UK rock band You Me At Six have announced additional tour dates for their upcoming farewell tour of the UK and Ireland. The rockers had recently announced their split after having performed together for two decades. They had unveiled the details of the farewell tour last week and had also confirmed venues where they would perform. However, they have now added extra gigs in Cardiff, Glasgow, Dublin, Nottingham, Leeds and Birmingham, along with an extra London show at O2 Academy Brixton on April 2, just before their last-ever Wembley show.
Tickets for all the tour dates will go on general sale from May 31 onwards, and the tour begins at Dublin’s 3Olympia on March 7, 2025. The last show of the tour will be at OVO Wembley Arena on April 4, 2025. In a tweet, the band thanked fans for their support and announced their new tour dates.
You Me At Six’s UK tour dates also include their Belfast Telegraph Building show on March 8, Southampton’s O2 Guildhall Southampton show on March 15, and Manchester’s O2 Apollo shows on March 28 and 29. Some of the new shows include Dublin, Nottingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, and Birmingham, and the tour will have the final gig at the London OVO Arena Wembley on April 4.
During an interview, the band’s frontman Josh Franceschi had explained that the two-decade milestone had “always been our finish line” for the band. He further added that the band’s final gig would be “20 years to the day since our first-ever band practice, which is wild. It wasn’t even deliberate.” The band is expected to play for over two hours at their final shows and they aim to have around 40-50 songs rehearsed so that they can be mixed up every night.
With their split having been recently announced, their farewell tour is a chance for fans to bid the band goodbye and have a proper farewell experience. The band’s popularity had surged over the years and had managed to get several hits such as Save It for the Bedroom, Underdog and others on their name
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