So we were lucky enough to catch it, it’s got quite a few new songs on there. It’s a wonderful track listing on the live album as well, I suppose with every year that goes by it must get harder to pick a set list!īiff: That particular set list is from the “Sacrifice” world tour, so it just so happened that we played Manchester on St George’s day, so we just threw a couple of extra songs in. Mark: Sounds great, we’ll certainly look out for that one.
Mark: Can you tell us anything about that? Sounds interesting!īiff: Prog rock album, I can’t tell you anything, because it’s linked to a film and I’ve been sworn to secrecy!! But, you’ll hear about it in the next three weeks! It’s a great album, it’s a concept album connected to a film. So, I’m back in the studio with Saxon next week, writing. Mark: Oh, I understood you were in the studio at the minute, is that new studio tracks?īiff: No, I’m doing a prog rock project with some friends of mine, so I’ve been singing on that, but that’s finished now. Mark: So many great releases from Saxon over the last year, does it feel like a new golden era for the band? You seem to be releasing an awful lot of material.īiff: Yeah, we’re on a bit of a roll at the moment, our profiles gone up quite a lot in Europe, well, actually around the world really! We’ve had these things in the pipeline for some time, the last album “Sacrifice” and we had an unplugged album as well, “Unplugged and Strung Up”, and the next release will be a DVD, coming out soon. Mark: Hi, Biff, love the new album, the live one, “St George’s Day Sacrifice-Live in Manchester”. Sometimes you should meet your heroes because they are all that you hoped they would be… Of course Saxon are still with us and on the evidence of their last few releases it would be hard to argue that they aren’t in the form of their lives producing ass-kicking old school Metal – just the way it should be. Saxon and their music is one of my most cherished childhood memories of Rock and to get to talk to Biff after all these years and even tick off the truth about a very old local urban legend made it one of my personal favourite interviews. They were simple days when rock was fresh and new and we were kids who would have laughed at the thought that there could be any other genres for the music we loved than Hard Rock or Heavy Metal…īiff was a bit of a legend to us too growing up – whereas some rock stars were ensconced in their castles or living it up in Beverly Hills there was always something so real about Biff and Saxon: after all Biff lived in the same town as us when we were growing up, and a sighting of him in town would have us running to the nearest phone box to get everyone out on the off chance we’d catch a glimpse of the ‘Barnsley Big-Teaser’ (kids you might want to ask your Grandparents about that phone box thing)… In those formative years we must have seen our ‘big three’ of Motorhead, Maiden and of course Saxon play a dozen times a piece. When I was a kid we used to travel to see a lot of shows – but it was always the same group of us, always the same venues – places like Nottingham Rock City, Sheffield City Hall and Leicester De Montfort Hall were always places of wonder to us.
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