10 Rock Musicians With Surprising Day Jobs

Mark Bowen is best known for strutting around in a pair of dirty boxer shorts as he pumps out unapologetically aggressive punk guitar riffs.

IDLES are a band that are all about rooting for the underdog. Holding the greedy establishments to account, lambasting racist or homophobic ideology and celebrating the working classes.

So it might not actually come as a surprise that Mark Bowen has also spent time providing dental care for the incarcerated. He certainly practises what IDLES preach. Bowen has worked as a dentist for years, and during the early days of IDLES would work a full day starring into peoples mouths, drive several hours to a gig, perform and then drive back to do it all the next day.

One of the biggest allures of IDLES (beside their frantic brand of punk) is the genuine nature to everything they do. They're not afraid of admitting past faults. Indeed, when they're not sticking it to the Tories, many of their songs contain references to outdated forms of masculinity and destructive relationships with substances. But now they all seem to be about channeling any previous bad energy into more positive ventures.