Sometimes things happen in life that you just have to accept as truth, even though you don't understand them. Gravity is one, why cats cry for ages at the backdoor and then run a fucking mile as soon as you open it is another, and British metalcore group Bring Me The Horizon making an appearance on Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Take Away to teach someone's nan how to growl also falls under the same umbrella."Well, I like to hang out with my grandson's favourite band," announces the nan (who does not look even remotely old enough to be someone's nan) during a segment that kinda feels like it could evolve into a passive aggressive primetime show of its own: We Made Your Nan Hardcore. She is sitting in front of a giant screen that says: "If you don't know Barb by now". Anyway, cut to a clip of Barbs casually strolling round the back of Brixton O2 Academy, with her handbag and everything, flashing a backstage pass, so she can hang out with Bring Me The Horizon in their green room.That's Bring Me The Horizon the band whose lyrics include, "You can say I'm just a fool, that stands for nothing. Well, to that, I say you're a cunt!" Bring Me The Horizon, causers of chaos and horror at last month's NME awards. Bring Me The Horizon, whose current tour poster says "this is not an annoucement, this is a threat". See, it's funny, because nan's don't like any of that stuff, do they? Swearing and chaos and things. They're too old to understand it. They probably don't even know what a metalcore is, do they? Silly nans!I won't spoil it for you but basically she is there for maybe 2 minutes during which she sings Burt Bacharach's "Alfie" at them until vocalist Oli Sykes teaches her how to growl before copping a selfie. It's a beacon of hope for the countless grandmothers out there trying to break onto the hardcore music circuit. Maybe she can team up with that mum who fronts her son's grindcore band and release an album. Anyway, Ant and Dec must be even more confused than the nan was, coming into contact with actual British music happening in Britain. After presenting the Brits a few weeks back, they certainly wouldn't know anything about that.
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