There’s a bittersweet irony in us meeting IDLES on the day that the United Kingdom is supposed to commit to its long-protracted and messy divorce from the European Union. For a band whose key objectives are togetherness and unity, mustering the will to champion those causes on the original ‘leave’ deadline of March 29 feels like a more Herculean task than usual. Yet almost three years after 51.9 per cent of voters narrowly edged the Brexit referendum on June 23, 2016, British politics finds itself at a disconcerting impasse. That we’re shooting the breeze on all of this on a sunny spring day in Brighton – one of the most inclusive, diverse and liberal areas of the country, where an overwhelming 68.6 per cent majority voted to remain in the EU – only adds to the absurdity. It doesn’t h...
