IDLES frontman Joe Talbot used the band’s set at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound on Thursday (June 5) to supply full-throated assist for Palestine.
The lead singer shouted “Viva Palestina!” from the stage at Barcelona’s Parc del Fòrum and led the gang in a minuteslong chant of the Spanish phrase. At one level in between songs, Talbot requested the gang: “Donde esta las Palestinas?” (which interprets to “The place are the Palestinians?” in English). He additionally devoted the group’s set to Palestine.
After kicking off with their 2018 observe “Colossus,” the British post-punk outfit’s pageant set additionally included latest singles like “Dancer,” “Grace” and “Reward Horse” from their tectonic disturbance U.K. No. 1 album, 2024’s Tangk, in addition to earlier songs together with 2018’s “Danny Nedelko,” 2019’s “By no means Combat a Man with a Perm” and 2021’s “Automotive Crash.”
Recognized for his or her outspoken political activism, Primavera Sound is hardly the primary time IDLES have used their platform to face in solidarity for Palestinian rights amid the continued Israel-Hamas warfare. At their London launch present for Tangk in early 2024, Talbot reportedly altered the lyrics of a number of songs, together with “The Wheel” and “Danny Nedelko,” to reference Palestine.
He additionally dedicated Brutalism-era album lower “Mom” to the Palestinian folks in the course of the band’s look at Glastonbury 2024, telling the gang at Somerset’s Worthy Farm, “This music is a celebration of all of the insults that I used to be thrown through the years, and I attempted to show it into one thing lovely. … That is for the folks of Palestine and that is for you. Any scumbags within the viewers?”
Earlier this yr, IDLES performed a profit live performance for the Los Angeles Fireplace Division following the 2025 Grammys, the place they had been nominated for finest rock album, finest rock music and finest rock efficiency.
Primavera Sound continues all through this weekend, with headlining units from Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and Charli xcx. Northern Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap, who’ve been equally vocal of their assist for Palestine, can also be on the Primavera Sound invoice.