We’ve been asking artists about their favorite albums of 2025 and here we’ve got Roddy Woomble of Scottish rock vets Idlewild ...

When Roddy Woomble looks back over Idlewild’s career, he sees a band constantly out of step with whatever is happening around them. With the hindsight of being in a band whose 30th anniversary is ...

Idlewild frontman Roddy Woomble has launched new solo project Almost Nothing. Check out debut single ‘Anything Whatever’ below, along with album details and news of shows supporting The Walkmen. While ...

Idlewild frontman Roddy Woomble has shared his new solo single as Almost Nothing, ‘Instant Love’. Check it out first on NME below, as Woomble also tells us about his new project, supporting The ...

Most will know Roddy Woomble as the singer from Idlewild, the arty Edinburgh-based angular rock band that emerged in the late ’90s to blossom with commercial success at the turn of the millennium when ...

For Roddy Woomble, 26-year-old singer and songwriter for the alt-rock band Idlewild, growing up cool and Scottish is to grow up with a conflict. Not a political conflict so much but a personal and ...

This month Roddy Woomble will release his seventeenth record. It might as well be his first. “How the hell can I have made 17 records?” asks the Idlewild frontman, speaking on the eve of his eighth ...

Welcome to the Scotsman Sessions, a series of short video performances from artists all around the country introduced by our critics. This week, from a cottage on the Isle of Mull, Roddy Woomble ...

Roddy Woomble, a.k.a. the best named frontman in rock, is better known as the lead singer of Scottish rockers Idlewild, and after listening (and returning) to his solo debut all week, we're convinced ...

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Roddy Woomble is best known for his day job fronting the eloquent Scottish alt-rock band Idlewild. With a recent best-of album (Scottish Fiction: The Best of Idlewild) compiling the group's most ...