INTERVIEW
x i S t a e M You WORDS BY Ben Tipple Boasting a top 5 album in the UK and various chart singles in the last year, You Me at Six are one of Britain’s alternative music success stories of recent times. As they prepare to embark on a tour that sees the Margate Winter Gardens as one of the destinations, The Gig Guide catches up with lead singer Josh Franceschi to discuss the tour, upcoming album and the state of the current music industry. How did you come up with the relatively unique name for You Me at Six? We were all around 15/16 and needed to have a flyer with a name for the first show we were about to be doing. I’m not even sure how, but it was an abbreviation for the time we were going to meet. It just 16
stuck so we kept it; You Me at Six it was. Originally it was a comma (You, Me at Six) but that wasn’t going to work. Most recent single “Rescue Me” (featuring Chiddy Bang) has a very different sound to previous albums Hold Me Down and Take Off Your Colours. Is it a good representation of what’s to come? That was a joke song which we recorded before the new album. We had some time off after the European Tour and had written this song that we think we should have a laugh on and play around to give us some time for us. We thought the [record] label would laugh it out, but they made it into a single. That single made it into the top 20. We’re not sure how it happened but it was a cool way to prove a point, that at the particular