When it comes to welcoming new additions into the family, new parents can often feel overwhelmed by the multitude of demands suddenly placed upon their time. Yet one parent that appears to be in his element, is Bring Me The Horizon’ s Oli Sykes, who welcomed twins with his wife Alissic back in July.
“I’m feeling good, yeah,” he told NME. “[The twins] have been sleeping, so it’s been alright. It’s been hectic but not too bad.”
Having embraced fatherhood with both hands, Oli has even found that it has given him a new lease of leave and now more than ever, the singer has been thriving with a new sense of purpose and passion in his day to day life.
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“I feel like a different human being for sure,” Sykes said.
Elaborating on how things had changed for him in particular ahead of this year’s headline performance at Reading festival, he added: “I’ve actually never felt so calm and peaceful before a headline festival. I’m usually way more stressed than this!”
Delving into his thought process and pinning down exactly how he was feeling, Oli explained that in the past before a performance, Oli had found himself worrying about all the things that could potentially go wrong on stage, including his fears about hitting a bum note and making a fool of himself.
Yet since having children, this is now no longer the case, with his newborn twins instead having opened his eyes to the realisation that the “most important thing” was now “waiting for him at home”.
“It has instantly killed so much stuff that I had before,” he admitted. I used to keep myself awake with regrets, fears, the future and what could happen – worrying about petty stuff with a band. [Having kids] just obliterated it overnight.”