SUCKAPUNCH lives up to its huge expectations.
Although the band found fame at a young age, their sound has matured as they developed as both musicians and lyricists. Now age 30, lead vocalist and lyricist, Josh Franceschi admits “A lot of my lyrics were metaphorical middle fingers [when I was younger]. I don’t want to do that anymore. I’m older, I’m smarter and the music from the boys was so unique, I felt I had to flip my writing to match that.” As the band has grown up, so has their music. It is without a doubt that
Come Out Swinging: How You Me At Six found their fight again
You Me At Six thought it was over, and it still might be. But with new album SUCKAPUNCH created entirely on their own terms, it’s rekindled a raging inferno that’s remained dormant for too long…
Words: James Hickie
Photos: Gobinder Jhitta
Josh Franceschi is frayed around the edges. No, really. You Me At Six’s frontman is sat in a darkened room of his London flat, a lamp on the windowsill providing spectral illumination in the background while his laptop casts an eerie glow upon his face, giving him the appearance of a man caught midway between worlds.
It’s easy to forget just how long
You Me At Six have been around, given that the band has an average age of only 30, which isn’t very old at all despite what social media might have you believe.
The Surrey quintet have been weathering the storms of the music industry since 2004 and in the years since their inception they’ve gone from teenagers putting their own spin on pop-punk, long before a UK scene would truly materialise around the genre, to grown men known for crafting arena-ready, radio friendly rock music.
Of the crop of british rock bands that they emerged with, You Me At Six are one of the few still left standing in 2021. This feat was made possible, in part by their willingness to constantly reinvent themselves by looking outside of the confines of whatever box they’ve been placed in at any given time in their career. Straying from pop rock and diving headfirst into heavier territory lead to 2011’s ‘Sinners Never Sleep’, an album that still stands as one o
“We’re guilty of finding reasons to leave the studio,” he told
NME. “When we’ve made records in Los Angeles, it’s like, who’s playing tonight? Which one of our friends is playing a gig that we can jump to? ”
“I think sometimes in the difficult moments of making records, we’ve had opportunities to get out and duck it. Whereas with this if you’re having a challenging day, where you feel like this song isn’t going anywhere or whatever the issue might be, you really have to face it and face it head on – which we haven’t historically done too much of.”
Aegean Airlines resume flights to Yerevan with discount sale
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Due to the Turkish-sponsored invasion of Artsakh by the Azerbaijani military and Syrian mercenaries, direct flights between Greece and Armenia, run by Aegean Airlines and Wizz Air, ended.
However, with the signing of the bitter ceasefire agreement on November 9, normalcy is slowly beginning to return to Armenia.
Aegean Airlines will resume flights to Yerevan from Athens on March 31 with discounted flights.
The discounted flights to Yerevan will be available until January 11.
If you are looking for an international holiday outside of Greece, why not consider Armenia and support the economy and people that have been devastated following the Turkish-sponsored invasion of Artsakh.