We're on a Hellslide.

Two years on from Infinity Land and Biffy Clyro are still my favourite band by a clear margin. Puzzle is thoroughly spectacular on so many levels, my greatest fear was that they might have been toned down a degree for a major label. The style is different and they've essentially written an album of pop songs and they're still fantastic. They've still got an edge and an originality which means they sound like no-one else I know.

At midnight on Sunday there was a signing of the new album and a short set in HMV Glasgow. Its strange that instead of only having 'die hard' fans, there are now kids coming with their parents and 'cool' people. I can't say this actually bothers me, big ups to the band that they're being successful and at the Barra's on Friday the entire crowd was going nuts for the whole set. Glasgow was meant to be the end of my following of the Biffy tour until I managed to get myself to the signing. If Glasgow was going to be a finale, what a finale it was. The Manchester date was cool, because I'd never been to Manchester before, Edinburgh was all right but I felt terrible so it passed me by to an extent but Glasgow blew both of them clean out of the water. I'd suspected for a while that Glasgow crowds were the best for Biffy (And all other gigs?) but I've not been to many in Edinburgh and none in England, but I'm pretty much certain about this now; Glasgow > Everywhere else.

Edinburgh was pretty much a non-event for me. After my amazingly fun seven hour day trip in Edinburgh I managed to catch AIDS or something, so I was fucked for the Potterow gig and mainly stood around drinking lemonade feeling like I might die. My day in Edinburgh came about as my dad was held up at the GTC and instead of being done at noon and moving onto Dundee, he was done at 4pm. Anyway, it gave me a chance to piss around Edinburgh and explore a bit. I ended up on Calton hill taking 'arty' pictures.

AEREOGRAMME. Aereogramme are fucking amazing. Its a tragedy that such a massively talented band are unable to make it financially viable to actually afford to continue. Their live show is brilliant, mainly as it sounds like the world is about to end, their albums are fantastic with hours worth of in depth listening. I think this post is fairly disjointed, so I'll give it a clear ending:
I'm away to make soup.