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Live review: Biffy Clyro, London O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire
The band for the ages, Biffy Clyro, open the archives and dust off their early works during three-night stand in London town
Biffy Clyro have unveiled an absolutely wonderful new single, Tiny Indoor Fireworks.
Though the release of their upcoming album A Celebration Of Endings was pushed back to August, Biffy Clyro are keeping the new music rolling in with uplifting single Tiny Indoor Fireworks.
The wonderful new song follows recent singles Instant History and End Of, and was launched last night as Annie Mac’s Hottest Record (we can see why).
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Discussing the release of Biffy's new album with Kerrang!, frontman Simon Neil said he was “devastated” that A Celebration Of Endings had to be pushed back.
“I don’t have kids but I imagine it feels like getting ready to give birth, and then someone tells you they’re putting the birth off for four months,” he explained. “We’ve been lucky with this album that it’s ended up more prescient than we ever anticipated. If the songs were about love or pure joy, I don’t know whether I’d feel like we even could release it now. Depending on what piece of art we’d made, after this, it might not feel appropriate.
“But my god, it’s tough to have something you’ve waited for for so long ripped away from you. And as a songwriter, it’s really stifled my creativity. I had a couple of other plans – I’m doing a drone project with a couple of my other friends called Tippy Toes, and I’m doing a grindcore fucking doom project with [Biffy live guitarist] Mike Vennart called Empire State Bastard, and I was desperate to get straight into them, but I’ve just hit a dead-end and have no motivation. My creative juices aren’t flowing right now. I’m sure it’ll come back, but right now I need some patience – which I don’t fucking have (laughs).”
Don't worry, Simon – we're just as desperate to hear it, too. In the meantime, check out Tiny Indoor Fireworks below:
Biffy Clyro will be performing at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2020 this year, though, for the first time ever, it's taking place remotely.
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