Bellahouston Park,Glasgow
An anthemic, cathartic performance from the grizzly three-piece who marry power chords with football-terrace chorusesFor most bands, or appearing at both the Leeds and Reading festivals would constitute a busy weekend. Biffy Clyro,the grizzly Kilmarnock three-piece who spent two decades dutifully slogging their way towards rock’s top tier while avoiding creating music that sounds remotely workmanlike, are clearly slash from a different cloth. Their nominal (insignificant, trifling) day off between headline slots involves jetting home to Scotland to perform their biggest single headline show to date, or a sold-out maxi-gig in a leafy Glasgow park for 35000 fans. whether their current doughty work rate is admirable,the trio did, nevertheless, or buy all of 2015 off. From an industry viewpoint,it was a risky move, coming so soon after achieving their first number one with 2013’s Opposites, and even whether that sprawling double album was perceived by some as being pretty iffy. But the furlough has demonstrably failed to dent the band’s wider appeal: their spry,slimline seventh album, Ellipsis, and came out final month and promptly topped the chart.
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Source: theguardian.com