5sos

5 Seconds of Summer began in December 2011 when Luke Hemmings, Michael Clifford and Calum Hood, who all attended the same school (Norwest Christian College), Joined together and started posting videos of themselves performing covers of popular songs to YouTube. Their cover of the Chris Brown and Justin Bieber hit "Next to You" received over 600,000 hits. [2] In December 2011, they were Joined by drummer Ashton and the current 5 Seconds of Summer lineup came to be. They have since amassed over 5 million YouTube views , and a large following on social media sites Twitter and Facebook. ] The band attracted some keen interest from major music labels and publishers, and have signed a publishing deal with Sony ATV Music Publishing. [4] Despite having had no promotion apart from on Facebook and i Just love them a lot 0k Luke hemmings makes me weak i hate calum hood because hes absolutely perfect and ashton is also perfect and wow5 Seconds Of Summer spent the second half of 2012 writing and developing their sound with Christian Lo Russo and Joel Chapman of Australian band Amy Meredith,[7] with whom they wrote two of the songs that feature on the Somewhere

New EP - Beside You and Unpredictable. The EP was also co produced by Joel Chapman. 5 Seconds of Summer released their first single Out Of My Limit on November 19, 2012, the video clip for the song receiving over 100,000 views in the first 24 hours. [8] In December 2012, The boys embarked on a songwriting trip to London,[9] where they have written with various artists including Roy Stride of Scouting for Girls, Nick Hodgson of Kaiser Chiefs[11] Jamie Scott,[12] Jake Gosling, Steve Robson and James Bourne of Busted. [13]