• Simon Neil - vocals, guitar
• Ben Johnston - vocals, drums
• James Johnston - bass, vocals

Signed to Beggars Banquet, Biffy Clyro are an aggressive popcore outfit from Glasgow, or thereabouts. They released their first single for Beggars, entitled '27', on the 9th of April 2001, following their first nationwide tour with label-mates Llama Farmers, claiming "single of the week" in Kerrang! The band have since toured with Sunna and appeared at the T In The Park and Carling Weekend festivals.

The band, comprised of frontman Simon Neil and brothers James Johnston and Ben Johnston, count Nirvana and Soundgarden amongst their early influences, but their sound also takes its cues from such bands as Far and Tool.

The band released their debut single, 'Iname', on Aereogramme's label, BabiYaga, and released their 4 track EP, 'Thekidswhopoptodaywillrocktomorrow' in 2001 on Electric Honey Records (the label that launched Belle & Sebastian's Tiger Milk album). Their debut LP Blackened Sky emerged in 2002, with The Vertigo Of Bliss succeeding it the following year.

They made it three with 2004's Infinity Land, before making us wait for two and a half years for the fourth album, Puzzle, to hit in spring 2007.

Upcoming events

• Glastonbury Saturday, Sat 28 Jun at Glastonbury Festival with Massive Attack, The Futureheads, Elbow, British Sea Power, Manu Chao, The Raconteurs
• T In The Park Saturday, Sat 12 Jul at Kinross T In The Park with Sugababes, dEUS, Rage Against The Machine, Ian Brown, The Raconteurs, Ben Folds
• Leeds Festival Saturday, Sat 23 Aug at Leeds Bramham Park with Queens of The Stone Age, Rage Against The Machine, Dizzee Rascal, Babyshambles, The Fratellis, The Wombats

Releases

• Puzzle - album, out 04/06/2007 on 14th Floor Records. 1 review (read/post)
• Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies - single, out 14/05/2007 on 14th Floor Records. 1 review (read/post)
• Saturday Superhouse - single, out 05/03/2007 on 14th Floor Records. 1 review (read/post)
• semi-mental - single, out 25/12/2006 on 14th Floor Records. (post review)
• Only One Word Comes To Mind - single, out 24/01/2005 on Beggars Banquet. (post review)
• My Recovery Injection - single, out 20/09/2004 on Beggars Banquet. (post review)
• Glitter and Trauma - single, out 09/08/2004 on Beggars Banquet. 1 review (read/post)
• There's No Such Thing As A Jaggy Snake - single, out 31/05/2004 on Beggars Banquet. 1 review (read/post)
• Only One Word Comes To Mind - single, out 14/02/2004 on Beggars Banquet. 1 review (read/post)
• Eradicate The Doubt - single, out 22/09/2003 on Beggars Banquet. (post review)
• Vertigo of Bliss - album, out 16/06/2003 on Beggars Banquet. 1 review (read/post)
• Questions And Answers - single, out 26/05/2003 on Beggars Banquet. 1 review (read/post)
• The Ideal Height - single, out 24/03/2003 on Beggars Banquet. 1 review (read/post)
• Joy.Discovery.Invention / Toys Toys Toys Choke Toys Toys Toys - single, out 15/07/2002 on Beggars Banquet. 1 review (read/post)
• Blackened Sky - album, out 11/03/2002 on Beggars Banquet. (post review)
• 57 - single, out 04/02/2002 on Beggars Banquet. 1 review (read/post)
• Justboy - single, out 01/10/2001 on Beggars Banquet. 1 review (read/post)
• 27 - single, out 09/04/2001 on Beggars Banquet. 1 review (read/post)
• 27 - single, out 26/03/2001 on Beggars Banquet. 1 review (read/post)

Past events

• Little Noise Sessions, Fri 23 Nov at London Union Chapel. (post review)
• Thu 22 Nov at Norwich UEA. (post review)
• Wed 21 Nov at London Brixton Academy. (post review)
• Tue 20 Nov at Southampton Guildhall. (post review)
• Sun 18 Nov at Bristol Academy. (post review)
• Sat 17 Nov at Cardiff University. (post review)
• Thu 15 Nov at Sheffield Octagon at Sheffield University. (post review)
• Wed 14 Nov at Nottingham Rock City. (post review)
• Tue 13 Nov at Birmingham Academy. (post review)
• Mon 12 Nov at Manchester Academy. (post review)
• Sun 11 Nov at Newcastle upon Tyne Academy. (post review)
• Fri 09 Nov at Edinburgh Corn Exchange. (post review)
• Thu 08 Nov at Glasgow Barrowlands. (post review)
• Wed 07 Nov at Glasgow Barrowlands. (post review)
• Tue 06 Nov at Dundee Fat Sam's. (post review)
• Sat 03 Nov at Dublin Phoenix Park. (post review)
• Mon 08 Oct at Paris La Maroquinerie. (post review)
• Carling Weekend Leeds Festival - Sunday, Sun 26 Aug at Leeds Bramham Park. (post review)
• Fflam Festival - Friday, Sat 14 Jul at Swansea Singleton Park. (post review)
• Sun 17 Jun at London Wembley Arena. (post review)
• Download Festival - Saturday, Sat 09 Jun at Castle Donington Park. (post review)
• Mon 28 May at Manchester Academy 2 (formerly MDH). (post review)
• Sun 27 May at Newcastle upon Tyne Northumbria University. (post review)
• Sat 26 May at Leeds Metropolitan University Union. (post review)
• Thu 24 May at Cambridge Junction. (post review)
• Wed 23 May at Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall. (post review)
• Tue 22 May at London Roundhouse. (post review)
• Sun 20 May at Portsmouth Pyramid Centre. (post review)
• Wed 16 May at Oxford Brookes University S.U.. (post review)
• Fri 20 Apr at London Brixton Academy. (post review)
• Thu 19 Apr at London Brixton Academy. (post review)
• Wed 18 Apr at Blackpool Empress Ballroom. (post review)
• Mon 16 Apr at Plymouth Pavilions. (post review)
• Sun 15 Apr at Wolverhampton Civic Hall. (post review)
• FROG Third Birthday, Fri 13 Apr at London Forum. (post review)
• Fri 23 Mar at Bristol Anson Rooms. (post review)
• Fri 09 Mar at London HMV Oxford Circus. (post review)
• Sat 27 Jan at London Astoria. (post review)
• Kerrang! Tour 2007, Thu 18 Jan at Southampton Guildhall. (post review)
• The Kerrang Tour, Tue 16 Jan at Nottingham Rock City. (post review)
• Wed 29 Mar at London Royal Albert Hall. (post review)
• Mon 20 Feb at London Koko. (post review)
• Sat 10 Dec at Dublin Temple Bar Music Centre. (post review)
• Fri 09 Dec at Galway Roisin Dubh. (post review)
• Thu 08 Dec at Limerick Dolan's. (post review)
• Wed 07 Dec at Belfast Spring & Airbrake. (post review)
• Mon 27 Sep at Manchester Academy 3 (formerly Hop & Grape). 1 review (read/post)
• Thu 10 Jul at Glasgow King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. 1 review (read/post)
• Mon 24 Feb at Manchester Academy 2 (formerly MDH). 1 review (read/post)
• Sat 06 Jul at Grays Music Festival. 1 review (read/post)
• Thu 18 Apr at Manchester Academy 3 (formerly Hop & Grape). 1 review (read/post)
• Tue 19 Feb at London Highbury Garage. 1 review (read/post)
• Fri 18 Jan at Brighton Concorde. 1 review (read/post)
• Mon 09 Apr at London Camden Barfly. 1 review (read/post)
• Fri 09 Mar at London Highbury Garage. 1 review (read/post)

News

• 18/04/2008: Jamie T, The Cribs, The National to headline Glastonbury's John Peel stage
• 01/04/2008: Infanticide: Biffy Clyro take sword to Beggars love-child
• 11/02/2008: Chart-round-up: bad face days
• 03/09/2007: Biffy join QOTSA for US tour
• 23/07/2007: Chart round-up: Enemy pan Potts, Potts has last laugh
• 06/07/2007: Trupdate: (that's meant to be a clever amalgamation of 'Truck' and 'Update'). Gah.
• 06/07/2007: Green Day and Foos for T in the Park
• 06/07/2007: Breeze Festival 2003: First Bands Confirmed *Update*
• 06/07/2007: T In The Park: some bands are going to play it, you know
• 06/07/2007: Essex Rocks - Official

Features

• 31/08/2007: Reading & Leeds '07: DiS down the front
• 18/07/2007: Glastonbury: Sean's Blog - Day 2
• 18/07/2007: The Camden Crawl: Our Myriad Highs
• 06/07/2007: The Weekly DiScussion: An Open Letter To Muse
• 06/07/2007: Truck Festival 2005: Highlights and Lowlifes
• 06/07/2007: We like trucking and we like to truck. Truck Festival 2005: reviewed
• 06/07/2007: DiS Goes Camping: Festival Round Up
• 06/07/2007: K! Weekender Preview
• 06/07/2007: Carling Weekender: New Band Tent Reviews
• 06/07/2007: Raz on The Raz @ Reading

Links

• Biffy Clyro - official website
• Death To False Metal - fansite

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