Biffy Clyro: "At Reading & Leeds, every band is a must see!"

It’s 31st December 2015. After a year in hiding, Biffy Clyro emerge triumphant to a euphoric Hogmanay crowd, and bring with them a teaser of 2016, launching their new album, aptly, with a bang. That show in the cold Edinburgh streets was, as frontman Simon Neil explains, “like a pressure cooker. We finally let the pressure off. We needed that show; this is when music becomes a living, breathing thing, when you share it with people.”

Fast forward to the present and their year’s work ‘Ellipsis’ is out and their new trilogy is officially, by their own terms, alive. “I think this is our grimy, anything goes trilogy,” he says. “I feel like the first three albums, we couldn’t top that kind of aggressive prog post-hardcore sound. We peaked out on that. I felt the same after ‘Opposites’. I’ve no interest in retreading ground as a band. I would much rather make a huge mistake and make a terrible record than just play it safe.

“These three records will probably be, in inverted commas, ‘studio albums’, where we’ll fully explore what the studio brings, very much be like a rock band but for the 21st century. This will be three studio records, I guess, the least organic trilogy. The non-organic trilogy!”