{"id":22294,"date":"2025-04-15T15:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/22294\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:17:12","slug":"bring-me-the-horizons-lee-malia-says-playing-deep-cut-metallica-riffs-to-six-year-olds-and-his-kids-school-was-more-nerve-wracking-than-playing-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/22294\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring Me The Horizon\u2019s Lee Malia says playing \u201cdeep-cut Metallica riffs\u201d to six-year-olds and his kid\u2019s school \u201cwas more nerve-wracking than playing Reading\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bring Me The Horizon<\/a> guitarist Lee Malia has said that he recently performed live for some six-year-olds at his child\u2019s school, and found it more daunting than a headline slot at Reading & Leeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The musician shared the anecdote during a new discussion with Andertons, when he sat down for an interview and recalled when he most recently got butterflies before a live performance.<\/p>\n

According to Malia, the nerves recently arose when he was invited to his daughter\u2019s school and expected to perform for some of her six-year-old classmates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe other day at [my daughter\u2019s] school they had a \u2018Rockstar Day\u2019 where they all dressed as rock stars,\u201d he began. \u201cHer head teacher asked me to go in and play for all the kids in the school hall.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, explaining that although he is used to playing massive Bring Me shows and making huge headline appearances at festivals, the in-school performance ended up being \u201cmore nerve-wracking than playing Reading\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just played them, like, deep-cut Metallica<\/a> riffs,\u201d he added. \u201cTo six-year-olds who didn\u2019t have a clue what I [was] playing. It was surreal \u2013 but they loved it though!<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were all, like, jumping about and stuff. So it was pretty fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The interview comes as Bring Me The Horizon are gearing up for their headline appearance at Reading & Leeds 2025<\/a>, where they top the bill alongside Chappell Roan<\/a>, Travis Scott<\/a>, and Hozier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although they have played at the twin-site festival several times in the past, their only headline appearance to date was for their epic set back in 2022<\/a>, when they shared top-billing with but played before fellow Sheffield band Arctic Monkeys<\/a>. For Reading, they will perform on Saturday August 23, and for Leeds they\u2019ll perform on Sunday August 24.<\/p>\n

As well as the headline set at R&L, the band are also going to be heading overseas soon as they recently announced a 2025 North America \u2018Ascension\u2019 arena tour,<\/a> set to kick off this autumn.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll also appear at Louder Than Life festival in the US<\/a> this September, following slots at Germany\u2019s Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park in June. Visit here<\/a> for UK tickets and here<\/a> for international tickets.<\/p>\n

The shows all come in support of their latest album, 2024\u2019s \u2018POST HUMAN: NeX GEn<\/a>\u2019, which was given a four-star review by NME<\/a> and described them as \u201ca creative force that transcends the personalities of its individuals\u201d and \u201centirely justifies the four-year wait\u201d. It was later named as one of NME\u2018s Best Albums Of 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Speaking to NME about their production plans for their tour<\/a>, frontman Oli Sykes<\/a> said: \u201cWe very recently started taking on what I believe will be the next stage of live entertainment by doing stuff with augmented reality and simulated visuals.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo far we\u2019ve done has been really fucking cool, but it\u2019s just the start and I\u2019m pretty certain that even between now and eight months\u2019 time, there will be so many more advancements,\u201d he added. \u201cMy imagination has been blown wide open. It\u2019s been like being a kid in a candy store to see the things that could be possible soon. It\u2019s come on leaps and bounds even since our arena tour this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the start of this month, the frontman got fans talking again when he revealed that he is currently in the recording studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bring Me The Horizon guitarist Lee Malia has said that he recently performed live for some six-year-olds at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,3981,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-22294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-metal","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114342648065307861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}