Biffy Clyro performed their debut album ‘Blackened Sky’ in full at a particular present in London final night time (October 20). Take a look at fan-shot footage beneath, in addition to images and the setlist.
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The Scottish band kicked off a three-night, retrospective residency on the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire within the capital. Dubbed ‘A Celebration Of Beginnings’, the stint will see Simon Neil and co. play their first three studio information of their entirety.
They’ll then do the identical on the iconic Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow later this week, forward of the group’s yet-to-be-announced tenth full-length album being launched.
Taking to the stage yesterday, Biffy ran by means of all 12 tracks from 2002’s ‘Blackened Sky’ so as. The set included the primary reside outing of the tune ‘Answer Gadgets’ since 2005, per Setlist.FM.
The cuts ‘Pleasure.Discovery.Invention’, ’27’, ‘Kill The Previous, Torture Their Younger’, ‘The Go-Sluggish’, ‘Convex, Concave’, ‘Hero Administration’, ‘Stress On The Sky’ and ‘Scary Mary’ all made their first appearances in a Biffy set in 10 years.
Throughout the second set of the night time, Biffy Clyro handled followers to a efficiency of the ‘Blackened Sky’-era B-side ‘Hope For An Angel’ (its first reside airing since 2014).
Earlier than that, they performed 2007’s ‘A Entire Youngster In the past’ and 2013’s ‘Fashionable Magic Formulation’ – each showing for the primary time since 2017. There have been additionally the primary reside variations of ‘Howl’ and ‘Fever Dream’ in 5 years.
Neil returned to the stage to start a two-track encore with a solo acoustic rendition of ‘Break A Butterfly On A Wheel’ from Biffy’s 2014 compilation ‘Similarities’ – which accommodates B-sides from 2013’s ‘Opposites’. This marked the observe’s first look within the set in a decade.
The present concluded with the primary efficiency of ‘Stingin’ Belle’ in 5 years.
Sharing a sequence of official images from the gig, Biffy Clyro wrote: “Blown away by you London #BiffyACOB night time 1 – ‘Blackened Sky’.” You may see that publish above, and discover extra footage beneath.
Biffy Clyro performed:
‘Blackened Sky’
1. ‘Pleasure.Discovery.Invention’ (first time reside since 2014)
2. ’27’ (first time reside since 2014)
3. ‘Justboy’ (first time reside since 2018)
4. ‘Kill The Previous, Torture Their Younger’ (first time reside since 2014)
5. ‘The Go-Sluggish’ (first time reside since 2014)
6. ‘Christopher’s River’
7. ‘Convex, Concave’ (first time reside since 2014)
8. ’57’
9. ‘Hero Administration’ (first time reside since 2014)
10. ‘Answer Gadgets’ (first time reside since 2005)
11. ‘Stress On The Sky’ (first time reside since 2014)
12. ‘Scary Mary’ (first time reside since 2014)
Set two
13. ‘A Starvation In Your Hang-out’
14. ‘Howl’ (first time reside since 2019)
15. ‘Fever Dream’ (first time reside since 2019)
16. ‘A Entire Youngster In the past’ (first time reside since 2017)
17. ‘Fashionable Magic Formulation’ (first time reside since 2017)
18. ‘House’
19. ‘Hope For An Angel’ (first time reside since 2014)
20. ‘Dwelling Is A Downside As a result of All the things Dies’
21. ‘The Pink Restrict’
22. ‘Witch’s Cup’
23. ‘Bubbles’
Encore
24. ‘Break A Butterfly On A Wheel’ (Simon Neil solo acoustic, first time reside since 2014)
25. ‘Stingin’ Belle’ (first time reside since 2019)
Biffy Clyro’s remaining ‘A Celebration Of Beginnings’ tour dates are:
OCTOBER
21 – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London (‘Vertigo Of Bliss’)
22 – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London (‘Infinity Land’)
24 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow (‘Blackened Sky’)
25 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow (‘Vertigo Of Bliss’)
26 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow (‘Infinity Land’)
Biffy Clyro’s ninth and most up-to-date studio album, ‘The Fantasy Of The Fortunately Ever After’, arrived in 2021. When confirming the present ‘Celebration Of Beginnings’ dates in March, the band teased that “Biffy X” would comply with – suggesting that their tenth album was on the horizon.
Final week, it was introduced that the group could be reissuing their first three LPs on restricted version vinyl.
Biffy Clyro performed their first reside present collectively since 2022 this summer time once they headlined The Piece Corridor in Halifax. Shortly afterwards, they topped the invoice at Victorious Competition 2024 in Portsmouth. They’re at the moment scheduled to look at Rock Am Ring, Rock Im Park, Hurricane Competition and Southside Competition in Germany subsequent summer time.
Talking to NME in 2021, frontman Neil defined of Biffy Clyro’s newest album: “There are some songs the place I’m singing about forgiveness, some are about hope for the long run, and on others I’m being a complete nihilist and a misanthrope – considering, ‘We’re the micro organism consuming up the world’.
“I wasn’t afraid of that. Nobody can course of the impression that the final 12 months has had on us mentally, bodily and on our behaviours. It’ll be one other 5 or 10 years earlier than we realise that.”
