Enter Shikari’s Rou Reynolds & You Me At Six’s Josh Franceschi

Like most people, You Me At Six’s Josh Franceschi was first introduced to Enter Shikari via the hectic music video for his 2007 breakout track ‘Sorry, You’re Not A Winner’. .

The house party was filmed at guitarist Chris Batten’s house over the weekend while his parents were away. Of course, they didn’t give the young band permission to unleash all-around fury, and Enter Shikari would have gotten away with it if Rory Clewlow wasn’t chipping the ceiling with his guitar.

With the British rock scene in a very healthy state, it didn’t take long for Franceschi to form his own band. The two groups of his soon bonded while attending the Warped Tour, a grueling traveling music festival. Since then, Enter Shikari and You Me At Six have become mainstays of the scene, scoring Top 10 albums, selling out venues like London’s Alexandra Palace, and making regular appearances on the main stages at Reading and Leeds Festivals. increase.

talk among them such a friend video chat with NMEFranceschi explains that he has always seen a lot of You Me At Six on Enter Shikari. [they] Everything. “

“Sometimes it’s pretty obvious when you’re playing with a band that you don’t really like each other. We move as a tribe on You Me At Six, and it feels pretty similar.” [Enter Shikari] likewise. “

After sharing behind-the-scenes festival footage over the years, the two bands finally collaborated last year when Enter Shikari vocalist Rou Reynolds hopped on You Me At Six’s track “No Future?” . Yeah, that’s right’.

The collaboration began when Franceschi sent Reynolds “rambling voice memos” about working together, and after hearing the demo, Reynolds quickly agreed because he thought the track was “sick”. .

“It was one of the things that immediately made me realize what we could bring to the track.

Reynolds was in Chichester recording the Enter Shikari album A Kiss For The Whole World. In typical Shikari fashion, he was well behind schedule, but he “woke up one night and wrote the lyrics and made those little synth bits” for the song.

Franceschi has had “various” experiences in the past asking people for help. “‘Truth Decay’ was ultimately going to involve something very difficult. [to organise] After all, I didn’t want them on the album.people show off [the question] Or say yes strongly before you hear from them again.

“[Rou] ‘Buddy, this song is going to be a fucking joke. ”

The song is from Truth Decay, the album the band are trying to make “a quintessential You Me at Six album,” Franceschi said. sounds like

In contrast, Enter Shikari’s new album, A Kiss For The Whole World, was written “with excitement and relief” after Reynolds’s period of complete lack of creativity. “There’s no wayward six-minute prog-rock song. It’s short, sharp, and sweet,” he explains.

“It’s upbeat and full of energy, but it still has a very broad palette,” says Reynolds, noting that rather than feeling like the previous record in the catalog of the past, “A Kiss For The Whole World” is “a new record.” It feels like an era.

In the Friends Like These interview, the musicians also talk about playing with expectations, growing up, and their new album. Watch the video above.

You Me At Six’s ‘Truth Decay’ has been released. Shikari will release “A Kiss for the Whole World” on April 21st.