Oli Sykes Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

The Great Escape festival continues today with hundreds of acts performing in venues all over the city.We’ve picked out a handful of the artists we’re most excited to see and are sharing them with you here in the CMU Daily, along with a track to check out from each of them.Listen to all of our selections in this Spotify playlist, and read on to find out more about our next five picks…Marina Herlop – MiuUsing cut-up techniques – building melodies and rhythm out of snatches of sound – Herlop’s new material can at first seem chaotic. Listening feels like being dropped and caught repeatedly, but eventually this sensation becomes something more akin to floating.

Bring Me The Horizon have released their rousing new single ‘LosT’ – listen to it below.The new track opens with a thrilling guitar fill and hyper-pop electronic background production. “Why am I this way?” frontman Oli Sykes screams in the chorus.

A playwright who shares his name with the lead singer of rock band Bring Me The Horizon has been thanked by his famous namesake for replying to more than 1,000 emails meant for him. Oli Sykes set an the email account under his own name when he was 16.

Oli Sykes, the frontman of Bring Me The Horizon.Author Oliver Sykes has written a first-person piece for Metro in which he described a period in his life when he felt compelled to respond to fans who’d erroneously thought that he was the band’s singer.He explained how he was studying theatre at Lancaster University in 2008 when Bring Me The Horizon’s second studio album, ‘Suicide Season’, was released. At first, Oliver was “blissfully unaware” about the band’s new album because he was mainly a folk music fan.“But within a week of it hitting the shelves, that changed.

Bring Me The Horizon have revealed that they’re still planning to continue with their ‘Post Human’ EP series at some point.The Sheffield band released the nine-track ‘Post Human: Survival Horror’ collection in October 2020, following on from their six studio album ‘Amo’ (2019).Upon the EP’s release, Bring Me told NME that the project served as the first instalment of a four-part series dubbed ‘Post Human’. Frontman Oli Sykes had previously said the group were “not going to do an album again, maybe ever”.Last September saw BMTH drop the single ‘Die4U’, which was intended to be the first taste of their second ‘Post Human’ EP.

America’s Got Talent has covered Ed Sheeran‘s reworked, Bring Me The Horizon-assisted version of his song ‘Bad Habits’.Sheeran first released ‘Bad Habits’ as a solo song in June 2021, forming the lead single for his fifth studio album ‘=’. In February of this year, however, the singer teamed up with Bring Me The Horizon for a reimagined version of the track, which the pair debuted as the opening acts at this year’s BRIT Awards.Days later, Sheeran and Bring Me The Horizon officially released the alternative studio version of ‘Bad Habits’, drawing on the band’s significantly heavier sound, with new vocals from frontman Oli Sykes.Now, 10-year-old Harper Jerret has offered her own take on the song, matching Sykes’ scream-laden vocals during a belting performance of ‘Bad Habits’ on the current season of America’s Got Talent.

Bring 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.

Bring Me The Horizon‘s Oli Sykes and Mat Nichols have completed a triathlon and raised funds for a Ukrainian LGTBQ+ charity.Over the weekend, Skyles and Nichols posted on Instagram, detailing their first-ever triathlon which consisted of swimming, cycling and running and shared that they’d surpassed their original goal of raising £3,000 for UKRAINEPRIDE.“We did it!” Oli said. “Thank u so much to everyone that sponsored us in our first triathlon 4 @ukraine.pride means the world.

Bring Me The Horizon‘s Oli Sykes has today (July 29) launched the ANGELSLAYER clothing line under his alternative fashion brand DROP DEAD.The singer’s latest collection is themed on Topheth, a fictional institute dreamt up by Sykes that serves as a metaphor for technology’s insidious grip on modern civilisation.Speaking about the cult-like organisation, Sykes said: “The institute [Topheth] houses other abducted children hand-picked from birth for their psychic powers and forced to become part of a process that leads inexorably to the decay and eventual death of their human selves.”`Topheth, which subjects children to horrifying experiments, also has an agenda to weaponise the children’s abilities, thus creating the ANGELSLAYERS.Included in the collection are futuristic T-shirts, skirts, tops, hoodies and jackets moulded around the dark concept, all available in unisex sizing.“Thematically this collection has created a world inspired by the tech industry’s powerful psychological mind manipulation tactics,” Sykes continued.“Most people don’t realise that lurking behind their screens and phones is a giant laboratory of psychologists, neuroscientists, and social science experts who use their knowledge of psychological vulnerabilities to devise products that hijack their minds, hooking them with a drug-like power, for the purpose of profit or brainwashing.“The ANGELSLAYERS represent a metaphor of this idea, a generation weaponised by shady operatives to believe what’s good is bad and what’s bad is good.Sykes added: “The ideas and concepts [Drop Dead] wants to promote is a feeling of unity, community, and healthy obsessions and passions.

Kate Bush‘s ‘Running Up That Hill’ performed in the style of Metallica‘s ‘Master of Puppets’.The cover features Trivium frontman Matt Heafy on guitar and vocals and a solo from YouTube shredder Steve Terreberry. As Vincent takes on the role of James Hetfield in the melody, Heafy joins in with powerful screams in the chorus, with Terreberry coming in at the end with his solo.Vincent has become known for his unique interpretations of well-known songs over the past few years.

Sigrid and the BBC Concert Orchestra have performed a cover of Neil Young’s ‘Old Man’ – check it out below.‘Old Man’ originally featured on Young’s 1972 album ‘Harvest’ but was reworked by Sigrid for Radio 2. Taking to social media shortly after the performance, Sigrid called it an “honour”.“So today I got to sing and play piano on ‘Old Man’ just like I do at home, but together with BBC Concert Orchestra,” she added. Check out the gorgeous performance below:Sigrid also performed ‘Bad Life’ and ‘Don’t Feel Like Crying’ during the session.Speaking to NME ahead of the release of her debut album ‘Sucker Punch’, Sigrid said her ideal collaboration would be with Neil Young, “but I know that’s not gonna happen.

DEALSTainy has renewed his deal with Sony Music Publishing, continuing a partnership that began in 2005. “I am grateful that my career has allowed me to reach new heights not only on the artistic and creative side, but also on the business side”, he says. “I appreciate having such great partners on the publishing end.

Bring Me The Horizon have shared a music video for their new single ‘Strangers’, inspired by the mental health experiences of the band and their fans.The track was first revealed during a DJ set the band performed on the first night of their own Malta Weekender festival. Now the band have shared ‘Strangers’ as their new single, accompanied by a surreal music video.“The song came out of a long writing trip in LA,” singer Oli Sykes explained, “and as soon as the lyric ‘we’re just a room full of strangers’ came it took on such a deeper double meaning – how it would feel to be performing it live as that’s what it is..

Oli Sykes and Alice Longyu Gao have dropped their new collaborative track, ‘Believe The Hype’ – watch the twisted video below.The Bring Me The Horizon frontman and Chinese electro-pop artist first teased the release last week, with a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the song’s silver-themed video.“Our new song ‘Believe The Hype’ is about to come out,” Longyu Gao said in the clip. “You should pre-save the song now! Do it! If you don’t, Oli is going to go into your dreams.

Oli Sykes has launched a new alt club night called ‘GREEBO’ at his Sheffield venue, Church, Temple of Fun.The night will launch on July 9 and will feature a line up curated by Sykes. A press release explained: “With a line up completely curated by him showcasing some amazing artists, you can expect a night full of live music and DJ sets, including himself and Mat Nicholls, returning to the decks following their night in Malta last month.”Sykes said of the night: “The first of many moshtastic ragers I plan to take around UK and the rest of the world.

Oli Sykes and Alice Longyu Gao have announced the release of a new collaborative track, ‘Believe The Hype’.In a video posted to Instagram on Tuesday (June 21), the Bring Me The Horizon frontman and Chinese electro-pop artist teased the release of their upcoming collaboration while covered in silver paint on what looks like a video set.“Hi guys it’s bad gal Alice… and I’m Oliver from Bring Me The Horizon,” the pair begin the clip. Longyu Gao continues: “Our new song ‘Believe The Hype’ is about to come out.

Bring Me The Horizon have announced a release date for their next original single, ‘Strangers’, after they previewed it live last month.The song was first revealed during a DJ set the band performed on the first night of their own Malta Weekender festival. Similar to much of the band’s recent studio material, the version of the song they played featured loud electric guitars and thrashing drums.That may not be the version they officially release, however: in a new teaser video, the song has seemingly been converted into a much more restrained ballad.

Bring Me The Horizon‘s Oli Sykes and Mat Nicholls have announced that they’ve signed up for a charity triathlon to raise money for UKRAINEPRIDE.In August, the singer and drummer will take part in the Allerthorpe Sprint Triathlon, which is described as “one of the fastest-sprint distance triathlon courses” in York.Raising money for the LGBTQ+ charity, Sykes pointed out in an Instagram post today (June 20) that UKRAINEPRIDE “needs all the help it get get right now”.“yooo so me & @mickypickles r doing a triathlon this august,” Sykes wrote alongside a photo of the two bandmates. “We wanted to raise money for 2 causes that r at the forefront of our mind right now so with the help of my good Ukrainian friend @yavashadasha we settled on @ukraine.pride an amazing organisation that supports the LGBT+ movement in Ukraine which as you can imagine needs all the help it can get right now.”He added: “We have never done any kind of marathon/sports event like this so we are pooping our pants just a little, so the more money we raise the more you’ll spur us on to smash it! Let’s gooo.”A post shared by Oli Sykes (@olobersykes)Sykes added on the Just Giving page that they’ve set a goal of £3,000 but that they would “love to f**king smash that”, adding that “anything you can give will be much apprciated [sic]”.UKRAINEPRIDE is “a propatriotic queer movement”, according to the charity’s website.

Harry Styles’ ‘As It Was’ in the style of Bring Me The Horizon – watch him perform the track below.Vincent has previously shared covers of Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ in the style of Deftones and a cover of Eminem‘s ‘Lose Yourself’ in the style of Linkin Park.“Honestly, the most impressive thing about Anthony is how he nails so many vocalists, often completely different voices and styles”, one fan commented under the video of Vincent taking on frontman Oli Sykes‘ vocals while singing the Styles’ track.Another commented on how the YouTuber transformed the pop song into one that could feature on Bring Me The Horizon’s fourth studio album. “This is so incredibly similar to ‘Sempiternal’ it’s almost creepy, very well done!” they said.‘As It Was’ is the lead single of Styles’ global hit album ‘Harry’s House‘.The record has garnered a series of chart accolades and broken numerous records across the world.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the UK’s Music Managers Forum new report on the topic of digital burnout and the wider debate around pressures being placed by the music industry on artists – particularly female artists – to be heavily active on TikTok, plus the petition calling on UK song rights collecting society PRS to reconsider its decision to reduce the funding it provides to the PRS Foundation.

Bring Me The Horizon hosted their own festival in Malta this weekend, and Saturday night (May 28) saw them play a special “throwback” set – see footage, setlist, reaction and more below.Curated by the band themselves, the Malta weekender also hosted Bullet For My Valentine, Nova Twins and Beartooth among others, and earlier in the festival, the band debuted a new song called ‘Strangers’ during a DJ set.During their Saturday night throwback set, the band were joined by a host of special guests and performed rare old tracks that they haven’t played live in over a decade.After the set began with the first live performance of ‘Liquor & Love Lost’ since 2008, the band were then joined by Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante for ‘Chelsea Smile’, Beartooth’s Caleb Shomo for ‘Antivist’, Malevolence’s Alex Taylor for ‘Pray For Plagues’, While She Sleeps‘ Loz Taylor for ‘Empire (Let Them Sing)’ and more.Watch footage of the performances and see the full setlist below.alligator blood.@bmthofficial x @staticdress pic.twitter.com/ltlk6VLox6— Static Dress (@staticdress) May 28, 2022Chelsea Smile with Courtney of Spiritbox Bring me the horizon Throwback Set in Malta 2022 pic.twitter.com/Ai6uNGFmph— bring me the horizon stan for lyfe (@bmthstan4lyfe) May 28, 2022Can’t believe I met Oli Sykes in the day and then saw him performing Pray For fucking Plagues & Diamonds Aren’t Forever in the evening, what a genuinely unreal dayActually speechless (probably cos my voice is now fucked) #BMTHMalta pic.twitter.com/2NUjNSmdOS— ss (@SamwhereNow) May 29, 2022EMPIRE.@bmthofficial @LOZWSS @whileshesleeps // BMTH MALTA WEEKENDER // 28.05.2022 pic.twitter.com/VuLYgoSCFq— josh //

Bring Me The Horizon‘s Oli Sykes has spoken about how the band were received by the media during their earlier days.Over the past decade, the Sheffield metal titans have gone on to become one of the most popular bands in British rock. However, according to frontman Sykes, it wasn’t always like that.Speaking in a recent interview with Kerrang!, Sykes recalled how BMTH were portrayed by the media when they were first gaining popularity.“Our band was kind of branded as a Mötley Crüe-esque bunch of fucking dickheads,” Sykes said.

Bring Me The Horizon debuted a new song ‘Strangers’ in a DJ set at their festival in Malta. Listen below.In a clip posted to Twitter today (May 27), the British quintet can be seen performing the unreleased track to the audience at the ‘Bring Me The Horizon & Friends’ event, which kicked off yesterday and will run for four days at Malta’s Gianpula Village.In the videos below, see the band play ‘Strangers’ and teach the crowd its lyrics, which go: “We’re just a room full of strangers / Looking for something to save us / Alone together“.BRING ME THE HORIZONS NEW SONG STRANGERS!!!! First heard in Malta!!!! #bmth #bmthmalta #bringmethehorizon pic.twitter.com/2iJWGd4xAB— True_SCHU in MALTA for BMTH (@True_Schu) May 26, 2022Curated by the band themselves, the Malta weekender will also host Bullet For My Valentine, Nova Twins and Beartooth among others.Bring Me The Horizon’s last solo release was their 2021 song, ‘DiE4u.’ That single was the first to be lifted from BMTH’s forthcoming album, a follow-up to their multi-part 2020 EP,  ‘Post Human: Survival Horror.’In an interview with NME in 2021, Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes said the band was “working on parts two, three and four” of ‘Post Human,’ before assuring that they’d “get songs out as soon as [they] can”.The unreleased track arrives after a more recent album tease in May, when Sykes revealed that “we’ve been working on [‘Post Human Part Two’] for about a year now.”“We’ve got lots of music, we’re just being quite picky about what we want to release.

Alissic has shared her new single ‘Everybody’s Dead Inside’ – you can listen to the lively track below.The song was co-written and produced by the Brazilian-born, Sheffield-based artist along with her husband Oli Sykes and his Bring Me The Horizon bandmate Jordan Fish.‘Everybody’s Dead Inside’, which follows on from Alissic’s March single ‘Superstitious’, has now been released via Ministry of Sound.You can listen to Alissic’s ‘Everybody’s Dead Inside’ below.Having made her live debut at last week’s The Great Escape festival in Brighton, Alissic – real name Alissa Salls – will perform at Reading & Leeds Festival on the BBC Introducing Stage in August.Speaking to NME back in October, Alissic said that while it was unlikely that she and Sykes will record a full project together soon, she did say that such a record could emerge “maybe one day”.In the meantime, Alissic told NME that she is focused on releasing standalone singles and shared some of her key inspirations.“I’m very inspired by 2000s’ pop, but I also like to make it sound a bit more unusual,” she told NME. “I like things that are spooky, but also very pop.

Bring Me The Horizon have revealed that they’ve recorded “about 45 songs” for their next release.The band’s last project was their ‘Post Human: Survival Horror’ EP, released back in October 2020.The first of several releases, frontman Oli Sykes told NME last year they were “working on parts two, three and four simultaneously” and that they were hoping to “get songs out as soon as we can”.The Sheffield rock giants then gave fans a taste of what they can expect from ‘Post Human 2’, sharing new single ‘DiE4u’ in September 2021.Speaking in a new interview, Sykes has now shared an update on the record as well as their forthcoming schedule.“We’re doing lots of gigs hopefully, if the world goes alright,” he told BANG Showbiz (via Contact Music). “Lots of European festivals and we’re going to the States in September.

Sigrid and Bring Me The Horizon have released a new collaboration together – listen to  ‘Bad Life’ below.Sigrid had teased the collaboration on TikTok last week (April 14), sharing a behind the scenes montage between BMTH frontman Oli Sykes and herself. The video was set to an audio clip of the forthcoming single, with the lyrics “It’s just a bad day/ Not a bad life” sung by the pair. It’s the first time the hardcore outfit have collaborated with the Norwegian singer-songwriter.Speaking about the track, Sigrid said: “I’m so excited about ‘Bad Life’ being out in the world with the Bring Me boys! We’re really proud of this one, and we hope it can bring some comfort.“It might not be the most likely collab, but we’ve been fans of each other for a while and we’re so happy we could collaborate on this song.

Bring Me The Horizon and Sigrid are set to drop a new single, ‘Bad Life’, the latter revealing the collaboration with a TikTok video today (April 14).Sharing a behind the scenes montage between BMTH frontman Oli Sykes and Sigrid, the video is set to an audio clip of the forthcoming single, with the lyrics “It’s just a bad day/ Not a bad life” sung by the pair.‘Bad Life’ will drop on April 21, marking the first time the hardcore outfit have collaborated with the Norwegian singer-songwriter.It also marks the latest in a strong of collaborations released by BMTH.

their proposed eviction.It comes after the iconic Sheffield venue and club told music fans of the “devastating news that in one year’s time, our Landlord is trying to evict us, forcing us to close” – leading to an outpouring of upset and support from the music world.The current bosses of The Leadmill then responded to the owners, denying their intentions to close the venue. Leaders of Electric Group, the company who bought the freehold for the site in March 2017, argued that they’d be removing the current management but keeping the building as a music venue after renovations.Arctic Monkeys, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker and Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes are among the Sheffield artists to have spoken out in support of the venue.Announcing the new online petition today (April 12), which you can gain access to here, the current operators said in a press release: “The Leadmill have organised an official E-Petition and are now reaching out to the citizens of Sheffield and beyond, as well as friends and colleagues in the music industry, to show their support in any way they can.“This E-Petition is fighting to prevent landlords unfairly and unjustly evicting long standing tenants for their own financial gain.

NME about the local reaction to the proposed eviction of the current operators of The Leadmill.Last week, the iconic Sheffield venue and club told music fans of the “devastating news that in one year’s time, our Landlord is trying to evict us, forcing us to close” – leading to an outpouring of upset and support from the music world.The current bosses of The Leadmill then responded to the owners, denying their intentions to close the venue. Leaders of Electric Group, the company who bought the freehold for the site in March 2017, argued that they’d be removing the current management but keeping the building as a music venue after renovations.Electric Group CEO Dominic Madden – whose company also own London’s Electric Brixton, the SWX nightclub in Bristol, and NX Newcastle – told his Twitter followers that “the management may change but the song stays the same”.

Originally from Brazil, now based in Sheffield, Alissic recently released her first single of 2022, ‘Superstitious’, extending her “Britney meets Tim Burton” sonic world.Like last year’s ‘Piano’ and ‘Like’, the song is co-written with her husband, Oli Sykes of Bring Me The Horizon. It has the most overtly Latin influence of any of her music to date, and is the first track to include a portion of lyrics in her native Portuguese.“It makes me feel warm and like home with its Latin American influence”, she says of the song.