Isle of Wight review, day three: Biffy Clyro rock harder than anyone else, at a festival only Jess Glynne will want to forget

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Kurt Cobain?” He’s already suggested the Spice Girls and “Half a Direction” might be following Madness on the main stage, and he’s wrong on all counts. “We’re a bit like Keane, but quicker and cokier,” singer Joe Talbot warns the crowd, although we can’t remember the last time that Keane’s guitarist marched around the stage dressed only in his pants like Biffy Clyro Xtreme, bellowing bits of “Nothing Compares 2 U” and Harry Styles’s “Sign of the Times” in the quieter bits of “Somewhere Only We Know”. When “Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies” appears early in Biffy Clyro’s headline set – the sound of being stabbed repeatedly in the face by symphonic metal – you might think they’ve rowed the wrong way en route to Download, so much harder do they rock than anything else on the weekend’s bill. A ferocious rock freak-out is never far away though, and “Sunrise”, from last month’s soundtrack album to upcoming film drama Balance, Not Symmetry, suggests they’re heading more Zep than Lizzo.