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\n\u201c\u2026I think that\u2019s the best part about being in You Me At Six is that it really has reminded me that ultimately anything and everything in this life is possible and I think when you say what it\u2019s like being on our side it\u2019s been that learning process, being that student of life almost that really anything is possible\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

From Tour Release: Having gained a reputation as one of the best live bands in the UK, You Me At Six will be bringing their explosive live show to Australia this September in support of their fifth studio album Night People. You Me At Six will be joined by Sydney’s Hellions and Brisbane punks Columbus at all shows. 2017 got off to a flying start for You Me At Six with the release of Night People (out now through Liberator Music\/Infectious Music\/BMG), which helped cement their status as one of the most important rock bands to emerge from the UK. With the help of the singles taken from Night People (‘Night People’ and ‘Give’), You Me At Six became the first band ever to have 15 concurrent A-List singles on BBC Radio 1.<\/p>\n

At home in London, Josh from YMAS gave us a call to talk about the band\u2019s upcoming return to Australia for a headline run, their love of Australia, growth within the band, possible new music, and more!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s only been about six months since we last chatted, so in always catching up how have the last six months been for you and the band?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s been eventful I guess because obviously we put out a new record and been touring that quite relentlessly actually and yeah it\u2019s been a busy time man, now we\u2019re moving forward and working towards embracing the ever changing landscape of the music industry and trying to have new music out as soon as possible. So yeah, just been busy being creative and having fun with it really.<\/p>\n

Of course best news is that you\u2019re heading back to see us again, can you tell us a bit about what we can expect on the Night People tour?<\/strong>
\nYeah I guess if you\u2019ve seen You Me At Six before you know that we try and put on an energetic show, but ultimately our main ambition always is to give the audience an opportunity to switch off from the outside world and to hopefully for the hour and a half or whatever it is that we\u2019ve got there the intention that we can take them somewhere that isn\u2019t where they\u2019ve been all week and try and give them an evening to remember whether it be their friends or their partners, siblings, parents, whatever and just try to give them an opportunity to enjoy live music and just try and be a positive influence really.<\/p>\n

As the catalogue grows are you finding it more challenging putting set lists together?<\/strong>
\nYeah it does in terms of before it was like they\u2019re the singles and they have to be in the set but now it\u2019s like we\u2019ve got five albums and four of which you play a lot of stuff from but once you\u2019ve got all the singles or the songs that did well from those albums it doesn\u2019t leave too much scope to chuck in songs that we enjoy playing or you want to play live or that you think people will enjoy. Certainly the conversation is getting more and more in depth when we\u2019re putting the set together put it that way.<\/p>\n

You may remember my love of power ballads when speaking to you guys so as long as you play \u2018Crash\u2019 in Sydney then all will be ok! Can you put that in the memory banks to remember that please?<\/strong>
\n*laughs* I\u2019ll ask the lads yeah, I think on this current cycle \u2018Take On The World\u2019 has been taking \u2018Crash\u2019s\u2019 place as the slow song in the set but yeah there\u2019s always room to try and add stuff in.<\/p>\n

When we last spoke you spoke of the importance of \u2018Take On The World\u2019, with it being out now and being heard by the fans are you noticing the love and adoration for the song that it deserves?<\/strong>
\nYeah I think that\u2019s been one of my favourite parts about this album campaign is seeing people not just take on the world but in terms of \u2018Take On The World\u2019 the way they\u2019ve gravitated towards that song and really inhabited it, and it seems to mean when we\u2019re playing it live as much to our fans and the audience as much as it does to us on stage, so it was a very personal song when I wrote it and when you put it together that personal there\u2019s always that fear that now I\u2019m exposed,\u00a0 now there\u2019s a part of me that they didn\u2019t know before and that\u2019s a scary thing and that\u2019s kind of the deal you make when you\u2019re a musician and you put music out there is that what starts as something that could be really quite intimidating write about or self-truth, then suddenly it becomes everybody\u2019s song or whoever wants it be their song becomes their song. What I enjoy about it the most is seeing in people when I\u2019m talking to them and I say why does that song mean the way that it does to them it\u2019s interesting to see the sort of impact it has when it has it it\u2019s a very gratifying thing and \u2019Take On The World\u2019 is one of those songs that I had an inkling could have an effect on people and I\u2019m glad that it has in the way that it has.<\/p>\n

Australia is almost like a second home for you guys, what is it that not only you love about Australia but what you think Australia loves about YMAS?<\/strong>
\nWell the thing that I love about Australia is that when I land in Australia I actually feel unlike I feel anywhere else other than England is that I\u2019m home, and I actually felt that way the first time I landed there, we\u2019re never been there, we\u2019d never done a show, this was before really Twitter and Instagram was really in its movement, so you didn\u2019t really know if you had fans in certain parts of the world you just went there and toured there. I remember landing in Australia thinking wow, there\u2019s something about this place that even the airport I liked, and as time has gone on I\u2019ve really loved the way that the Australian people are, their character, their sense of humour, of course we have The Commonwealth in common and I think in a funny ironic way whenever we\u2019ve toured with Australian bands that\u2019s always been like our sort of thing, we\u2019re all one in the same and especially when you\u2019re overseas and not in England or Australia it\u2019s like a brother and sisterhood and you sort of come together. I love the shows, I love the weather, and I love the energy of Australian people I think there\u2019s something very intoxicating about it.<\/p>\n

In regards to I think why people like You Me At Six? To be honest it\u2019s one of those things that I can never really put my finger on, we seems to have been very lucky in Australia, we always seem to have good crowds and the crowds always seem to be growing and we\u2019ve been lucky enough to do two types of awesome festivals over there whether it be Soundwave or Groovin\u2019 The Moo, both completely different ends of the spectrum so we really see different sides of the music listeners of Australia in that sense. Yeah, we\u2019ve also had people work really hard on the ground for us over there, some of which over the years at different labels have become very close friends of ours and there\u2019s that work ethic that maybe the music industry in Australia they get it maybe more than other markets just in the sense that they understand how much it takes and how much it can take from somebody to make a record, and they really nurture it and really look after it and the working on it and I don\u2019t know if you get that same sort of level of compassion to your work elsewhere with other labels in other territories. So Australia\u2019s got lots of thumbs up from me for lots of different reasons.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve loved watching you guys grow as a band and seeing you live so many times is a pleasure, in actually being a part of the band what has the experience been like on your side seeing the band grow to where it is now?<\/strong>
\nWell you know there\u2019s a few very simple milestones that we put out when we were younger which was it would be really cool if from music we managed to get on the property ladder and get houses and be able to see the world, that was the other thing and ultimately just to ride it as long as we could, and meet new people\u00a0 and play new places and I think to an extent we\u2019ve sort of done almost everything we set out to do especially in England, in our home country where we were desperate to really play a part in sort of guitar music and will go down hopefully in British rock music as a band that during the 21st<\/sup> century really had a big moment and was around at the biggest level getting number one albums and headlining festivals and that sort of shit, and it\u2019s stuff that we never though really was realistic but we wanted to try, and I think that\u2019s the best part about being in You Me At Six is that it really has reminded me that ultimately anything and everything in this life is possible and I think when you say what it\u2019s like being on our side it\u2019s been that learning process, being that student of life almost that really anything is possible, because if five lads from Surrey who were never given a leg up, none of us come from affluent families or families with money, or we were never really the band that was getting the hype from the mainstream media in England we had to really scrap and fight for everything we\u2019ve got and I think it\u2019s just made me realise that if we can do it, if we can come up from where we came from with the resources that we had at out fingertips and get as far as we\u2019ve got then anybody can achieve it, and it just gives me a lot of hope for my life moving forward and other goals and aspirations I have moving forward as a young man and what I\u2019d like to do with my time in music or anything really, it\u2019s given me a confidence I didn\u2019t have as a younger man, so yeah that\u2019s been the really cool thing to get You Me At Six happening.<\/p>\n

In now being a band for thirteen years it\u2019s easy to say what\u2019s changed but what is the one thing you would say has stayed the same in your time together? <\/strong>
\nThe one thing that\u2019s stayed the same is every time you think that the music industry is getting filtered out of all the wankers there\u2019s just a whole new breed of them coming through, and that\u2019s the one thing that\u2019s stayed the same. You can always rely on people to let you down in terms of their behaviour, or their ethics, or their morals and that\u2019s never gonna change unfortunately, it doesn\u2019t matter how many good guys there are in the music industry there\u2019s always gonna be people out there that very much do not care about the artist or a band and look at everything as spreadsheet numbers and take all the emotion out of it and run it purely as a business and that\u2019s regrettable, but as I said that\u2019s the one thing for me that\u2019s never changed. Every time we put out an album I think we\u2019re all clued up on this, it won\u2019t happen again and then it happens again, and I was like why was I expecting anything different, so yeah that\u2019s the one thing that\u2019s been consistent.<\/p>\n

Lastly as always let\u2019s look ahead to the future, finish this sentence, by the end of 2017 You Me At Six wants to\u2026<\/strong>
\nPut out new music.<\/p>\n

Really? You\u2019re already working on stuff?<\/strong>
\nWe\u2019ve got some stuff in the fire\u2026<\/p>\n

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Catch You Me At Six on tour in Australia at the following dates<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fri 22 Sep
\nEatons Hill Hotel\u00a0(All Ages)<\/strong>
\nBrisbane, QLD\u00a0<\/strong>
\noztix.com.au<\/strong><\/a>
\nPh: 1300 762 545<\/p>\n

Sat 23 Sep
\nBig Top Sydney (All Ages)<\/strong>
\nSydney, NSW\u00a0<\/strong>
\nbigtopsydney.com<\/strong><\/a>
\nticketek.com.au<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>
\nPh: 132 849<\/p>\n

Sun 24 Sep
\nForum Theatre\u00a0(18+)<\/strong>
\nMelbourne, VIC<\/strong>
\nticketmaster.com.au<\/strong><\/a>
\nPh: 136 100<\/p>\n

On sale NOW \u2013 Presented by Frontier Touring, Triple M & Don’t Bore Us<\/p>\n

Essential Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong> Surrey, England<\/p>\n

Band Members:<\/strong> Josh Franceschi \u2013 lead vocals, Max Helyer \u2013 rhythm guitar, backing vocals, Chris Miller \u2013 lead guitar, Matt Barnes \u2013 bass guitar, Dan Flint \u2013 drums, percussion.<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.youmeatsix.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Latest Release:<\/strong> Night People (Out now \u2013 Liberator Music \/ BMG) \u2013 Check out our review of the album HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

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