Influences

Biffy Clyro have a range of influences, alot of the bands that influenced Biffy were grunge bands, mainly seattle bands such as, Nirvana and The Pixies and then from the ashes of Nirvana, the Foo Fighters. Biffy's music is heavy and agressive, they use varying time signatures and staccato accents. These styles are drawn from prog rock and experimental rock music.

This page was constructed so that I can understand where the band’s ‘roots’ have come from, it also means I can look at videos by the bands that influenced them and look at styles used and what goes on in them. For example, Nirvana had frequent ‘performance based’ videos and not much acting in their videos. Videos that show this are, ‘Smells like Teen Spirit,’ ‘Lithium,’ and ‘Come As You Are.’

The common setting is primarily live playing, but the song we have chose enables some sort of narrative to be worked. The images used on this page are primarily black and white; I think we should include quite a few black and white shots in the video. We could include these during a turn of events in the song, when something negative happens. These pictures also have a lot of props in them, especially sunglasses. This is potentially an idea we will include. The pictures show Simon Neil shirtless and bearing tattoos. Sadly we don’t have tattoos! But live shots shirtless could be something we might include.