You Me At Six Are Calling It Quits After 20 Years...
This one hurts...UK rockers You Me At Six have announced they'll be calling it a day in 2025 following a final tour - 20 years after taking on the world together. In a sombre social video, lead singer Josh Franceschi, guitarists MaxHelyer and ChrisMiller, bassist MattBarnes and drummer DanielFlint broke the news quite poetically, revealing:
Time. Something we never have enough of but always need more of. Sometimes it goes by slowly, sometimes it goes by fast. Some things are over quickly, some were built to last. Twenty years in the making, beyond our wildest dreams. Trips around the sun we’ve lost count, one more for memories. People love stories with endings. Page after page, year after year. We’ll give you a final chapter because. We’ve climbed our Everest, we’ve faced our fears. Its time. It's time for the finish line. It's time for goodbye. So for the last time, one more time. It’s time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrLt4OrHKiMThroughout the course of their careers, the band released eight studio albums - from debut 2008 release Take Off Your Colours, through to 2011's smash hit scene fav Sinners Never Sleep, all the way to their achieving mainstream success album 2017's Night People and more recently, 2021's Suckapunch and last year's return-to-form release Truth Decay.When we spoke with Josh leading up to their latest album's release, he mentioned that he had been in two minds about the band as early as 2020 when making SUCKAPUNCH, as pulled from our interview here.
I was adamant as we were making SUCKAPUNCH that it was gonna be my last album, and I didn’t want to do the band anymore. So I think there was that feeling when we were making it which is why the record was a bit all of the place sonically, and I think that actually ultimately ended up being one of the record’s strengths and gave it that versatility.
On their Truth Decay Tour last year we sat down with MaxHelyer for Wall Of Sound TV, and to be frank, the conversation we had alluded that this was only a matter of time before it happened. However, we're still shocked by the news here at WoS HQ.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TExXnNP-8RoThey visited Australia many times - including supporting Bring Me The Horizon and playing Soundwave Festival and Groovin' The Moo as well as their own headliners, resulting in fans getting up close and personal in the process.Stay tuned for more as one of the best alternative rock bands of our generation closes this chapter of their lives... BRB listening to 'Fireworks' on repeat.Words by Paul ‘Browny’ Brown@brownypaul
You Me At Six2005 - 2025
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