Bring Me The Horizon on bumping into Arctic Monkeys and their “fucking cool” live show
nme.comBring Me The Horizon have expressed their admiration for Arctic Monkeys, describing their current live show as “fucking cool” and recalling bumping into them backstage after previously going to the same school.BMTH and AM – both from Sheffield – co-headlined the same nights of Reading & Leeds 2022 on the dual festival’s Main Stage West and Main Stage East, respectively.
Prior to their first bill-topping gigs at the events, Bring Me spoke to NME for this week’s Big Read cover story.During the conversation, frontman Oli Sykes said he felt “starstruck” when he ran into Alex Turner on the European festival circuit in 2018.
The pair attended the same school in Stocksbridge, Sheffield but hadn’t seen each other in person since.Turner eventually told Sykes that he’d been watching Bring Me The Horizon videos on YouTube. “I felt a little nervous, then [Alex] waved me over and he was like, ‘I’ve been waiting ages for this!’,” Sykes recalled, “and I was like, ‘What?
How do you remember me?'”Later, he told NME that he and bandmate Jordan Fish had been watching some of the Monkeys’ recent European festival shows online.
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