Young Guns Music interviews 5 Seconds Of Summer (English)

Have you heard about 5 Seconds Of Summer? If you have not and this is the first time, it will surely not be the last!

5 Seconds Of Summer is a four piece punk-pop/pop-rock band from Sidney composed of four young guys aged between 16 and 18. They started as many other bands covering their favourite songs on Youtube and 4 millon visits to them later and two EPs released they are now in London songwriting what will be their first long length.

We've had the chance to interview Michael about their present and future plans for the band. Here you have :

Young Guns Music : First of all, thanks a lot guys for being able to attend this interview. As many of our readers will know from you for the first time, who are 5 Seconds Of Summer and how did the project start?

5 Seconds Of Summer : It's my pleasure! thanks for having us on here! We're a 4 piece pop rock band from Sydney, and we all came together through school and friends, and it really kicked off for us when we started doing covers on youtube.



YGM : Your first steps came when posting on Youtube your covers from famous songs. Did you ever expected to come up with million visits and a long length on its way?

5SOS : Not at all! if you see the quality of the covers we uploaded, we really had no idea it was going to get as many views as it did.. We just hoped it would get a couple.. Haha.



YGM : As from the songs you use to cover we can make an idea of your taste for music but which bands or singers inspire you?

5SOS : Our main influences are kind of All Time low, Blink 182, Busted, Green Day, Boys like Girls and stuff. but we do pop covers and make them our own.



YGM : Which other songs are you willing to cover in a near future?

5SOS : We're willing to cover whatever our fans will like online! We cover stuff in the top 40, older stuff and non-mainstream songs from bands that we love.



YGM : Your first EP, the Unplugged EP, reached number 3 on the Australian iTunes chart being your first release. We imagine that it must be amazing for someone as young as you are to realize that your music is so widely love throughout your home country. How did you react to it?

5SOS : Yeah it was pretty crazy for that to happen to us! The feeling is incredible, it's really hard to say how we reacted. We really had no idea we would ever be where we are now, but I guess its all thanks to the people who support us.



YGM : For someone who has never listened to your music how would you describe your sound and how would you convince them to listen to it?

5SOS : It's pop rock with distorted guitars, live drums and heaps of layered vocals. I'd give them a cookie to listen to us

YGM : You’ve already experienced to open for a great band as Hot Chelle Rae. How did you feel the audience’s reaction to your music? Which bands would you love to open for in a near future?

5SOS : It was such an amazing experience, they're such down to earth guys and really focused on their careers, their total inspirations as a musician to look up to. Well I think the audience liked us.. I hope haha. We saw a couple of 5sos posters out there, so that was really nice. We'd love to open for anyone who we like if they come down to australia, but while we're in london that would be hard haha.



YGM : You’ve got your first single released, “Out Of My Limit” and the project of your first length ready to start. 2013 seems to be an intense year for 5 Seconds Of Summer. What can we expect for next months?

5SOS : Yeah! we're working on our first album at the moment, i literally just got home from writing and recording! lol. It's gonna be a pretty full-on year for us, but we're looking forward to it and it's gonna be awesome. Maybe another single soon, but at the moment we're pretty focused on getting the material together for our album!



YGM : Although you’re about to start songwriting your first album, what can you advance us of it? Will it follow the steps of “Somewhere New”?

5SOS : It's gonna show a heap of different sides of our musical abilities, with some slow songs, some faster punkier stuff and a whole lot more inbetween. Totally, but it'll be bigger and better!



YGM : Besides being a band, how’s a normal day in your life? What other things do you enjoy apart from playing music?

5SOS : I'm an avid gamer and sleeper.. haha. in my off times I pretty much just did those all day, I dropped out of school to do this full time. Ashton just finished school, Luke is still going with it and Calum dropped out with me; but while we're here in London we're pretty much flat out doing writing and recording each day.

YGM : When we had the chance to interview Jenna from Tonight Alive before they visited the US we asked her if this trip was a dream coming true. Some months later they were playing the Warped Tour. What are your expectations in a couple of years? The US? Europe?

5SOS : Well we're not too sure at the moment in time, we're still trying to break around the world. We'd love to break into a market in the UK now that we're here, but for us Australia will always be our #1 priority in whatever we do.



YGM : Has success changed your life anyway? Is there any good anecdote about it?

5SOS : Well I mean it's not like we're the biggest band in the world, but from having the recognition we've had has been great. It comes with its ups and downs. Mainly ups.



YGM : If fans are essential for any band, for those as yours with such a massive female audience backing you up their support must be even more amazing : sold out shows, more than 40k followers on Twitter… How’s your relationship with your fans and how do you deal with them?

5SOS : Haha totally. We're kind of best friends with our fans, and we try to give back as much as we can to them, cause we'd obviously be no where without them. It's sort of a relationship, but a good one. Haha.



YGM : Thanks a lot guys for getting to answer these questions and for being so kind to us. We wish you the best and we’ll be there to enjoy it. Just to finish with, who would you like to thank and what would you say to your fans all over the world?

5SOS : My pleasure! Thanks so much for having us on your site! I don't know who to thank other then everyone supporting us, it means the world. Thank you again! x



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