Captain
Released: Janurary 12th 1998
Chart Position: 14 in UK Independent Charts
CD only (BLUFF 058CD)
Deceptive Record Label
  • Track Listing:
    1. Self Healer
    2. Annihilate Now
    3. Captain
    4. Last Night I Missed All The Fireworks
    5. Satan Polaroid
    6. You Just Have to Be Who You Are
    Extra Info:
      This mini album was the first release on the Deceptive label and saw the debut of idlewild's logo. Produced by Paul Tipler, the album was recorded from 1st to 7th October 1997  at River Studios, London. The CD was grey with silver writing. 
      The cover image is actually a picture of Roddy's friend Emma staring through a window with 'CAPTAIN' written backwards across it. 3,000 copies were pressed originally but it's sold far more now. 
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    Hope Is Important
    Released: 26th October 1998
    Chart Position: I'll find out!
    Available on CD/Vinyl,Cassette and Minidisc (FOODTC28/FOODLP28/FOODCD28)
    Food Records
    Track Listing:
    1. You've Lost You're Way
    2. A Film For The Future
    3. Paint Nothing
    4. When I Argue I See Shapes
    5. Four People Do Good
    6. I'm Happy To Be Here Tonight
    7. Everyone Says You're So Fragile
    8. I'm A Message
    9. You Don't Have The Heart
    10. Close The Door
    11. Safe And Sound
    12. Low Light
    Extra Info:
      Idlewild's first full length album to be released commercially, it was recorded over 4 months, in Chapel Studios, Lincolnshire and Westland Studios, Dublin. T-shirt, posters etc.. of the new album are available at most of the tour dates in Janurary, oops too late, they might sell them at other tour dates they do. I'll add more info as it comes in...
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    Queen Of The Troubled Teens
    Released: March 1997
    Chart Position: N/A
    Available on 7" vinyl only (HC0017)
    Human Condition Records
    Track Listing:
    • Side A:
      1. Queen Of The Troubled Teens
      2. Faster
    • Side B:
      1. Self Healer
    Extra Info:
      Featuring the now defunct bass player Phil Scanlon. The girl on the cover is Roddy's sister Kirsty. Very rare, un surprisingly because only 1000 copies were pressed. Recorded originally in October 1996 but we all know what record companies are like. Roddy has a stash of 30 copies which he might keep, you can tell he is keeping them for beer money, you can just imagine him going out to the pub with enough for a pint and a copy of this single to flog, which will probably keep him drinking until the next week.
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    Chandelier
    Released: December 1st 1997 (my 17th Birthday!)
    Chart Position: N/A
    Available on 7" vinyl only (NING 42)
    Released on Fierce Panda
    Track Listing:
    • Side A:
        • Chandelier
    • Side B:
        • I Want To Be A Writer
    Extra Info:
      Limited edition vinyl,as ewell as the limited number of 7" vinyls,  there are 20 hand written test copies. Now deleted and you'd be hard pressed to find it.. although it would make a fine birthday present for me since it was released on my birthday, so send me it pleeeease!
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    Satan Polaroid
    Released: February 9th 1998
    Chart Position: N/A
    Available on 7" vinyl (BLUFF 057)
    Deceptive Record Label
    Track Listing:
    • Side A:
        • Satan Polaroid
    • Side B:
        • House Alone
    Extra Info:
      Limited edition 7", only 1500 copies pressed placed in numbered card sleeve with circular hole in the middle as you will if you view the image bigger. And I know it says 1882 on the cover that's cause I editted it. the only single to be released from the Captain EP.
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    A Film For The Future
    Released: April 27th 1998
    Chart Position: 53 in UK Singles Chart
    Available on CD and 7" vinyl
    Released on Food Record Label
    Track Listing:
    • CD (CDFOOD111)
      1. A Film For The Future
      2. Mince Showercap (part 1)
      3. What Am I Going To Do?
    • 7" vinyl (FOOD111)

      • Side A: 
        A Film For The Future
      Side B: 
        Mince Showercap (part 1)
    Extra Info:
      The CD was red and placed in a digipak. 7" version limited to 3000 copies and numbered with a  sticker. 7" version also includes exclusive band inlay photograph.... ok so I just copied that from another page, the single was included on the current album 'Hope is Important'.
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    Everyone Says Your So Fragile
    Released: July 13th 1998
    Chart Position: I'll find out soon
    Available on CD and 7" vinyl
    Food Record Label
    Track Listing:
    • CD (CDFOOD113)
      1. Everyone Says Your So Fragile
      2. Mince Showercap (part 2)
      3. Theory of Acheivement
    • 7" vinyl (FOOD113)

      • Side A: 
        Everyone Says Your So Fragile
      Side B: 
        Mince Showercap (part 2)
    Extra Info:
      The CD was blue and placed in a digipak. 7" version numbered and limited to 4000 copies at a guess. No one has said I'm fragile, but I'm sure one day when I'm talking about Idlewild with someone, I will sort of dissapear into a daze, and someone will be shouting, 'everyone says your are so fragile' questioning me whether I have it or not.
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    I'm A Message
    Released: 12 October 1998
    Chart Position: I'll find that out too!
    Available on 2 CD's and number 7" vinyl
    Food Record Label
    Track Listing:
    • CD1 (CDFOOD???) 
      1. I'm A Message 
      2. Mince Showercap  (part 3) 
      3. This Is Worse 
    • CD2 (CDFOODS???) 
      1. I'm A Message 
      (live for Radio 1) 
      1. Satan Polaroid 
      (live for Hallum Fm)
      1. You've Lost Your Way 
      (live for XFM)
    • 7" vinyl (FOOD???) 

      • Side A: 
        I'm A Message 
        Mince Showercap (part 3)
      Side B: 
        This is Worse
    Extra Info:
      Limited 7" vinyl, limited to ?? copies. First single released on 2 CD's by the band. This was a song on radio and tv a lot at the time, even me in my eternal daze kinda noticed it.
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    When I Argue I See Shapes
    Released: 1st February 1999
    Chart Position: Don't be silly!
    Available on 2CD's and 7" vinyl
    Released on Food Record Label
    Track Listing:
    • CD1 (CDFOOD116)
      1. When I Argue I See Shapes
      2. Palace Flophouse
      3. Chandelier (10.15 version)
    • CD2 (CDFOODS116)
      1. When I Argue I See Shapes (Album Version)
      2. (1903-70)
      3. Last Night I Missed All The Fireworks 
      (live at Reading Festival)
    • 7" vinyl (FOOD116)

      • Side A: 
        When I Argue I See Shapes
      Side B: 
      1. (1903-70)
      2. Chandelier (10.15 version)
    Extra Info:
      The song came out of a conversations with a friend and are taken from actual words they said, I wonder if they can sue for copyright ehehe. This includes a piano version of the Fierce Panda release 'Chandelier'. 7" vinyl includes a picture of a burnt out care on the inside. Palace Flophouse is a cover of the obscure Glasgow band 'Peeps Into Fairyland' who they toured with in October '98. There are 2 piano tracks on the singles, this was because they only had a day to record the B-sides before the ULU in November, and Rod broke the amp. So Rod say the piano in the studio and it developed from there. The track dates in the track (1903-1970) refer to the dates painter Mark Rothko was born and died, they are lines in the song which refer to him, although Roddy says ' but it's not really about him. We has to come up with all these B-sides in one day!'. 
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