IDLES have announced that they will be releasing a live album, of their show at Paris’ Le Bataclan, which they performed last year. The Bristol punks will release ‘A Beautiful Thing: IDLES Live at Le Bataclan’, on the 6th of December 2019, via Partisan Records.
The release will come almost a year to the day after their incendiary show at the legendary Parisian venue. The record will be available digitally, on CD and in three limited-edition coloured vinyl – which will contain a booklet designed by frontman Joe Talbot, featuring photographs from the show and a selection of poetry, and an instant digital download of ‘Mother’.
Speaking about the show, they said: “Our show at Le Bataclan was the end of a very long journey for us. On that tour, we learnt so much about ourselves, each other and the audiences we have grown with over the past 10 years.
“That show was nothing short of catharsis and nothing more than love. We love what we do and the people who have carried us here, there was no hiding that night at Le Bataclan and we are so very grateful that the moment was captured in all its glory, love and fatigue. Long live the open-minded and long live the moment.”
The live album comes as IDLES continue to work on their third album, which will be the follow-up to 2018’s, ‘Joy As An Act of Resistance’. The band have already released details about their upcoming third album, with them revealing they are working with The Bad Seeds’ Warren Ellis on the record. IDLES frontman, Joe Talbot, has also teased that the upcoming album will continue to see the band evolving their sound.
‘A Beautiful Thing: IDLES Live at Le Bataclan’ will be released on @partisanrecords on 6 Dec 19.
It will be available in limited-edition coloured vinyl as well as digitally & on CD.
Pre-Order: https://t.co/jEJdU3M4j4
Long live the open-minded and long live the moment x pic.twitter.com/P67SLh5MW2
— I D L E S (@idlesband) October 17, 2019
Speaking to NME, earlier this year, Talbot, said: “The only departure is development. You’re always evolving. It’s the next step along from ‘Joy…’ and ‘Brutalism’. This is the third. You can see the progression and regression in some ways. It’s us, but a year older. We got bored of certain things and excited by others.
“We want to write more techno, we want to write more noise, we want to write more pop, and we want to write more country. We’ll just write it until it sounds like something we love, then we’ll put the words on top.”
