‘I'm not the next Billy Bragg’: On the road with Idles’ Joe Talbot

The band’s debut album, Brutalism, was hailed as a rage-fuelled masterpiece. The singer recalls how frustration at being a carer for his sick mum led him down a dark path – and how he learned to channel that angerA man walks into a bar and says: “Have you got any alcohol-free lager?” The landlady asks: “Why, love? Are you driving?” “No,” he says. “I’m a recovering alcoholic.”It’s not the world’s worst man-walks...

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