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ABOUT YOU ME AT SIX.... JOSH FRANCESCHI – VOCALS
CHRIS MILLER – LEAD GUITAR
MAX HELYER – RHYTHM GUITAR
MATT BARNES – BASS GUITAR
DAN FLINT – DRUMS
A little more than one year after the release of the group’s debut album, Take Off Your Colours – a collection that propelled its creators into the UK Top 30 (number 25) and onto concert stages the world over – England’s You Me At Six return with Hold Me Down, their second full-length LP.
“We’re absolutely thrilled with the music we’ve recorded,” says Josh Franceschi, the band’s frontman. “We wanted to strike while the iron was hot. Obviously over the past 18 months or so we’ve had some momentum behind us, and we wanted to capitalize on that, to build on it. A lot of bands take two years off [between albums], but what the hell is the use of that?”
The momentum of which Franceschi speaks rose to a boil with the release of Take Off Your Colours, unveiled to the public in the autumn of 2008. But even prior to the release of this debut set, these Surrey boys had already begun to make waves. The group had supported Angels And Airwaves (the outfit formed by Blink 182 mainman Tom DeLonge) at London’s now demolished Astoria theatre. Without a debut album to their name, the young group also toured with Charlie Simpson’s Fightstar and American pop-punkers New Found Glory, to name but two.
Once Take Off Your Colours was finally released its creators slid further through the gears. First of all, they were able to sell-out Westminster’s 2,000 capacity Astoria theatre under their own steam. As if to prove this was no fluke, they then bettered this achievement with a sold-out headline performance at the 3,200 capacity Roundhouse in London’s famous Camden Town. YMAS also toured Europe under the wing of American teen idols Fall Out Boy and, separately, Paramore. In the United Kingdom YMAS appeared as part of the Download, T In The Park and Give It A Name Festivals; while in the United States and Canada the quintet toured as part of the Vans Warped Tour package and subsequently as one of the five groups that made up Alternative Press magazine’s AP Fall Ball Tour.
You Me At Six have also been announced as special guests on Paramore’s European winter arena tour, which will visit such venues as the world famous Wembley Arena, among others.
“It really has been an amazing time,” says Franceschi. “One minute we’re practicing in our rehearsal place in Leatherhead, and the next minute we’re onstage in Salt Lake City or somewhere. But nothing will sharpen a band up more than touring and working together. You can practice all you like, but there’s no substitute for real experience… of getting your hands dirty.”
Recorded before the clocks called time on British Summer Time – and, as with its predecessor, produced by John Mitchell and Matt O’Grady - Hold Me Down is the sound of a band who are proud to have learned their trade the old-fashioned way – with long haul travel in diesel vans and overcrowded buses; cheap food eaten at lonely hours and two-or-three-to-a-room in budget motels on the outskirts of sketchy cities. The band’s willingness to put in a shift shouldn’t be a surprise. Even in their earliest incarnation the members of You Me At Six – at the time aged no more than 15 - were willing to transport themselves and their instruments halfway across the UK on Happy Shopper buses and Network Rail in order to play a show they’d arranged with someone on MySpace.
But at some point between the recording of their first album and the release of their second, You Me At Six have gone from a hobby to vocation. And it shows.