Biffy Clyro have joined forces with mental health charity CALM to launch a ‘Mountains’ T-shirt, raising money and awareness for suicide prevention.
The collab makes the Scottish band the latest artist to join up with the charity, and the new t-shirt design is inspired by their hit 2008 single ‘Mountains’, which later featured on their fifth studio album, ‘Only Revolutions’, in 2009.
With the design, Biffy have gone for an all-black design, with red writing over the top that includes the lyric “I am a mountain. I am the sea”. It is available to buy now for £30, and the money raised from the sales will benefit CALM’s services, including suicide prevention helpline and mental health app CALMzone.
“We are delight to support CALM with our ‘Mountains’ t-shirt design,” frontman Simon Neil shared.
“The song ‘Mountains’ is kind of about trying to have a bit of belief in yourself then you feel like no-one else does. [It’s when] you’re trying to find that little bit of confidence to fight your way through life,” he added. “We thought it was appropriate and we’re delighted to support. So stay strong, keep talking, and stay healthy.”
CALM’s CEO Simon Gunning added: “One word, one message, one line of a song that means so much to you, can make a world of difference.We couldn’t be more grateful to all the artists involved in ‘Lifelines’, for using their platforms in this way, showing just what a juggernaut of a power for good music can be.”
Visit here to browse the collection.
Other artists to join forces with the mental health charity include Blossoms, Tom Walker and Inhaler – and all of their designs are still available to purchase on the CALM webstore.
Fontaines D.C. also teamed up with the charity for their own design last year too, and their design featured the cover art from their acclaimed fourth album ‘Romance’ on the front, with the title of their 2025 single ‘It’s Amazing To Be Young’ on the back.
The latest partnership with Biffy Clyro comes as the band have spoken openly about the importance of mental health in the past. In 2018, for example, they spoke to NME and called for more people suffering from depression and mental health issues to speak out and seek help.
“The stats of young men killing themselves is horrific,” Neil told NME, reflecting on figures that suicide claims the lives of more than 6,000 British men and women every year and is the single biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK.
“It’s always been a tough thing for people to talk about, and that’s always been the problem. As soon as you internalise something to that degree, you just become entirely alone,” he added. “It’s the same as anything. Even the happiest moments of your life – if you don’t have anyone to share them with, they’re not going to bring you a lot of happiness. Sharing is what’s going to make us all survive.”
In 2016, the frontman spoke openly about his own struggles during the early process of making the album, ‘Ellipsis’ too, revealing that he was in a “terrible headspace” and unable to escape the feeling of being “slightly unfulfilled and unhappy”.
In 2025, the band opened up again, and told fans that bassist James Johnston would be sitting out of their 2025 tour dates to focus on his mental health.
“The time has come to properly address my illnesses and deal with them. I am extremely sorry to Simon and Ben [Johnston, his twin brother and the band’s drummer] and thank them for their continued love, patience, support and understanding throughout this time,” the bassist wrote.
“I have recently started to receive the professional help I need and would like to reassure you all that there is light at the end of the tunnel,” his statement added.
The collaboration with the charity is announced just days after Biffy performed a massive headline show in London’s Finsbury Park, with support coming from Nothing But Thieves, Don Broco, Marmozets and Wavves.
That gig was the biggest headline show of Biffy’s career to date, and saw the trio bring out musician and Stranger Things actor Jamie Campbell Bower for a rendition of ‘Machines’, taken from the band’s 2007 album ‘Puzzle’.
The band will now play a huge Edinburgh show at the Royal Highland Showgrounds on August 21 and Cardiff Castle on July 30. Visit here for tickets.
Speaking to NME about their huge year of touring, Biffy Clyro revealed that they already have new material written. In an interview at the end of 2025 – just after they announced the Finsbury Park gig – the frontman told us that he had “15” new songs written already.
“They’re less focussed, as always. I like the beauty of the fact that these other songs have been worked on less so there’s more freedom,” he shared. “They’re flapping the breeze and we can focus on our eccentricities. There’s a liberation in knowing that people who are really into our band will listen to them at this stage.
“It fills the story and completes our picture. There are some garage rock songs on there, one of the best country rock songs I’ve ever written.”
As for how he plans to release the new material, Neil added: “I would like it to be an album. I’m still old-school. You show that you’re making a serious statement with an album. I like how they fill in the gaps and tell the story.”
“I keep thinking, ‘Do we need new Biffy music?’ This keeps us creating and moving forward without having an existential crisis,” he added. I was just in Barcelona and wrote another fucking seven songs and I don’t know what to do! I want to complete the ‘Futique’ statement first and we don’t want to say anything new yet but I can’t help but do new stuff. That’s a good sign. We’ll take it as a positive that there’s life in old fucking dog yet.”
