Biffy Clyro‘s frontman Simon Neil has discussed the recent accusations leveled against them by Nine Inch Nails‘ Trent Reznor that they and the ‘Reading Festival‘ organizers ‘fucked‘ the band on their stage production at the recent 2013 edition of the festival.
Clyro headlined over Nine Inch Nails at the performance with the festivals organizers immediately denying the claim.
Speaking with Fasterlouder.com.au, Neil stated:
“I think he basically spat his dummy out [lost his temper]. Nine Inch Nails are a huge band and they’ve been headlining loads of festivals everywhere and I think their manager or someone told him they weren’t headlining Reading and Leeds, god forbid, and he basically spat his dummy out and decided to take it out on us. He played with us on the Friday night and there was no problem. He didn’t care about the Leeds bands obviously and he knew damn fine who we were, so I think he was just being obnoxious.”
He later revealed:
“I was dying to tweet back to him all day … but we just wanted to focus on our show. We thought, ‘Well you might not know who we are now, but I guarantee by the end of today you’ll know exactly who we are,’ that was our plan.”
“We’re not naive, Trent Reznor operates in a different world to the rest of them. He lives in Beverly Hills, he’s won Oscars and all that. And he’s just brought the band back together. So maybe for a split second [we were offended], but to be honest we’ve kind of had enough of that happening through the years that it didn’t bother us so much.”
