Idlewild have announced a new book, released next year to mark the band’s 25th birthday.In The Beginning There Were Answers – 25 years of Idlewild will be published next February, and is written by the band’s frontman Roddy Woomble.The band shared images of the book, which they say they’ve been working on for “the past few years”, in social media posts announcing its publication.“The 225 page book charts the story of the band from its formation in the autumn of 1995 in Edinburgh, through the early years of local gigs, onto recording and touring albums such as ‘100 Broken Windows’ and ‘The Remote Part’,” the band said.
It also features a foreword by author Benjamin Myers.We are delighted to share news of the book that we have been working on.