Rock and Pop: Review - iTUNES FESTIVAL - Biffy Clyro @Roundhouse
Published: 05 August 2010
by STEVE BARNETT
EVEN at a free music festival, the golden rule is to entertain the audience. Some bands do it by engaging the crowds straight away with banter, but when Biffy Clyro closed the Roundhouse’s iTunes Festival on Saturday, they simply let their music do the talking.
They entered the stage to Alison Krauss’s American bluegrass-country classic Down To The River To Pray, and quickly set the place alight with That Golden Rule and Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies.
Under the guidance of frontman Simon Neil, Biffy stormed through a set that included Bubbles, Born On A Horse, an acoustic version of Machines and the chart-topping Mountains.
On another night, support band Pulled Apart By Horses could have easily stolen the show. The energetic Leeds newbies, made up of lead singer/guitarist Tom Hudson, guitarist James Brown, Robert Lee on bass and Lee Vincent on drums, have described themselves as “magma disco-rioting with low-fat yoghurt-based rock”.
Clear favourites from the set included Yeah Buddy and Get Off My Ghost Train.
Although there’s little doubt we’ll hear a lot more from them, this night belonged to the Scottish headliners. Mon the Biff!