As Turn gear up for the Rollercoaster tour this week, former bassist Gavin Fox is globetrotting with Scottish noiseniks Idlewild and looking forward to a Stateside jaunt with Pearl Jam. The tables turn quickly when you’re thrown straight into the deep-end. No honeymoon period or strategic retreat to record – you’re straight into Top Of The Pops, MTV and a world tour.

Interestingly, Gavin looks completely at home with Roddy Woomble’s newly expanded quintet, fitting in perfectly as the toussled bass engine room. Idlewild have diversified their sonic maelstrom significantly since the raucous and wonderfully named 100 Broken Windows. Songs from The Remote Part are more robust and angular workouts in the best tradition of guitar pop, managing to sound touchingly vulnerable but toweringly defiant. There is an ever so slight whiff of The Smiths, which speaks volumes about their progress.

But Idlewild haven’t lost their rock out mojo. The first few rows are frenzied beyond the call of most sensitive indie gatherings. ‘When I Argue I See Shapes’, ‘A Modern Way Of Letting Go’, ‘A Little Discourage’ and ‘Captain’ maintain a taut, tense line between catastrophic noise and blissfully structured melodies.

Woomble pitches his delivery splendidly. He is never the star and always accentuates the performances of his fellow musicians, now including our Gav.

The parting shot of ‘In Remote Part’/‘Scottish Fiction’ is perfectly indicative of the burgeoning Idlewild sound. A tricolour is thrown at Gav. While some would be tempted to pound the chest and make the Oscars speech, Fox picks it up humbly and proudly and takes it offstage, nicely rounding off a sensibly understated triumph.

It looks like the transfer was a very keen move afterall. What’s more, despite some inevitable disappointment, it will do the profile and reputation of the Kells rockers an enormous amount of good.