![]() ![]() Because if you're the singer in a band, then everyone's focus is going to be on you. " If he was a dickhead then it would be a problem. ![]() He's on some whole other level, finding a way to connect it personally to him, and I feel like that always makes a song stronger.Īt his point, Oli Sykes is a mainstream celebrity, does it feel a bit odd or perhaps even surreal having a member of the band that is in such a bright spotlight? So he has all of these deep, internal thoughts, while I'm just dabbling around a computer. So while for us, it works as a live song, but for Oli it has this deeper meaning connected to a time he experienced in rehab, when he was talking to a room full of people he didn't know about his addiction. When Oli is working with a concept that isn't personal to him, he likes to find links to a meaning for him that is personal to his life. It's like this primitive feeling of community. At a show you're standing in a room full of strangers, but then you also feel this connection to everyone singing along. The lyric from Oli "we're just a room full of strangers" came from the idea of being at a live show. Did it feel particularly important to be sharing this message with the world in this way, right now? That's definitely evident on sTraNgeRs, you can tell a lot of thought has gone into not just the writing of the track, but the rollout as well. We do try and push it forward, because we care about the band and what we're putting out. We don't want someone to say "oh that sounds like a boring progression". "Writing sTraNgeRs didn't feel like just writing another song, it felt like writing the most important song of our career and it felt like that on the last one and the one before that. The band has existed for 20 years and I've been in the band for 10 years and every new song that we write still feels critical to me." Which makes it more challenging, but it makes it more fun for us as well. But we feel like we've got to discover something everytime that we make a new record. It would be easier to just sit down and bang out ten songs and not really care about the result and whether it sounds different. It's not actually the easiest way to work. I do feel like we make a bit of a rod for our own backs a little bit, by trying to do something different every time. "We've been a little stuck on this record, to be fair, so it is a bit of a bad time to answer that question, beause I'm feeling the opposite way, right now. Do you feel there's something about the writing partnerships in the band that allows for that to be the case? I think people would be surprised to learn that you feel you're moving slowly because from a listener's perspective it seems you have been constantly releasing content, be it new songs, collaborations, or videos, there always seems to be something happening with Bring Me The Horizon. So we can kind of set it up, so that people know what they're going to get." So I guess the idea was to try and be able to do different, slightly different iterations of 'Bring Me' with each record we do. I feel like it works better when each record is its own kind of vibe to some extent. We did amo and if there's one thing I regret about that record it was that we didn't go 'all-in' on a vibe as much. ![]() While we haven't really done that, one thing this approach has done is allowed us to give each record its own vibe. "Initially the idea was that we could release music faster and more often. What was the impetus that cross-genre exploration? So we are very excited to get back."īring Me The Horizon have evolved your sound quite a bit since your last visit, releasing the first POST HUMAN EP, a few big collabs and two additional singles. It was the first place I toured with the band, and it remains one of my favourite places to play. It's been a little while since we last played Australia, so I'm really excited. Today, ahead of their visit to Australia to headline Good Things Festival, keyboardist and production wizard, Jordan Fish joined Maniacs for a chat about the next phase in the sonic evolution of Bring Me The Horizon.īring Me The Horizon are finally heading back down under to play the Good Things Festival, after the chaos of the last few years are you looking forward to being back on our shores? Last week, Bring Me The Horizon started a new chapter in their seeming neverending creative story with the release of the emo ballad sTraNgeRs. ![]()
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