Fresh off selling out their biggest ever UK tour in less than 24 hours, IDLES have released a new video for Never Fight A Man With A Perm, taken from their life-affirming second album Joy As An Act Of Resistance.The animated video is a pastiche of Street Fighter II on the Mega Drive and shows IDLES frontman Joe Talbot face off against two enemies Barry Biffa and Timmy The Thyroid (who, as the song says, is not a man but a gland).“The idea for the Never Fight A Man With A Perm video came directly from the lyrics of the song and how it tackles the subject of toxic masculinity,” say the team at Fluffer Records who made the video. “Using a British take on the classic arcade beat ‘em up platform game seemed like a cool way to put this across visually.” ID...
