idlewild. plus support — live event
eastside present idlewild plus guests Friday 17th April 2026 Sunderland - Fire Station Doors 7pm Idlewild’s self-titled 10th album begins in medias res, with Rod Jones’ guitar crunching and wailing, the sound hanging in the air until vocalist Roddy Woomble catches hold of it with the first of lead single Stay Out of Place’s fizzing, inimitable hooks. Immediately, there is the sense of a band in motion, their storied past not an anchor but a spur as they trace the twists and turns of a three decade career in order to understand what makes them tick in the here and now. “Everything adds up to the present moment, doesn’t it?” Woomble asks, and Idlewild’s songs offer a string of compelling answers. Since forming in Edinburgh in 1995, Idlewild have been a lot of different things. They were a teenage punk band, slinging buzzsaw riffs and barbed refrains on their seminal early records Hope Is Important and 100 Broken Windows, before becoming one of the most compelling mainstream rock group…
Starts: 2026-04-17T19:00:00Z
Ends: 2026-04-17T21:00:00Z
Where: High Street West, Sunderland, Great Britain
Price: $0.0