every year we’ve whined about uh no this

every year we’ve whined about uh no this

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year’s crap we’re taking it back to like

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there’s like

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remember 2016. 2016 yeah like there’s

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that joke it’s like

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damn you 26. yeah and it’s just like we

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didn’t know how good we had it

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like it’s like it’s like 2020 why not

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you want to see some real

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[Music]

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hi i’m andrew trundle you’re watching

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lme and we’re here with ollie sykes and

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bring me the horizon

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hello socially distanced interview can

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you hear me over there i can

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i mean like how does it feel to be

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releasing music at a time like this was

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a surreal question because

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this album kind of exists because of the

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times right

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to be honest it’s been like i don’t know

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what we’d have done or i don’t know what

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i’d have done

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if it weren’t for like being able to

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carry on and make music

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like for the last 15 years my life i’ve

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been out on tour and

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been like away from home and i think

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that kept me

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you know about my ups and downs but i

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think for the most part it kept me like

01:04

saying being at home and just not having

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nothing to do which

01:08

you know was nice at first i would you

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know it’s something that i’ve been

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longing for but then

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very quickly just like like what is

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my purpose on this planet if it’s if

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you’re not touring you know what i mean

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i think being able to still write music

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and stuff is just i don’t think it’s

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like kept me relatively sane

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you miss like waking up the tiny cubicle

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of the bus

01:28

having a really small shower you just

01:30

said your tour manager

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i miss it all it’s mental i never you

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know i think

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i got to a place where i just took it

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for granted you know i mean and like

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i used to just worry about like not

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seeing my family enough and stuff like

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that and that’s what you guys

01:43

grass is always greener situation but

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like and then that’s what lockdown was

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great for getting to like you know

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my parents come and live with me for

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three months and getting to reconnect

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and all that stuff but at the same time

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it’s like

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there was a point where i used to be

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like oh my god one tour like and

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now i’m like man

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i would play anywhere get me out yeah

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yeah just give me a gig

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so you’re over your mum and dad for

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three months i’m just like yeah the

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camera stayed

02:05

at my house it was cool it made the

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whole thing more feel like you know

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obviously not a nice time

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in terms of what was happening on the

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planet but you know

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getting to just it was almost like an

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extended christmas

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holiday and it was cool i think we all

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kept each other going we all

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we all started like intermittent fasting

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and we

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got really healthy and stuff like that

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do you know what i mean like rather than

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like

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i think because i think it was just like

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the opposite would be like

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drinking every night and just going down

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a very bad path

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and so it was nice it was really cold

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like

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i’m really close to my parents anyway so

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it was just

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you know three months was a long time

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but it it wasn’t too bad

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so in a sense do you feel quite like

02:51

cleansed and re-rooted and

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like you’ve hit a reset button in a way

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in some aspects

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in some aspects it’s been like harder i

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think

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like a lot of i think when you’re you’ve

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got all the time in the world i think

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it’s it’s easy for like

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bad habits and you know to come

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like the worst aspects of yourself to

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come back to life you know i mean like i

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said with torah and stuff i think it

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kept

03:14

those things at bay whereas you know

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having all that time it was definitely

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much more of a struggle to cope with

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with certain things

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we realize that our society is not

03:23

really geared up for like how to you

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know

03:25

cope with things like this you know i

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mean like the system we’ve made when the

03:28

machine’s like pumping it

03:29

it works but if something like a virus

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or someone comes and stops it

03:33

it everything up and i think on a

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human level that’s what it’s like for me

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and probably for a lot of people it’s

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like

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you know maybe some people their

03:41

relationships work when

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they’re doing their thing everyone’s

03:45

working when everyone’s put into a room

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together and that’s it

03:47

it’s like all these problems come to

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life with me it’s like i’ve got to

03:50

work on myself a little bit more now

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because i haven’t got that to fall back

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on

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and again it’s like i don’t you know i

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want to be okay when

03:58

when when goes south you know i

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mean you need to be able to

04:02

know who you are and what you want from

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life and stuff like that and i think

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yeah so in a way it’s been a not a reset

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but it’s definitely been a time to like

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reflect and

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focus on who you are so you’ve kind of

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had your will reinforced in a way

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yeah yeah yeah for sure now would you

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say um

04:17

the past six months have kind of

04:18

affected relations in the band i mean

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when was the last time you were in a

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room together

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we haven’t been in a room together as a

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band for

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since probably like the last time we

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toured wow

04:30

or brit awards maybe um

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i mean the last time i saw everyone was

04:35

probably when we filmed parasite eve and

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that we did that

04:38

because it was like in you know coming

04:41

out of lockdown but

04:43

everyone’s started to keep the distance

04:44

so we did it everyone one by one

04:46

and then vegan was offered in america so

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we had to do that over skype

04:50

the am it seemed like i mean i’ve been

04:52

on phone with jordan nearly every day

04:53

because i’ve been writing but

04:54

apart from that like we haven’t been

04:57

like you know

04:58

the same room which is super weird

04:59

because we’re about to release an album

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that’s

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you know we haven’t even been the same

05:03

way to write it let them play it you

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know play on instruments or anything

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it’s

05:07

it’s kind of crazy really in

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that sense you kind of feel more

05:10

connected because you’re like

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forcing yourself to communicate yeah it

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gives you a reason to

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for sure um and obviously we still talk

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everyone talks and stuff like that but

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um

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yeah it’s just it’s just been weird

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because i think we were so used to like

05:25

like we saw each other so much from

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touring that that weren’t always enough

05:29

we never really speak outside not

05:32

purposely but it’s like we get our fi