Monday 18th November 2013 by Gaby Whitehill | Photos by WENN.com

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Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil has dubbed their Reading Festival headlining slot earlier this year their "favourite show" - and has said it's because Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor was so rude to them on Twitter.

Reznor, whose band Nine Inch Nails took to the stage to play a set before Biffy Clyro's headlining slot at the August festival, slammed the Scottish band on Twitter hours before the performances, saying: "Should be an unusual show tonight at Reading…the lying promoter and the band following us (whoever the fuck they are) fucked us on our production."

However Neil seems to have shrugged off the comments, and even says the criticism made the band's performance even more special. "Reading has become all of our favourite shows we've ever played… Part of it was Trent Reznor being rude to us, and we thought 'You know what? We'll let the music do the talking'," he told Faster Louder. "We just had this candidness about us that we don't normally have for a huge show like that, and right from the first beat of the set we just knew it was going to be a special show."

Watch the video for Biffy Clyro's 'Biblical' below:

Neil, 34, also revealed the band have five new tracks for their new album - three of which are "piano tracks". However, they may just be purely experimental. "I can hardly play the fucking thing so when I'm standing in the room playing them it sounds awful – it's like chopsticks gone wrong," he admitted. "But we're just starting to move on. I don't know whether any of these songs will make the next record, but to me it's so important to keep moving forward."

Neil also said their new album will go back to basics after the "weirdness" of Opposites, their last album, which was released in January this year. "I think we'll definitely strip it back, especially with 'Opposites' we really threw everything we could at that record in terms of instruments and all the weirdness going on, so for me it would feel wrong to try and do something crazier than that, in terms of the over-the-top instruments," he said. "So I think we'll strip it back and have just guitar, bass and drums, and there'll be a few kind of odd things going on, but it should sound just like guys in a room to a certain extent."

Below: Biffy Clyro at Leeds Festival, day one