The album, which features the singles “Lived A Lie” and “Fresh Start Fever”, was released January 27, 2014 and marked the band’s first record to reach the number one spot on the UK’s official album chart.

The Surrey-based rockers, joined by fellow English alternative band Deaf Havana, will be hitting the road next February for an 8 date stint across the UK, starting in Wolverhampton.

YMAS UK TOUR 2024 CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF CAVALIER YOUTH PLUS MORE
We’re so excited to be bringing along good friends @deafhavana Sign up to our mailing list by 6pm tomorrow for access to our artist pre-sale, 10am Wednesday. General sale 10am Friday. pic.twitter.com/2vW55DQV4b

— You Me At Six (@youmeatsix) November 27, 2023

In an Instagram post by frontman Josh Franceschi, he informed fans this tour would be the “only UK shows next year other than our appearance at Slam Dunk.” The 33 year-old also prepared fans for the shows by saying: “With Cavalier Youth turning 10 we’ll be playing a bunch of that as well as some other heat.”

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You Me At Six’s latest release and eighth studio album Truth Decay, dropped on February 10, 2023, and saw the band celebrate their career as one of the UK’s biggest modern rock bands. Discussing the album, Franceschi said: “We are at our best when all five of us are on the frontline, living it and breathing it, all five of us swinging, putting our creativity into it. That’s what Truth Decay gives you.”

In other news, You Me At Six were recently announced as headliners for 2024’s Slam Dunk Festival alongside acts such as The All-American Rejects and I Prevail, with Pale Waves, Funeral For A Friend, Asking Alexandria, Waterparks, The Wonder Years and many more acts joining the lineup.

Fans who have signed up to the band’s mailing list by 6pm on Tuesday, November 28 will be eligible to get tickets in a pre-sale. The pre-sale will become available at 10am on Wednesday, November 29. General ticket sale will commence on Friday, December 1 at 10am. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.

Tour dates:

09/02/2024 – KK’s Steel Mill – Wolverhampton
10/02 – UEA – Norwich
11/02 – O2 Academy – Bristol
13/02 – O2 Academy – Oxford
14/02 – Town Hall – Middlesborough
15/02 – P&J Live Hall C – Aberdeen
17/02 – Mountford Hall – Liverpool
18/02 – Guildhall – Portsmouth

Lead singer of You Me At Six said in a press release about the event: “Looking forward to returning to Slam Dunk this year to headline the festival. Slam Dunk has given You Me At Six so much over our career & we’ve got a lot of special memories from performing there over the years. The line-up is stacked with great artists, so will be an elite one.”

Fans of You Me At Six, who released their eighth studio album earlier this year titled Truth Decay, shared their excitement over the news on X. One person said: “Already my favorite slam dunk”, whilst another person commented: “favorite band headlining my favorite festival.” The group first performed at the festival in 2007 alongside Paramore, Reel Big Fish and Mad Caddies.

Already my favourite slam dunk.

— Benjamin Franklin (@benmeatsix) October 25, 2023

Since 2006, the Slam Dunk Festival has celebrated rock and punk artists from all over the world. This year, the festival treated the audience to performances by legendary punk group The Offspring, British band Enter Shikari and Billy Talent. However, the festival received criticism over issues of health and safety concerns – including overflowing toilets.

In a report, Slam Dunk Festival organizers said: “Thank you for giving us the time to fully investigate the events of the Slam Dunk Festival 2023.  We have taken that time to work with our internal team and many external partners, firstly to work out why things went wrong and then find solutions and improvements for next year. Please let us be clear that we are not trying to pass the blame of anything to other people, we are simply telling the truth about what caused those issues, so you can be assured we have identified the problem and therefore are able to fix it.”

“We would like to stress that we take full accountability for everything that happened on the day, and we are so sorry that some people didn’t have the experience that they should have. We hope you give us the chance to change that.”

Organizers of the event have promised a change for next year’s show, including 25% extra toilets and additional taps at all waterpoints.

Confirmed line-up

You Me At Six
The All American Rejects
Prevail
Artio
Asking Alexandria
Bob Vylan
Boys Like Girls
Funeral For A Friend
Goldfinger
Head Automatica
La Dispute
L.S. Dunes
Mad Caddies
Mom Jeans
One Step Closer
Palaye Royale
Pale Waves
Pennywise
Røry
Set It Off
The Bouncing Souls
The Interrupters
The Selecter
The Skints
The Wonder Years
Waterparks
We The Kings

NEW YEAR, NEW BANDS!

We are very excited to inform you that @NeckDeepUK are your 4th and final festival headliner!

Also joining us are @cancerbats, @bronxovision, @thesummerset, @PointNorthBand, @momjeansca and @AsDecemberFalls!https://t.co/hb3406ieze pic.twitter.com/5cPE1PVM1z

— Slam Dunk Festival (@SlamDunkMusic) January 14, 2022

The festival suffered the same fate as all of its counterparts in 2020, however was one of the lucky ones in 2021; although dates were rescheduled from June to September, both Slam Dunk North and Slam Dunk South were able to go forward, featuring headliners such as Don Broco, NOFX, While She Sleeps and Don Broco.

As you can observe from the poster, the festival boasts an extremely exciting line-up this year. Sum 41, who were unable to attend the rescheduled 2021 festival, will be present, and are accompanied by UK pop punk titans Neck Deep, Celtic rockers Dropkick Murphys, and Canadian post-hardcore legends Alexisonfire. The line-up is an absolute dream come true for avid pop punk fans, as there will also be performances by The Story So Far, The Wonder Years, Knuckle Puck, Motion City Soundtrack and Pennywise.

Alexisonfire are not the only throwback outfit on the bill either; Canadian post-hardcore outfit Silverstein will be performing, having had their 20^th anniversary in 2020, along with The Used and American ska punk band The Might Mighty Bosstones. Another group who are a truly special (albeit a little niche) addition to the line-up is Hot Water Music, a post-hardcore/punk rock band that formed in the early 1990s.

There are also a fair few heavier bands billed, such as Canadian hardcore punk outfit Cancer Bats, Australian metalcore band The Amity Affliction, and German metalcore outfit Eskimo Callboy.

Slam Dunk Festival, associated with Slam Dunk Records, was formed in 2006 on a small-scale basis and was held at Millenium Square in Leeds, before being moved to the University of Leeds’ student union. Despite only being able to host a few artists in its early days, the festival still attracted a great deal of popular acts; for example Fall Out Boy headlined in 2006, and were accompanied by now legendary post-hardcore band Thursday. Later years saw the appearance of acts such as Reel Big Fish, Paramore, You Me At Six, Alkaline Trio and Taking Back Sunday, and the festival expanded from its small scale to hosting over forty different acts across six stages.

Stray From the Path drummer Craig Reynolds, who joined the band back in 2016, has been injured stopping him from being able to play his instrument. Forcing the band to drop out of the festival a few weeks before its due to start. This would have been the first show the band has played since lockdown started in 2020.

Reynolds stated on his twitter that he fell and cracked a couple of ribs and fractured the t9 vertebrae in his back. Continuing to say: “I am fine by the way, no sympathy please. It hurts but I’m absolutely fine”.

Wish we could be there. We will miss you @SlamDunkMusic – see you all in February with @BEARTOOTHband and @MIWbandhttps://t.co/JKf9S8ajgi

— Stray From The Path (@strayfromdapath) August 15, 2021

Whether or not this may cause problems as touring is set to begin again. It has not meant cancelling their upcoming tour alongside metalcore heavy-weights Beartooth, and Motionless in White, which heads out early 2022. Which will see them return to stage in London, Paris, and Berlin; among others.

The band is set on going to the studio to record their new album this year despite the news. An Album they have been writing on stream via Twitch. Although, no talks of setbacks have been posted online, it may be revealed later on, depending on the injuries.

You can get your tickets to Slam Dunk here.

Yesterday (July 22), the festival’s official Instagram account posted an update with all the relevant information regarding entry into the festival. Perhaps surprisingly to some or greatly received by others revealing that attendees will not need to be double vaccinated to gain entry.

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Headliners for the festival will include the likes of Sum 41 and Don Broco, with other big names on the bill such as Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, Alkaline Trio, Funeral For A Friend, While She Sleeps, Comeback Kid, The Story So Far, We Are The In Crowd, NOFX and many more. The Event has two editions much like Reading and Leeds with the North edition of the event, held at Temple Newsam in Leeds will take place on September 4, while Slam Dunk South in Hatfield Park, Hertfordshire will take place on September 5.

As seen in the post at least one of the following criteria would be accepted in order to gain entry:

• Proof of a negative lateral flow or PCR test result logged within 48 hours of the event OR
• Proof of immunity based upon a positive PCR test result, clear of the 10 day isolation period, logged within 180 days of the event OR
• Proof of double vaccination, with the 2nd dose received at least 14 days prior to the event

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged nightclubs and any large events to check for ‘COVID passports’ now that the UK’s coronavirus restrictions have been lifted. At a Downing Street press conference last week, he stated: “As a matter of social responsibility we’re urging nightclubs and other venues with large crowds to make use of the NHS COVID pass, which shows proof of vaccination, a recent negative test or natural immunity as a means of entry.”

The single ‘You Are All You Need’ is the band’s second track to have been released from their upcoming album, and the track talks about wanting and seeking validation from the people around. Sean Long, guitarist for the band, in a press release, said of the song, “We somehow managed to inject enough personal inspiration from each member for it to completely embody “the Sleeps sound” with ease. We are always trying to express a certain kind of emotion or internal insight and sometimes you really hit the nail on the head, expressing it how you imagined, and other times you miss it completely. Well, this time we hit it dead on with no room for speculation. The song says it how it is and reminds us to stop looking outwards for approval & validation.” Listen to the down below:

Long added that a video music is set to be released for the song and that the visuals for it are going to embed colour explosions from the beginning to the end, symbolising “the current state of tis dull, bleak world”. Long further said that the music video will have the colour “everyone needs to illuminate their spirits, even if it’s only for three minutes.”

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The band’s upcoming album ‘Sleeps Society’ is set to release on the 16th of April and is confirmed to have guest appearances from   Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley and Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil. The band have also been confirmed as part of the line-up for 2021′ s Slam Dunk Festival, which commences on the 29th of May. You can find more information about the festival here.