You Me at Six
(often styled as you
meat
six) are an English band from Weybridge, Surrey who formed in 2004.
They have released five singles (and a re-release of "Save It for the Bedroom"), of which "Jealous Minds Think Alike" reached number 100 in the official UK singles chart, [1] and "Finders Keepers" peaked at number 33. They were nominated for "Best British Band" at the 2008 and 2009 Kerrang!
Awards, losing both times to metal band, Bullet for My Valentine. [2] They were however named as best British newcomer in the Kerrang!
Readers' Poll 2008.
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History
Early years
Formed in 2004, You Me at Six remained small for around two years. During an interview with Sam Darcy, bassist Matt Barnes said that You Me at Six started out travelling the UK on the Megabus to ensure they got to all of their early gigs. In their early material they incorporated elements of screaming, as expressed in early demos such as "Promise, Promise", "New Jersey", "Noises" and "This Turbulence Is Beautiful". Another early You Me at Six song was called "The Liar and The Lighter", this song was entirely acoustic and showed the bands early versatility with different genres, when taken concomitantly with the screaming on other early songs. Their first release was a three track EP in 2005 entitled
We Know What It's Like To Be Alone
. They then released a four-track EP at the start of 2007, with the songs "The Rumour", "Gossip", "Noises" and "This Turbulence Is Beautiful".
They played many local and smaller venues throughout 2006, then in 2007 began playing larger venues. One of the first major breakthroughs came for the band when playing to a sold-out show at the
Camden Underworld in February 2007, then later with the opening slot of
Slam Dunk Festival 2007 (which they later went on to headline in 2009) Their support slot with
Paramore at Colchester Arts Centre also drew the attention of major media, such as
Kerrang!
.
Take Off Your Colours
In November 2007 You Me at Six were signed by
Slam Dunk Records [3], an
independent record label who produced and promoted the band's debut album
Take Off Your Colours
. Released in stores and for digital download on 6 October, 2008, the album entered the
UK Albums Chart at #25 the same week. They released a single the previous week on 29 September entitled "Jealous Minds Think Alike" where they played an in store performance at Banquet Records in Kingston. The release of their debut album was accompanied by a promotional tour beginning 15 October 15, in which they headlined the London Astoria, a venue which they had hoped they'd be able to headline before it would be knocked down in 2009.
[4] They also performed in-store gigs at various
HMV outlets across the UK to promote the album, the first being the HMV on
Oxford Street, the day of the album's release.
You Me at Six re-released "
Save It for the Bedroom" as before they had only released a limit of a thousand copies. The video for "Save It for the Bedroom" went to number 1 in the charts on
Kerrang!
.
A brand new single called "
Finders Keepers" was released on 25 May, 2009. The video received regular plays on
Kerrang! TV and
Scuzz. It followed "Save It for the Bedroom" to number 1 in the
Kerrang!
Rock Top 40. It was also a huge commercial success for the band and was seemingly their breakthrough single, reaching #33 in the UK Singles Chart.
A deluxe edition of
Take Off Your Colours
with five bonus tracks and the videos for "Finders Keepers" and "Kiss and Tell" was released on 21 July, 2009 in the U.S. and will be released on 14 September, 2009, in the UK. The band will also release an all-new single "Kiss and Tell" on 7 September, 2009.
Touring
On 10 October, 2008 You Me at Six announced they, along with
Boys Like Girls, would be supporting
Fall Out Boy on their UK arena tour.
In March 2009, You Me at Six headlined a tour in the UK doing seven dates from 6 March to 13 March, playing at
Bristol,
Birmingham,
Manchester,
Glasgow,
Newcastle,
Portsmouth and
London. The tour was dubbed as the 777 tour, with support coming from
Emarosa and
The Spill Canvas.
On 24 May 24, 2009 they headlined Slam Dunk Festival, held at the
University of Leeds. On 13 July 2009, You Me at Six was announced to be on the fall Alternative Press Tour in North America.
It was confirmed on Rocklouder in February 2009 that You Me at Six would play a month on the annual
Vans Warped Tour in August 2009.
[5]
You Me At Six played at
2009 Download Festival at Donington Park, on Saturday, June 13.
On 26 May, they were also confirmed to play the Radio 1/NME stage at the
Reading and Leeds Festivals in August; alongside numerous other festivals in the UK and Europe throughout the summer.
The band announced during their gig at the Barrowlands on 9 March 2009 that they are playing T in The Park festival in Scotland on Saturday 11th July 2009 on the Radio One/NME Stage. And, on 10 July 2009 they headlined their home town at
Guilfest.
The band also played the first date of the
Kerrang!
Week of Rock 2009 at London HMV Forum on July 28, with support from Attack! Attack! and Out of Sight.
The band start their UK tour on September 9th 2009, they will be playing at venues in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen.
Other Projects
Cheer up! Clothing
Matt Barnes, You Me at Six's Bass guitarist co-runs Cheer Up! Clothing with Ed Thomas (formerly of "Look! I'm a Ghost", and now part of the band "Me And The Moon"). They had an advertisement stall on You Me at Six' 777 UK tour.
[6] These clothes are all exclusively designed by Matt & Ed themselves and took them a little while to set up, but they now have a new line of clothes out now at the website which is used through
MySpace.
Guest appearances
Singer Josh Franceschi also appears on
The Blackout's The Best in Town
album on the track "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things", with the whole band providing group vocals for the chorus.
Discography
Studio albums
- Take Off Your Colours
(2008) UK #25 [7]
EPs
- We Know What It Means to Be Alone
(2005)
- Untitled 4 Track EP
(2007)
Singles
- "Save It for the Bedroom" (October 2007)
- "If I Were in Your Shoes" (March 2008)
- "Gossip" (July 2008)
- "Jealous Minds Think Alike" (September 2008) UK #100
- "Finders Keepers" (May 2009) UK #33, #2 UK Indie
- "Kiss and Tell" (September 2009)
Cover Songs
- "Poker Face" (Lady Gaga)
- "Sugar, We're Goin Down" (Fall Out Boy)
- "Hand Of Blood" (Bullet For My Valentine)"
Music Videos
Year
| Title
| Director
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2007
| "Save It for the Bedroom" (original release)
| Lawrence Hardy [8]
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2008
| "If I Were in Your Shoes"
| Lawrence Hardy [9]
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"Gossip"
| Greg Allan [10]
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"Jealous Minds Think Alike"
| Shane Davey [11]
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2009
| "Save It for the Bedroom" (re-release)
| Shane Davey [12]
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"Finders Keepers"
| Nick Bartleet [13]
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"Kiss and Tell"
| James Copeman [14]
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