Bring Me The Horizon on their new era, defining success & 20 years together (triple j Interview)

and at this moment Tyrone is not a big deal, he feels a little nervous, very excited, we are joined by one of the biggest rock bands in the world. We kicked off the shows in Australia with one in Melbourne the other night. How did he do for you? It looked phenomenal. How did you feel afterwards? Yeah, it was pretty good, I mean, as far as the first shows go, you know, I mean, the first show is always a bit, which can always be a bit tricky, a few mistakes here and there, but it was brilliant. , Yeah.

Great, yeah, you brought one of your fans, Charlie, on stage. AB completely crushed him. We actually got a text on the Triple J text line the morning after the show, someone saying he got up at 5am. m. after seeing Bring Me The Horizon in Melbourne, charliie XCX. you jumped on stage for a song, can you confirm or deny that it was indeed XX in Disguise? That's got to be pretty incredible, although knowing that your fans are so talented that you can trust them to go up there and absolutely crush it, yes, you can. Don't always trust, no you can't, yeah we've had a few, it's gotten to a point where you have to pick your battles with your shows, if you're going to get a fan, no, I mean if it's it's like the Factor X, or it is so bad, it is fun or is good and then it is something moving, but in one way or another everyone will laugh a lot, I bet it is good when they notice the words, that's all, yes.

That's all we want, yeah, and speaking of maybe so bad it's funny, Ollie, the other day I saw a tweet from Danne, one of the artists who joined you on this tour, he said that they were

together

on a bar and the waiter recognized them and not you. Have you been able to recover? No, no, my ego is still a little bruised. They are off the tour. I'm not kidding. No Danes will join you for these shows, apart from making them suffer in Perth and of course sleeping in London. I saw in an

interview

a moment ago that you were talking about how you wanted to change the way these shows worked, that maybe you wanted to share the space and the stage with more artists, how did that feel?

I imagine you have so many. people in the production, you have so much on the team, you also have all these artists around you, it feels like a traveling circus, almost with the amount of people around, um, yeah, it's a bit of a crazy level. now the production, I mean, I don't know if you've seen this show, but it's the biggest production we've ever done and there's a lot of things going on, a lot of moving parts, but no, it's great, I mean. We always want to give our support ax a chance, you know, as CU, we've done shows before and they've just thrown us in like

their

thing, so it's about being fair and giving these artists a chance to do

their

thing, uh , so, yeah, that's about really being the best, the best show for the audience, you know, I mean, we've done tours where bands have written us off, you know what I mean, like they're telling us oh, you can't go. going out in the crowd or having a DB limit like you know, things to make sure they're on top, they're better, you know what I mean and for us it's like we welcome the challenge of, oh, these guys They are crushing it.

We need to improve our game instead of trying to stop them, so just make sure it's a diverse lineup and there's something for everyone and we're showing something different, like you know, like Dan told me, and people said. There's no point in me being on this tour and stuff, and I think our fans are great with different things, so I think you're going to have a good time and I think this is one of my favorite lineups. We've ever had a tour, it's super cool and seeing the footage from some of these shows is amazing too.

I mean, it feels like you threw everything you had against the wall and all that. just stuck, how does it feel to provide this experience to your fans? um, yeah, it's cool, it's just months and months of confusion, it's actually weird, because there's usually a lot of trial and error with all these things, but we've done it all. hard work now um how I used to like it when we rehearse is that I'm not even singing I'm just out seeing everything that happens changes do that do that now I feel bored rehearsing it's like I'm actually singing now yeah does it feel like you're on autopilot or can you still have those unexpected moments even though everything is so precise that the show itself is still like when we're on it?

The moment is still amazing, you know what I mean? It's like every night, you know, has its own different things and every audience is different. It could be like one night the Pit was crazy and then one night the singers were crazy, so yeah, like we got it. We get bored quite easily with what we do, but we have also realized that we have to stop changing it because we change it so quickly that some people don't even get to see what we do, so we accept it and then we do Our performance is different every night, the way we handle things and I think things like turning up the fan and stuff like that makes it a little bit of a variation on the night for us, yeah, I feel like that's going to be like that. a memorable show for so many people, one that they will never be able to forget and I am curious to know for each of you what a live performance was like that you saw perhaps early in your career and that still provides you with some inspiration for the shows you want do with Bring Me The Horizon now um, I don't know, I never went to big shows, you know, at the Arena shows when I was a kid, Eminem, you went to see, right?

Oh, I went to see Eminem, yeah. I could see what we can expect from the Eminem experience, a chain, yeah,

bring

out Dao, oh stop it, don't bother me, but I mean, all my memorable shows were always the small, sweaty ones, I mean, I remember and I went . Seeing Glasto in London was like they just came back from hiatus and they played Brickton Academy and then they did a show at Candom Barfly and it's like a place with 100 caps and we'd been waiting to see Glor for like 10

years

and we finally got to see it and it was like a little box of sweat and a lot of energy and that's always a gig that stands out in my mind like that gig where I was like well, that will never be topped, right? you know what I mean, yeah, that was good, that was good, you said a little bit earlier about recording the shows and recording the audience.

I want to talk about the idea of ​​Eve and how they play a role in this show where did the idea of ​​Eve come about in the beginning? It was kind of like, oh, we're just going to do it for the ring leads and it took on a life of its own and then this narrative started to form that actually influenced a lot of the next record. more than I thought and she basically became this entity that felt very important to the show and I thought, oh, we could actually continue a story here and the kids love watching, they seem to love the immersion, so yeah .

It's become a really important part that has a narrative on the new album and everything, that's how it is and it's actually been like a good plot device for the kind of themes and messages that I'm trying to convey. on a personal level and make it into something that feels more like a story or a video game or a movie or something like that, so yeah, do you think the live shows you've been doing lately have changed the trajectory? of the album in some way or it's kind of an idea set in stone and you're moving towards the finished version of that project.

It was strange because when we did survival horror we hadn't played shows because of the lockdown. So that whole record was made without any of that feel, whereas maybe the next one you like when you feel a certain tempo or bounce or the way people react to certain things live, like hits, and you're influenced, but to be honest. I'm not sure if a lot of the stuff we've been doing recently is how we do it and then worry about how it will translate live, but yeah, it usually influences you on some level, especially since I've also been writing on tour, so sometimes you like, when do you find time to write?

Actually, there is a lot more time than you think, as you know, we played for an hour and a half at like 9:00 at night. So we have a full day, um, although there's not as much time as we think, as you think, and then there's always press or you know all the things during the day, but it's a really good way to kill time, you know? What I mean is that you have three or four hours a day at least where you wonder what I'm doing in my life listening to you talk about the narrative with this new album as well.

I mean 20

years

after your first EP. It feels like Bring Me The Horizon is stronger than ever, but how do each of you feel at this point in your career? Now you know what I think we're all feeling pretty good. It's like they're saying it's just that this band just doesn't. I'll ever surprise you where we can get it from, like you say, like 20 years this month. We've actually been a band, we played our first show, so we didn't even think we'd still be around like 20 months later, you know what I mean? So, it just is what it is, it's just that old saying, you know what I mean, you just have to ride it, ride the wave and yeah, see where it takes you and luckily for us, it's taking us 20 years less. , yeah, but we're all a little older, a little sadder, but I know we're still okay, yeah, okay, I say we're happier than ever as a unit.

It feels great right now, yes, the vibe is very good, but also on a creative level and we like our production and stuff like that. I think we've learned a lot over these 20 years from where we've been and even like maybe 5 years ago when things were getting really big for us. I think over the last five years we've learned a lot of lessons from that, like who we want to be and how we want to play this game and stuff. like that and I think we found a really good place where Crea likes creating our music and everything we put out is the most important thing, like fame,

success

, money, all that kind of stuff.

I feel like we're in a really good place where we've just tasted that world and realized that at the end of the day, 10 or 15 years from now or whenever, this is done when I look back and just Come on, you know what? We are so proud of the work we did? Because that's all we really care about and I think it sounds like, yeah, that's obvious, but it's a really hard head space to get into as a band, especially when you're a band like when you're headlining festivals and you get big and people are like, oh you could be next or like what you just said when we walked in or one of the biggest rock bands in the world.

In the world, it's very easy for that to mess with your head because it's not in a negative way, but I say all I have to say in my head is that that's not true and it doesn't matter, that's not how it is. It's not true, you know what I mean? Yeah, and I think that's, uh, it's really easy to fall off and get high on your own. You believe your own hype and you get lazy and complacent, um, but I mean. 20 years later, I feel like we're still working, we're working harder than ever before, even though it's not easier, but we're in the best position we've ever been in our lives, so it's like it's just a grind, but we love it. the grind, so yeah, it also feels like 20 years later the fans have nothing left to rely on you, you've been following a lot of them for those whole 20 years and it must be a lot of fun, I guess, to use. the release of your music to create something like not hype but just to interact with the fans because with every post you guys make, I mean, you deleted social media a couple of days ago, you put a little teaser of something new. music for a new album and the feedback was just excitement after excitement and watching every little detail is as fun as watching the response or just putting it down and walking away from it.

I mean, I mean, I deleted my Instagram a couple of months ago, so I haven't been around this as much to see it, but I feel what you're saying and I feel like with our fans, I think I feel like we're back, we're in a place. where people trust us and understand and understand that we're not trying to be this or that like you just know now Brian Rizing could be anything, the next song, the next album could be anything, but it definitely won't be something, I believe in one moment. At the time people thought, oh, they're just getting more mainstream or more Poppy and we're losing the band we love and all that, whereas now I think we have no idea what's next and we don't care, we trust That, you know what I mean?

We're on the journey

together

, yes, and I think it's a really nice place to be. You know, you'll always have haters and you'll always find people who just want the old sound or just want that or people who are stuck in the past, but I think on a general level, the connection between us and our fans has never been better, like there's this kind of inside jokes that we have, whether it's like the maid outfit or what do you know what I mean, like we have all these kind ofthings where there is a genuine and true connection. where we can connect, which is at some points really difficult when you feel like everyone is against what you are doing or like you are just looking at the negative things while the negative things are feel overwhelming, um, yeah, so I think we also just have something as cool as we're at a distance, you know, fans, we're not the kind of people that are going to sit there and talk to them, but we also have a connection that we can maintain and that it feels really nice and it feels really genuine and not forced, we don't have to be these Tik Tock kind of kids or we don't have to do all these things that we would actually hate, you know what I mean, we can just be ours We move on and the children are there generating those things for us and we laugh with them.

We're very grateful for that kind of passion, you know, 20 years later, also if they're fans of The First Day or the kids that are just coming into our band, it's pretty crazy. I think for a band our age to feel so new to people, so yeah, it's cool. I feel like you built a world like that for Bring Me The Horizon. From the images, from the music to the acting and their shows, I feel that from postum we are getting this type of postum video game. The world era was that the idea was that the vision came into, I guess, the postum album until now, yeah, I mean The vision was born like I was writing an album in quarantine and we had to do it remotely, so we and obviously you know like you remember when everything had to go remote, we thought in our heads that this is going to be so hard it's It's going to be really hard to do and then we realized like two weeks and it's actually exactly the same, you know, There are some things where a human connection and being in the same room helps, but as you realized, oh, I can really move on. with a lot of things, so initially we thought it was going to be very difficult, so let's make a record that is like us, what comes first and is not too much experimentation and we just did what came out. and then people loved it and people thought it was super like the best things we've done in years and we're like that and then that's how this idea was born of well let's just be us and then we'll see how we can push it in other ways later and I think that we've sat on that a little bit from then on, where I think at one point our band wanted to be something we just didn't want to be a rock band.

You almost know we didn't want to be a metal band, we wanted to be something else, we were a little disillusioned with our scene and all that and I think we took it so far that we alienated a lot of our fans in some ways. and we were also trying to be someone who, like other artists, other bands do better, you know what I mean, like ra and I think instead of just taking influence from other places, we were trying really hard to be in a different place, whereas with the postum stuff it's like, let's do what we do well, no, no, there aren't many bands in the world like us that still scream, that's still aggressive, that's on a general level anyway , at a level where you know the general population exists.

We could know who we are, yeah, so I started softening on that and saying, "You know what." It's a shame if we lose that, if we stop shouting, if we stop doing the heavy things, we stop because the children need it, yes. So it's like doing that, but then how can we push it in other ways? How can we experiment? And I think that becomes a lot easier for us. It's like we were going uphill before we didn't take bands on tour. with us that had something to do with us just doing what was expected about what we should do, we were now what are we going to do, we're going to do the opposite, which was cool and fun and for us, creatively, it fueled us. , but it didn't work either, you know what I mean?

We're trying to organize festivals with all these other artists who don't have kids who like BR their eyes and want to see, you know what? I mean, it's like we took the path of least resistance for these new things and then we figured out how we can make it progressive and how we can like it. I don't know, it's almost a little bit for us. and a little by little for them and it's like we're happier it's just working better now to be honest and it's like we wouldn't have been able to do any of that without every step that we've chosen but it's like me saying with the fans that they have us now and that everything is so good that it's like it's a byproduct of the kind of way that we're operating now yeah, everything that's happening behind the scenes, yeah guys, before we let you go, yeah every One would like to say something to the fans who will attend these Australian shows, a little advance a little like I don't know how to speak hippop, what would you say?

Matt I'll start with you learn the words if you're going to get on stage learn the words um thank you now applause um say a million times but um yeah it's great to come here on the other side of the world and still be able to play these massive shows I remember the first time we came to Australia when I was angry uh The tour wasn't great but the experience was Mega Death yeah it was a mega Death tour it was hard work but the experience was crazy and we always love coming back here and It's, yeah, it's a privilege to be here, so thank you and Ollie.

Yeah I guess just Echo, I mean our first number one was in Australia, it was the lowest number one of all time but it was still great and obviously I used to live here and I have an Australian passport so there's never I thought in a million years it would be like playing these kind of shows this size, like when we played in Melbourne the other day and someone said, oh, the next Melbourne show is bigger. I was like, what's going on, there are so many people in Australia, yeah. um so we're so happy to be able to come here and for it to be a

success

and I'm not making a shoe so and just Echo again I'm not making a shy but guys thank you so much for stopping by thank you for us