“Similar to that, we’re useless”

You Me At Six referred to as time on their 20-year profession final night time (April 4), taking part in their ultimate present – dubbed ‘The Closing Evening Of Six’ – at London’s OVO Area Wembley. Try the setlist, footage and extra from what went down under.

Since formally saying their break up in January 2024, the Surrey rock quintet have been on the street for farewell reveals throughout Europe, Australia, North America and Japan. This February, they returned house to embark on a mammoth 37-date UK tour, which reached its conclusion with two nights at Wembley Area.

Having launched eight albums, scored two Quantity Ones, topped the invoice at Slam Dunk Pageant on three events and headlined iconic London venues just like the O2 Area and Brixton Academy, frontman Josh Franceschi advised NME final February that “reaching the 20-year mark” was the ultimate piece of the You Me At Six puzzle.

Acquired into you me at six after I was 15. At the moment, I am 29, and I simply attended their final present feeling like I left a chunk of me at wembley enviornment.
Their music has been the soundtrack to all my highs and (very) lows by means of all these years.
Thanks for every little thing @youmeatsix pic.twitter.com/XRsKAQFL2M

— Indigo (@mariia1996) April 5, 2025

Nodding to 2012’s ‘The Closing Evening Of Sin’ present – the only earlier event the place the band headlined the long-lasting 12,500-capacity venue, earlier than this week – ‘The Closing Evening Of Six’ was additionally reside streamed all over the world, accompanied by a behind-the-scenes documentary shot throughout the entire tour. Each remain available to watch on demand till 2am BST on Tuesday (April 8).

Following assist slots from their longtime buddies The Xcerts and Brit-punk disruptors Child Kapichi, You Me At Six kicked off proceedings with three of their greatest hits, sending the devoted into raptures with ‘Room To Breathe’, ‘Loverboy’ and ‘Keep With Me’.

“Have we bought any old fashioned You Me At Six followers right here tonight?” teased an ever-buoyant Franceschi, toying with the gang earlier than unleashing breakout hit ‘Save It For The Bed room’ and the title observe of their 2008 debut LP ‘Take Off Your Colors’.

“I’m not often one to get the violins out, however I’ve had some kind of norovirus for the previous 10 days,” he later admitted. “I’ve both been throwing up or shitting. Belief me, that is removed from excellent, however I'll die on this stage earlier than I cancel a present. I used to be watching you all queue up from my resort room earlier going, ‘Wow.’”

Wembley answered Franceshi’s name for crowd surfers throughout ‘Lived A Lie’ – taken from their Quantity One album ‘Cavalier Youth’ (2014) – earlier than ‘Suckapunch’ turned the world momentarily right into a rave. That includes songs from all eight albums, the setlist exemplified how far You Me At Six’s sound has advanced from its emo and pop-punk roots over the previous twenty years.

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“I’d prefer to welcome you all to our favorite a part of the present,” he continued, teeing up ‘Jealous Minds Suppose Alike’ and ‘No Future? Yeah Proper’ – their 2022 collaboration with Enter Shikari’s Rou Reynolds. “It’s referred to as the mosh pit. Girls and gents, I would like absolute dedication to the trigger. I don’t wish to see a single cellphone within the air.”

Reynolds was not current, as he's presently on tour with Jeff Wayne’s musical adaptation of The Warfare Of The Worlds. There have been no shock friends over the course of the night time, though Carry Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes joined You Me At Six for his or her 2011 collaboration ‘Chunk My Tongue’ final month (March 3) in Sheffield. Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil additionally shocked followers on Wednesday (April 2), when he joined You Me At Six to carry out ‘No One Does It Higher’ with the band at O2 Academy Brixton.

In the direction of the latter levels of the present, Franceschi opened up concerning the gravity of the event, dedicating ‘Blended Feelings (I Didn’t Know How To Inform You What I Was Going By means of)’ to his bandmates: “5 boys from down the street who spent the final 20 years travelling the globe, taking part in their songs. Usually in pursuit of validation, acceptance and generally – on particular nights – love.”

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Visibly emotional after performing ‘Fireworks’, a tearful Franceschi gave guitarist Max Helyer a heat, prolonged embrace, earlier than he recounted the story of how the band fashioned 20 years in the past, which was interrupted by a quick acoustic rendition of Blink-182’s ‘I Miss You’, courtesy of some crowd karaoke. “You recognize we’ve now bought to pay Blink [royalties] for that?!” he joked. “We’re giving cash away and we’re retiring!

“The 12 months is 2005,” he started. “MSN Messenger and MySpace had been the shit. [I went to] an area present in Weybridge City Corridor, there was one man particularly I noticed within the crowd – carrying skinny denims and a Drive-Through Data t-shirt. Drive Through Data was house to New Discovered Glory, Finch, The Beginning Line… mainly, all of the bands we ripped off for ‘Take Off Your Colors’.”

He added: “I went and requested him, ‘Do you play an instrument?… will you be in a band with me?’ We couldn’t simply be a two-piece, as a result of it solely actually works for those who’re Royal Blood. We noticed a person [Matt Barnes, bassist] with lengthy luscious hair and saggy trousers carrying an Incubus t-shirt. Matt, have you learnt anyone else that performs an instrument?

“He says, ‘My subsequent door neighbour [Chris Miller, guitarist] loves ‘Soiled Sanchez’ and ‘Jackass’, and his favorite bands are Linkin Park and Rage Towards The Machine.’ Now, we would have liked a drummer. We mentioned to ourselves, ‘Don’t search for a drummer, discover intercourse attraction.’ I’m speaking jawlines, abs, push-ups for breakfast. Seems one of the best wanting man we may discover was Ryan Gosling… no, it’s Dan Flint, and it seems he may play the drums.”

With the 11pm curfew in sight, the time for tales was over, because the band whittled by means of their signature ballad ‘Take On The World’, the celebratory grit of ‘Lovely Approach’, and a three-song encore that started with ‘Chunk My Tongue’ and ‘Reckless’ – which obtained its customary mashup with The Killers’ ‘When You Have been Younger’ – earlier than Franceschi’s ultimate remarks.

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“What do you even say?” he laughed. “This can be a true fucking story about 5 ineffective c**ts doing one thing good with their lives… thanks a lot for letting us be your band. For taking us in your headphones, your properties, your hearts. There is just one factor left to say – please stand to your nationwide anthem, ‘Underdog’.”

“I believe our followers have picked up on the truth that this can be a critical underdog story,” Franceschi advised NME final 12 months. ‘Underdog’, due to this fact, served as a becoming farewell for the band who've referred to as time on the peak of their powers, maybe unexpectedly finishing their greatest UK tour up to now. Elevating a glass to the gang as he exited the stage, Franceschi’s ultimate phrases as You Me At Six frontman had been brief and candy. “Similar to that, we're useless. So long.”

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You Me At Six’s setlist was:

‘Room To Breathe’
‘Loverboy’
‘Keep With Me’
‘Save It For The Bed room’
‘Take Off Your Colors’
‘Give’
‘Evening Folks’
‘Recent Begin Fever’
‘Straight To My Head’
‘Lived A Lie’
‘No One Does It Higher’
‘Suckapunch’
‘Jealous Minds Suppose Alike’
‘The Swarm’
‘No Future? Yeah Proper’‘Blended Feelings (I Didn’t Know How To Inform You What I Was Going By means of)’
‘Fireworks’
‘Liquid Confidence’ (acoustic)
‘Take On The World’
‘Lovely Approach’

Encore:
‘Chunk My Tongue’
‘Reckless’
‘Underdog’

⚰️ Nicely that is the tip.. ⚰️

The ultimate You Me at Six present. At Wembley.

Thanks for every little thing ✨

(Chewy on subsequent publish, goddam twitter for less than permitting 4 images) pic.twitter.com/hILceu56VU

— Josh Value Visuals 📸 ⚒️ 🇬🇧 (@PriceVisuals) April 4, 2025

Talking about their plans for all times after You Me At Six, Franceschi advised NME that there are three weddings occurring between the 5 band members. “There’s a whole lot of discuss of going travelling, or perhaps begin having youngsters and that kind of stuff. We’re nonetheless figuring it out. Perhaps there’s nothing to determine, and we’ll simply go the place the wind takes us.”

He added: “The idea of these 4 not being in my life is simply utterly psychological to me, that might by no means occur. I've little doubt that we’ll be collectively and we’ll do stuff socially. I’m certain for a few of us, if not all of us, there’ll be extra that may occur down the road creatively.”

In a latest interview with Guitar.com, Helyer revealed that he has just lately been working with Leicester pop-punk trio Mouth Tradition, who opened a variety of You Me At Six’s farewell reveals throughout the UK and Europe.