Artist: Biffy Clyro
Title: Revolutions // Live At Wembley
Label: 14th Floor
Genre: Rock
Bitrate: VBR kbps
Time: 01:18:54
Size: 162.73 mb
Rip Date: 2011-06-27
Str Date: 2011-06-27
Track List:
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01. The Captain 4:06
02. Booooom, Blast & Ruin 3:21
03. 57 3:16
04. Bubbles 5:07
05. Born On A Horse 3:07
06. God & Satan 3:09
07. Whores 4:05
08. All The Way Down; Prologue / Chapter 1 6:34
09. That Golden Rule 3:53
10. Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies 5:13
11. Shock Shock 3:40
12. Folding Stars 4:14
13. Diary Of Always 4:28
14. Machines 4:01
15. Who's Got A Match 2:27
16. Saturday Superhouse 3:24
17. Many Of Horror 5:20
18. Glitter And Trauma 5:37
19. Mountains 3:52
A lot of people might not expect to get much of a kick out of watching
a film of a Biffy Clyro gig at this stage in their career. Perhaps you
saw them on the main stage at Reading and Leeds last year and (like me)
found it hard to be moved by hearing however-many-thousand people sing
along to that song off The X Factor. It just didn t resonate in the
same way that hearing a few hundred people sing along to
Joy.Discovery.Invention used to
Their gig at Wembley Arena was filmed just a few months after the
festival season ended, in December, and builds the Biffy Clyro live
show back up the sort of scale that was so disappointing in the summer
Plus now, the stage is dominated by huge screens that display all sorts
of expensive-looking visuals, in amongst dozens of strobe lights and
amplifiers. The film itself also looks as though it s had a fair few
quid flung at it too. This is no hastily cobbled together ITV festival
package there are huge, sweeping pans over the ocean of moshing
bodies, dramatic slow-motion sequences and awkwardly framed arty shots
No doubt this all sounds like sacrilege to those members of Team Biffy
who, understandably, wish the band would lose the pomp and go back to
shaking the foundations of the nation s Barfly venues. But like it or
not, Wembley Arena is where Biffy Clyro find themselves these days
and if this DVD s commentary is anything to go by, no one is more
bewildered by that than Simon Neil, James Johnson and Ben Johnson
It s that commentary that gives Revolutions depth, making it a
worthwhile purchase for anyone who s ever had a passing interest in the
band. For one thing, the band are often brilliantly funny, and
perfectly aware of how insane it is that they should have reached the
point of playing Wembley Arena. They poke fun at their over-the-top
visuals, and laugh at Neil when he rocks out at the end of the runway
that leads into the middle of the crowd, known as the ego ramp . They
even have a light-hearted dig at their own fans, who seem incapable of
clapping along to Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies in
time, and mock the cockneys in the crowd by singing along to their own
songs in clumsy English accents
They are at their most illuminating when they discuss the older tracks
as they are played. Biffy Clyro still seem amazed that they should be
able to play songs like 57 and There s No Such Thing As A Jaggy
Snake to this many people. And when Simon Neil says he still finds it
hard not to cry when he sees people singing along to his songs, you
believe him
In terms of the actual performance, Revolutions truly captures Biffy
Clyro at the top of their game. They hurl themselves into The Captain
with the force and ruthlessness of an invading army; the vocal
harmonies on All The Way Down; Prologue Chapter 1 are gloriously
crisp; That Golden Rule simply sounds gigantic while Glitter And
Trauma kicks in with apocalyptic power. You can say what you like
about their recent songwriting as musicians and performers, Biffy
Clyro are practically flawless
The setlist is certain to disappoint many, as almost half of the songs
come from the far-from-perfect Only Revolutions (though to their
credit, in the DVD commentary Biffy Clyro stress the importance of
representing all of their albums in their live show). The CD version
exacerbates this problem, by omitting the likes of
Joy.Discovery.Invention , Justboy and Jaggy Snake . This does make
you wonder whether releasing a CD compilation of songs from the last
four years is really worthwhile for a band that has five albums to pick
from
Really though, the full DVD version of Revolutions is as good a balance
of old and new material that we re ever likely to get from Biffy Clyro
these days. And ultimately, as well as being beautifully shot, this
film captures a band who are more thrilled than ever to be playing the
songs that they wrote 15 years ago, as well as the songs that they ve
written more recently. Most importantly, they play every song
phenomenally well, with unwavering, utterly endearing humility, to a
rapturous audience. It s a testament to what a little band from
Kilmarnock can achieve
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