Carry Me The Horizon haven’t any need to headline Glastonbury.
Carry Me The Horizon haven’t any ambition to play Glastonbury
The Kool Assist rockers have simply triumphantly headlined Studying and Leeds and are recognized for his or her high-octane, immersive reside enviornment exhibits, however frontman Oli Sykes insists they might be fairly content material taking part in venues like The O2 for the remainder of their days.
He instructed NME: “Glastonbury’s not our world.
“We’re all the time going to really feel just like the underdog… it’s arduous to see ourselves as a gen-pop mainstream band.”
Regardless of their mainstream success, they nonetheless need to keep in their very own “bizarre” lane.
The 38-year-old singer – who has simply turn out to be a father to twins – continued: “Possibly 5 or 6 years in the past, that may have been our ambition. Possibly taking part in Coachella and stuff like that. That’s not our world. We’re not the cool, stylish barista-core band.
“We’re this bizarre factor… we’ve simply crafted our personal factor and we’re actually having fun with it.
“We’re actually completely satisfied, the band are finest mates, and it’s all good. Why rock that? Why attempt to pressure ourselves right into a spherical gap after we’re a sq. peg?”
Requested in the event that they’d wish to headline Wembley Stadium, Oli quipped: “Yeah, when 100,000 folks truly need to see our band and we’re not doing reductions at Morrisons, then yeah. Till then, I don’t give a s***. I’d relatively play two O2s, one O2 or no matter. I simply need to have enjoyable.
“That’s all that basically issues when it comes all the way down to it. We’re getting paid, we’re all completely satisfied, we’ve received what we’d like. We don’t want way more in life.”
Studying and Leeds marked BMTH’s final present for some time now as they embark on a hiatus.
Oli beforehand spoke in regards to the band needing a while off, admitting the relentless workload was taking a toll on their creativity.
He instructed NME: “We’d like time to recharge our batteries and have that point away, as a result of we haven’t. The final time we stopped was after we have been compelled to for lockdown. Even then, we have been nonetheless going and making stuff. It doesn’t really feel just like the band has had a major period of time off. It’s going to get to some extent the place it begins to impact the band and its creativity.”
