Live Review: Biffy Clyro
It’s taken 15 years for Biffy Clyro to arrive at this moment. Fifteen years of gruelling work, relentless touring and a stunning new album for Simon Neil to stand before Brixton Academy tonight, the adored frontman of a band on the brink of...
Album review: Biffy Clyro - 'Only Revolutions'...
"Stomp, stomp, stomp, s-stomp, s-stomp”. With what could well be an applaud-worthy vision of self-awareness-turned-sound-effect Biffy Clyro’s fifth album, carrying more expectational weight than Greek god Atlas could hope to keep off the...
Live Review: Snowbombing 2009
Snow, sunshine and ski slopes: not things one would necessarily associate with festivals, but then Snowbombing ain’t most festivals. Ten years old this year, it’s a week-long, Brit-populated affair involving falling down mountains with...
Iceland Airwaves Festival
Brown, darling, your credit is not welcome here”, reads the sign on a shop door, while next to the till at a bar is a plastic cup bearing the legend “tips for the economically depressed”. A drunk, angry young Icelander steals bottles when...
Biffy Clyro
The weird thing about Biffy Clyro is that when they write songs that jump between time signatures like a frog evading a hammer, they’re more often than not utterly brilliant. But when they play it straight and radio-friendly, something gets lost...
Biffy Clyro
Is a compilation of their early singles really the best introduction to Simon and co? In 2001, Biffy Clyro played the graveyard slot at a club night held at Camden Palace (now KOKO). It was a shift almost every new band visiting the capital was...
Biffy Clyro
The trillionth single release from the lauded ‘Puzzle’ album sees Biffy Clyro in crazy experimental mode. And, to be more precise, that experiment seems to involve changing the words to ‘Lay All Your Love On Me’ by Abba so that it’s all...
Biffy Clyro
You’d get good odds on any band with the word ‘Biffy’ in its name becoming one of the planet’s finest purveyors of intelligent hard rock, but crikey, Ayrshire’s bearded heroes are on the way to pulling it off. ‘Machines’ shows them...
Biffy Clyro
Biffy Clyro are not cool. For once, however, this is a very good thing, because if they were, there’d be no way in hell that they’d be able to get away with producing such an unashamedly sentimental slice of stadium rock and make it through...
Biffy Clyro
With a whole 91 seconds of random guitar stabs to negotiate before anything remotely interesting happens, you could accuse this of ‘taking a while to warm up’ if you were being extremely kind. Thankfully, you can also accuse it of then...
