![]() ![]() What do you miss most about performing in front of an audience? It sounds so lame, but Good Charlotte was the first band I came across as a kid where I was like, “Oh, there’s people with guitars on stage, I could give that a go.”ĩ. I saw AC/DC with my dad and I also saw Good Charlotte –– you know, pop-punk will never die. What was the first concert that you saw that made you want to be on stage, too? I remember when I was a kid, I, “Did you listen to Pink Floyd as a kid?” and he was like, “Oh no, they’re too psychedelic.” I think it’s so funny because this album is super influenced by them but he was never into them.ģ. I listened to so much Pink Floyd the last couple of years, especially, and was very influenced by them, particularly Dark Side of the Moon. Definitely all of my rock influences are very Australian typical. My mom was more on the softer musical end of the spectrum, so Crowded House and stuff like that. ![]() My dad loves AC/DC and INXS was a big one. I grew up with a lot of Australian rock music. How did your parents shape your music taste? I bought a CD of Good Charlotte’s The Young and the Hopeless, I believe.Ģ. What’s the first piece of music that you bought and what was the format? Settled at home in Los Angeles with his now-fiancée, singer-songwriter Sierra Deaton, the 25-year-old found himself obsessing over the uncertainty of time and dissecting the blur of the years he spent growing up on the road.Īhead of the release of When Facing The Things We Turn Away From, Hemmings answered Billboard’s 20 questions about his relationship with songwriting, overcoming self-imposed pressures and creating an ethereal, over-emotional album as a bookmark in this chapter of his life.ġ. ![]() For the first time in nearly a decade, Hemmings was indefinitely still. When the pandemic brought the world to a stop, the band’s promotional cycle for its fourth studio album, last year’s CALM, was cut short, and the band’s touring plans pushed to 2022. In the following years, the band found itself whisked away on endless tours in support of its first three albums - 2014’s 5 Seconds of Summer, 2015’s Sounds Good Feels Good and 2018’s Youngblood - all of which hit No. The quartet played small gigs and studied the art of pop songwriting as their musical vision came to fruition. The past 10 years have been a whirlwind for Luke Hemmings, to say the least.Īt 16, the frontman of 5 Seconds of Summer left Sydney to move to London with his bandmates Ashton Irwin, Calum Hood and Michael Clifford. ![]()
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