Idles review – shout their name from the rooftops

Academy, Oxford
The Bristol band’s politically charged rock strikes a powerful chord on the messy, celebratory final night of their sold-out tourIdles guitarist Mark Bowen is walking across the venue’s ceiling. Held aloft by the crowd, the topless musician turns himself partly upside down to take advantage of the Academy’s low-hanging architecture.This is not behaviour you would expect from a dentist. By night, though, the NHS’s mutton-chopped Bowen is often to be found w