IDLES - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) 

The energy here is unreal

"If someone talked to you, the way you talk to you, I'd put their teeth through. Love yourself." is probably one of my favorite lyrics ever.

do you guys do weddings?

first time i’ve seen that guitarist fully dressed

Best boy band out there right now

Hey, KEXP. Whoever's mixing these live sessions is doing an incredible job. These are the best-sounding in-studios around. Give that person a raise STAT.

not an angry man-band. a band bursting at the seams with love and joy, and it rushes out, crushing and chaotic. also, with a fulltime drummer who is also a part-time accountant lmao

Why is nobody talking about how good this drummer is?

Bassist: YE YE YE YE YE

When the world was about deception and pretend morality punk was about anger. Now that the world (governments) are about anger and hate punk is about love and acceptance. I can get down with that.

They are actually writing songs for our generation and our time. The lyrics are so empowering against all of the shit we're going through. We've been misplacing anger in all the wrong places and IDLES seem to be directing it towards the right places. Something I can and will get behind.

imagine not having a live audience and putting as much energy into the performance as if you did... these guys kick so much ass.

Colossus 00:13 1,2!!! 05:15 Never Fight A Man With A Perm 06:37 Television 21:16 Danny Nedelko 27:21

FEAR LEADS TO PANIC PANIC LEADS TO PAIN PAIN LEADS TO ANGER ANGER LEADS TO HATE

After watching this about a gazillion times, my favorite part is at 24:09 when the drummer is going at it so hard that he loses his glasses and grins. Pure joy.

eddy burback doing great on the drums!

Goes and it goes and it goes Goes and it goes and it goes Goes and it goes and it goes Goes and it goes and it goes

Kevin Suggs has to be the best audio engineer on the planet. EVERY KEXP session sounds sublime 👌🏼👌🏼

2020 might be the worst year ever, but then I found IDLES. This performance is off the charts, I love them.

Been a heavy metal guy for 25+ years and there is NOTHING in the metal scene as exciting or real as Idles. Fuck I love these lads.

Joe has an interesting duality in the wise composed way he speaks and his visceral approach to music

the mixing is so fucking good thank u kexp

“You can’t hear someone’s accent when they sing.”

in 1987, at 13 years old, i heard The Sex Pistols and Dead Kennedys for the first time. 2 days ago, i came across this band through the algorithm. life comes full circle.

That drummer is underrated. Smashing that shit up.

Best band I've seen live in years

Imagine performing with this amount of energy at 9 in the morning

If John Peel was still alive in 2019 he'd be 80 and I reckon IDLES would be his current favourite band.

As a 53 year old fart who sometimes thinks I've seen and heard it all, it's good that a band like IDLES come along every so often to kick me in the brain. Fuck, these guys are real...Unreal.

Best band right now

Every musician in this band is a beast

This and their tiny desk concert just got me into idles. THIS is the energy i want to see from every band i go see!!! yes!!

HE HATES ME. I LIKE THAT.

Outstanding performance and album! Thoroughly impressed!

Idles was one of the best concerts i've ever seen. Playing to a crowd of 500 with the stage prescence to play to 50k. Amazing

Joe: "I try to be a better person, a better human." **Continues to bully Mark** lol

When Joe messes up the spelling section of Danny and just laughs it off hahaha. My heart is full. IDLES rock

they're my idles

IDLES Gøggs/fuzz/ty segall Wand Kadaver Parquet Courts These are the bands that bring raw emotion and anger back into music

Just discovered Idles last week. I love bands that make me want to be in a band. I like the singer. Seems like a top bloke.

The best album of the year

Energy, emotion, humility and integrity, bound together with a love for humanity, and expressed in raw and uncompromising terms. Not a bad way to wake up this morning.

I came across this video thanks to a friend years ago while I was battling depression. I was stuck in a really dark place and the meds weren’t helping. I felt like I was drowning and every day was one crippling panic attack after another. I still remember watching this at my desk at work and tears running down my face. The name of the album, the inspiration behind it, hearing the ‘we are not alone’, the energy, and the lyrics got me good. It made me feel less broken.

I loved the interview, so great to see how the album's naivitee and sincerity is not due to lack of reflection but quite the opposite. Incredibly refreshing to see something so far removed from irony and sarcasm

PLEASE INVITE DAUGHTERS (it will be legendary)

These guys need to release a live album of this quality

I come back here once a month

I love when a vocalist can write clever lyrics

This made me LAUGH over and over from how fun these songs are. Just so so good, holy hell.

I loved when the drummer hit his glasses with the drumstick, they fell on the floor and he started laughing and shaking his head violently like fuck it

I moved from Britain to Seattle last year and first heard IDLES on KEXP so I just wanna say THANK YOU KEXP for keeping me connected to amazing British bands and making me feel at home here whenever i turn on the radio.

They never miss

Absolutely fucking brilliant! Even in such a small space they tear the roof clean off!

weird to see bobo fully clothed for an entire performance

impossible not to like this performance

The first impression is rough. The second time you look you can see the wink and the humor. And when you hear them speak, it's pure cordiality. Great guys.

This band it's getting the right people pissed. In a world with bands who doesnt give a shit, with despolitized lyrics or trying to hard to be cynical, Idles it's a bleesing

I’m a year in to my experience with the Idles. I can’t imagine another one without them. Can’t wait to see them live. Bless honesty, and bless those that put it on display. The entire band represents the Heart of a lion.

That guitar, that bass, that drums, that voice, that vibe...tremendous

Jesus, how amazing was that.

Goddamnit KEXP, just when I think I have an idea what loud is (Swans, Sunn 0))), The Birthday Party etc.) you unleash this force of nature on the internet. Damn straight these guys aren't punk... punk hasn't got balls this big.

This just made 2020 better

For me, seeing these songs played live has opened a door into another understanding of how good this band is. Wow.

I have watched every Kexp, every Npr tiny desk and every Colours show. THIS IS THE BEST PERFORMANCE EVER. i am in love with this band, thank you

I think I've watched this about 5 times a day everyday since it came out so far...

Television is an absolute BEAST of a song, incredible band.

Any band that feeds off each other like these guys do get's my utmost respet! I could watch this all damn day!

This was an amazing show and as an old man was a breath of fresh air for this band to fall into my lap.

I love my angry british men

It really fees good to see punk rock so alive. I'm 56 years old now.

When I heard the song television I felt like they were singing about me. I'm in tears.

This might be the greatest thing the internet has ever introduced me to.

KEXP ALWAYS DELIVERING EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED IN A LENSE THATS NECESSARY. THIS IS HOW WE WRITE OUR TABS OUT AND LEARN FROM PIONEERS.

Without an audience they look like wolfs in a cage haha

Brilliant. 'Danny Nedelko' should be the universal anthem for compassion right now!

There's just something inspiring about this. Its some of the only raw humanity we see in music. Every song they have takes you right to a live performance. It's just the sounds of real sweat and spit, clenched teeth. Its impossible not to connect to it on the deepest level

These guys were absolutely ridiculous at desert daze. Love them so much

Simply the best band around at the moment. So glad they exist.

Original and wild, best sound and lyrics to come out of the UK for years.

Everything that comes out of Joe’s mouth is gold! Whether it’s screaming lyrics with passion or talking gracefully about the band, society or his personal life

Never before have a band fitted in my life so perfectly. They reek of a revolution on "traditional" masculinity thicker than sludge

Freakin' album of the Century in my book. These guys are a cut above.

Only found these guys tonight, been watching videos of them for an hour or two solid now, I love them. They are all adorable, love their energy and their message.

Just saw them in Detroit and haven't come off the high yet. Their energy is authentic, every time, it appears.

THE K.. THE E.. THE X and.. THE P!

I absolutely love this performance. Unreal. These guys are so raw. Zero fucks given.

Safe to say this is a new direction for rock. Wow. Sounds amazing. Blown away.

I am six decades and this energy, backed by considered and considerate conversational ideas, mostly on approach, kindness, openness, respect for audience, growing by honesty -- while you are forced to get on feet and smile, well lads, keep rocking.

I honestly haven’t seen a band with this kind of fun, ferocious, and heartfelt energy since “at the drive in” back in the day. God I wish they’d tour with Daughters and Hot Snakes. CONCRETE TO LEATHER✊️

When they perform live is one of the best things ever

I love Colossus so much more after seeing this.

They’re having so much fun together playing these songs and that is what it’s all about I love it so much it truly makes me feel so good, part of the fun.

My favorite band. No question.

Amazing that JT says he sees the best music coming from the US (which I'm not necessarily going to challenge) but he is the type of British artist that brings a frank and fearless honesty and directness that is utterly without pretense. This is just stunning, compelling art. Look at what Punk's become!

The purity on display here is astonishing. Simply beautiful. WELL done, lads, and love from Aberdeen, WA USA!

Wooooow. Best KEXP live show ever.

Really nice band! Awesome music, pure spirit and good soul. The people we need it! KEXP always open our mind! Thanks again from Europe!

there are not enough thumbs up buttons here. I am now a massive IDLES fan. thank you.

Can’t stop watching….so f’n real and powerful. Real, flesh and bone Rock n’ Roll.

Please, oh PLEASE do a live session with Daughters