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Idlewild

Idlewild is a group from the UK, active since 1995.

Group GB since 1995 scottish alternative rock indie rock
TOTAL PLAYS
1,301
SONGS PLAYED
157
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-19 10:18 · 6 Music — "Love Steals Us From Loneliness"
LAST PLAYED
3 weeks ago · 6 Music — "A Modern Way of Letting Go"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
300 225 150 75 0
'05 '08 '11 '14 '17 '20 '23 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 1,235 95%
Radio 2 35 3%
Radio 1 31 2%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 08:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Little Discourage 104 2026-07-17
2 You Held the World in Your Arms 97 2026-07-31
3 El Capitan 78 2010-08-25
4 I Understand It 73 2011-11-26
5 Come On Ghost 69 2015-02-13
6 Everyone Says You're So Fragile 65 2025-12-22
7 When I Argue I See Shapes 61 2026-08-15
8 Readers & Writers 61 2014-11-03
9 Love Steals Us From Loneliness 57 2018-11-27
10 Collect Yourself 56 2015-02-19
11 Every Little Means Trust 45 2015-04-29
12 American English 39 2020-07-28
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-08-19 15:28 A Modern Way of Letting Go 6 Music
2026-08-15 22:43 When I Argue I See Shapes Radio 2
2026-07-31 20:38 You Held the World in Your Arms 6 Music
2026-07-18 08:18 You Held the World in Your Arms 6 Music
2026-07-17 01:24 Little Discourage 6 Music
2026-07-15 14:48 A Modern Way of Letting Go 6 Music
2026-05-07 16:46 When I Argue I See Shapes 6 Music
2026-01-06 20:03 You Held the World in Your Arms Radio 2
2025-12-22 16:56 Love Steals Us From Loneliness (6 Music Session, 13 Oct 2025) 6 Music
2025-12-22 14:52 Everyone Says You're So Fragile 6 Music
2025-12-06 07:42 You Held the World in Your Arms 6 Music
2025-12-01 17:43 You Held the World in Your Arms 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

157 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
(I Am) What I Am Not — 3 ▶
(I Can't Help) Back Then You Found Me — 1 ▶
1903 (Radio 1 Session, 31 Aug 1999) — 3 ▶
1903 - BBC Session 31/08/1999 — 10 ▶
A Film For The Future — 6 ▶
A Film For The Future Idlewild — 1 ▶
A Ghost In The Arcade — 6 ▶
A Modern Way of Letting Go — 25 ▶
A Modern Way Of Letting Go — 10 ▶
A Modern Way of Letting Go (Summer Sundae, 12 Aug 2005) — 2 ▶
A Modern Way Of Letting Go - Summer Sundae 2005 — 2 ▶
Actually It's Darkness — 2 ▶
Actually It's Darkness - Live From Camden Crawl 2009 — 1 ▶
Actually, It's Darkness - Dublin Castle, Camden 2009 — 2 ▶
All Over the Town — 1 ▶
All Things Different — 1 ▶
American English — 39 ▶
American English Summer Sundae 2005 — 1 ▶
American English - Summer Sundae 2005 — 2 ▶
American English - Summer Sundae 2005 (Edit) — 1 ▶
American English - Glasgow Barrowlands 2002 — 1 ▶
American English - Glastonbury Festival 2002 — 1 ▶
American English - Summer Sundae 2005 — 2 ▶
Bad Logic — 1 ▶
Blame It On Obvious Ways - Summer Sundae 2005 — 2 ▶
Bronze Medal - Dublin Castle, Camden 2009 — 2 ▶
Bronze Medal - Summer Sundae 2005 — 4 ▶
Century After Century - Glasgow Barrowlands 2002 — 1 ▶
Century After Century - Glastonbury Festival 2002 — 1 ▶
Century After Century 2002 — 1 ▶
City Hall — 4 ▶
City Hall - Hub Session 14/10/09 — 1 ▶
Collect Yourself — 56 ▶
Come On Ghost — 69 ▶
Common Ghost (Live from Edinburgh Fringe) — 1 ▶
Dream Variations — 6 ▶
El Capitan — 78 ▶
El Capitan (Summer Sundae, 12 Aug 2005) — 3 ▶
El Captain - Summer Sunade 2005 — 1 ▶
El Captain - Summer Sundae 2005 — 1 ▶
Every Little Means Trust — 45 ▶
Everyone Says You're So Fragile — 65 ▶
Everything (BBC 6Music Session) — 1 ▶
Everything As It Moves - Hub Session 14/03/2007 — 2 ▶
Film for the Future — 1 ▶
Film For The Future Summer Sundae 2005 — 1 ▶
Film For The Future - Glastonbury 2003 — 9 ▶
Film For The Future - Summer Sundae 2005 — 4 ▶
I Don't Have The Map - Dublin Castle, Camden 2009 — 2 ▶
I Found That Essence Rare — 1 ▶
I Understand It — 73 ▶
I Understand It Summer Sundae 2005 — 1 ▶
I Understand It - Summer Sundae 2005 — 2 ▶
I'm A Message - Glasgow Barrowlands 2002 — 1 ▶
I'm A Message - Glastonbury 2003 — 9 ▶
I'm A Message - Glastonbury Festival 2002 — 1 ▶
I'm A Message - Summer Sundae 2005 — 2 ▶
I'm A Message 2002 — 1 ▶
I'm Happy To Be Here Tonight — 5 ▶
Idea Track - Dublin Castle, Camden 2009 — 2 ▶
If It Takes You Home — 10 ▶
If It Takes You Home - Hub Session 14/03/2007 — 2 ▶
In Remote Part / Scottish Fiction — 1 ▶
In Remote Part/Scottish Fiction — 2 ▶
It'll Take a Long Time (BBC Session, 31 Aug 1999) — 2 ▶
It'll Take A Long Time (Radio 1 Session, 31 Aug 1999) — 1 ▶
It'll Take A Long Time - BBC Session 31/08/1999 — 8 ▶
It's Not The First Time — 3 ▶
It's Not The First Time (6 Music Session, 13th Oct 2025) — 1 ▶
Last Night I Missed All the Fireworks — 5 ▶
Let Me Sleep (Next To The Mirror) — 1 ▶
Let Me Sleep (Next To The Mirror) - Live From Camden Crawl 2009 — 1 ▶
Let Me Sleep (Next To The Mirror) - Dublin Castle, Camden 2009 — 2 ▶
Like I Had Before — 31 ▶
Like I Had Before (6 Music Session, 13th Oct 2025) — 3 ▶
Listen to What You've Got (BBC Session 31 Aug 1999) — 2 ▶
Listen To What You've Got (Radio 1 Session, 31 Aug 1999) — 1 ▶
Listen To What You've Got - BBC Session 31/08/1999 — 6 ▶
Listen To What You've Got - Dublin Castle, Camden 2009 — 2 ▶
Little Discourage — 104 ▶
Little Discourage (Edinburgh Festival 2015) — 1 ▶
Little Discourage (Summer Sundae, 12 Aug 2005) — 1 ▶
Little Discourage - BBC Session 31/08/1999 — 5 ▶
Little Discourage - Glastonbury Festival 2002 — 1 ▶
Little Discourage - Summer Sundae 2005 — 2 ▶
Little Discourage 2002 — 1 ▶
Live in a Hiding Place — 6 ▶
Live In A Hiding Place — 26 ▶
Live In A Hiding Place - Summer Sundae — 1 ▶
Love Steals Us From Loneliness — 57 ▶
Love Steals Us From Loneliness (6 Music Session, 13 Oct 2025) — 1 ▶
Love Steals Us From Loneliness (6 Music Session, 13th Oct 2025) — 1 ▶
Love Steals Us From Loneliness (Acou) — 1 ▶
Love Steals Us From Loneliness (Hub) — 1 ▶
Love Steals Us From Loneliness - Summer Sundae 2005 — 1 ▶
Miracles — 1 ▶
Mistake Pageant — 1 ▶
Mistake Pageant - Dublin Castle, Camden 2009 — 1 ▶
Modern Way Of Leting Go - Glastonbury 2003 — 1 ▶
Modern Way of Letting Go — 1 ▶
Modern Way Of Letting Go - Glastonbury 2003 — 7 ▶
No Emotion — 15 ▶
No Emotion (BBC 6Music Session) — 1 ▶
Nothing I Can Do About It — 2 ▶
On Another Planet — 1 ▶
Quiet Crown - Dublin Castle, Camden 2009 — 1 ▶
Readers & Writers — 61 ▶
Readers and Writers — 2 ▶
Roseability — 4 ▶
Roseability - Dublin Castle, Camden 2009 — 3 ▶
Roseability - Summer Sundae 2005 — 3 ▶
Rosenblity - Glastonbury Festival 2002 — 1 ▶
Rusty - Glastonbury Festival 2002 — 1 ▶
Same Things Twice — 6 ▶
Satan Polaroid — 5 ▶
Self Healer (BBC 6Music Session) — 1 ▶
Self Help - Summer Sundae 2005 — 1 ▶
Space Between All Things - Summer Sundae 2005 — 2 ▶
Stay Out Of Place — 38 ▶
Stay Out Of Place (6 Music Session, 13th Oct 2025) — 1 ▶
Stay the Same — 1 ▶
Stay The Same - Glastonbury Festival 2002 — 1 ▶
Take Me Back to the Islands — 1 ▶
Tell Me Ten Words — 1 ▶
Tell Me Ten Words - Glastonbury 2003 — 8 ▶
The Bronze Medal — 1 ▶
The Space Between All Things — 1 ▶
The Weight Of Years (BBC 6Music Session) — 1 ▶
There's a Place for Everything — 2 ▶
There's Glory In Your Story — 1 ▶
These Wooden Ideas — 6 ▶
These Wooden Ideas - Dublin Castle, Camden 2009 — 3 ▶
These Wooden Ideas - Glastonbury 2003 — 8 ▶
These Wooden Ideas - Live At The Camden Crawl 2009 — 1 ▶
These Wooden Ideas - Live From Camden Crawl 2009 — 1 ▶
These Wooden Ideas - Recorded At The Dublin Castle, Camden Crawl 2009 — 1 ▶
These Wooden Ideas - Summer Sundae 2005 — 1 ▶
To Be Forgotten — 1 ▶
Too Long Awake - Summer Sundae 2005 — 1 ▶
When I Argue I See Shapes — 61 ▶
When I Argue I See Shapes - Glasgow Barrowlands 2002 — 1 ▶
When I Argue I See Shapes - Glastonbury 1998 — 1 ▶
When I Argue I See Shapes - Glastonbury 2003 — 9 ▶
When I Argue I See Shapes - Glastonbury Festival 2002 — 1 ▶
When I Argue I See Shapes - Summer Sundae 2005 — 1 ▶
When I Argue I See Shapes 2002 — 1 ▶
World In Your Arms (Live At Edinburgh Festival 2015) — 1 ▶
You Held the World in Your Arms — 97 ▶
You Held The World In Your Arms — 30 ▶
You Held The World In Your Arms (Evening Session 2002) — 1 ▶
You Held The World In Your Arms - 6 Music Session (21st Jan 2015) — 1 ▶
You Held The World In Your Arms - Glastonbury 2003 — 9 ▶
You Held The World In Your Arms - Glastonbury Festival 2002 — 1 ▶
You Held The World In Your Arms 2002 — 1 ▶
You Held The World To Your Arms - Summer Sundae 2005 — 2 ▶
You've Lost Your Way — 3 ▶
Younger Than America — 1 ▶