12. Biffy ClyroOnly Revolutions
This is weird. I only came across them because one of our neighbour’s kids had a band and I used to go around and help them out by plugging things back in properly or they’d come round to mine and I would do them a demo. But they used to play me records and I used to ask ‘what is that?’ – one of these bands were Biffy Clyro. They didn’t really register with me because they were a bit too intricate but I was driving home one night, coming up Kingston Hill and this record came on and I had to pull over to the side of the road as I was shedding tears. And the song was ‘Many Of Horror’. And I thought ‘this is the best thing I’ve heard in quite a while’ but I didn’t know it was Biffy Clyro! I just went ‘ooh!’. I went home, bought it on iTunes and played the song about 25 to 30 times, crying my eyes out. Something in that song flipped me out completely. It’s quite an anthemic, emotional song. I decided I needed to email the guy who produced the record and I just said ‘I’ve just heard the song and it’s completely and utterly blown me away’. He mailed back and said ‘thanks very much for that, really appreciate it’. I’ve never done that before or since! But fuck me, music can still do that [to you]. When I listened to the rest of the album, I was like ‘what the hell is going on?’. It takes some energy to get into it because it’s fierce – there’s some odd shit going on. I’m yet to see them live. They played Reading or whatever and I recorded it off the television and I’ve watched it on my own full tilt, having had a couple of beers or glass of wine. Just amazing!
