IDLES

Modern UK post-punk; Never Fight a Man With a Perm shows the chant-riff live mode.

Formed 2009. Mid-2010s albums made them a festival circuit staple: Joe Talbot’s bark, Mark Bowen/Lee Kiernan guitar scrapes, Jon Beavis’s hardcore-adjacent drums. Never Fight a Man With a Perm (2018) is a typical set piece—short riffs, gang vocals, on-stage physicality. They update 2010s post-punk without revival costume; lyrics name class, masculinity, and NHS-era Britain directly.