Olly Alexander on going solo with Years & Years: “We didn’t fall out, we’re all mates”

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Years and years ago a band formed. They called themselves Years & Years. But then last month they announced that they weren’t a band anymore.

Was that the end? No. Sit comfortably, dear reader, for this is the story of how Years & Years became an Olly Alexander solo project…“Yeah, so, I’ll tell you kinda the honest truth of what happened … me, Mikey and Emre met, like, ten years ago, right”, Alexander tells Capital FM. “We’ve been in this band for a decade, and in that time, we’ve just kinda grown apart musically, right?

We kind of stopped making music together, and when we announced that I was going to be Olly Years & Years, it had kind of like been a long time coming, if that makes sense”.“We all got into a new way of living our lives and.