5SOS on starting the band: 'We didn't understand how much work you actually had to put in'

'She Looks So Perfect' hitmakers 5 Seconds Of Summer are seeing the rewards of their hard work at the moment, but the lads revealed that they didn't think being a band would be such hard graft.

Heartthrob Calum Hood confessed to Channel [V] that when they started 5SOS, they wanted to have the kind of fun they saw their musical idols enjoying and didn't really think that being in a band would mean so much business and genuine hard work:

'We pretty much started the band because we used to watch DVDs of our favourite bands and it looked... seeing them on stage, it looked like so much fun."

The superstar admitted that it really did come as a shock when they started learning about the hidden parts of the music industry and what it meant to be signed artists: "We didn't understand how much work you actually had to put in."

Hood went onto add that even booking a tour was hard because of all the unexpected extras that you have to take into consideration: "I was like, 'OK, let's just tour and play some gigs'. Then you have all these other things that come into play."

Watch the lads' new interview below: