Originally written by Mike Diver · 9 August 2007
Truck Festival-headlining Scottish indie-rockers Idlewild are to mark their ten-year anniversary with a best-of compilation, due out through Parlophone on October 1.
Scottish Fiction - Best Of 1997-2007 is a collection of tracks from the band's albums up to and including their most recent offering, Make Another World (reviewed here).
Tracklisting:
'You Held The World In Your Arms' 'No Emotion' 'Roseability' 'When I Argue I See Shapes' 'Love Steals Us From Loneliness' 'American English' 'These Wooden Ideas' 'El Capitan' 'A Modern Way Of Letting Go' 'Let Me Sleep (Next To The Mirror)' 'I’m A Message' 'In Remote Part / Scottish Fiction' 'I Understand It' 'Little Discourage' 'As If I Hadn’t Slept' 'Live In A Hiding Place' 'Make Another World'
The band are on tour in October and November, dates as follows:
October 9 Liverpool Carling Academy 10 Preston 53 Degrees 11 Leicester The Venue 13 Sheffield The Leadmill 23 Portsmouth Pyramid 24 Falmouth Princess Pavillion 25 Exeter Phoenix 27 Nottingham Rescue Rooms 28 Warwick University 29 Cambridge The Junction 30 London Koko
November 1 Dublin The Village 2 Belfast Mandela Hall