LIVE!

Not live, not at all, but that doesn’t matter one bit when a band like Biffy Clyro take what passes for a night out in ‘the new normal’ and turn it completely on its head. Mostly performance, some theatre, but all of it brimming with energy, if we can’t have live then at least we have this.

Recorded in multiple spaces in the Barrowland Ballroom (and outside at one point), the show includes black and white footage of the soundcheck and a heartfelt Bubbles, and wonderful dressing room renderings of Machines and Rearrange. Singer Simon Neil peers out of the darkness, struggling to make sense of the tacky strands of heartbreak and love.

The main event, though, is something else. With the venue as their playground, the band, in blistering Technicolor and on rabid form, run through the new album. Moving from the stage to the