It has been confirmed in the above video that Oliver Sykes of Bring Me The Horizon will be featured on You Me At Six’s upcoming album. Vocalist Josh Franceschi also did guest vocals on Bring Me The Horizon’s most recent release.
NEW: “Fuck” by Bring Me The Horizon ft. Josh Franceschi
BMTH and You Me At Six vocalist Josh Franceschi have done it again: created a piece of music that contradicts their genre’s very definition and still made it come out sounding like nothing the music scene has ever heard before.
This is probably the greatest thing I’ve heard in a very long time. Get stoked for this new album.
-Megan
(via absolutepunk)
The talent has always been there for Bring Me The Horizon. It was evident on their Epitaph debut, Suicide Season. Sure, you might hate Oli Sykes personality, you might hate the type of fans BMTH has, but you cannot deny that the Sheffield, England, quintet can absolutely set the stage on fire. I’m here to give you all a first look into their brand new album, There Is A Hell Believe Me I’ve Seen It, There Is A Heaven Let’s Keep It A Secret, due out October 5th through Epitaph Records.
1. “Crucify Me” - 6:20
The first track starts out gently, but don’t get used to it. The guitars and drums thunder down as Sykes powerful yell overtakes the tempo. Immediately I can tell this is a much tighter and cohesive offering from BMTH. Another treat is everyone’s favorite electro-pop girl, Lights. Her voice is like a flower appearing out of a war zone, as she hauntingly repeats the album title a few times before Sykes’ voice re-enters. A stunning beginning to one of Epitaph’s biggest 2010 releases.
2. “Anthem” - 4:50
It’s never been a secret that guitarist Lee Malia could shred. But this album is also the debut of BMTH new rhythm guitarist Jona Weinhofen. He doesn’t miss a beat, and this track is one of many examples of their stellar playing. Heavy throughout and sure to incite the riot, the band also subtly insert some melodic riffs underneath all the pummeling. The final minute is absolutely crushing.
3. “It Never Ends” - 4:34
This is the track from the official album teaser posted here a few days ago. It starts lightly, showing off the band’s new tricks on this record. Really, you can hear the significance of the album title here. The battle between hell and heaven, and this track is a great example. It blends delicacy with brutality. The voices coming from the choir is chilling, and this is just a huge track. Additional orchestration is the cherry on top of BMTH best song yet.
4. “Fuck” - 4:55
This track brings out the thrash mentality of the band, but the vocals of You Me At Six’s Josh Franceschi is a nice touch. A lot of sweet riffing from Malia as well. This is metal through and through.
5. “Don’t Go” - 4:58
BMTH throws another curve ball here, as “Don’t Go” starts out beautifully with strings and gentle guitar strums setting the mood before Sykes passionately screams over it (ex: “So God please forgive me for all my sins!”). It’s the most vulnerable song in the band’s career. Lights is also featured on this track, and she and Skyes have a nice call-and-return before the climatic ending. Single potential here.
6. “Home Sweet Hole” - 4:38
This is the BMTH you fell in love with on Suicide Season. The rhythm section of bassist Matt Kean and drummer Matt Nicholls shines here, as they provide the backbone to the verses. The group shouts of “Home sweet hole!” are bound to stick in your head for a while.
7. “Alligator Blood” - 4:32
Breakdown city here. Nicholls is at home here with his double bass kick and clean drum fills. Yes, the added bells and whistles are great on this record, but we still need a few songs like this on the record were we can lose our minds.
8. “Visions” - 4:09
Very similar to the previous track, but with a catchier guitar riff. Potential to be another single.
9. “Blacklist” - 4:00
Starts with a muted pulse and a grungy riff. This song is just filthy, the kind you find in the gutter and love. Sykes also adds some electronic modifications to his voice while also incorporating a different vocal delivery. A nice change of tempo track for the record.
10. “Memorial” - 3:10
Ahh, this song is right up my alley. A dark and slowly paced instrumental, it includes my favorite instrument of all - the organ - and layers it with a cornucopia of noises. It gives you a chance to catch your breath and reflect.
11. “Blessed With A Curse” - 5:08
The previous instrumental leads perfectly into this track with a constant pulsation, electronic drumming, and elegant chords. I mention earlier that the album showcases the battle between heaven and hell, and you can hear it again here. Soft and loud collide here, Sykes does some shouting-singing over the verses, which lead into some epic sounding crescendos, showing off a completely different side of the band. Another huge stride for BMTH. The pinnacle of the album.
12. “Fox And The Wolf” - 1:43
The final (and shortest) track on the album, it’s a fireball of a closer. Josh Scogin joins Sykes in this growlfest, which will result in numerous head injuries.
My first impression of Bring Me The Horizon’s second Epitaph album, There Is A Hell Believe Me I’ve Seen It, There Is A Heaven Let’s Keep It A Secret is wow. The band took huge strides from their previous album and have created the best album of their career and one of the best heavy releases of 2010. Many of you will be stunned by this. This is one hell of a firestorm.
“It has been revealed that Bring Me The Horizon have titled their upcoming album, There Is A Hell, I’ve Seen It. There Is A Heaven, Let’s Keep It A Secret. The album will feature guest vocals from You Me At Six’s Josh Franceschi as well as Lights and includes song titles such as “Crucify Me,” “Don’t Go,” “Memorial,” and “Fuck.” Also, There Is A Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There Is A Heaven, Let’s Keep It A Secret is said to be in many ways a concept album about the dreamlike euphoria and good nature that can be countered so dramatically with the darkness and evil that is buried deep inside humanity and that we are all capable of experiencing. Look for more details on There Is A Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There Is A Heaven, Let’s Keep It A Secret, including a complete tracklist and release, to be announced in the coming weeks.” (from Alternative Press)
I believe this is some very exciting news.
Also, the expected release date for this album (in the US) is October 5th. Keep your eyes peeled.
-Sian
The making of You Me At Six video Stay With Me
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-Megan
Stay With Me by You Me At Six
This is the new music video for the song “Stay With Me” off of You Me At Six’s new album Hold Me Down. Everyone watch this! It’s awesome.
-Megan
Everyone be sure to look up You Me At Six’s new video for “Stay With Me” at 5, like lead singer Josh Franceschi just tweeted about! Get excited. This song is amazing, and my personal favorite off of their new album Hold Me Down which was released a couple of weeks ago.
-Megan
Here’s the other half of the You Me At Six interview. Next time, maybe we’ll take shorter interviews, or maybe we can take videos and post them instead. Let us know what you’d all prefer!
Is there a standard writing process that you all go through?
DAN: Well, there’s a few, I guess. Sometimes someone will come up with just a tiny, tiny idea for something, or someone will come with a full song idea, or Josh will write a melody for a chorus or a verse and chorus. We all then get together as a group at our practice studio and sort of bash heads together from there. The songs sort of come out that way.
JOSH: Pretty much!
How is the music scene in the UK different from the one in America?
JOSH: It’s quite different. It’s not as big since it’s a far smaller country. I feel it’s a lot more varied in the UK. I feel in America a lot of the bands, without being disrespectful, sound maybe the same or quite similar. Where as, in the UK, that there is one band per genre that does well, you know? There’s lots more. It’s growing. I think it’s cool that a band like us, Bring Me The Horizon, and Enter Shikari could go on this tour. We are sort of opening the door for other UK bands to potentially come on the Warped Tour. So, it’s cool.
Was there any one person who motivated you to want to be in a band?
DAN: Well, I guess the reason why I got into rock music was most people just grow up listening to the radio. The radio in the UK is just pop nonstop. So, I guess it was my dad, because he used to play me old songs by Led Zeppelin and bands like that. When I joined this school, you could learn how to play an instrument, and my mom thought that I should learn to play the drums. I loved it. That’s how I got into music. When I went to college, I always wanted to be in a band. I then joined this one, and here we are.
JOSH: Yep. Mine’s very similar; just through family members. My sister is a budding pianist, singer, songwriter kind of thing. I used to play video games on the play station in the back room, and she’d be practicing away. My mom told me to go learn an instrument, because she thought I might find it useful. So, I played guitar, and here I am, I suppose.
What’s your favorite song to perform live?
JOSH: You know, I really like playing “Trophy Eyes” for some reason. Basically, all of the songs from Hold Me Down. I love playing the songs from Hold Me Down. I feel like we’re kind of over playing songs from Take Off Your Colours now since we’ve been doing it for like 3 years, but we primarily only play it because there are people who’d like to hear the songs off of that CD. I guess that happens with all bands, though. Once you’ve written a new CD or a new set of songs, you want to play them rather than playing old songs.
Do you have any specific goals for your band this year?
DAN: Well, to me, we’ve already achieved our goals just by travelling the world. That’s always been sort of a big thing for our band. It doesn’t matter how big we get, it’s how long we can make it last and how long we can keep doing this for. The fact that we get to travel the world with our best friends, that’s just great. If along the way, we become a successful band then that would be the icing on the top really. Is that the saying: icing on the cake? Yeah. Why did I say “on the top”?
What bands inspire your music?
JOSH: The Ghost Inside.
DAN: We love The Ghost Inside.
JOSH: We love The Ghost Inside.It’s funny, actually, we’ve – for the last year or so, we’ve been into this band called The Ghost Inside. And we were introduced to their singer, Vigil, when we were out doing some shows before Warped. And I asked, “Can you do a song with us?” and it was just really cool! It’s really strange cause like… I love this guy’s band, and I’m singing a song with him! They’re really cool dudes.
DAN: Other bands like… We’re big fans of Jimmy Eat World, Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, Thrice… That kind of stuff.
JOSH: It’s always been strange to me. We’ve toured quite a lot with Paramore – a lot overseas and in Australia. We’ve basically toured with Paramore everywhere but America. And I always felt really strange, because I was one of a very select few who first heard of Paramore in the UK. So when they came over five or six years ago, I remember me and my friend Liv, we went and saw them – and she was from the very few people who knew who they were. So I’ve listened to them for years, and to tour with them, I’ve always found it very strange because I’m like… “God, I love this band.”
DAN: An uber fan.
JOSH: Uber fan! Being able to tour is awesome, cause now I’m just like, “Oh God! Not another Paramore song coming on!” but in a good way, because I’ve heard them all so many times! But it’s cool, though. They definitely – not to say their music so much, but the way they are as a band, what they’ve achieved, definitely inspires me to want to, potentially, one day do some of the things they do.
DAN: Especially since they are one of the biggest bands in the world right now, and they were over in the UK like last month. We were doing this festival together and they’re just normal people like everyone else, you know? They come into our dressing room and we play –
JOSH: They took our sign off our door for no reason.
DAN: Yeah, they pranked us. They’re just normal people. They’re not (uses air quotes) “rock stars” at all. So, yeah… that’s good.
How were you discovered?
DAN: Well, we weren’t really discovered.
JOSH: We weren’t, no.
DAN: It was kind of like…
JOSH: We weren’t discovered until very very recently. I think that’s the main reason there’s very few decent major label deals going on with bands, especially going on at the moment. When Virgin signed us, we’d already sold fifty-thousand CDs. We were headlining venues with fifty-thousand count across our country. They came to us and said, “We have to sign your band.” We didn’t want to sign to a major label, ever. But then it was just like…he knew so much about the band. He was obviously a genuine fan of the band. Since that day, he’s been pretty supportive behind a lot of decisions, so I guess it’s kind of how our management has a lot of power since it is one of the biggest management companies in the world, you know? Like they do Iron Maiden, for Christ’s sake. Bring Me the Horizon’s kind of stuff. So I think they’ve definitely helped us, because they’ve worked with a lot of heavy music in the past, and here they were working with a rock/pop band with melodies and shit. And they were just kind of like, “Oh, we can do so much with this band that we’ve never been able to do with another band before.” So, I guess it’s us being discovered, in a sense, being those two occasions.
DAN: Yeah, I guess in the very beginning, we used to tour so much in the UK that our fan base just grew and grew so organically. So it was all just us and our MySpace, really, and stuff. So that was really cool.
So MySpace was your main…?
DAN: Definitely, like three years ago, it was the reason why we could travel around the country and book shows and stuff; whereas, now, you can’t rely on MySpace.
JOSH: There was a time when bands like From First To Last were massive, on Warped or something, because of MySpace. The bands, I think, on MySpace were big everywhere, you know? And I don’t think that really happens anymore. You know what I mean? We’re really big in the UK, but no one knows about us in America, you know? But you think “We’ve got quite a few fans on MySpace.” That hasn’t really, totally transcended to America. That kind of thing. So, I don’t think that’s the case anymore. Oh well!
DAN: MySpace seems to be dying out a little bit.
JOSH: Tom [Anderson] made his stupid amount of billions of money and… brought the world together, so he’s done his job, then.
DAN: Yeah, I’m sure he’s doing fine!
Do you have any last words?
DAN: Check out our new album. It’s called Hold Me Down.Came out…what, Monday, I think it came out? Seems like a long time ago.
Seems like a long time ago… I don’t know.
DAN: Yeah… shh. Oh! It came out digitally a while ago –
JOSH: Oh! Yeah, it came out digitally a few months ago, but it’s physically out now.
DAN: – and the actually CD is physically in the shops now. Yeah, so go check that out! Thank you!
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-Megan
![A while back, Vestra Vera Press got to sit down with drummer Dan Flint and singer Josh Franceschi of You Me At Six. The interview that we took of them was so long that we decided to break it into two halves. I hope that you read both parts, and enjoy them as much as we enjoyed taking them.
So what does You Me At Six mean?
JOSH: It is a euphemism. Is that the right word, Dan? It is a euphemism for… no, nevermind. I was trying to make a joke; It was going to be shit anyway. We basically came up with it during Friday night arrangements. We were like 15. It is just sort of an abbreviation for saying, “Alright. I’ll see you later at six o’clock.” It’s easier just saying, “Alright. You, me at six.” For some stupid reason, we kept it, and we put it on our first ever show’s flier. All of our friends and people who’d seen us knew us as that. At the time, we were thinking, “Oh my God, if people in Weybridge think that we changed our name, they would be devastated.” So we just kept it, and here we are about 3 or 4 years later with the same name.DAN: It’s a bit late to change it now.
Were you in any other bands before this one?DAN: Josh was in another band called Second Thought.JOSH: No! You’re such a prick! I fucking hate you! God! No, I wasn’t; I wasn’t in that band!! You’re an asshole…DAN: Second Thought, you can probably still YouTube it.JOSH: Yeah, FUCK YOU!DAN: It’s hilarious. He was young at the time.JOSH: Yeah… whatever. I was like 12 for Christ’s sake!
What kind of music was it?JOSH: It was fucking…DAN: It was basically that Josh wanted to be in the Early November.JOSH: Yeah, basically.
So was it just a mock version of that?JOSH: Yeah, pretty much. Don’t… Don’t worry about it. It’s okay.
How long have you all known each other, and how did you meet?DAN: Matt and Chris, our guitarist and bassist, lived next to each other, like there were literally 2 houses in between them. They’ve known each other for years. I’ve only known these guys for… what is it, 3 years now?JOSH: Yeah, something like that. Yeah.DAN: Yeah, coming up 3 years or over 3 years now because I went to college with everyone but Josh. That’s how I met them, and then they asked me to join the band. Apart from that, everyone was friends because of the local scene around the area. You [Josh] and Max have been friends for a good 6 years, right?JOSH: Yeah. Max and I had been in and around a few bands for years. Again, don’t worry about it.
How do you think your music has evolved since you first began playing together?
JOSH: Oh, that’s like saying how big has a baby gotten since he was born. Sometimes, I feel like we’re a different band even though we’re not, you know? I remember the first time we ever had a practice with Dan, compared to what we do now… well, there’s no comparison. It’s been organic; it’s been natural the way we’ve changed and developed. We started following our own sound. At first, when we were first starting off as a band, we were trying to mimic the success of other bands around us, like Fall Out Boy and stuff like that. That was on our first record. Our second record, we wrote what we wanted to hear. We knew what we kind of wanted to sound like. We wanted to be a good rock/pop/punk band, and we wrote songs that we think are really sincere, and it’s a far more honest approach from when we first started.
What does your band do to prepare for a show?
DAN: We usually listen to quite heavy music. If it’s a show, not like this type of festival but a proper show in a venue, we usually have some heavier music on when we’re in our dressing room. So we’ll all get ready together and pump each other up. We then usually get into a little huddle and tell each other how good looking we are. Just that kind of stuff.JOSH: There we go.DAN: That was a joke. It usually involves singing and dancing. Then, we go on stage, and we do it.
So do you guys have any personal pet peeves?
JOSH: Something untidy, for me. I don’t know why. There’s just something about it. I’m really, really particular with things, even just my suitcase. Stuff has to go into certain places. I don’t think I have OCD, but I do think I have some issues with being tidy, which is strange because my life has been a mess in terms of what I do, like being on tour all of the time. That’s why I’ve been pacing up and down the tour bus for the last half an hour just tiding up shit. I was just like, “I can’t be in this fucking shit dip anymore.” I can’t stand that.DAN: Yeah. I’m similar.
Do you guys have any memorable embarrassing experiences, whether on tour or not?JOSH: Well, there was almost one yesterday. I was wearing what I think you [Americans] call “bro-shorts”, like basketball shorts or whatever. My friend Phil was behind me. I just remember that Dan was standing right in front of me. And I was like, “Oh, that would have been harsh…”DAN: They stood in the line for catering as well, so everyone was around.JOSH: I think my friend Phil was going to “keck” me.DAN: Yeah, he was going to pull his shorts down.JOSH: And I would have—I literally would have lost my shit. Cause like…that kind of shit just pisses me off. I would have just straight-up turned around and beat the shit out of him. I’m glad that didn’t happen, but, uh… yeah, I like having pants.
What’s the best prank that you’ve done on somebody while on tour?
JOSH: Well, we – one of our pranks failed, didn’t it? Remember on AP Tour were going to change Set Your Goals’ intro music to just cats crying –DAN: Oh, yeah!JOSH: – or cats singing the “Happy Birthday” song. It didn’t work.DAN: Yeah.JOSH: No, that – that’s not what we were going to do! We were, um…DAN: It was going to be –JOSH: “Raining Men”!DAN: “It’s Raining Men”. Yeah.JOSH: And we were all going to be wearing tight clothes and we were going to play, uh… what are they called? The, um… Oh, what are they called? The people that do the song. (starts singing) It’s raining men! Dun…Hallelujah! We dressed up as them for Halloween.DAN: Well, basically we were all going on pretty much naked.JOSH: YMCA people! The Family. Something Family…
Oh! I know who you’re talking about… This is going to bother me now.
JOSH: YEAH! It’s bothering me, too!DAN: Yeah, basically we were going to change their intro music and then go on and invade their stage while they were playing. But it just didn’t work. For some reason, someone played the wrong song.JOSH: I think someone told them. So it ended up just being us and all of the tour people…BOTH: on stage.DAN: And everyone’s just like, “What is going on…?”JOSH: We were stepping on their pedals.DAN: But then they pranked us back. Or Mayday Parade pranked us back, because when we walked on stage, they got a mic. They turned off Josh’s microphone so that he couldn’t be like, “Hey, how’s it going? We’re You Me At Six.” They had a microphone out front and they were putting on a terrible British accent! They’re like, “Alright, mate! We’re from You Me At Six! My name’s Josh!” like the great singer (looks at Josh). It was so funny.JOSH: It was a good prank.DAN: Yeah, it was a good prank.Is it The Village People? (Referring to the “YMCA people”)JOSH: THE VILLAGE PEOPLE! Yeah, that’s the stuff. There you go.
Check out both the other half and their set while their on the Vans Warped Tour this whole summer!-Megan](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5gv7eCoSV1qb9hubo1_500.jpg)
A while back, Vestra Vera Press got to sit down with drummer Dan Flint and singer Josh Franceschi of You Me At Six. The interview that we took of them was so long that we decided to break it into two halves. I hope that you read both parts, and enjoy them as much as we enjoyed taking them.
So what does You Me At Six mean?
JOSH: It is a euphemism. Is that the right word, Dan? It is a euphemism for… no, nevermind. I was trying to make a joke; It was going to be shit anyway. We basically came up with it during Friday night arrangements. We were like 15. It is just sort of an abbreviation for saying, “Alright. I’ll see you later at six o’clock.” It’s easier just saying, “Alright. You, me at six.” For some stupid reason, we kept it, and we put it on our first ever show’s flier. All of our friends and people who’d seen us knew us as that. At the time, we were thinking, “Oh my God, if people in Weybridge think that we changed our name, they would be devastated.” So we just kept it, and here we are about 3 or 4 years later with the same name.
DAN: It’s a bit late to change it now.
Were you in any other bands before this one?
DAN: Josh was in another band called Second Thought.
JOSH: No! You’re such a prick! I fucking hate you! God! No, I wasn’t; I wasn’t in that band!! You’re an asshole…
DAN: Second Thought, you can probably still YouTube it.
JOSH: Yeah, FUCK YOU!
DAN: It’s hilarious. He was young at the time.
JOSH: Yeah… whatever. I was like 12 for Christ’s sake!
What kind of music was it?
JOSH: It was fucking…
DAN: It was basically that Josh wanted to be in the Early November.
JOSH: Yeah, basically.
So was it just a mock version of that?
JOSH: Yeah, pretty much. Don’t… Don’t worry about it. It’s okay.
How long have you all known each other, and how did you meet?
DAN: Matt and Chris, our guitarist and bassist, lived next to each other, like there were literally 2 houses in between them. They’ve known each other for years. I’ve only known these guys for… what is it, 3 years now?
JOSH: Yeah, something like that. Yeah.
DAN: Yeah, coming up 3 years or over 3 years now because I went to college with everyone but Josh. That’s how I met them, and then they asked me to join the band. Apart from that, everyone was friends because of the local scene around the area. You [Josh] and Max have been friends for a good 6 years, right?
JOSH: Yeah. Max and I had been in and around a few bands for years. Again, don’t worry about it.
How do you think your music has evolved since you first began playing together?
JOSH: Oh, that’s like saying how big has a baby gotten since he was born. Sometimes, I feel like we’re a different band even though we’re not, you know? I remember the first time we ever had a practice with Dan, compared to what we do now… well, there’s no comparison. It’s been organic; it’s been natural the way we’ve changed and developed. We started following our own sound. At first, when we were first starting off as a band, we were trying to mimic the success of other bands around us, like Fall Out Boy and stuff like that. That was on our first record. Our second record, we wrote what we wanted to hear. We knew what we kind of wanted to sound like. We wanted to be a good rock/pop/punk band, and we wrote songs that we think are really sincere, and it’s a far more honest approach from when we first started.
What does your band do to prepare for a show?
DAN: We usually listen to quite heavy music. If it’s a show, not like this type of festival but a proper show in a venue, we usually have some heavier music on when we’re in our dressing room. So we’ll all get ready together and pump each other up. We then usually get into a little huddle and tell each other how good looking we are. Just that kind of stuff.
JOSH: There we go.
DAN: That was a joke. It usually involves singing and dancing. Then, we go on stage, and we do it.
So do you guys have any personal pet peeves?
JOSH: Something untidy, for me. I don’t know why. There’s just something about it. I’m really, really particular with things, even just my suitcase. Stuff has to go into certain places. I don’t think I have OCD, but I do think I have some issues with being tidy, which is strange because my life has been a mess in terms of what I do, like being on tour all of the time. That’s why I’ve been pacing up and down the tour bus for the last half an hour just tiding up shit. I was just like, “I can’t be in this fucking shit dip anymore.” I can’t stand that.
DAN: Yeah. I’m similar.
Do you guys have any memorable embarrassing experiences, whether on tour or not?
JOSH: Well, there was almost one yesterday. I was wearing what I think you [Americans] call “bro-shorts”, like basketball shorts or whatever. My friend Phil was behind me. I just remember that Dan was standing right in front of me. And I was like, “Oh, that would have been harsh…”
DAN: They stood in the line for catering as well, so everyone was around.
JOSH: I think my friend Phil was going to “keck” me.
DAN: Yeah, he was going to pull his shorts down.
JOSH: And I would have—I literally would have lost my shit. Cause like…that kind of shit just pisses me off. I would have just straight-up turned around and beat the shit out of him. I’m glad that didn’t happen, but, uh… yeah, I like having pants.
What’s the best prank that you’ve done on somebody while on tour?
JOSH: Well, we – one of our pranks failed, didn’t it? Remember on AP Tour were going to change Set Your Goals’ intro music to just cats crying –
DAN: Oh, yeah!
JOSH: – or cats singing the “Happy Birthday” song. It didn’t work.
DAN: Yeah.
JOSH: No, that – that’s not what we were going to do! We were, um…
DAN: It was going to be –
JOSH: “Raining Men”!
DAN: “It’s Raining Men”. Yeah.
JOSH: And we were all going to be wearing tight clothes and we were going to play, uh… what are they called? The, um… Oh, what are they called? The people that do the song. (starts singing) It’s raining men! Dun…Hallelujah! We dressed up as them for Halloween.
DAN: Well, basically we were all going on pretty much naked.
JOSH: YMCA people! The Family. Something Family…
Oh! I know who you’re talking about… This is going to bother me now.
JOSH: YEAH! It’s bothering me, too!
DAN: Yeah, basically we were going to change their intro music and then go on and invade their stage while they were playing. But it just didn’t work. For some reason, someone played the wrong song.
JOSH: I think someone told them. So it ended up just being us and all of the tour people…
BOTH: on stage.
DAN: And everyone’s just like, “What is going on…?”
JOSH: We were stepping on their pedals.
DAN: But then they pranked us back. Or Mayday Parade pranked us back, because when we walked on stage, they got a mic. They turned off Josh’s microphone so that he couldn’t be like, “Hey, how’s it going? We’re You Me At Six.” They had a microphone out front and they were putting on a terrible British accent! They’re like, “Alright, mate! We’re from You Me At Six! My name’s Josh!” like the great singer (looks at Josh). It was so funny.
JOSH: It was a good prank.
DAN: Yeah, it was a good prank.
Is it The Village People? (Referring to the “YMCA people”)
JOSH: THE VILLAGE PEOPLE! Yeah, that’s the stuff. There you go.
Check out both the other half and their set while their on the Vans Warped Tour this whole summer!
-Megan
After posting The Maine’s set list, I decided to post as many set lists I can find for band’s current tours. This is one that I wrote down from the Mountain View Warped Tour. This is a bit over a week old, but I’m fairly certain that they will be doing about the same set list.
I hope that this doesn’t spoil anything for anyone, and instead, makes everyone excited!
-Megan
Save It For The Bedroom by You Me At Six (old version)
Vestra Vera Press’ interview of You Me At Six will be up within the next 48 hours. That is a promise. We apologize for it taking so long. Not only have we been travelling and going to other shows and concerts across California, but the interview is nearly 20 minutes long, and it takes a long time to write it out. There is a dreadful combination of extremely loud bass in the background and British accents. Wish me luck, and I hope that you all enjoy the interview. It’s not the most amazing thing in the universe, but it certainly is something to look forward to, and I personally found it to be quite enjoyable.
-Megan
Check out tons of pictures from the Mountain View date of the Vans Warped Tour! Not going to lie, they are pretty awesome photos, and that’s being said without bias. I’ll be posting some of my favorites right now, but you all should check out the rest and see if you can find some of your favorite bands!
Also, be sure to keep your eyes open for when Vestra Vera posts an exclusive inteview with Mayday Parade and You Me At Six.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51615833@N08/
-Megan
