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Oli Sykes joins YUNGBLUD onstage for first-ever live performance of Obey

See Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes join YUNGBLUD onstage in London to tear through the pair's 2020 collab, Obey.

Oli Sykes joins YUNGBLUD onstage for first-ever live performance of Obey
Words:
Emily Carter

YUNGBLUD brought a very special guest to the second date of his five-night stint at London's O2 Forum Kentish Town last night (August 10): Oli Sykes.

The Bring Me The Horizon frontman joined YUNGBLUD for the encore of his 17-song set, rushing out to lend his vocals to the pair's smash 2020 collaboration, Obey. It's the first time the single has ever been played live, with Oli and Dom's excited energy clearly matched by the delighted and absolutely wild crowd.

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Speaking about their collab in November last year, YUNGBLUD explained how teaming up with BMTH was an absolute dream come true. "I’ve followed Bring Me The Horizon since I was really young," he said. "They used to get me through a lot of things when I was younger and a lot of people didn’t understand me. I put on Suicide Season so much. I just loved the ideology behind them. I had this anger in me when I was younger like, 'I know something you don’t know,’ I was like, 'Let me just run.’ And when Jordan [Fish] joined the band and Sempiternal came out, that whole album blew my mind.”

When the call to work together came through, he enthused, "We were like, 'We need to release a track about the pressure of society and overcoming the bullshit.’ It’s kind of mad that you’re doing a song with one of your idols now. When Oli called me up I was like, 'I’ve kind of waited since I was 13 for this.’”

Check out some fan videos and photos of their explosive joint performance below (which contains strobe lighting):

See YUNGBLUD's full setlist below:

1. Strawberry Lipstick
2. Parents
3. superdeadfriends
4. I Love You, Will You Marry Me
5. Anarchist
6. mars
7. Weird!
8. Fleabag
9. Ice Cream Man
10. Loner
11. Casual Sabotage
12. love song
13. I Think I'm OKAY
14. god save me, but don't drown me out

Encore:

15. Obey
16. charity
17. Machine Gun (F**k the NRA)

Catch Bring Me The Horizon, You Me At Six and Nova Twins at the following live dates this year:

September

20 Hull Bonus Arena
21 Glasgow The SSE Hydro
22 Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
24 Sheffield FlyDSA Arena
25 Birmingham Utilita Arena
26 London The O2 Arena

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