Idles - Auckland

Thursday 16 January 2025
Great Hall Auckland Town Hall
Official Tickets: ticketmaster.co.nz

British rock outfit IDLES will make their highly-anticipated return to New Zealand

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.

❊ Official Tickets ❊

Book Online Here

❊ When ❊

Date: Thursday 16th January 2025

Times: 8:00 pm

❊ Where ❊

Auckland Town Hall View Venue
301 – 317 Queen Street Auckland New Zealand Map

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