Bring Me the Horizon gave the song “liMOusIne” its first full-fledged live performance last night (August 18th) in Chiba, Japan, playing the POST HUMAN: NeX GEn standout with AURORA.
The Norwegian singer-songwriter, who also appears on the studio version of the cut, joined forces with BMTH at ZOZO Marine Stadium. Watch fan-filmed footage above and below.
“She’s an artist my wife and I have been a fan of for years now,” Oli Sykes told Revolver of AURORA and in “liMOusIne” our May digital cover story. “I can’t remember how I’d got the inkling that she liked our band.
“We were looking for someone with a really dreamy, husky and earthy kind of voice for ‘liMOusIne,’ something that would bring an extra dimension to the song. I thought to myself, ‘This feels like it would be too heavy and too far out for her to even consider,’ but I sent it over Instagram and was like, ‘Is there any world where you’d do this?’ She’d read the message the next day, but then 10 days passed with no answer and I was like, ‘OK… she doesn’t want to do it, and she just doesn’t know how to say it.’
“We actually approached another super sick artist [to do the feature]. I’m obviously not going to say their name, because that would make it awkward, but we basically sealed the deal with them. The label was sorting it out with them when AURORA messaged me back and said, ‘I’ve just listened to this. I love this so much, 1,000 times yes. I’m down.’ I hope we haven’t burnt the bridge with the artist that was asked after, but I’m super stoked AURORA did it. Big fan. I love her voice.”