{"id":3544273,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544273/?format=json","airdate":"2025-08-24T16:06:09-07:00","show":64377,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64377/?format=json","image_uri":"https://ia802809.us.archive.org/20/items/mbid-882917bf-09f9-42c2-8c3e-41bb741d126e/mbid-882917bf-09f9-42c2-8c3e-41bb741d126e-31116969977_thumb500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://ia902809.us.archive.org/20/items/mbid-882917bf-09f9-42c2-8c3e-41bb741d126e/mbid-882917bf-09f9-42c2-8c3e-41bb741d126e-31116969977_thumb250.jpg","song":"Danny Nedelko","track_id":"83f36cd9-2aba-4a32-a4d5-87dfde3bf4a1","recording_id":"0a311ba0-31cd-4359-873f-1aa931279e6a","artist":"IDLES","artist_ids":["be465d4f-c28d-4ba1-94ab-ebaada7db8af"],"album":"Joy as an Act of Resistance.","release_id":"882917bf-09f9-42c2-8c3e-41bb741d126e","release_group_id":"45003bef-d379-441d-b246-358f0b78985c","labels":["Partisan Records"],"label_ids":["d4ec5bb3-1d64-40fe-9629-ee1e452e251e"],"release_date":"2018-08-31","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Happy Birthday to Joe Talbot, who turned 41 years old yesterday!!!\n\nThe IDLES frontman reveals, \"I promised my friend Danny [Nedelko, member of Bristol band Heavy Lungs and a Ukrainian immigrant] I’d write a song for him and him me; the tone comes from Danny, and the lyrics came as I thought of his exuberance and how important people like Danny are. I think of this one more as a humane portrait than a political song, but I wanted the two notions to be inseparable.\"\n\nIn a 2023 interview with Apple Music, Talbot states, \"I believe in socialism. Go fuck yourselves. I want to sleep at night knowing that my platform is the voice of reason and an egalitarian want for something beautiful – not the murder of Black people, homophobia at the workplace, racist front lines.\"\n\nHere's a great live version from when IDLES visited KEXP in 2018: https://tinyurl.com/yww6tz43","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}