More than 500 people came along to watch the match, and among them were Jessica and Justin, from Edinburgh, who came because they heard Bring Me the Horizon would be at the club.
Hibernian fan Jessica said: “My New Year’s resolution was to be more spontaneous and I saw that Bring Me the Horizon would be here and I thought why not.
“I do like football so I thought why not support a local team while I can.”
Justin said, despite being from Scotland, he already had a club strip because he had seen Nicholls wearing it on stage.
“I’ve got a Bring Me the Horizon tattoo. I’ve already got the Maltby Main strip. I’ll be representing the club in Scotland,” he said.
Bring Me the Horizon guitarist Lee Malia, from Rotherham, said it had been a “mad year” for the band.
He said: “We’re 20 years in now and still going strong. We’ve just come back from Brazil where we were playing in a football stadium to 45,000 people, which was surreal. But it’s good to come home to stuff like this.”
Roy Ferguson, 80, said he had been following the club since 1952 and played for the club himself during the 1960s.
He had not heard of the band, but welcomed the funding boost.
He said: “We’re short of someone putting a lot of money into the club. Last year we lost players because they go elsewhere for an extra £20.”
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