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You Me At Six. A band which incorporate three separate clothing lines. YMAS Fun Fact - that’s actually one clothing line for every album they’ve released, which must be a record.

There’s something to be admired in admitting and resigning to the fact that you’re a pop group. It’s nothing to be ashamed of, it doesn’t make you innately bad people. Yes, the album’s awful, but someone’s got to make music for 13-year-old girls, and if they didn’t do it, then someone else would, and that person could be a paedophile. Didn’t think of that, did you? This album could be a powerful anti child abuse tool. Ignore the fact that for some reason he tells all the young girls to “fuck what (they) believe in” on Little Death, which seems a bit harsh considering what their fan base believe in are hair straighteners and The Hills.

It’s interesting that when they decide to up the ante and be a heavy band, they choose to invite people from heavy bands to come and sing the heavy bits. So Oli Sykes from Bring Me The Horizon pops in to grunt “Fuck You” at his Mum and Dad on the beatdown hardcore-style section of Bite My Tongue, and Winston McCall of Parkway Drive comes all the way from AMERICA to roar like a dragon over Time is Money. But surely they realize how out of place this is when actual vocalist Joshua Franceschi makes Dido sound like a world-weary sailor. And why do the guys they invite in keep saying ‘fuck’? It’s bad manners for a guest to say fuck.

You, me, at six? Yeah, I’ll be there mate. I might be running a bit late though. Just wait around for me. I’ll be there at some point. Maybe eight, yeah? Sorry, looks like it’ll be nine now. Know what, let’s just do it some other time.


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Words: Geraint Davies

http://www.youmeatsix.co.uk/


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