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Biffy Clyro: Step In The Arena

Ben Myers, MOJO, June 2013

ON PAPER it's the first day of spring, but Newcastle is begging to differ. Upstairs in the Metro Arena, the three members of the UK's most eminent bare-chested band — as used to spending time on the West Coast of America as of Scotland these days — are nervously fiddling with the heating as the sun sets over a sub-zero city. It's day one of Biffy Clyro's first-ever arena tour and the venue is a freezing cavern.

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