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May 19, 2007
Virgin single of the week..
National single of the week... nice!
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May 16, 2007
Kerrang Cover again!
Go and buy it, now.
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May 07, 2007
The Biffy experience....
It was actually my 2nd time seeing the mighty Biffs, but my first time in Vienna. So it was absolutely mental seeing them live again, and then afterwards meeting them even if it was just for a short time. All of team Biffy are a really nice and friendly folk, they listen patiently to what you're saying and Si even remember the Berlin gig at the Mudd Club two years ago.
So if you're interesting read my detailed review of that night, and be sure to keep checking back for fotos of that night! (still waiting for my friend to get them of her camera!)
You don't believe it, until you saw it! :)
“mon the biffy”……that was actually me shouting when I saw Ben, Neil and Gordon coming out of a shopping mall which was at the back of the venue. Let’s say I was pretty surprised and rather speechless seeing them there as I was waiting for a friend to catch up with me for some pre-show pints…
I think they were rather surprised to see me, or ANYONE who’d recognize them in this city, 4-5 hours before the doors opened. Half an hour later (due to some misunderstanding) my friend eventually turned up. I told her how I met the guys and she was like “Oh come on, let’s stalk them right away….”. Some persuasion was needed, but I finally agreed - we quickly found their green/turquoise tour bus, being surrounded by lots of securities and people who consider themselves to be “important” were witnessing how we stalked the mighty biff.
Eventually James came probably from soundchecking heading towards the bus. We just stood there saying nothing…Then the bus door opened and Si came out of the bus heading towards the venue, again we just stood there saying nothing. Si looked rather tired, with his thoughts somewhere else - so we, well I decided not to approach them which made our wee stalking action rather useless..
We decided to head back to the shopping mall for some drinking action, unfortunately it turned out there were only cafes and no bars (!!!!), so we decided to have coffee there, which meant i had to stay sober til the gig (which was probably the right decision). However shops in austria close on saturday at 5pm, we totally forgot to buy booze there but it didn’t matter anyway because we couldn’t take it into the venue.
Now I’ll fast forward til about 7pm…..which was when the doors opened, we met some rather nice gentlemen from Serbia who mostly came all the way up to Austria to see the mighty biff which really surprised me! Guys, if you read this please get in touch with me, you really ROCKED! :D
We (except for the Serbia folk) managed to stand in the 1st/2nd row (I couldn’t really tell) right in front of Ben’s drumkit (a huge stage and a barrier separated me from my great heroes). Si, Ben and James hit the stage on time at 8pm and kicked off with the legendary 57.
The setlist was (I think I remembered them all, but the order might have been a bit different)
57
Who’s Got A Match?
Saturday Superhouse
Love Has A Diameter
Get Fucked Stud
Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies
Liberate The Illiterate/A Mong Among Mingers
Now I’m Everyone
Glitter & Trauma
I was surprised that they dropped Justboy and mostly played Puzzle songs, probably just to promote the new album and because they just love to play the new songs as they’re sooooo fucking good!
The set was very well played, no major interruptions except for the beginning when some twats decided to throw stuff at Simon. But Si was WAY too cool to let them interrupt him, he was like “Bring it on, yeah bring it on you filthy cunts” (to his defense he DIDN’T actually say that, he didn’t say anything at all but I could tell by his gesture and the look in his face that he was thinking something very similar).
People seemed to go mental during Get Fucked Stud and Living Is A Problem….they were really up for it and cheered afterwards. Now I’m Everyone seemed to go down well as well, especially when James started the clapping bit and everyone in the venue (even the hardest hardcore Bloc Party Fans joined in…) that was the moment when I was gobsmacked how good the biffs were. Really fuckin good!
I was singing along to all songs (except for Love Has A Diameter because they slightly changed the lyrics) and annoyed the fuck out of all surrounding Bloc Party fans haha :D
I left the main room after Biffy finished their absolutely mindblowing set to buy some beer, buy two shirts and then get changed as I’ve sweat like I’ve never sweat before. But anyway, my friends decided to stay for Bloc Party as they were major bloc party fans, which meant for me 1 1/2 hours on my own. I sneaked around the venue and finally found some like-minded people who (if they didn’t wear a biffy tee I probably would have never approached them) asked me where to get autographs of our heroes. I said the only way to really get in touch with them was to catch them in front of their tour bus.
No sooner said than done. albeit it was pouring cats and dogs. The tour bus was dark which meant they were still inside the venue “backstagging”. However beer and fags kept us warm, in the meantime we were like a group of 10-15 people. Again 90% were Bloc Party fans, only the three of us (the dudes with the biffy tee and moi) representing the biffy camp. After an hour standing in the rain some bloc party folk came out - I don’t know their names but they were kind enough to pose for photo. The only ones that didn’t turn up were biffy. 20 Minutes later Neil finally came outside, we asked him if it was possible to meet the guys for some fotos, chats and autographs. This was the 1st time he said “yeah they will be out in like 15-20 minutes at the latest…” which kept our spirits up.
To sum it up 2 hours later or so, finally James came outside which was a really nice treat, he patiently talked to us, signed my 27,57 singles and persuaded me to keep my Toys/JDI 7″ sealed. haha ;) We posed for a photo, hugs were consumed, and kindly gave each of us (at this time we were only in a threesome) a plectrum ;)
Half an hour later Ben almost managed to sneak outside hiding at the backside of a truck. Fortunatley I shouted “Bennnnnnnn!” and he came back with his trolley and a plate which seemed to be his dinner! Again we posed for a photo, signed my stuff and chatted to us. Again hugs were exchanged ;) He even saw me singing to all of their songs, exchanging eye-contact with him during the gig ;)
We let him off because he seemed quite hungry and tired ;)
10 Minutes later or so, Si finally came out. The finally piece of the Biffy Puzzle. This was weird, it was like meeting like a mega prominent person, you know like a superstar, who you usually expect to be high nosed and pissed off to fans. But he was totally the opposite, very down to earth as were the twins. We posed for a foto, again hugs were consumed and got my stuff signed and chatted a bit about puzzle, future touring action and about how biffy is the best band in the world
Whole Team Biffy seemed to just wait for Si to get on the bus so we let him off.
In the pouring rain we waited for the night bus and headed home.
GREAT GREAT NIGHT, Definitely a night to remember.
Thank you Biffy for a tremendous night, it was worth the wait :)
HUGE Thank you to Neil, who once again proofed that he is an awesome dude and even cooler Tourmanager! Thanks for everything! ;)
PS: Fotos are coming very soon, just waiting for my friend to get back to me!
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