Sheffield AcademyBack on the road with a new album, the Scottish trio are packing their stadium-sized rock into smaller venues, to thrilling effect
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When it comes to contemporary, chart-bothering rock, Biffy Clyro – back in the Top 5 this week – are perhaps Britain’s most unique example. The Scottish alt-rock trio bring together scabrous guitar riffs, quirky rhythms and frontman Simon Neil’s feral vocals to thrilling effect, packing all this and more into a sprawling, 23-song set here.
Originally booked for April, a six-month postponement for this tour allowed the band to put together new album The Myth of the Happily Ever After, that they say is a reaction to their previous release, 2020’s A Celebration of Endings. New songs DumDum and A Hunger In Your Haunt are received as voraciously as staples Mountains and That Golden Rule. In keeping with the spirit of the evening – part of a tour of relatively intimate venues – the band do away with the latter’s prominent string section, but their audience is more than happy to follow Neil’s lead and sing the parts themselves.