You Me at Six Reflect on Their Career Journey at Wembley Arena: “In a Way, We’re All Gone”

Final performance of You Me at Six

Last night (April 4), they took the stage for the last time during “The Final Night of Six” at the London Ovo Arena Wembley. Check out the setlist, fan reactions, and more details below.

• Read more: You Me at Six discuss their split: “This is a serious story of the loser”

Farewell tour highlights

Since officially announcing their split in January 2024, the quintet Surrek has been touring for farewell shows across Europe, Australia, North America, and Japan. They returned home in February this year to kick off a massive tour of Great Britain, concluding with two nights at Wembley Arena.

With eight albums released and two number-one hits, the band has played at prestigious festivals like Slam Dunk and iconic venues such as O2 Arena and Brixton Academy. Frontman Josh Franchoy told NME last February, “Reaching the 20-year mark” was the last piece of the You Me at Six puzzle.

I got into You Me at Six when I was 15 years old. Today I am 29 years old, and I just attended their last show, feeling like I left a piece of myself at Wembley Arena.
Their music has been the soundtrack to all my highs and (very) lows over the years.
Thanks for everything @YouMeatsix pic.twitter.com/xrskaqfl2m

– Indigo (@mariia1996) April 5, 2025

The nod to the show “The Last Night of Sin” in 2012 was a previous instance where the band named a religious venue for 12,500 fans, but this week’s “The Last Night of Six” was also streamed worldwide, accompanied by a backstage documentary. Both are still available to watch until 2 a.m. on Tuesday (April 8).

With support from their longtime friends Xcerts and Brit-Punk disruptors Kid Kapichi, You Me at Six opened with three of their biggest hits, thrilling fans with “Room to Breathe,” “Loverboy,” and “Stay With Me.”

“Do we have some old school You Me at Six fans here tonight?” Frontman Franchoy teased the crowd before launching into the hit “Save It for the Bedroom” and the title track from their 2008 debut LP “Take Off Your Colours.”

“I don’t usually get nervous about performing, but I’ve had some kind of nerves for the last 10 days,” he confessed later. “I either quit or pushed through. Believe me, this is far from perfect, but I would rather die on this stage than cancel the show. I watched all of you in line from my hotel room earlier and thought, ‘wow.’”

Wembley responded to Franchoy’s call during “Living a Lie,” a number one from their album “Cavalier Youth” (2014), before “SUKKAPUNCH” sent the arena into a frenzy. The setlist displayed the evolution of You Me at Six’s sound over the past two decades, moving from emo and pop-punk roots to their current style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3olz1fioqo

“I want to welcome you all to our favorite part of the show,” Franchoy continued, introducing “Jealous Minds Think the Same” and “No Future? Yes, It’s True,” their collaboration with Reynolds from Enter Shikari. “This is called a 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 involved with the musical adaptation of Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds. There were surprises throughout the night, including Olyx from the Horizon joining the band for their collaboration “Bite My Tongue” last month (March 3) in Sheffield. Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro also surprised fans on Wednesday (April 2) by joining them to perform “Nobody Does It Better” at O2 Academy Brixton.

Towards the end of the show, Franchoy spoke of the gravity of the event, expressing “mixed emotions (I didn’t know how to convey what I was experiencing)” to his bandmates: “Five boys from the road who have spent the past 20 years traveling the world, playing our songs. Often in search of validation, acceptance, and sometimes – on special nights – love.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeh8MMBSYGK

Obviously emotional after performing “Fireworks,” Franchoy shared warm hugs with guitarist Max Helyer, reminiscing about how the band was formed 20 years ago. This was briefly interrupted by an acoustic rendition of Blink-182’s “I Miss You,” eliciting laughter from the crowd. “You know we have to pay Blink (fees) for this?!” he joked. “We give them money and retire!”

“The year was 2005,” he started. “MSN Messenger and Myspace were a thing. I attended a local show at the Waybridge Town Hall, and there was one person I spotted in the crowd wearing skinny jeans and a Drive T-shirt.

“I went up to him and asked, ‘Can you play an instrument? Would you join my band?’” he recalled. “We couldn’t be just two-year-olds, because that only works if you have royal blood.”

“He said, ‘My neighbor, Chris Miller (the guitarist), loves Dirty Sanchez and Jackass, and his favorite bands are Linkin Park and Rage Against the Machine.’ Now we need a drummer. I’m talking jawlines, abs, and push-ups for breakfast.”

As the clock struck 11 p.m., signifying the end of storytelling time, the band closed with their signature ballad “Take On The World,” the celebratory anthem “The Beautiful Way,” and three final tracks that began with “Bite My Tongue” and “Reckless,” concluding with the powerful “When You Were Young” as a tribute to The Killers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1FRN1M3CFW

“What are you all saying?” he laughed. “This is a real damn story about five losers doing something good with their lives … Thank you for allowing us to become your band. For taking us into your headphones, your homes, your hearts. There is just one thing left – please stand up for your national anthem ‘Underdog.’”

“I think our fans understood that this is a serious story,” Franchoy mentioned to NME last year. Therefore, ‘Underdog’ served as a fitting farewell for a band that is calling it a day at the peak of their powers, perhaps unexpectedly wrapping up their largest UK tour yet. Raising a glass to the crowd as he left the stage, the frontman’s last words were simple yet heartfelt: “We are dead. See you later.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmlubmapqlk

Setlist from the final show:

'Room to Breathe'
'Loverboy'
'Stay With Me'
'Save It for the Bedroom'
'Take Off Your Colours'
'Give'
'Night People'
'Fresh Start Fever'
'Directly to My Head'
'Living Lies'
'Nobody Does It Better'
'SUKKAPUNCH'
'Jealous Minds Think the Same'
'The Swarm'
'No Future? Yes, It’s True, Mixed Emotions (I Didn’t Know How to Tell You What I Experienced)'
'Fireworks'
'Reliability of Fluid' (Acoustic)
'Take On The World'
'The Beautiful Way'

On BIS:
'Bite My Tongue'
'Reckless'
'Underdog'

⚰ Well, this is the end .. ⚰

The final You Me at Six show. At Wembley.

Thanks for everything ✨

(Chuyuil in the next post, damn it because he allowed only 4 photos) pic.twitter.com/hilceu56vu

– Josh Price visualiz 📸 ⚒ 🇬🇧 (@pricevisuals) April 4, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1zd1vkvtfm

Speaking about their plans for life after You Me at Six, Franchoy told NME that three of the five band members are planning weddings. “There’s lots of talk about travel, or maybe starting families and such things. We’re still figuring it all out. Maybe there is nothing to figure out, and we’ll just go where the wind takes us.”

He added: “The idea that these four won’t be in my life feels completely unreal; it will never happen. I have no doubt we’ll stay connected, and we’ll do things socially. I’m sure some of us, if not all, will be even more creative.”

In a recent interview with Guitar.com, Helyer mentioned that he’s been working with the pop-punk trio Culture with which they opened the farewell shows across the UK and Europe.