5 Seconds Of Summer time speak being named NME’s Worst Band In The World

5 Seconds Of Summer time have spoken to NME about being named the worst band on the earth 3 times.

• READ MORE: 5 Seconds Of Summer time: “In some ways, ‘5SOS5’ seems like our first album’

The Australian pop-punk band made it a hat-trick of titles on the NME Awards from 2015-17.

Chatting with NME in a brand new interview, which you'll watch above, drummer Ashton Irwin spoke out about their accolade.

“Y’all known as us the worst band and that impacts a man,” he laughed. “That man at 28 doesn’t give a fuck and I really assume it’s superior. However whenever you’re 17 and 18 you go, ‘I’m within the worst band? What?’ and it’s like what do you imply? What does that imply to me? What did I do fallacious?

“However that’s only a relative instance of how issues will be mentioned in regards to the character of the band, actually do have an effect on the soundness of the entire thing.”

Throughout the identical interview, the band additionally talked about their new album ‘5SOS5’, which they recorded on the Joshua Tree Studios in California, which have beforehand been utilized by seminal musicians together with PJ Harvey and Arctic Monkeys. “We simply booked a visit, and determined to hang around and see what occurs. There’s no different option to clarify it than it simply felt proper for us,” mentioned lead guitarist Michael Clifford.

Frontman Luke Hemmings added: “In some ways, this album seems like the primary one to me. The debut was recorded once we have been residing in London and didn’t actually know what we have been doing – and this time round, we had this freedom and sense of feeling carefree, in a method that we didn’t actually have the final time round. I believe that basically shines by within the lyrics: every thing has modified, and nothing has modified for us. It was good to really feel as if we’re in a position to do all of this on our personal.”

In the meantime, the frontman just lately opened up in regards to the loss of life of late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.

“There’s such a tragedy and a lot to overlook about Taylor,” Hemmings mentioned (through Billboard). “Every little thing from family and friends by the band and to leisure of followers. Everybody lacking him desperately.”