IDLES fans snap up tickets fast for band's 2021 Sheffield show

Dates for the shows , including an appearance at the city’s O2 Academy on May 17, were announced on August 28.

Some tickets were made available for free to key workers.

The news of the tour follows the announcement of the band's latest single Model Village from their forthcoming LP Ultra Mono (out on September 25 via Partisan).

Frontman Joe Talbot elaborated on the song’s meaning: “I hated growing up in a city that was really a town that was really a fishbowl.

" I left as soon as I could, only to realise the fishbowl didn't exist... just the fish, and they're everywhere.”

The animated video for the song was painstakingly pieced together over a period of weeks, with film-maker Michel Gondry holed up in his LA studio, cutting out hand-drawn bits of paper into characters and shapes, arranging them on lightboxes, and filming from above on his iPhone.

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He sent everything to brother Olivier in Paris, where he’d then take the collages and bring them to life through CGI.

The video premiered on online channel WePresent, accompanied by an exclusive interview with Joe and both filmmakers, delving into their creative process.

Michel told WePresent: “Olivier and I were excited to work on this because we use completely opposite techniques. I work with a primitive system of cutting paper and moving it under the lens frame by frame. Olivier then transforms it by morphing, warping and CGI.

“Basically, in the first part we try to illustrate the lyrics as close as possible, to create the world, and then in the second half… they go to the moon.”

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