Due to popular demand, the emo band who defined the genre in the late 2000s, ‘You Me At Six’, have decided to release further dates for their UK and Ireland tour which kicks off in 2025. They will be playing for more dedicated fans in Dublin, Cardiff, Nottingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham and London at most of the same venues apart from adding a date for the O2 Academy Brixton before their final night on tour at Wembley Arena.
In February, the band announced that they would split after 20 years together and left fans devastated but understanding as there are very few bands that last 20 years and if they do, line-ups and members are subject to a revolving door of change and movement from members. Something about You Me At Six which makes them special is that they seem to be an anomaly or have at least avoided the curse of becoming a band once iconic but who have become almost unrecognisable due to the substitution of members. The band themselves are delighted with this fact with lead singer Josh Franceschi was quotes in an article by the BBC that he thinks ‘that’s the thing that we’re all fundamentally the most proud of’.
According the BBC, lead singer Josh Franceschi intends the tour to offer a chance for fans to ‘celebrate… rather than [us] slipping out the back door’. The tour will consist of songs from all eight of their albums however as of right now, the band are unsure what they will play or even how to fit 20 years of award winning music into just 2 hours.
You can take a look at the new dates for the ‘Final Days of Six’ tour below.
The band also announced the exciting news in an Instagram post which fans were quick to respond on however it’s not the excitable array of comments you would expect with many hopeful fans feeling cheated by the ticket sites that You Me At Six are using to sell their tickets. Some fans have been commenting expressing their grievances with one user stating ‘this isn’t the announcement we want, we just want ticket sites that don’t crash and links that work’. Many fans have taken to the band’s Instagram page to express disbelief that tickets for the first wave of shows all seemed to sell out at 9am – the exact same time of their release. Still, this hasn’t dampened fan’s anticipation to see the group one final time before the disband for what looks like forever.
In a bittersweet ending, the band’s last show will fall 20 years after the groups first ever practice to the day on the 4th of April 2025. Tickets go on sale from today, Friday the 31st of May, from 9am BST and you can check out dates for the new flurry of shows on the LIVENATION and Ticketmaster websites as well as the official You Me At Six site here.
