When Roddy Woomble looks back over Idlewild’s career, he sees a band constantly out of step with whatever is happening around them. With the hindsight of being in a band whose 30th anniversary is ...

Featuring the single “Architecture In LA,” Lo! Soul is the new solo album from acclaimed singer/songwriter Roddy Woomble (also the frontman of Idlewild). Working in isolation together with his ...

Idlewild vocalist Roddy Woomble, who brings his band to The City this week, has attempted to describe the rustic beauty of Mull, the Inner Hebrides island off the coast of Scotland where he lives. But ...

Idlewild have unveiled their first new music in over five years. The band's new album Everything Ever Written - written and recorded in the past year - will be released on February 9, 2015. Pre-orders ...

Scottish indie punk vets Idlewild have announced their 10th album and first in six years. It’s self-titled and will be out October 3 via V2 Records. “We’re looking back without being nostalgic — we ...

Idlewild cut their teeth playing small pubs and tiny clubs around Scotland - now the indie rock veterans feel those venues need protected for generations to come. Scores of venues have been forced to ...

Idlewild, those onetime punk pups, are 30 years old this year and will be marking the occasion, not with some greatest hits tour, but a new album, called simply Idlewild. There is a sense of the ...

It’s been a decade since the release of Before The Ruin – the collaborative album between three of Scotland’s best current writers and performers – award winning folk musicians John McCusker, Kris ...

It’s a story as old as time. Or as old as the music industry, at least. Major label pumps money into band destined for big things, but then it doesn’t quite work out as planned. Yet 20 years after the ...

Roddy Woomble, singer with once-good-but-not-anymore Scottish guitar-slingers Idlewild, has announced details of his second release outside of the band. It's a collaboration with friends Kris Drever ...

Idlewild singer Roddy Woomble is to release a solo album in July. That doesn't mean the band are splitting, mind. The as-yet-untitled record's said to be a folk-styled effort, a departure from the ...