Scottish stadium rockers Biffy Clyro prepare to record and express regret at letting Simon Cowell use their song for X-Factor.
The trio are readying themselves to step into the studio with 16 new songs for their sixth album and follow-up to 2009’s platinum-selling breakthrough Only Revolutions.
Singer Simon Neil, currently on tour in the US, told BBC Radio 6 that they wrote songs over the New Year and will record right after they finish their current tour.
He noted about the sound of the new songs, “We're always going to be a rock band, it's always going to be heavy, but hopefully [we'll] just bring different elements. It's always going to sound like Biffy. It's not going to be a reggae record, put it that way.”
Neil also spoke to Explore Music about letting X-Factor use their song ‘Many Of Horror’, which contestant Matt Cardle won using the renamed version ‘When We Collide’.
He said to Explore, “It’s a weird one to discuss. We were in Australia when it all came up and it seemed like a bit of a joke.
“We got an email one day saying, ‘The winner of the X-Factor would like to use your song.’ We went, ‘Cool.’ We didn’t really think about it much more than that.
“Then when we got home we thought, ‘Oh no, what have we done?’ We hadn’t thought it through – it seemed so surreal.
“But at the end of the day it’s our song and we hope it doesn’t take away anything from the song. It’s just a TV show. If the A Team was on just now we’d give a song to the A Team.”
Biffy Clyro sat down with Undercover at the time to discuss the X-Factor, among other things. Check out the interview below, as well as an extra special live acoustic performance.
Biffy Clyro interview
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