Tour News - Idles announce supports for 2025 Australia and New Zealand Tour

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Off the back of a mammoth Summer, kickstarted by their iconic headline set at Glastonbury’s Other Stage and capped off with a sold-out North America tour, British rock outfit Idles will make their highly-anticipated return to Australia and New Zealand in January 2025 in support of their latest album, Tangk.

Joining IDLES on all Australian dates will be American outfit Nation of Language. Four years on from the release of their unexpectedly self-assured debut album, the band have attracted a rapidly growing international audience via their danceable and impassioned take on new wave, post-punk & shoegaze genres.

Opening proceedings in Brisbane will be Meanjin-based punk band Voiid, while Sydney will see the genre-bending Ecca Vandal debuting unreleased tracks as part of her highly anticipated return to the stage and Melbourne will be treated to the debut of local punks L☆ur☆ & The Hell Cutz. Supporting IDLES in Auckland will be the five-piece Polynesian Metal band Shepherd’s Reign. 

Tickets for all dates are on sale now.

For complete tour & ticket information, visit: livenation.com.au & livenation.co.nz

IDLES
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND TOUR 2025

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

NATION OF LANGUAGE (AUS ONLY)

SHEPHERDS REIGN (AKL ONLY), VOIID (BRIS ONLY), ECCA VANDAL (SYD ONLY), L☆UR☆ & THE HELL CUTZ (MEL ONLY)

TOWN HALL, AUCKLAND
THURSDAY JANUARY 16

RIVERSTAGE, BRISBANE
SATURDAY JANUARY 18

SIDNEY MYER MUSIC BOWL, MELBOURNE
TUESDAY JANUARY 21

HORDERN PAVILION, SYDNEY
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 22

TICKETS ON SALE NOW
For complete tour and ticket information, visit: livenation.com.au & livenation.co.nz.

About IDLES:

TANGK is the righteous and vibrant fifth album from madcap truth-seekers, IDLES. Pronounced “tank” with a whiff of the “g” - an onomatopoeic reference to the lashing way the band imagined their guitars sounding that has since grown into a sigil for living in love - the record is the band’s most ambitious and striking work yet. Where IDLES were once set on taking the world’s piss, squaring off with strong jaws against the perennially entitled, and exercising personal trauma in real time, they have arrived in this new act to offer the fruits of such perseverance: love, joy, and indeed gratitude for the mere opportunity of existence.

A radical sense of defiant empowerment radiates from TANGK, co-produced by Nigel Godrich, IDLES guitarist Mark Bowen, and Kenny Beats. Despite his reputation as an incendiary post-punk sparkplug, frontman Joe Talbot sings almost all the feelings inside these 10 songs with hard-earned soul, offering each lusty vow or solidarity plea as a bona fide pop song—that is, a thing for everyone to pass around and share, communal anthems intended for overcoming our grievance. Lead single “Dancer” stands as the throbbing and scuzzy highlight at the album’s center - rattling bass and ricocheting guitar giving Talbot space to talk about sweat and sex on the dancefloor. (You will spy LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and Nancy Whang here, too, singing.) It is lascivious and playful and positive, the ecstatic sound of at least a temporary fix. In the improvised hook, Talbot offers IDLES’ essential new mantra: “I give myself to you/As long as you move on the floor.”

He is singing about the rapture of a new relationship, but he is also singing about the special dynamic between IDLES and their fans, or IDLES and the world at large. This is a band’s vow to keep lifting and fighting for themselves and their listeners, to keep offering the grim persistence of joy and hope and love and wonder as long as that’s what anyone needs to survive. It is a love song the same way that TANGK is a love album—open to anyone who requires something to shout out loud in order to fend off any encroaching sense of the void, now or forever.

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