The only other thing I’ve been doing is running.
“I’m not gonna lie, and I know it’s probably not very exciting to read, but I’ve tried to dedicate as much time as possible to being a dad. What else have you been up to that you wouldn’t normally get to? That’s something people have found this year, not seeing friends and family for the longest time.” For them, it’ll be 16 years, since the beginning of the band. This is the longest we’ve gone without seeing each other for eight years. On the Parasite Eve video I saw Oli, and then for the Teardrops video in September, I saw everybody then except Vegan, that’s it! It’s been weird. But we were together in January, then we split, and then we stayed in over lockdown. Have you all actually been in a room playing music together since this started? That’s a bit harder when you’re together, because you’re over each other’s shoulders, but also I’d normally be in his house in Sheffield, so I’m away from home and stuff, so doing it in my own house definitely worked for me. And I like to get really into the technical, musical shit, so it’s good to work alone on that. So he won’t just throw random shit out – he’ll really focus.
In our own way, Oli and I like to work separately – when it’s time for lyrics, he’ll just go, and he really likes to do it and make sure what comes back is really good. In a way I preferred it, because it gave everyone their own space.
I thought it was going to be a really big stumbling block, but you get used to it quite quickly. The guests sort of fell into place naturally – we’ve toured with BABYMETAL and YUNGBLUD, so it fit together quite easily.”ĭid working on FaceTime rather than in a room, face-to-face, make you rethink how you work? We haven’t regressed, but we’ve definitely incorporated more stuff from the previous eras that we’ve specifically avoided doing before, so that’s partly down to the nature of the fact that we had to write over FaceTime – we had to rely on what we know works and played to our strengths. We were kind of up against it having to work using FaceTime and stuff like that, but I think that’s why we but did some of the things we did. “I think a lot of the record was shaped by what was going on anyway, not lyrically, but how we had to approach it. There’s some cool surprise guests on there as well: Amy Lee, BABYMETAL, Nova Twins and YUNGBLUD. Obviously a lot of people have lost loved ones and jobs, and it’s been terrible and I wouldn’t wish to make light, but I’ve been looking for what positives I can, the main one of which has been spending time with my kids and my wife.” I’m trying to appreciate it as much as possible. It’s quite hard to stop the wheel of being in a touring band once you’re in the swing of it, and I’ve been in that cycle for eight years now, so it’s been alright, especially towards the end of the year. I’m trying to think a bit like that, rather than stressing out that we haven’t been active as a band, and just trying to enjoy what I can. At first I wasn’t too keen on it, but if you’d said to me this time last year that I could have a whole year off and spend time at home with my wife and kids and pick up where I left off, I probably would have taken it. Somewhere in between, he’s also managed to do a new Horizon EP – and they’re about to get cracking on another… No touring means he’s got to spend more time being a dad as well.
Like everyone else, Bring Me The Horizon’s Jordan Fish has taken up running this year.
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