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Article: Idlewild The Garage, Glasgow

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June 2, 1999
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WHEN they laid down the template of quiet verse followed by screaming chorus and ear-shredding guitar hooks, little did the Pixies know that it would be appropriated by so many shy indie boys on both sides of the Atlantic.

And while a plethora of British bands have taken the Pixies' basic blueprint and twisted it into their own shape, once in a while there is a band who get it right. Idlewild's opening number, You Just Have To Be Who You Are, was a good example of what can be produced when the formula does work: ominously rumbling drums and bass lurked in the background as singer Roddy Woomble quietly spat out the opening verse, a prelude to a demonically loud and energetic chorus which saw ...

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