IDLES’ Joe Talbot and his dad Nigel have launched an art exhibition, ‘Musoleum – Remembrance of Remembering’.
The singer and his father have created a series of sculptures that explore the nature of memory and they are on display at the Newport Museum and Art Gallery in South Wales.
The exhibition is free to enter and it opened on May 23 and it will run until September 12. The museum is open between Tuesday and Saturday every week, and you can find out more here.
A description of the show explains that the sculptures “explore memory through the metaphor of the vessel”, making use of salvaged and recycled materials to “examine how memories are formed, distorted, inherited, on invented over time.”
The description continues: “Focusing on a father-and-son relationship, the exhibition questions whose stories are remembered, whose are hidden, and how myth and truth intertwine. Some works act as containers for imagined histories, others as guardians of absence, revealing memory as fragile, subjective, and shaped across generations.”
Last month, IDLES guitarist Mark Bowen told NME that they are at work on their “most exciting” album yet, the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2024 record ‘Tangk’.
“It is probably the most exciting IDLES album, just from a perspective of how excited we are about it,” he said. “We got back in the studio to write, and we’ve kinda gone – I don’t want to say back to basics because that’s cliche – but it’s a bit back to basics!
“It’s five members in a room thrashing it out on instruments. Lots of arguments, [which is great because] if it’s too nice, then it’s not sick. It’s always more sick if someone is not getting what they want!”
The guitarist and songwriter then revealed that while things are still in early stages, he is sure “it’ll be recorded this year and I’d expect it [released] next year”.
IDLES also have a huge show coming up, as part of Deftones’ day headlining All Points East x Outbreak at London’s Victoria Park on Sunday August 23. Amyl & The Sniffers, Deafheaven and JPEGMAFIA are among the other names on the bill.