#i would do unspeakable things for some footage of oli and alex

[skylarbee]

(...) 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?'”

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“He ran up to me and gave me a big bear hug and I was so taken aback like what the f*** just happened. And he was like ‘I’ve watched all your videos on YouTube, how’s it going…’

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oli also lists favourite worst nightmare as one of the ten albums that changed his life: (x)

(via mat's [bmth's drummer!] IG, 2022 x)

bonus ! +

“I went to school and college with him, and at that point Arctic Monkeys were just kicking off. At that point I (was) full on death-metal so I wasn’t interested whatsoever…he came up to me to give him one of their demos, and I threw it in the bin.”

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Whenever I get sad I think about Alexander Turner and Oliver Sykes being said by teacher with a thick Sheffield accent during attendance roll call in the same class okay bye 🫀🫀🫀