Biffy Clyro

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  • stu gee
    stu gee Posts: 1,174
    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.
    People say im paranoid. Well, they dont say it, but i know that's what they are thinking.
  • audiodave
    audiodave Posts: 1,623
    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?
    ~AKA Dave-of-the-dead~

    I don't wanna think, I wanna feel

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  • Gossard_Is_God
    Gossard_Is_God Posts: 1,031
    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
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  • duggro
    duggro Posts: 1,343
    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!
    Dublin Leeds Berlin Wembley
  • Blackeyedangel
    Blackeyedangel Posts: 262
    Whatever happened to the poster biffy clyro?
  • 3manstack
    3manstack Posts: 205
    ........but it makes no difference to where we starrrrrrtaaaaahhhhhhhd.

    Ugggh hate that line!
  • Housing Jim
    Housing Jim Posts: 644
    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!
    A democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos.

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  • duggro
    duggro Posts: 1,343
    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":)
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  • Housing Jim
    Housing Jim Posts: 644
    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.
    A democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos.

    Manchester - 4/6/2000
    London - 20/4/2006
    Dublin - 23/8/2006
    London - 18/6/2007
    New York City - 24/6/2008
    New York City - 25/6/2008 - we will be "what is up" New York
    Manchester - 18/8/2009
    Manchester - 20/6/2012
    Leeds - 6/7/2014
    London - 18/6/2018
  • audiodave
    audiodave Posts: 1,623
    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.
    ~AKA Dave-of-the-dead~

    I don't wanna think, I wanna feel

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  • duggro
    duggro Posts: 1,343
    i dunno, theres just something about the tracks that dont link that much with infinity land in my opinion, but thats not a bad thing.

    it just sounds more commercially orientated music. and im not meaning that in the usual way that people use that phrase, it isn't a criticism

    e.g. who's got a match isn't really typical biffy, its a lot lighter and more commerically viable. still an awesome tune!
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  • Housing Jim
    Housing Jim Posts: 644
    I love Who's Got A Match.....its got that great 80s style bouncing bass line :)

    I agree, Infinity land isn't them at their best. they say they tried to marry a pop element to their sound and I don't think it really worked.

    I think there are a lot more similarities with the new stuff an dthe stuff on Blackened Sky, which was a very grunge influenced record. Semi-mental definitely comes from the same school :)
    A democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos.

    Manchester - 4/6/2000
    London - 20/4/2006
    Dublin - 23/8/2006
    London - 18/6/2007
    New York City - 24/6/2008
    New York City - 25/6/2008 - we will be "what is up" New York
    Manchester - 18/8/2009
    Manchester - 20/6/2012
    Leeds - 6/7/2014
    London - 18/6/2018
  • audiodave
    audiodave Posts: 1,623
    I love Who's Got A Match, and I agree that it isn't typical Biffy, but I don't really think it's that commercial.

    The "old" Biffy are definitely still there though. Just listen to Living Is A Problem, The Conversation Is, Sem-Mental and Get Fucked Stud.

    I'm really liking Puzzle though. It's no Vertigo Of Bliss...but not many things are! :D
    ~AKA Dave-of-the-dead~

    I don't wanna think, I wanna feel

    Dublin 23/08/06 Lisbon I 04/09/06 Lisbon II 05/09/06 Paris 11/09/06 Verona 16/09/06

    London 18/06/07 Dusseldorf 21/06/07 Copenhagen 26/06/07 Nijmegen 28/06/07
  • Housing Jim
    Housing Jim Posts: 644
    Well, I finally got my hands on Puzzle and just coming to the end my second listen to it in it's entirity.

    I'm not really sure what i think of it yet. At times it's brilliant, the first 3 songs are great but then it goes somewhere else that i never thought Biffy would go and that is into the realms of restraint. In fact it goes so far in this direction at times that there are moments I'd expect to find on a Busted record or summat.

    I just keep waiting for them to let go in some of the songs, like come on, let it out, like they do on Vertigo and Blackened Sky but on Puzzle it rarely comes.

    It's a good album but it's not the Biffy that I know and love.
    A democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos.

    Manchester - 4/6/2000
    London - 20/4/2006
    Dublin - 23/8/2006
    London - 18/6/2007
    New York City - 24/6/2008
    New York City - 25/6/2008 - we will be "what is up" New York
    Manchester - 18/8/2009
    Manchester - 20/6/2012
    Leeds - 6/7/2014
    London - 18/6/2018
  • audiodave
    audiodave Posts: 1,623
    Biffy tour in November! I just booked my ticket for the Birmingham show...woohoo! Will be my first proper time of seeing them...shame i'll be going alone!
    ~AKA Dave-of-the-dead~

    I don't wanna think, I wanna feel

    Dublin 23/08/06 Lisbon I 04/09/06 Lisbon II 05/09/06 Paris 11/09/06 Verona 16/09/06

    London 18/06/07 Dusseldorf 21/06/07 Copenhagen 26/06/07 Nijmegen 28/06/07
  • Housing Jim
    Housing Jim Posts: 644
    audiodave wrote:
    Biffy tour in November! I just booked my ticket for the Birmingham show...woohoo! Will be my first proper time of seeing them...shame i'll be going alone!

    Glad you're finally going to get to see them dave! :)

    I'm just doing the Cardiff show as most of the tour takes place when I'm in the states.

    Did you get a ticket in the presale then? They were really late putting the tickets on....just like everything to do with that webiste, it was a bit of joke!
    A democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos.

    Manchester - 4/6/2000
    London - 20/4/2006
    Dublin - 23/8/2006
    London - 18/6/2007
    New York City - 24/6/2008
    New York City - 25/6/2008 - we will be "what is up" New York
    Manchester - 18/8/2009
    Manchester - 20/6/2012
    Leeds - 6/7/2014
    London - 18/6/2018
  • audiodave
    audiodave Posts: 1,623
    Housing Jim wrote:
    Glad you're finally going to get to see them dave! :)

    I'm just doing the Cardiff show as most of the tour takes place when I'm in the states.

    Did you get a ticket in the presale then? They were really late putting the tickets on....just like everything to do with that webiste, it was a bit of joke!
    Yeah I did. Bit annoyed as I had to se ticketmaster, which I never use. Fees are ridiculous...and they will only deliver to the billing address. I DON'T LIVE AT MY BILLING ADDRESS! And by the time of delivery...we'll probably have moved anyway! Stupid ticketmaster.

    Rant over. :D Oh and I just bought Puzzle...paid an extra 3 quid for a "bonus track" and some random dvd I won't watch.
    ~AKA Dave-of-the-dead~

    I don't wanna think, I wanna feel

    Dublin 23/08/06 Lisbon I 04/09/06 Lisbon II 05/09/06 Paris 11/09/06 Verona 16/09/06

    London 18/06/07 Dusseldorf 21/06/07 Copenhagen 26/06/07 Nijmegen 28/06/07
  • chris01
    chris01 Posts: 559
    Housing Jim wrote:
    In fact it goes so far in this direction at times that there are moments I'd expect to find on a Busted record or summat.

    Them's fighting words!! :D

    I think its a great album, Saturday Superhouse and Who's got a Match are gold.
  • duggro
    duggro Posts: 1,343
    eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeleanor


    dearie me




    ps i know what its about and how emotional it is, but i just cant like it as a biffy track
    Dublin Leeds Berlin Wembley
  • audiodave
    audiodave Posts: 1,623
    duggro wrote:
    eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeleanor


    dearie me




    ps i know what its about and how emotional it is, but i just cant like it as a biffy track
    Really?

    I quite like it.
    ~AKA Dave-of-the-dead~

    I don't wanna think, I wanna feel

    Dublin 23/08/06 Lisbon I 04/09/06 Lisbon II 05/09/06 Paris 11/09/06 Verona 16/09/06

    London 18/06/07 Dusseldorf 21/06/07 Copenhagen 26/06/07 Nijmegen 28/06/07

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