...in another life, the band I was in opened a show for the Biffsters at Strathclyde Uni students union. It must have been about 1997. A stroppier, more self important bunch you couldn't hope to meet.
The phonecall to arrange the backline for the gig was one I recall to this day:

US: "so we'll bring the drums then... What kind of music do you play anyway"
THEM: "Emo-Hardcore"
US: "What the F**k's that like then?"
THEM: "Click........."

I remember they freaked out because we overran our set by about 5 minutes. When they went on stage the lead fella broke a string during the first song. He didn't have a spare guitar so I gestured to him to plug mine in to use. It was quite a nice Les Paul I hadn't long had. He proceeded to knock the shit out of it for one more song and they all stormed off after playing for 10 minutes.

Bunch of tadgers, although I did hear their a bit of their last album played while waiting in a pizza shop one night. To my disgust I thought it was alright.

They've been the next big thing for about five years now. Methinks they are suffering from Scottish Indie Band Syndrome.

..fucking racket.
Uptight paranoid faux angry young men.

Sounds a bit like they have been listening to a lot of Soundgarden and QoTSA

No bad thing......

Surely their pop side project shows that they are quite talented - also their last album certainly had a few tunes

who wouldn't know a tune even if one came up to them and shouted repeatedly "Hello, I'm a tune."

Rubbish.