Biffy Clyro

weeniebeenieuk

Anyone heard of them? only recently discovered them! A great scottish band, 4 words that cant of been said many times before! also its great when you find a good band and the already have 3 or 4 albums!

chris01

Awesome band, heard of them before they had an album out cause a friend of mine was in a college class with one of them, the bass player i think.

Only heard two songs from the new album but they're both great.

weeniebeenieuk

Their new video ( can't rememeber the name!) definately has a bit of a retro feel to it, kinda feel im back in 1992 when watching it!

dr jam

Incredible live band, first saw them a few years back (around 2002??) at Southampton Uni, really impressive. Check them out if you get the chance.

Chris

Great band - really like last album Infinity Land - I think a lot of PJ fans would like them. Only heard the single off the new album, but the press seem to be bigging up the new one - you get the feeling this their time.

Housing Jim

My favourite band after PJ!

Been into them for about 5 years now since I saw them open for Weezer in Glasgow in 2002. Seen them live 18 times now and they are, usually, always brilliant A friend of mine had them come play in his lounge for a Kerrang magazine article a couple of years ago and, aside from PJ at the Astoria, it was the best live show I've seen....even if it did only last 7 songs before the Police arrived!

Their last album, Infinity Land, wasn't great IMHO but the new one is shaping up to be really great

awesome, awesome band

audiodave

Housing Jim wrote:

Their last album, Infinity Land, wasn't great IMHO but the new one is shaping up to be really great

awesome, awesome band

I agree about Infinity Land. It has some good songs, but all in all not as good as Blackened Sky or The Vertigo Of Bliss.

I haven't heard any of the new album, but i'm looking forwardto hearing it.

Love this band, but still need to see them live in a non-festival setting.

Housing Jim

audiodave wrote:

I agree about Infinity Land. It has some good songs, but all in all not as good as Blackened Sky or The Vertigo Of Bliss.

Yeah....Infinity Land has some great tracks (My Recovery Injection, There's No Such Thing As A Jaggy Snake, Kids From Kibble And The Fist of Light) but its also got some of their worst songs on there too (The Atrocity, There's No Such Thing As Crasp, Wave Upon Wave Upon Wave)

At no point does it ever reach the heights of Blackened Sky and Vertigo's highlights

audiodave

I've been listening to The Vertigo Of Bliss non stop since being reminded by this thread.

There's some kick ass Biffy Clips on youtube. I NEED to see them live.

Liberate The Illiterate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b63ZdcR7ut4

audiodave

OK, Biffy Clyro are SUPPORTING Bloc Party???

That's a frickin' insult...

Housing Jim

audiodave wrote:

OK, Biffy Clyro are SUPPORTING Bloc Party???

That's a frickin' insult...

Yeah....I thought it's a little weird too. I guess they're doing it for the same reason as they supported The Editors last Summer in that they said it gives them a chance to play to a bunch of folk who are unlikely to have heard them before.

It's still a strange combination though

audiodave

Housing Jim wrote:

Yeah....I thought it's a little weird too. I guess they're doing it for the same reason as they supported The Editors last Summer in that they said it gives them a chance to play to a bunch of folk who are unlikely to have heard them before.

It's still a strange combination though

They supported Editors!?

This is a band with a pretty dedicated following, about to release it's fourth album. Why support these indie bands on their first or second album?

Ah well.

Housing Jim

audiodave wrote:

They supported Editors!?

This is a band with a pretty dedicated following, about to release it's fourth album. Why support these indie bands on their first or second album?

Ah well.

Yeah, they opened for them at Brixton Academy last year....a venue which Biffy could probably sell out on their own.

I think the Bloc Party dates are predominantly in mainland Europe so i can understand why they're supporting there as it'll be much needed exposure for them.....they aren't supporting at the Glasgow Academy show, presumably because half the crowd would leave after Biffy's set and they've sold out that venue themselves in the past.

I think it's great that the band are finally getting some attention, especially as they nearly blew it, taking so long to release this record after putting out 3 albums in the space of as many years....but I still find it a little odd seeing them on MTV

Raybees

weeniebeenieuk wrote:

A great scottish band, 4 words that cant of been said many times before!

Excuse me? Jesus & Mary Chain, Teenage Fanclub, The Vaselines, The Pastels, The BMX Bandits, and Eugenius are some great Scottish bands.

stu gee

1 Belle & Sebastian
2 Travis
3 Idlewild
4 Wet Wet Wet
5 Sensational Alex Harvey Band
6 Simple Minds
7 Teenage Fanclub
8 Bay City Rollers
9 Primal Scream
10 The Proclaimers
11 Texas
12 Mull historical society
13 Big country
14 Snow Patrol
15 Franz Ferdinand
16 Bis
17 Deacon Blue
18 Fish
19 Jesus and Mary Chain
20 Mogwai
21 Runrig
22 Trash Can Sinatras
23 Del Amitri
24 Orange Juice
25 Nazareth
26 Beta Band
27 Biffy Clyro
28 Altered Images
29 Aztec Camera
30 Eddi Reader
31 Goodbye Mr Mackenzie
32 Fire Engines
33 Delgados
34 Arab strap
35 Vaselines
36 Associates
37 The Pastels
38 Eurythmics
39 Aereogramme
40 Blue Nile
41 Boards of Canada
42 Rezillos
43 Incredible string band
44 Cocteau twins
45 Dogs Die in Hot Cars
46 Spare Snare
47 Average White Band
48 Lulu
49 Skids
50 Shamen

Not bad for a tiny wee country like ours in my opinion.

chris01

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVdONhJOPwQ

New single.

nutmeg81

stu gee wrote:

1 Belle & Sebastian---only gettin in to em...i likey!

3 Idlewild--miss their earlier nutteir live show

6 Simple Minds--breakfast club baby!!

7 Teenage Fanclub--just bought best of.....and like the tune from Judgement Night s'track

9 Primal Scream---still aint seen live!!

10 The Proclaimers--one tune!!

11 Texas--hot charlene!

14 Snow Patrol--irish!!!

15 Franz Ferdinand--nay bad!

19 Jesus and Mary Chain--again just found....21 singles cd brilliant!

20 Mogwai--seen live 2/3 times......ear blowing stuff!

24 Orange Juice--phenominal......original franz ferdinad!

26 Beta Band--rip!

27 Biffy Clyro--my mate obsessed with em....as much as i am with PJ!!

30 Eddi Reader--always confuses me when i see gig listings!!

34 Arab strap--saw once....rip

35 Vaselines--just know nirvana connection!

38 Eurythmics--go on annie!

39 Aereogramme--amazing 2nd album! 3rd just out!

40 Blue Nile--missed em at EP fest last year!

41 Boards of Canada--want to get into

44 Cocteau twins--same as above!

45 Dogs Die in Hot Cars--like debut!

48 Lulu-SHOUT BABY!!

Not bad for a tiny wee country like ours in my opinion.

where the fuck is JOSEF K????/ got into em last summer along with ORANGE
JUICE when Domino relreleased all their stuff!!

stu gee

Just got Blackened Sky the other day, listening to it really for the 1st time and its great. The Go-Slow is a great song, but the album on the whole is excellent.

audiodave

stu gee wrote:

Just got Blackened Sky the other day, listening to it really for the 1st time and its great. The Go-Slow is a great song, but the album on the whole is excellent.

Fantastic album, I love Kill The Old, Toture Their Young and Stress On The Sky. And the rest of the album come to think of it.

Love The Vertigo Of Bliss even more though.

stu gee

audiodave wrote:

Fantastic album, I love Kill The Old, Toture Their Young and Stress On The Sky. And the rest of the album come to think of it.

Love The Vertigo Of Bliss even more though.

i bought vertigo of bliss years ago and liked it, took a while for me to get anything else though.

There was a cracking bonus track on vertigo of bliss if i remember rightly.

duggro

just saw them in edinburgh

bloody awesome!!

stu gee

Blackened sky is actually a really brilliant album, id kinda ignored them for a while but its a great rock album, very powerful guitars. Might try and see them at T this year.

audiodave

duggro wrote:

just saw them in edinburgh

bloody awesome!!

DAMN YOU! I haven't been able to see them since I became a fan, but I REALLY want to. I've been listening to Puzzle on repeat all week.

Did they play much new material?

Gossard_Is_God

Raybees wrote:

Excuse me? Jesus & Mary Chain, Teenage Fanclub, The Vaselines, The Pastels, The BMX Bandits, and Eugenius are some great Scottish bands.

why SIMPLE MINDS is not on this list I dont know

duggro

audiodave wrote:

DAMN YOU! I haven't been able to see them since I became a fan, but I REALLY want to. I've been listening to Puzzle on repeat all week.

Did they play much new material?

yeah i think so, im not too familiar with the new album, just d/l'ed it about an hour ago!

saturday superhouse, who's got a match and living is a problem were the ones i could name

highlight for me was glitter and trauma. love that tune!

Blackeyedangel

Whatever happened to the poster biffy clyro?

3manstack

........but it makes no difference to where we starrrrrrtaaaaahhhhhhhd.

Ugggh hate that line!

Housing Jim

duggro wrote:

yeah i think so, im not too familiar with the new album, just d/l'ed it about an hour ago!

saturday superhouse, who's got a match and living is a problem were the ones i could name

highlight for me was glitter and trauma. love that tune!

They've been toning down how much new stuff they were going to play as originally Puzzle was meant to be out in time for the tour but it got put bcak till Monday......and now cos i have to go to London for a week tomorrow I'm not going to get it till next saturday...damn you play.com, why don't you send your discs on Thursdays like you used to.

Anyway...I haven't seen them this tour, was going to go up to Glasgow for the show last night but funds did not permit....flights from Glasgow to Cardiff seem a lot more expensive than they used to be!

duggro

definitely coming across as a more mainstream attempt. nothing wrong with that, as its accompanying their move to the big time

i do like it after the first listen


"geeeeet fuuuuuucked stud, its tiiiime toooo gooooo":)

Housing Jim

I've heard the majority of the songs from Puzzle played live....they've been playing some of them for the best part of two years!

I don't know if it's really a stab at the mainstream as i think most of the songs I've heard aren't vastly different to any of the stuff on Infinity Land...maybe more rocking if anything. I think they've just got a decent label and some money behind them now that the press have started to take some notice at long last.

The review in NME of the new album is quite sickening. It talks about how they were the best kept secret in rock as if the paper has been behind them from day one when NME actually spent years ignoring them. The only magazine thats ever shown any interest in them was Kerrang.

audiodave

Housing Jim wrote:

I've heard the majority of the songs from Puzzle played live....they've been playing some of them for the best part of two years!

I don't know if it's really a stab at the mainstream as i think most of the songs I've heard aren't vastly different to any of the stuff on Infinity Land...maybe more rocking if anything. I think they've just got a decent label and some money behind them now that the press have started to take some notice at long last.

The review in NME of the new album is quite sickening. It talks about how they were the best kept secret in rock as if the paper has been behind them from day one when NME actually spent years ignoring them. The only magazine thats ever shown any interest in them was Kerrang.

It's really wierd whats happening with the new album. I never listen to the radio, but I was driving somewhere last week, and Living Is A Problem came on Radio 1. Then the next day they played Folding Stars, and the DJ said they were playing a track from the new album every day, and people were texting in saying they hadn't heard them before but they really liked the tracks! THEN, yesterday, I saw the Living Is A Problem video on a music channel! :eek:

I don't really think this album is more mainstream, but they are on a bigger label, so this label are going to push it more, and it seems to be working. It's more radio friendly that Vertigo Of Bliss, but it's probably on a par with Blackened Sky, I would say. I don't know about any similarity to Infinity Land, as save for a few tracks, I don't like that album.