5SOS look up to Green Day: 'If we have even a little of their success, we'll be proud'

Aussie pop-punk band 5 Seconds Of Summer have revealed that they would love to enjoy the kind of longevity that their idols Green Day have in the music world.

Speaking to Rolling Stone magazine recently, frontman Luke Hemmings admitted that he and the other lads all loved the 'Basket Case' punk band growing up and aspire to have a career like they do:

"Do you know VH1's Behind the Music? Been watching a lot of those, like the Guns N' Roses one, the Poison one, Bon Jovi. Obviously growing up I watched Green Day religiously online as well as Blink-182 and stuff like that. I've kind of been looking to those bands and what they do with stages, like how Axl Rose will command a whole stadium and Billie Joe will do the same thing. Just taking things from that and putting it into our own show."

"I think as a group, we all have our individual favourite bands, but Green Day is probably the band's favourite band. I remember that in the early days — and even now — we would sit around the computer and just watch them online. You can see how Billie Joe can just command 80,000 people and they'll just be hanging on his every word. If we can be anything like them — if we can have that kind of stage craft and stand as proud as them — I'll be pretty happy. Even if it's just a little bit."

Check out a new interview with the lads here: