Biffy Clyro closing out the inaugural TRNSMT Festival (Gary Mather / Live4ever)
Ordinarily, the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow serves its reputation well as one of the UK’s best, and rowdiest, live music venues.
In 2020, it’s looking very different, but at least it’s a vibe which has helped to accentuate the mood of Biffy Clyro‘s Space, a track from the band’s recent A Celebration Of Endings album which they performed live there back in August.
“This bottled up everything, including their present inability to connect live with a fanbase as rabid as that of any other British group, gives these tunes a whipping, coiled energy that it’s impossible not to feel,” our album review reads.
“Opener North Of No South seems to combine the 20th and 21st century iterations of the trio – outsider angst and stadium rock – into one anthemic and biting swipe at the collective depravity of the planet’s so called leaders. End Of opens with feedback and a punk-as-f bassline, like thrown stones landing on the street during a riot. ‘This is not a love song’, spits Neil, and there are few of those here, because to get love you have to give it and these are men who can’t be with their fans and have spent too long swimming with sharks.”
