On the eve of '5SOS5's release, they'll play a special show at London's Royal Albert Hall, bringing in a whole orchestra for the performance. It'll serve as a geographical signifier of their growth, as the group used to busk and host fan meet-ups across the street from the iconic venue in their earliest days, but 5SOS give the impression that they never doubted for a minute that they'd make it to that stage.
"It's such a risk to choose this, and you don't fuck around," says Ashton. "When you choose a risky job, like being a musician, or starting a band, leaving your family, leaving everything you know, and moving to a place like England, you're not messing around. Like, you'd be a fool to. We wanted to slay this shit. So we did, and we continue to manifest this thing that we started on over a decade ago. And I feel like we would be letting down our fans to say we didn't think this would happen, because they convinced us that it probably will happen. And if it did, I like to think that if people did support or do support this band, they feel like they chose the right people to support. Because we didn't take this like it was nothing."
-Ashton Irwin, during Dork Magazine interview September 2022
