Scottish rockers talk exclusively to Undercover about Matt Cardle winning X-Factor with a cover of their song.
The lads from Scottish modern rock unit Biffy Clyro are currently in Australia supporting UK nu-prog heroes Muse.
Only days ago Matt Cardle won Britain’s X-Factor by singing the Biffy Clyro song ‘Many Of Horror’ under the more TV-friendly title of ‘When We Collide’.
Biffy Clyro brothers, bassist James Johnson and drummer Ben Johnston, spoke to Undercover about the winning cover.
They admitted that X-Factor svengali Simon Cowell must have discovered the song.
“Britain’s a small place,” Ben chuckled, “Everybody knows everybody, certainly in something like the music industry. He said it was a great song and [Cardle] should use it.”
When asked what they thought of Cardle’s version, the brothers laughed, before Ben clarified, “It is an X-Factor version of the song.”
They described the online jousting between Biffy Clyro and X-Factor fans as “funny”.
“The whole thing’s a bit surreal, we think it’s all quite funny,” Ben admitted.
In a roundabout way, Biffy Clyro may end up with a UK Christmas number one single, which James described as “weird”.
“Because we’ve been over here we haven’t talked to anybody back home, really,” James continued, “This is the first time we’ve talked about it.”
Biffy Clyro fans have begun a campaign to get the original back into the chart, to counter Cardle’s version, which is almost certain to be the number one single next week.
Cardle’s ‘When We Collide’ is currently at number one on the UK iTunes chart, and Biffy Clyro’s ‘Many Of Horror’ is at number six.
Undercover.com.au