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5 Seconds of Summer, also known as 5sos, are a band made of four boys from Sydney, Australia. These four boys are known as (In order of picture to the left) Michael Clifford, Calum Hood, Ashton Irwin and Luke Hemmings. In February 2011 Luke started posting videos on a well known media site, YouTube.
Luke covered artist such as Mike Posner, Mayday Parade, Bruno Mars, Cee-Lo Green, Ron Pope and Pete Murray.
Calum and Michael then became friends with Luke through school and joined him in creating the start of the band in December of 2011. Together these three boys started getting hits on their video covers they posted on Luke's youtube channel 'hemmo1996'. They covered songs like Justin Bieber and Chris Brown's 'Next to You'. These boys recieved over 600,000 views.
Later in December 2011 the band had realized they were missing a drummer. That is where Michael comes in, he knew of a drummer and so he inboxed Ashton on facebook, asking if he would want to play a gig in front of 200 fans. Ashton thought that that sounded amazing and agreed, as to where there were only around 12 people at the show and ever since then Ashton has been in the band.
By now the band had created a decent fan base through YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. They actually had people backing them up. Throughout this time the boys continued posting cover videos on YouTube and started playing live shows for their supporters, now known as the 5sosfam, Ashton, Calum, Michael and Luke have played on the following tours since then supporting other bands and themselves.
-Mini Australian Tour (2012)
-Twenty Twelve Tour (June 2012)
- Supporting Hot Chelle Rae - Whatever World Tour (October 2012)
-First New Zealand Show (November 3rd, 2012)
-Pants Down Tour (Australia 2013)
On November 6th, 2012 Louis Tomlinson, of the popular boyband One Direction, sent a tweet that linked to 5sos' video of their original song "Gotta Get Out" (written by Calum Hood) saying "Been a fan of this band for a while, everyone get behind them". Niall Horan, also from One Direction, tweeted a link of their music video for their original song "Out of my Limit". This tweet soon landed them the opening act of One Direction's Take Me Home Tour in Australia, North America, United Kingdom and New Zealand.
5sos has gained a lot of new 5sosfam members from One Direction giving them this oppurtunity. Since then, the four boys have had headling tours of their own, these shows were SOLD OUT within seconds....
- United Kingdom (February and March 2014)
- 5 Countries 5 Days European Tour - Sweden, Germany, France, Italy and Spain (March and April 2014)
- The Stars Stripe and Maple Syrup Tour - North America and Canada (April 2014)
- There's No Place Like Home Tour - Australia (May 2014)
On March 5th, 2014 it was announced that 5sos will be again supporting One Direction and opening for them on their Where We Are World Tour for the North America, Canada, United Kingdom and Europe portion of the tour.
Social Media:
twitter.com/5sos
instagram.com/5sos
Luke covered artist such as Mike Posner, Mayday Parade, Bruno Mars, Cee-Lo Green, Ron Pope and Pete Murray.
Calum and Michael then became friends with Luke through school and joined him in creating the start of the band in December of 2011. Together these three boys started getting hits on their video covers they posted on Luke's youtube channel 'hemmo1996'. They covered songs like Justin Bieber and Chris Brown's 'Next to You'. These boys recieved over 600,000 views.
Later in December 2011 the band had realized they were missing a drummer. That is where Michael comes in, he knew of a drummer and so he inboxed Ashton on facebook, asking if he would want to play a gig in front of 200 fans. Ashton thought that that sounded amazing and agreed, as to where there were only around 12 people at the show and ever since then Ashton has been in the band.
By now the band had created a decent fan base through YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. They actually had people backing them up. Throughout this time the boys continued posting cover videos on YouTube and started playing live shows for their supporters, now known as the 5sosfam, Ashton, Calum, Michael and Luke have played on the following tours since then supporting other bands and themselves.
-Mini Australian Tour (2012)
-Twenty Twelve Tour (June 2012)
- Supporting Hot Chelle Rae - Whatever World Tour (October 2012)
-First New Zealand Show (November 3rd, 2012)
-Pants Down Tour (Australia 2013)
On November 6th, 2012 Louis Tomlinson, of the popular boyband One Direction, sent a tweet that linked to 5sos' video of their original song "Gotta Get Out" (written by Calum Hood) saying "Been a fan of this band for a while, everyone get behind them". Niall Horan, also from One Direction, tweeted a link of their music video for their original song "Out of my Limit". This tweet soon landed them the opening act of One Direction's Take Me Home Tour in Australia, North America, United Kingdom and New Zealand.
5sos has gained a lot of new 5sosfam members from One Direction giving them this oppurtunity. Since then, the four boys have had headling tours of their own, these shows were SOLD OUT within seconds....
- United Kingdom (February and March 2014)
- 5 Countries 5 Days European Tour - Sweden, Germany, France, Italy and Spain (March and April 2014)
- The Stars Stripe and Maple Syrup Tour - North America and Canada (April 2014)
- There's No Place Like Home Tour - Australia (May 2014)
On March 5th, 2014 it was announced that 5sos will be again supporting One Direction and opening for them on their Where We Are World Tour for the North America, Canada, United Kingdom and Europe portion of the tour.
Social Media:
twitter.com/5sos
instagram.com/5sos