Are idles band members gay

Which is not to impugn their motives or anything, just to reconfirm that they seem to still be figuring shit out. Stevie those bands sound really cool and interesting including Downtown Boys who I love but every single one of them is from the US and not really relevant to the point I was making.

Ticking off the woke checklist OTM. Most of the time those bands are completely ignored by everyone else in the country - the fact that one of them has got even near the mainstream and that they're also sort of a bit political at the same time suggests a pent up demand, maybe a desperation for something that doesn't appear to exist in Britain right now.

This song is about accepting your flaws" not cute! Love is a central theme throughout all that they do – that much is obvious – but the band rarely dip into anything verging on carnal, and their paeans to love are so much much more innocent and sincere. If the sonics in question aren't for you, that's of course completely fine, but I don't see why there has to be some kind of marriage of form and content as opposed to an interplay.

IIII've got a friend who's an imm-i-grant The bloke at the shop is an imm-i-grant IIII did a check on my family treee My great great uncle was Czech app-a-rent-lyyy I can say 'beer' in five different languages I even put Kielbasa in my lunch-time sandwiches Everything relates back to me me me And if you don't like it you're the en-e-my.

Like even if their target is ostensibly minority oppression or whatever, at the end of the day this is yet another punk band of all straight white men centered around male aggression and being mad at "the system". But there don't seem to be enough bands who are both good enough and getting enough attention, so you get shit like Idles and Sleaford Mods taking up disproportionate amounts of attention in the absence of anything else.

I heard the record review show on 6music and they were going crazy for the new Idles single, also they seem to be Steve Lamacq's favourite band right now, I relay this information without comment. If that's the case, playing to an all-male audience with sentiments like that would be a feature, not a bug.

I think they mean well, and there's joyful naivity to their music that I find appealing. Which isn't to say your criticisms aren't on point, it just feels a little weirdly aggressive a criticism for a fairly harmless band who seem to be trying. As a gay man I have watched queerness become both safer, in terms of existing in the world in my case a major US city , and also more fashionable, esp in terms of the way that queerness now gives one clout in a lot of types of social spaces.

Idles are an English post-punk band formed in Bristol in [1] The band consists of Adam Devonshire (bass), Joe Talbot (vocals), Mark Bowen (guitar), Lee Kiernan (guitar), and Jon Beavis (drums). I just clicked on Scott's video in the opening post and the singer disrespects Rothko in the song, and I thought fuck these plebs forever then!

I would only add that their previous album, which I did hear, was iirc snarky and bitter in the Mclusky mold, so clearly this thematic about-face is relatively new. Everything I've heard from them has been absolute shit but I dunno, they're clearly filling a vacuum.

There's little room for anything acutely about sex in IDLES' lasagne-layered odes of grief and politics. I mean, there's definitely merit to the criticism of lack of diverse openers and sure they've got an element of performativeness about them. Idles frontman Joe Talbot acknowledges that much of the criticism directed at the band was his fault, but they are ready to move on.

It's political music for year olds who aren't ready for grime, would feel intimidated by the atmosphere at an inner-city queer or femme-punk gig, and like to headbang their way up the M4 when it comes on Radio 6 in the mornings. They seem to be 'political' in the most surface level way, gesturing vaguely in the direction of a range of things including British attitudes to immigration, unemployment etc.

I am more at peace w them being popular as a rare albeit mediocre UK rock band than being popular for their lyrical themes. I mean yeah I guess it's nice that someone is making music that appeals to horrible aggro dudes and the message is like "hey maybe be slightly less horrible and aggro" but this music feels very much, like, not for me.

But yeah, there is and always has been a hunger for 'proper' British rock music, especially rock music that actually, you know, 'rocks', and I think it's more the muscial format that appeals to people - the right-on agit-prop grandstanding is just the medium, the cherry on top that makes them stand out from other bands making a similar racket in small venues up and down the country The Wytches come to mind.

From what I can tell they don't have anything to do with any kind of queer subculture in the UK and clearly aren't intended to be that band. It doesn't seem like a fixed position. I haven't seen them live or heard the new album yet, but aren't women constantly saying rightly that the job of dismantling toxic masculinity etc.

But to me it feels less cynical then I guess it does to you. The UK and US just have a fundamentally different relationship to rock music at this point in time. Idles are a post-hardcore/post-punk band from Bristol, England, consisting of singer Joe Talbot, bassist Adam Devonshire, guitarists Mark Bowen and Lee Kiernan, and drummer Jon Beavis.

I think at the end of the day I just accept that nothing about this is radical or challenging or interesting to me, that yes of course they are well-intentioned and maybe harmless but that this is music made for other ppl, maybe these ppl will benefit from it hopefully, idk.

Question is why there's nothing better to fill it. Which is fine. I don't know this band or Sleaford Mods, but it's roused the ire of Kenny Beats the internet's favorite rap producer fans. I dunno, ymmv I guess.