The talks between Idles frontman and the fans will start in The Y Theatre in Leicester on 19th November, then in The Foundry in Sheffield on the 20th November and finally in London’s Sebright Arms on 4th December. Get your tickets here. The shows will also have live music from OK Cane, Hands Off Gretal and Cat SFX.

On sale now! @idlesband’s Joe Talbot In Conversation with Alan McGee https://t.co/O2XcMrcAsS pic.twitter.com/DBr3hRllJL

— The Y Theat-aaargh! (@TheYTheatre) October 25, 2021

Live Q&A talk with Talbot will come shortly after the release of Idles’ new album Crawler that is out on 12th November. The upcoming record delves into “the worst years of my life but also the best, the most brilliant” Idles frontman said about the album. “If you don’t like hearing tales of struggle then you won’t like it. But it makes me feel happy because I’m here. I’m alive.”

Last month the band released “the most important song” from the upcoming album, “Beachland Ballroom”. “The song is sort of an allegory of feeling lost and getting through it. It’s one that I really love singing” explained Talbot. 

At the moment Idles are in the middle of their 23 dates North America tour that’s been sold out. The band will tour UK and Ireland, starting off next year January. More info about the tickets and dates you can find in mxdwn article here.

Meanwhile, in a recent interview with Mojo, Joe Talbot commented about Idles’ latest album Ultra Mono, which came out during the pandemic. It was released in September 2020, when live music in the UK was out of the question. “I think that album translated badly as a home-listening device. The whole point of that record was to build a narrative with our audience” he said. 

“The album itself was a caricature of what people thought of us and we wanted to kind of twist that up and then burn that effigy so we would start ‘Crawler’” he added. Ultra Mono been well translated for the fans as the album reached No1 in the UK Charts and stayed there for a whole week. 

He said that another version of the old albums cant be made anymore “because we’ve done it. To death“. “We’ve done the biggest loudest most brash big rock album version of ourselves we can and we won’t go back there. We have to move forward“.

Idles has recently been added as a headliner in next year 2000Trees festival. It will take place between 6-10th July 2022, more info you can find here.

The fourth studio album Crawler is out on 12th November and can be pre-ordered here. 

.@CreationDayFest line-up announced! #GigTickets on sale Friday 23 October at 10am. https://t.co/nvEUXuo6CN pic.twitter.com/ULyCDzWvUe

— Get To The front (@gettothefront) October 16, 2020

Happy Mondays and Echo and the Bunnymen head up the bill on the first day of the festival (Saturday 29th May); which will also feature sets from Echobelly, Merseyside rockers Cast and Kirkcaldy four-piece Shambolics. Day Two (Sunday 30th May) is headed up by Editors, who scored noughties hits with Munich and Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors; Friendly Fires; Ash and Glasvegas.

Glasvegas’ set will coincide with the release of their upcoming fourth studio album Godspeed. The Scottish outfit, who burst onto the scene in 2008 with their Phil Spector-influenced debut album Glasvegas, dropped their latest single Keep Me A Space in August. The rousing track returns the band to the melodic ‘wall of sound’ feel which powered their excellent early singles Geraldine and Daddy’s Gone.

Other acts featuring on Day Two of the festival include indie rockers Sleeper, who reformed in 2017 after a nineteen year hiatus; Leeds veterans The Wedding Present; and Anglo-Italian alt-rock four-piece Cat FX, who have been hailed by Clash Magazine as a “rebel force… continually championing the underdog“.

The Creation Day Festival website promises a two-day event that “…testifies to a trailblazing history and a vibrant future…the ultimate celebration of all things Creation, as orchestrated by the man, the myth and the legend behind it all.” The man in question, Alan McGee – who famously helped launch the careers of Super Furry Animals, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, Teenage Fanclub and Oasis during his tenure at Creation Records – has recently spoken of his disenchantment with the modern music scene.

In an interview with NME, he said “You’ve got to accept that the music industry and media don’t want young, punky indie rock n’ roll bands. They just don’t. That makes it easier for me, as the quality I’m signing up is incredible. I don’t know if it will ever change, because the culture is just so different now. There are other people doing great stuff… I don’t know if there’s a happy ending for the industry if it stops putting out records by hungry indie punk rock ‘n’ roll bands. But I’m not trying to change anything, I’m just doing it because I like doing it.”

McGee – who has stated that he wants the Creation Day Festival to become an annual event – will hope that his new summer showcase can demonstrate that the British indie scene still has plenty left in the tank. Tickets for the Creation Day Festival are available online from 23rd October at www.ticketmaster.co.uk/creation-day