You Me At Six called time on their 20-year career last night (April 4), playing their final show – dubbed ‘The Final Night Of Six’ – at London’s OVO Arena Wembley. Check out the setlist, footage and more from what went down below.
Since officially announcing their split in January 2024, the Surrey rock quintet have been on the road for farewell shows across Europe, Australia, North America and Japan. This February, they returned home to embark on a mammoth 37-date UK tour, which reached its conclusion with two nights at Wembley Arena.
Having released eight albums, scored two Number Ones, topped the bill at Slam Dunk Festival on three occasions and headlined iconic London venues like the O2 Arena and Brixton Academy, frontman Josh Franceschi told NME last February that “reaching the 20-year mark” was the final piece of the You Me At Six puzzle.
Got into you me at six when I was 15. Today, I'm 29, and I just attended their last show feeling like I left a piece of me at wembley arena.
Their music has been the soundtrack to all my highs and (very) lows through all these years.
Thank you for everything @youmeatsix pic.twitter.com/XRsKAQFL2M— Indigo (@mariia1996) April 5, 2025
Nodding to 2012’s ‘The Final Night Of Sin’ show – the sole previous occasion where the band headlined the iconic 12,500-capacity venue, before this week – ‘The Final Night Of Six’ was also live streamed around the world, accompanied by a behind-the-scenes documentary shot across the whole tour. Both remain available to watch on demand until 2am BST on Tuesday (April 8).
Following support slots from their longtime friends The Xcerts and Brit-punk disruptors Kid Kapichi, You Me At Six kicked off proceedings with three of their biggest hits, sending the faithful into raptures with ‘Room To Breathe’, ‘Loverboy’ and ‘Stay With Me’.
“Have we got any old school You Me At Six fans here tonight?” teased an ever-buoyant Franceschi, toying with the crowd before unleashing breakout hit ‘Save It For The Bedroom’ and the title track of their 2008 debut LP ‘Take Off Your Colours’.
“I’m not usually one to get the violins out, but I’ve had some sort of norovirus for the past 10 days,” he later admitted. “I’ve either been throwing up or shitting. Trust me, this is far from perfect, but I will die on this stage before I cancel a show. I was watching you all queue up from my hotel room earlier going, ‘Wow.’”
Wembley answered Franceshi’s call for crowd surfers during ‘Lived A Lie’ – taken from their Number One album ‘Cavalier Youth’ (2014) – before ‘Suckapunch’ turned the arena momentarily into a rave. Featuring songs from all eight albums, the setlist exemplified how far You Me At Six’s sound has evolved from its emo and pop-punk roots over the past two decades.
“I’d like to welcome you all to our favourite part of the show,” he continued, teeing up ‘Jealous Minds Think Alike’ and ‘No Future? Yeah Right’ – their 2022 collaboration with Enter Shikari’s Rou Reynolds. “It’s called the mosh pit. Ladies and gentlemen, I need absolute commitment to the cause. I don’t want to see a single phone in the air.”
Reynolds was not present, as he is currently on tour with Jeff Wayne’s musical adaptation of The War Of The Worlds. There were no surprise guests over the course of the night, although Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes joined You Me At Six for their 2011 collaboration ‘Bite My Tongue’ last month (March 3) in Sheffield. Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil also surprised fans on Wednesday (April 2), when he joined You Me At Six to perform ‘No One Does It Better’ with the band at O2 Academy Brixton.
Towards the latter stages of the show, Franceschi opened up about the gravity of the occasion, dedicating ‘Mixed Emotions (I Didn’t Know How To Tell You What I Was Going Through)’ to his bandmates: “Five boys from down the road who spent the last 20 years travelling the globe, playing their songs. Often in pursuit of validation, acceptance and sometimes – on special nights – love.”
Visibly emotional after performing ‘Fireworks’, a tearful Franceschi gave guitarist Max Helyer a warm, lengthy embrace, before he recounted the tale of how the band formed 20 years ago, which was interrupted by a brief acoustic rendition of Blink-182’s ‘I Miss You’, courtesy of some crowd karaoke. “You know we’ve now got to pay Blink [royalties] for that?!” he joked. “We’re giving money away and we’re retiring!
“The year is 2005,” he began. “MSN Messenger and MySpace were the shit. [I went to] a local show in Weybridge Town Hall, there was one man in particular I saw in the crowd – wearing skinny jeans and a Drive-Thru Records t-shirt. Drive Thru Records was home to New Found Glory, Finch, The Starting Line… basically, all the bands we ripped off for ‘Take Off Your Colours’.”
He added: “I went and asked him, ‘Do you play an instrument?… will you be in a band with me?’ We couldn’t just be a two-piece, because it only really works if you’re Royal Blood. We saw a man [Matt Barnes, bassist] with long luscious hair and baggy trousers wearing an Incubus t-shirt. Matt, do you know anybody else that plays an instrument?
“He says, ‘My next door neighbour [Chris Miller, guitarist] loves ‘Dirty Sanchez’ and ‘Jackass’, and his favourite bands are Linkin Park and Rage Against The Machine.’ Now, we needed a drummer. We said to ourselves, ‘Don’t look for a drummer, find sex appeal.’ I’m talking jawlines, abs, push-ups for breakfast. Turns out the best looking guy we could find was Ryan Gosling… no, it’s Dan Flint, and it turns out he could play the drums.”
With the 11pm curfew in sight, the time for stories was over, as the band whittled through their signature ballad ‘Take On The World’, the celebratory grit of ‘Beautiful Way’, and a three-song encore that began with ‘Bite My Tongue’ and ‘Reckless’ – which received its customary mashup with The Killers’ ‘When You Were Young’ – before Franceschi’s final remarks.
“What do you even say?” he laughed. “This is a true fucking story about five useless c**ts doing something good with their lives… thank you so much for letting us be your band. For taking us in your headphones, your homes, your hearts. There is only one thing left to say – please stand for your national anthem, ‘Underdog’.”
“I think our fans have picked up on the fact that this is a serious underdog story,” Franceschi told NME last year. ‘Underdog’, therefore, served as a fitting farewell for the band who have called time at the peak of their powers, perhaps unexpectedly completing their biggest UK tour to date. Raising a glass to the crowd as he exited the stage, Franceschi’s final words as You Me At Six frontman were short and sweet. “Just like that, we are dead. See you later.”
You Me At Six’s setlist was:
‘Room To Breathe’
‘Loverboy’
‘Stay With Me’
‘Save It For The Bedroom’
‘Take Off Your Colours’
‘Give’
‘Night People’
‘Fresh Start Fever’
‘Straight To My Head’
‘Lived A Lie’
‘No One Does It Better’
‘Suckapunch’
‘Jealous Minds Think Alike’
‘The Swarm’
‘No Future? Yeah Right’‘Mixed Emotions (I Didn’t Know How To Tell You What I Was Going Through)’
‘Fireworks’
‘Liquid Confidence’ (acoustic)
‘Take On The World’
‘Beautiful Way’
Encore:
‘Bite My Tongue’
‘Reckless’
‘Underdog’
⚰️ Well this is the end.. ⚰️
The final You Me at Six show. At Wembley.
Thank you for everything ✨
(Chewy on next post, goddam twitter for only allowing 4 photos) pic.twitter.com/hILceu56VU
— Josh Price Visuals 📸 ⚒️ 🇬🇧 (@PriceVisuals) April 4, 2025
Speaking about their plans for life after You Me At Six, Franceschi told NME that there are three weddings happening between the five band members. “There’s a lot of talk of going travelling, or maybe start having kids and that sort of stuff. We’re still figuring it out. Maybe there’s nothing to figure out, and we’ll just go where the wind takes us.”
He added: “The concept of those four not being in my life is just completely mental to me, that would never happen. I have no doubt that we’ll be together and we’ll do stuff socially. I’m sure for some of us, if not all of us, there’ll be more that will happen down the line creatively.”
In a recent interview with Guitar.com, Helyer revealed that he has recently been working with Leicester pop-punk trio Mouth Culture, who opened a number of You Me At Six’s farewell shows across the UK and Europe.