a flight of stairs"^[1]) to a sweeping, melodic rock sound as displayed on The Remote Part and Warnings/Promises.

In 2010, the band entered an indefinite hiatus, but reunited in late 2013 to record their seventh album, Everything Ever Written, released in 2015. This was followed by Interview Music in 2019.