Singer Joe Talbot and bassist Adam Devonshire, former classmates, decided to
form a band to entertain at the Bat-Cave Night Club they run in Bristol. In
2010, they enlisted guitarists Mark Bowen and Andy Stewart, as well as drummer
Jon Beavis. The Idles band formed, a first self-produced EP, Welcome, was
released in 2012 on the Fear of Fiction label. A second EP entitled Meat was
released three years later, as new rhythm guitarist Lee Kiernan joined the band,
succeeding Stewart. As for the EP, it is quickly followed by remixes by David
Pajo, Thom Alt J, Sly One and Peter Robertso...