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by Sean Adams
At the end of every week, DiS makes a playlist using Spotify of what we've been loving and/or writing about this week. This is the 99th week we've done this, so hopefully you know the drill by now. If you're American and only just got Spotify, welcome!. This week's Spotifriday playlist is here and links to content is amongst the below. »
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by Luke Slater
So, the Mercury Prize happens soon. Recently the names were announced. Were there many surprises? Not a great deal, although I Am Kloot seemed to be nominated for an appreciation of their overall career. All a bit Ryan Giggs.
We, along with Barclaycard'»
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by Luke Slater
Welcome to the 12th edition of our weekly(ish) festival news round-up, featuring the news and updated line-ups from some of the UK and Europe's best festivals, and some which aren't quite as good. Despite last week being Number 10 (twice) this week is definitely 12. I think. Anyway, off we go...»
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by Luke Slater
They help dispel various myths about the Scottish.»
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by Luke Slater
Perhaps the only good news coming out of Leeds today is that Pulled Apart By Horses are to support Scot-rockers Biffy Clyro on their UK tour later this year.»
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by Sean Adams
Organisers of Iceland's biggest and one of Europe's best festivals have confirmed that the event will still go ahead, despite huge economic problems with the Icelandic economy. »
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by Henry Parker
Austin, Texas' rabble-rousing rockers White Denim and rock-fracturing stadium-gazing Scots Biffy Clyro have joined the bill for this year's Iceland Airwaves music festival. The SXSW/Camden Crawl/Great Escape-like festival takes place in less than four weeks time (October 15th-19th) and will see some of the year's finest acts play live, DJ and party across the length and breadth of Reykjavik.»
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by James Gwyther
Biffy Clyro have announced a six-date headline tour of the UK and Ireland ahead of the release of their new single»
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by Kev Kharas
DrownedinSound sister site Thrash Hits spent this afternoon (4 Jun) in the company of Scottish alt-rock combo Biffy Clyro for an exclusive preview of new material, destined, perhaps, for a new album early in 2009»
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by Kev Kharas
More festival additions to report – this time it’s word that The Cribs, Jamie T, The National and Biffy Clyro will all be headlining the John Peel Stage at Glastonbury this year»
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by Kev Kharas
Biffy Clyro have attempted to distance themselves from a retrospective compilation being assembled by old label Beggars Banquet»
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by Alex Denney
If absolutely pushed I’d have to suggest that that’s yesterday’s leftover shepherd’s pie slopping around in pop douche du jour David Jordan’s cranial cavity, such is the clod-hoofed inanity of his ‘Sun Goes Down’ single»
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by Mike Diver
Scottish trio Biffy Clyro are to support Queens of the Stone Age on the latter's US tour next month...»
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by Alex Denney
Big news in the single charts this week is Rihanna’s continued refusal to budge off the number one spot – it’s ten weeks and counting now for 'Umbrella', making it the longest-reigning UK chart-topper since Wet Wet Wet moistened the slot for fourteen weeks with 'Love Is All Around' back in 1994.»
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by Mike Diver
Hands up everyone who actually cares about the charts this week! Yup, you saw me alright, keeping my hands under my ample ass...»
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by Mike Diver
Muse are to be supported by some real heavyweights at their forthcoming Wembley Stadium gigs...»
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by Mike Diver
On Friday April 13, FROG celebrates its third birthday with a super-sized blowout at the capital's Forum venue in Kentish Town, and DiS has tickets to give away...»
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by Kev Kharas
Biffy Clyro will play an 11-date tour of the UK as Spring turns into Summer.»
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by Mike Diver
Scottish trio Biffy Clyro - look, that's them pictured! - have been announced as the main support for Bloc Party's April/May tour of the continent scholars are calling 'Europe'...»
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by Kev Kharas
Beardy Scots Biffy Clyro will release their first new material for two years on Christmas Day.»
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by Mike Diver
The Fratellis (pictured), Manic Street Preachers, Biffy Clyro, The View and Boy Kill Boy are among the acts confirmed for Xfm's three-date Winter Wonderland season this year...»
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by Fiona McKinlay
A family crisis left Will Haven without a front man earlier on today. They were about to cancel tonight's show at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut when they found out two local fans were eager to take on Grady Avenell's role for one night only.»
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by Mike Diver
Bloc Party are to headline an indie-rockin' bill next month in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust...»
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by Kate Price
Biffy Clyro have announced a couple of gigs in February to warm up for their headline slot at the NME Brats Awards Show.
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by DiS News
Scottish rock types Biffy Clyro will bring the curtain down on their December tour by playing a series of shows at Glasgow's King Tut's. The USP? Each night they'll play one of their three albums in its entirety...»
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by DiS News
More than half of the tickets for this year's Truck Festival are already sold, it's been revealed.»
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by DiS News
Details of headline acts set to play this year's T in the
Park festival at Balado, near Kinross, have been
announced.
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by Stu Chown
Scot-rock behemoths, Biffy Clyro, are auctioning off some goodies in aid of the recent Tsunami disaster.»
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by Alex Wisgard
Everyone's favourite Scottish mentalists Biffy Clyro are releasing their third album 'Infinity Land' - their third in as many years - on the 4th of October. To celebrate, they're making some in-store appearances at Virgin Megastores across the country.»
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by Stu Chown
Biffy Clyro are to tour in September and October, in support of a new single...»
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by Kate Price
Biffy Clyro tour dates for April and May this year.»
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by Sean Adams
Mid-rocking a 24-date UK tour, of mostly Stadiums, including so many nights at Wembley we've lost count, the one with the furry eye-tops, talks about NOT quitting Busted...»
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by Stu Chown
Biffy Clyro are to support Hundred Reasons on their forthcoming UK tour.»
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by Adie Nunn
Ozzy Osbourne's postponed tour has been rescheduled for the end of Feb. Unfortunately the Newcastle and Glasgow dates have been cancelled.»
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by ellen_dis
Yup, it's barely a week since we offered you the new Pretty Girls Make Graves single, and already we've teamed up with Beggars Group Download Network again to bring a brand new treat to your little ears...
Yes indeedly, for just two pounds of your pocket money you can get the new Biffy Clyro si»
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by Adie Nunn
The Biffy Clyro gig in Aberdeen on Oct 2nd has been moved from The Forum to Moshulu.
Apparently there were some 'situations' developed with the Forum, hence the change of venue. Moshulu is normally a 650-capacity nightclub but is being modified to suit bands - this has included moving the DJ booths, instal»
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by Adie Nunn
'Mon the Biffy! Biffy Clyro do lots of stuff. New single. Big tour. Reading/Leeds. It's all here!
Biffy Clyro have been added the main stage at the Carling Weekend festival. They will play just after openers Sugarcult.
Before that, they headline the Kerrang! "Day Of Rock" in Virgin Mega»
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by Stu Chown
Biffy Clyro have announced another tour, which happens to coincide with their plans for... well, world domination. Probably.
El Bif will play the following venues
September
20th - Liverpool Academy 2
22nd - Bournemouth The Villa
23rd - Swansea»
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by Stu Chown
After their chart-shagging recent single, Biffy Clyro are getting ready to rock more record stores.
Yup, the Scotts trio may have just finished a series of instore gigs, had their first Top 40 single, and are still to finish their current UK tour. Still, they've already lined up more gigs in a shop near yo»
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by Colin Weston
The OTHER Leeds Festival is back and is promising to be a stormer!
The Breeze Festival is now an established fixture and this year's line up is almost as impressive as the fact that all of these gigs are FREE! Our new found friend organising the gigs (who from here on in will be known as Andy) gave us all »
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by Sean Adams
Glasgow is about to be blown off the map, do you wanna go?
On June 3rd at Braehead Arena The Deftones promoting their self-titled new album (Reviewed) play what's likely to be one of the rawk events of the year! Support c»
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by Sean Adams
This is crazy news, so act crazy... ROCK THE CHARTS!
Angular Scot-pop-rockerz Biffy Clyro are currently battling with the likes of S.Club, J.Timberlake and R.Kelly (who is buying this rubbish??) with their current single 'Questions and Answers' which was out yesterday.
At the mo', acco»
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by Adie Nunn
Biffy Clyro have been confirmed as the support band for Deftones and Taproot.
They will be supporting Taproot at Liverpool Barfly on June 1st.
They will also be the main support in Glasgow for the Deftones at Braehead Arena on June 3rd.
Sadly, it means that the gig due to be in Wre»
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by Sean Adams
Since when was Middlesbrough rock capital of the universe?
For 10hours at least, on Monday 26th May, from 12pm - 10pm , Middlesbrough IS the rock capital of the universe! That is the day the "MIDDLESBROUGH MUSIC LIVE 2003" hits the city with eight stages spread all across the town centre. And blimey»
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by Adie Nunn
Biffy Clyro have confirmed some in-store live shows this month, pre-empting their tour.
The dates are:
27th - London, Virgin Oxford Street. 6pm
28th - Milton Keynes, Virgin. 4pm
30th - Glasgow, Virgin. 6pm
31st - Aberdeen, One Up Records. 5pm
All shows are free but some may»
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by Adie Nunn
Biffy Clyro hit the road again in June.
Following on from their DiS-sponsored trek round the country recently, they support the release of album #2 'Vertigo Of Bliss' by heading to a town near you (maybe).
JUNE
2nd - Edinburgh, Liquid Rooms
3rd - Wrexham, Centra»
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by Sean Adams
Simon hoped he was an angel and ended up fucking up his ankle..
Biffy fans, alongside DiS readers, at Wednesdays totally sold out tour climax show at Glasgow QMU were a bit miffed that the band didn't come back on for an encore and that Simon ended up in Hospital after the show.
In a report from Neil»
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by Gareth Dobson
Just in the nick of time, the full line-up for Biffy Clyro's London gig at
the Camden Underworld has been confirmed.
Post-rock pioneers Redjetson will be accompanying Biffy and X Is
Loaded and will be first on, the perfect reason for getting there early.
As if you weren't going to an»
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by Adie Nunn
Although nothing has been officially announced as such, whispers are going round as to who's playing Scotland's annual big music festival thing, T In The Park.
As shouted about elsewhere, REM and Coldplay are confirmed as headliners. Jolly good! Coldplay first played the festival in one of th»
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by Ollie Appleby
The much awaited full UK Feeder tour has just had it's first support band confirmed. For 2 of the dates that band is InMe
Now in addition to InMe's previously reported national 'Overgrown Eden' tour with Crackou»
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by Sean Adams
As you have already heard, InMe are touring in January but blimey, someone's done something right, as two of the UK's other best RAWK outfits have been added the bill!!
We can exclusively announce that DiS-faves from the Oxford Weezer Rock College Crackout support on the first 5 show's and dis-faves»
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by Sean Adams
Those Biffy boys are on their way back...
The awesome noise versus tenderness threesome that go under the always-confusing-when-said-drunk-and-often-sober moniker of Biffy Clyro, are taking a break from working on album number 2 to play an xmas show with Aldershot-grungers Vex Red at the Marq»
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by Sean Adams
Some say rock is dead. Some say rock is back. WE SAY IT NEVER WENT AWAY!!!
Dis-faves Biffy Clyro take their foo fightersy, american college'ish math-rock out on the road in October, on tour in support of old-skool-deftones-flavoured grunge-kidz Vex Red. It's good to see two bands from the UK »
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by Raziq Rauf
TMF - formerly known as Thurrock Music Festival - is set to rock the county often called Essex, this coming Saturday, July 6th.
This year’s festival is at the Orsett Showground, off the A13 near Grays, Essex. Gates open at 11.30am with the first band on at 12 noon. There will be 4 live stages»
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by Sean Adams
Oh dear oh dear, do you ever get the feeling you like a band too much? Y'know, that point when you've analysed every word and find yourself staring meanfully at the artwork discovering the reason to existence. Dear oh dear. Well, anyway, drownedinsound, we get like that about Biffy Clyro and guess what; they're »
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by Sean Adams
Just when you thought reading couldn't get much better and only about 6bands worth seeing were playing, Mean Fiddler (the organisers) have suddenly excelled themselves and put together a bill that is not just amazing but shows off all the exciting, inspiring, hold it to your hearts and shed a tear type music whi»
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by Sean Adams
Just had a rather excited Cooper Temple Clause fan on the phone and it would seem, amongst the wooooops and yeeeeeaaaaahs that the band charted at number 15 in the first day of UK single chart sales yesterday with their double a-side rock-beast 'Film Maker / Been Training Dogs' single»
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by Sean Adams
Those boys with grunged up geetars, talk of girls with angels overhead, screaming and pockets full subtle beauty; Biffy Clyro, are currently out on the road with dis-faves The Cooper Temple Clause (tour starts in Portsmouth today) but when the»
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by Andy Frankowski
Biffy Clyro are set to rock in the new year by confirming details of their next
single '57', due February 4th on cd and 7".
The tracklisting is as follow:
57 (7" version)
57
kill the old, torture their young (evening session track)
57 (CD ver»
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by James Moore
Beggar Banquets' Biffy Clyro play a headline gig in the capital.
The Scots who are currently in London putting the finishing touches to their debut album, play a one-off headlining gig at the Camden Palace on the 14th August. The band are onstage at 12:30am.
The band are also due to re-rele»
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by Colin Weston
It is all systems go at Beggars Banquet and all it's subsidaries. As well as their 5th birthday gig (click here for more info), the label have several new releases all in the pipeline.
First up are Alfie, who release their new single '»
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by James Moore
More bands have been added to the Reading lineup
Here's the lineup now: (bold - new additions)
Reading Friday 24th/Leeds Saturday 25th:
Main Stage - Travis, Green Day, PJ Harvey, Iggy Pop, Eels, Run DMC, Lofidelity Allstars, The Living End
Evening Session Stage -»
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by James Moore
Those noisy bastids from Glasgow, are to tour with Sunna... lucky them!
Yep Biffy Clyro get to blow another shite band off stage, this time its those Bristol boys Sunna. Here are the dates:
May
1st - Oxford, Zodiac
2nd - Cardiff, Barfly
3rd - Southsea, »
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by James Moore
Young Glaswegian upstarts, Biffy Clyro release their first single for Beggars Banquet
'27' (backed with 'Instructio4' and 'Breathe Her') will be released on the 26th March. The band who have recently recorded a session for the Evening Session in Scotland and appeared on BBC Choice, are currently on to»
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