Next week Bring Me The Horizon will headline the SSE Hydro - and bassist Matt Kean reckons the five-piece owe part of their success to being hated when they started out.

The group were often bottled at some of their earlier shows.

“I think all the bottling made us like a gang,” says Matt.

“When people are throwing stuff at you, you do toughen up a bit. When we first started we had to get used to people telling us we were crap all the time. I remember we did a working man’s club in Hartlepool and there were about 20 kids there.

“After the first song a few people clapped, and then someone at the back just shouted ‘that’s the biggest pile of s*** I’ve ever heard’. We just got used to it. To be honest, it freaked us out more when people weren’t throwing stuff at us.”

The group have always attracted ire, firstly for some shambolic, drunken early shows, before a shift to a less aggressive style has seen the band get bigger but also be accused of selling out by some fans.

“There’s a bit of elitism within metal, a lot of ‘oh, you can listen to this band but not this one’ sort of thing,” says Matt.

“When bands become bigger there’s a lot of people who turn their backs on them because they don’t want to see that. But with the internet I think more people are now just open to different types of music, because something like Spotify means you can search for a band and have a listen.

“It’s funny because you have kids saying to us they’re a bit crazy because they’ve got Justin Bieber and us and Skepta side by side in their playlists, but that’s just the internet at work.”

The band’s most recent album, That’s The Spirit, is the most obvious example of their sonic shift. However it’s been a wildly successful move, only just missing out on top spot in the charts to the Stereophonics last year.

It has also paved the way for an arena tour, something the band once claimed they would never be big enough to do.

“It’s pretty crazy,” admits the bassist.

“When we gave that answer before we genuinely thought that the music was always going to be too niche to ever get any bigger. In Sheffield (their hometown) we’re playing at an arena which has been around since we were growing up, and there’s something strange about the fact we’re playing those huge places.

“When you’re touring you don’t really have much chance to sit back and enjoy it, so when we’ve had some time off, or just after a big show like Wembley a couple of years ago, that’s when you go ‘wow, look at what we’ve done’. We did the Royal Albert Hall earlier this year and that was a stand out moment where you’re able to take a step back and go ‘oh, this is crazy’’.”

The Royal Albert Hall gig was one of the group’s most unique shows. They were joined by an orchestra, re-arranging some of the quintet’s songs for the occasion. That prompted some talk the band might take tour with the orchestra at some point, but Matt doesn’t think that’ll happen.

“We did think about maybe going to venues that are built for orchestras and playing there,” he says.

“But it was so much work just for that gig, and we’ve been so busy with the regular tour, that it seemed a better idea to just leave it as a one off.”

The band are also in line for a bit of time off, which Matt admits could be longer than their usual post album hiatus.

“It might be a bit longer this time because we’ve been doing this for 12 years now and we’re at that age now where things are changing – Jordan (Fish, keyboards) has just had his first child, so it might be an extended break. But it’s usually not until we all get back together that we really start to think about the next one.

“Some of my favourite songs are tracks like Doomed, and I’d like to go down that route more. What we always try and do is change it up a bit every time – when I grew up the sort of music I was listening to was bands like Queen, where the songs would vary all the time.”

Bring Me The Horizon, SSE Hydro, Wednesday, £35, 6.30pm