Interviews
Aug 17, 2022
By Jimi Arundell
To look at Idlewild singer Roddy Woomble now, you wouldn’t think a day had gone by since the release of their breakthrough second album, 2000’s 100 Broken Windows, for which we interviewed the band in our very first issue. More
“We were a proper gang of introverted, bookish guys who wrote rock songs, and The Remote Part was the pinnacle of that.”
Jun 15, 2022
By Andy Robbins
Idlewild’s Roddy Woomble discusses “The Remote Part” on its 20th anniversary. More
Dec 23, 2021
By Jimi Arundell
Featuring the single “Architecture In LA,” Lo! Soul is the new solo album from acclaimed singer/songwriter Roddy Woomble (also the frontman of Idlewild). Working in isolation together with his Idlewild bandmate Andrew Mitchell (aka Andrew Wasylyk), this is the latest LP following four solo albums including his applauded debut My Secret Is My Silence and the widely praised record The Deluder. More
Reviews
Apr 04, 2022
By Andy Robbins
Roddy Woomble plays a heartwarming, career spanning, stripped down show at Guildford’s Boileroom. More
Apr 06, 2020
By Jimi Arundell
Most will know Roddy Woomble as the singer from Idlewild, the arty Edinburgh-based angular rock band that emerged in the late ’90s to blossom with commercial success at the turn of the millennium when they began to embrace stringed anthems and a more overtly commercial sound. More
