Appearing in 1998 as an angry band of Scottish punks with Roddy Woomble of Carnoustie leading the band, Idlewild eventually achieved commercial recognition by refining their taste for large-scale guitar rock, and combining it with an apparently unknown gift for melody and tenderness. 1998's Captain was their debut release, a mini-album of chaotic punk, which, while achieving a significant fanbase among British teenagers, demonstrated little of the facets that would mark them out as such talented indie-rockers. Some of those were seen on that year's full-length, "Hope Is Important". Carrying a more subdued, top 20 hit single "When I Argue I See Shapes", Idlewild started to make commercial and critical inroads, something cemented by the top 40 success of follow-up, "I'm A Message". 2000's "100 Broken Windows" took this indie-punk sound and refined it, ballads like album closer "The Bronze Medal" were already a million miles from the nihilism and chaos of early tracks such as "Self Healer".
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Mince Showercap (Part 1) Lyrics

Idlewild

(right, mince showercap part 1 tape rolling)
You don't have to tell her how beautiful she looks
??
on the water
but I don't reflect on the water
I'm confused
?
I'm always confused by this concern
She said so
you look like someone I know
someone I know
?
Silence
She said so
you look like someone I know, etc
??
Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi!
Stop Stop Stop for fucks sake! Stop
I've got the recipie for humus
Serve as a ?
Or as a delicious filling for sandwiches and baked potatoes
you need 50 grams of chick peas
the juice of 1 lemon
2 cloves of garlic crushed
and 1 tablespoon of olive oil
you need one more tablespoon of tahili?
and 50 miligrams of water
oh, that optional apparently
then you need
1 tablespoon of freshly chopped parsley
and 1 tablespoon pienuts
and then this is how you make it
place all the ingredients apart from the parsely and the pienuts
in a food processor and blend it until smooth
add a little water and if necessary ?
to the required consistency
serve garnish with parsely and pienuts