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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Damon Wilkinson

'I get bombarded with letters meant for a rockstar with the same name as me'

A playwright who shares his name with the lead singer of rock band Bring Me The Horizon has been thanked by his famous namesake for replying to more than 1,000 emails meant for him. Oli Sykes set an the email account under his own name when he was 16.

But just a couple of years later, while in his second year of a theatre studies degree at Lancaster University, that same email would bring 'absolute chaos' into his life. Within a week of the release of BMTH's second album Suicide Season, avid fans of the multi-million selling alternative metal act began bombarding Oli's inbox with messages for their hero.

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