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Rating: A bit late... but here it is.
It was almost predictable for me a great concert, full of emotions and packed with energy, although just after returning to Italy, I discovered that Roddy wasn't quite at one hundred percent that night, and indeed, they had to cancel and postpone the following date.
I'm talking about the Idlewild concert held on March 23 at the Hammersmith Palais in London. After wanting to see one of their concerts for too long - even though not so much time had passed since the two performances before the REM concerts in Cardiff and London in the summer of 2005 - I decided, just after discovering their mini-tour in the UK, to see them in London. The concert proved to be a true triumph of emotions where, fortunately, I got the chance to hear many of my favorite songs, both new and old. In fact, this mini-tour, Idlewild embarked on just after the release of their latest studio work, "Make Another World," an album full of guitar-rock, which brings the sound of the five Scots back to their early career days when they played a punk-rock filled with "pixiesian" reminiscences and shortly after, early "remmian" echoes.
Great, so the concert went on happily and energetically, almost like a best of their career, and of course, there were moments dedicated to their most touching songs like American English and Live In A Hiding Place and beloved tracks like Roseability. A setlist full of surprises that pulled pieces from the first albums like When I Argue I See Shapes or Everyone Says You're So Fragile from the second album "Hope Is Important" and from the latest work with Future Works, Everything As It Moves and, of course, their lead single, If It Takes You Home. An hour and a half of pure exciting and moving rock in which Idlewild had fun and made the audience have fun, demonstrating how they are a band for the stage and how they can convey intense vibrations and emotions not just from a record.
Small side note for the opening group, the Georgians "Now It's Overhead," who properly warmed up (at least as far as I'm concerned!) the Palais's audience in anticipation of the Scots.
A splendid concert then, of a great band that makes excellent songs and that, in my opinion, should have the fortune of being more followed and appreciated. But perhaps their charm also lies in this, in being one of those small great niche bands (albeit with a substantial fan base) that stays in the corner crafting both touching and energetic songs that only a few truly appreciate.
I also take this opportunity to highlight the release of the album "Ballads Of The Book," a splendid album conceived by Roddy Woomble and Edwin Morgan, which puts to music (by many in the Scottish rock-folk scene) poems by Scottish poets and artists. Beautiful.
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