My favourite band on this densely populated Earth, Biffy Clyro, have announced they are to end the second chapter of their career by performing three intimate shows at Barrowlands in Glasgow this December. Queue tears and heartbreak because I'm too poor to travel all the way to Scotland to see what are bound to be three extremely wonderful, and quite probably legendary, shows. The Ayrshire rock heroes will be treating fans to a compilation of 'Blackened Sky' and 'Puzzle' (2002-2007) on December 5th, 'Vertigo of Bliss' and 'Only Revolutions' (2003-2009) on December 6th and 'Infinity Land' and 'Opposites' (2004 and 2013) on December 7th. Each night will involve an album from each half of their nearly 20 year career paired up and will invite fans to chose the setlists including B-sides. It sounds fucking insane. So insane that I would do some seriously unholy things to be there, especially on Sunday which will see the band perform my favourite 2 albums of theirs.
So what can you expect from Biffy in such a small venue? Seeing as I've only ever seen them on a large stage (Cardiff Motorpoint Arena and headlining Reading Festival) I'm not sure what you lucky people who are going will witness. I would imagine they won't be bringing fire, pyro and massive tree props with them but I would imagine a lot of sweat and a lot of opportunities to be body to body with 3 topless lads in tight women's trousers. It sounds like a dream, right? Right, and I cannot express how stunning they will be. For those of us who can't make it, who knows when we will expect to see the boys next. Frontman, Simon Neil, has already revealed that the band are working on new material that will move away from the sound of 'Opposites' and be much more eclectic in genres. Fingers crossed the album will be here before we know it so that they get back on tour again. Until then, MON THE BIFF!
Oh, and if anyone has a couch in Glasgow that I can kip on and if anyone wants to split a couple car journeys then that'd be great, please.
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