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IDLES

IDLES is a group from the UK, active since 2009.

Group GB since 2009 post-punk art rock post-hardcore
TOTAL PLAYS
2,160
SONGS PLAYED
216
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2012-08-19 17:59 · 6 Music — "26/27"
LAST PLAYED
2 months ago · 6 Music — "Danny Nedelko (6 Music Session, 8 Aug 2018)"
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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2012 — 2026
400 300 200 100 0
'12 '14 '16 '18 '20 '22 '24 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 1,837 85%
Radio 1 306 14%
Radio 2 17 1%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 17:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Danny Nedelko 243 2026-05-04
2 Model Village 151 2025-11-14
3 Great 113 2025-12-16
4 Grounds 113 2025-10-05
5 Samaritans 105 2024-04-19
6 The Beachland Ballroom 85 2025-07-05
7 Mercedes Marxist 85 2024-06-25
8 Grace 84 2026-05-25
9 Crawl! 75 2026-05-25
10 Gift Horse 73 2025-12-15
11 Well Done 73 2024-11-29
12 Dancer 64 2024-12-09
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-27 05:25 Danny Nedelko (6 Music Session, 8 Aug 2018) 6 Music
2026-05-25 19:52 Grace Radio 2
2026-05-25 16:03 Crawl! 6 Music
2026-05-04 04:57 Danny Nedelko 6 Music
2026-05-04 02:23 Samaritans (6 Music Session, 8 Aug 2018) 6 Music
2025-12-29 05:48 Danny Nedelko 6 Music
2025-12-23 16:23 Kill Them With Kindness 6 Music
2025-12-19 21:50 Danny Nedelko 6 Music
2025-12-17 17:19 Danny Nedelko 6 Music
2025-12-16 05:53 Great 6 Music
2025-12-15 07:02 Gift Horse 6 Music
2025-11-14 21:09 Model Village 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

216 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
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1049 Gotho (6 Music Festival 2022) — 2 ▶
1049 Gotho (6 Music Independent Venue Week 2018) — 1 ▶
1049 Gotho (6 Music Session, 5th October 2020) — 2 ▶
1049 Gotho (BBC Introducing Den Session) — 2 ▶
26/27 — 1 ▶
A Gospel — 2 ▶
A Hymn — 1 ▶
A Hymn (6 Music Festival 2022) — 2 ▶
Anxiety — 1 ▶
Anxiety (6 Music Session, 5th October 2020) — 2 ▶
Anxiety (clean) — 1 ▶
Anxiety (Glastonbury 2021) — 1 ▶
Benzocaine — 3 ▶
Benzocaine (Glastonbury 2024) — 1 ▶
Car Crash — 5 ▶
Car Crash (6 Music Festival 2022) — 3 ▶
Car Crash (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Carcinogenic — 5 ▶
Collosus (6 Music Session, 8th August 2018) — 1 ▶
Colossus — 12 ▶
Colossus (6 Music Session, 8 Aug 2018) — 1 ▶
Colossus (6 Music Session, 8th Aug 2018) — 4 ▶
Colossus (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Colossus (Glastonbury 2024) — 2 ▶
Crawl! — 75 ▶
Crawl! (6 Music Festival 2022) — 2 ▶
Cry to Me — 4 ▶
Damaged Goods — 51 ▶
Dancer — 64 ▶
Dancer (6 Music Session 12th February 2024) — 2 ▶
DANCER (6 Music Session, 12 Feb 2024) — 10 ▶
Dancer (feat. LCD Soundsystem) — 9 ▶
Dancer (Glastonbury 2024) — 9 ▶
Danke — 1 ▶
Danke (Glastonbury 2021) — 1 ▶
Danny Nedelko — 243 ▶
Danny Nedelko (6 Music Festival 2019) — 4 ▶
Danny Nedelko (6 Music Festival 2022) — 4 ▶
Danny Nedelko (6 Music Festival, 2019) — 2 ▶
Danny Nedelko (6 Music Festival, 2022) — 1 ▶
Danny Nedelko (6 Music Festival, 30 Mar 2019) — 4 ▶
Danny Nedelko (6 Music Session, 8 Aug 2018) — 22 ▶
Danny Nedelko (6 Music Session, 8th Aug 2018) — 2 ▶
Danny Nedelko (6 Music Session, 8th August 2018) — 1 ▶
Danny Nedelko (Glastonbury 2019) — 6 ▶
Danny Nedelko (Glastonbury 2022) — 3 ▶
Danny Nedelko (Glastonbury 2024) — 1 ▶
Danny Nedelko (Live at Glastonbury) — 1 ▶
Danny Nedelko (Live on Later) — 1 ▶
Danny Nedelko (Radio 1 Session, 14 Aug 2018) — 3 ▶
Danny Nedelko [Clean Edit] — 1 ▶
Date Night — 2 ▶
Divide & Conquer — 1 ▶
Divide & Conquer (6 Music Festival 2022) — 2 ▶
Divide & Conquer (6 Music Independent Venue Week 2018) — 1 ▶
Divide and Conquer — 1 ▶
Divide And Conquer (6 Music Festival 2019) — 3 ▶
Divide and Conquer (6 Music Festival, 2019) — 1 ▶
Divide and Conquer (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
Divide and Conquer (Great Escape 2016) — 2 ▶
Divide And Conquer (The Great Escape Festival 2016) — 1 ▶
Faith In the City — 3 ▶
Gift Horse — 73 ▶
Gift Horse (6 Music Session 12th February 2024) — 1 ▶
GIFT HORSE (6 Music Session, 12 Feb 2024) — 2 ▶
Gift Horse (Glastonbury 2024) — 3 ▶
Gift Horse (Instrumental) — 1 ▶
Grace — 84 ▶
Gram Rock — 3 ▶
Gratitude (Glastonbury 2024) — 1 ▶
Great — 113 ▶
Great (Radio 1 Session, 14 Aug 2018) — 2 ▶
Grounds — 113 ▶
Grounds (6 Music Festival 2022) — 2 ▶
Grounds (6 Music Session, 5th October 2020) — 4 ▶
Hall & Oates — 4 ▶
Heal (6 Music Festival, 2019) — 1 ▶
Heal Heal — 1 ▶
Heel / Heal — 5 ▶
Heel / Heal (Live at SXSW 15th March 2018) — 1 ▶
Heel Heal — 3 ▶
Heel Heal (Independent Venues Week 2018) — 1 ▶
Heel/Heal — 2 ▶
Heel/Heal (6 Music Independent Venue Week 2018) — 1 ▶
Heel/Heal (SXSW 2018) — 1 ▶
I Dream Guillotine — 1 ▶
I'm Scum — 22 ▶
I'm Scum (6 Music Festival 2022) — 3 ▶
I'm Scum (Live at Le Bataclan) — 1 ▶
Idea 01 (Glastonbury 2024) — 2 ▶
Idles (6 Music Festival 2022) — 1 ▶
Imagined Communities — 2 ▶
June — 5 ▶
Kill Them With Kindness — 50 ▶
Kill Them with Kindness (Glastonbury 2021) — 1 ▶
Love Song — 16 ▶
Love Song (6 Music Festival 2019) — 1 ▶
Love Song (6 Music Festival, 2019) — 3 ▶
Love Song (6 Music Festival, 30 Mar 2019) — 4 ▶
Love Song (6 Music Independent Venue Week 2018) — 1 ▶
Love Song (Live from Independent Venue Week) — 2 ▶
Meds — 3 ▶
Mercedes Marxist — 85 ▶
Meydei — 2 ▶
Model Village — 151 ▶
Mother — 14 ▶
Mother (6 Music Festival 2022) — 2 ▶
Mother (6 Music Independent Venue Week 2018) — 1 ▶
Mother (6 Music Session 2017) — 1 ▶
Mother (6 Music Session, 02 June 2017) — 1 ▶
Mother (6 Music Session, 2nd June 2017) — 3 ▶
Mother (clean edit) — 3 ▶
Mother (Glastonbury 2021) — 1 ▶
Mother (Live At Worthy Farm, 22nd May 2021) — 1 ▶
Mother (live session) — 1 ▶
Mother (Live) — 1 ▶
Mr Motivator — 1 ▶
Mr Motivator (Glastonbury 2024) — 2 ▶
Mr. Motivator — 47 ▶
Mr. Motivator (6 Music Festival 2022) — 2 ▶
MTT 420 RR — 3 ▶
MTT 420 RR (6 Music Festival 2022) — 2 ▶
Mystery Song — 2 ▶
Ne Touche Pas Moi (feat. Jehnny Beth) — 1 ▶
Never Fight a Man with a Perm — 18 ▶
Never Fight A Man With A Perm (6 Music Festival 2022) — 5 ▶
Never Fight A Man With A Perm (6 Music Festival, 2019) — 1 ▶
Never Fight A Man With A Perm (6 Music Session, 5th October 2020) — 2 ▶
Never Fight A Man With A Perm (clean) — 1 ▶
Never Fight A Man With A Perm (Glastonbury 2021) — 1 ▶
Never Fight a Man With a Perm (Glastonbury 2024) — 1 ▶
Never Fight A Man With A Perm (Live At Worthy Farm, 22nd May 2021) — 1 ▶
Never Fight A Man With A Perm (Mercury Music Prize 2019) — 1 ▶
Never Fight A Man With A Perm - 6 Music Session - RX 05/10/2020 — 2 ▶
Nice Man (Thom from Alt-J Remix) — 1 ▶
Pop Pop Pop — 42 ▶
POP POP POP (6 Music Session 12th February 2024) — 1 ▶
POP POP POP (6 Music Session, 12 Feb 2024) — 1 ▶
POP POP POP (feat. Danny Brown) — 19 ▶
Pop Pop Pop (Glastonbury 2024) — 2 ▶
Progress — 1 ▶
Queens — 2 ▶
Queens (6 Music Session, 5th October 2020) — 2 ▶
Rabbit Run — 57 ▶
Rachel Khoo — 27 ▶
Reigns — 2 ▶
Reigns (6 Music Session, 5th October 2020) — 3 ▶
Reigns (Glastonbury 2021) — 1 ▶
Reigns (Live At Worthy Farm, 22nd May 2021) — 2 ▶
Romantic Gestures — 6 ▶
Rottweiler — 3 ▶
Rottweiler (6 Music Festival 2022) — 3 ▶
Rottweiler (6 Music Independent Venue Week 2018) — 1 ▶
Rottweiler (Glastonbury 2024) — 1 ▶
ROY (6 Music Session, 12 Feb 2024) — 1 ▶
Run Rabbit — 1 ▶
Samaritans — 105 ▶
Samaritans (6 Music Festival, 2019) — 1 ▶
Samaritans (6 Music Festival, 30 Mar 2019) — 4 ▶
Samaritans (6 Music Session, 8 Aug 2018) — 9 ▶
Samaritans (6 Music Session, 8th August 2018) — 1 ▶
Samaritans (Clean Edit) — 1 ▶
Samaritans (Glastonbury 2019) — 1 ▶
Samaritans (Glastonbury 2021) — 1 ▶
Samaritans (Live at Worthy Farm 2021) — 1 ▶
Samaritans (Live At Worthy Farm, 22nd May 2021) — 1 ▶
Samaritans (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 12 Feb 2019) — 2 ▶
Send It Up (Radio 1 Session, 14 Aug 2018) — 1 ▶
Slow Savage — 2 ▶
Sodium — 1 ▶
Stendahl Syndrome — 1 ▶
Stendhal Syndrome — 37 ▶
Stendhal Syndrome (Live at Eurosonic, 11th Jan 2017) — 1 ▶
Stockholm Syndrome — 1 ▶
Television — 22 ▶
Television (6 Music Festival 2022) — 2 ▶
The Beachland Ballroom — 85 ▶
The Beachland Ballroom (6 Music Festival 2022) — 2 ▶
The Idles Chant — 6 ▶
The Idles Chant - Latitude 2017 — 1 ▶
The New Sensation — 53 ▶
The New Sensation (6 Music Festival 2022) — 2 ▶
The Stick Song! — 1 ▶
The Streets Mash Up (R1 Session 120219) — 1 ▶
The Streets Mash Up (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 12 Feb 2019) — 4 ▶
The Wheel — 7 ▶
The Wheel (6 Music Festival 2022) — 2 ▶
The Wheel (Glastonbury 2024) — 1 ▶
Title (6 Music Session, 2nd June 2017) — 2 ▶
War — 3 ▶
War (6 Music Session, 5th October 2020) — 3 ▶
War - (Glastonbury 2021) — 1 ▶
Well Done — 73 ▶
Well Done (6 Music Independent Venue Week 2018) — 1 ▶
Well Done (6 Music Independent Venue Week, 02 Feb 2018) — 1 ▶
Well Done (BBC Introducing, Glastonbury 2019) — 1 ▶
Well Done (Glastonbury 2022) — 5 ▶
Well Done (Glastonbury Festival BBC Introducing Stage 2022) — 1 ▶
Well Done (Independent Venue Week 2018) — 1 ▶
Well Done (IVW Liverpool Session, 2 Feb 2018) — 1 ▶
Well Done (Latitude 2017) — 1 ▶
Well Done (Live at Glastonbury 2022) — 2 ▶
Well Done (Live At The Great Escape 2016) — 1 ▶
Well Done (Live at the Great Escape) — 2 ▶
Well Done (Live From SXSW 2017) — 1 ▶
Well Done (SXSW 2017) — 3 ▶
Well Done (The Great Escape Festival 2016) — 1 ▶
Well Done - Latitude Festival - RX 15/07/2017 — 1 ▶
Well Done - Recorded Live for 6 Music 2nd February 2017 — 1 ▶
Well Done - SXSW Festival, 17 Mar 2017 — 3 ▶
When The Lights Come On — 2 ▶
White Privilage — 1 ▶
White Priviledge — 1 ▶
White Privilege — 3 ▶
White Privilidge (Live at Glastonbury) — 1 ▶
Wizz (6 Music Festival 2022) — 2 ▶