Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes has joined You Me At Six on stage in Sheffield for a version of their collaboration ‘Bite My Tongue’ – watch below.
The Surrey band were playing at the city’s Octagon Centre on Monday night (March 3) as part of their ‘Final Nights Of Six’ farewell tour that will see them bring the curtain down on their two-decade career.
As they returned for their encore, they were unexpectedly joined by hometown hero Sykes, for ‘Bite My Tongue’, the song he provided guest vocals on when it was released back in 2011 as part of YMAS’ third studio album ‘Sinners Never Sleep’.
Watch fan-captured footage of the moment here:
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It skipped when I started screen recording but WTF OLI SYKES PERFORMING WITH YMAS TONIGHT
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Josh Franceschi and Oli Sykes (Bring Me The Horizon) captured on stage together for one of You Me At Six’s final performances.
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In early 2024, You Me At Six announced they would be splitting after this farewell tour, and they later shared their plans to hold “wakes” ahead of the final shows where fans “can come and celebrate and say goodbye” to the band. The final dates include a show at London’s Brixton Academy on April 2 before a final blowoff on April 4 at Wembley Arena.
NME previously spoke to the band about the split, with frontman Josh Franceschi explaining that the two-decade milestone had “always been our finish line” for the band.
“This is like our childhood crush, that we’ve been together with for 20 years and grown up alongside,” he continued. “But it is so much bigger than us five. It’s completely out of our hands what this band means to others. Let’s have the opportunity to say goodbye properly, versus slipping out the back door.”
As for what to expect from the farewell shows, Franceschi told NME: “We’ve worked out that our final gig is going to be 20 years to the day since our first ever band practice, which is wild. It wasn’t even deliberate.
“The UK tour is gonna be pretty mad. It’s a couple of months until we announce those dates. We’re looking at going to America, Europe, Australia, and Japan.”
Elsewhere, Sykes’ Bring Me The Horizon recently spoke to NME about their cover of Oasis’ ‘Wonderwall’ and how they were caught off-guard by Liam Gallagher’s approval of it.
“It’s a good song, it’s actually one of my favourites. Top five,” Sykes explained. “We always usually cover stuff that no one has ever heard of, so we were like ‘Now let’s try to reimagine something that everyone knows. Make it easy for ourselves’. It came out alright I think! It was crazy that Liam didn’t slag it off to the high heavens…”
Drummer Mat Nicholls continued: “[We grew up] listening to them, definitely. It’s hard to ignore them, especially being our age, because Oasis are a British staple.
“We were expecting [Liam] to absolutely rinse us, but he said some actually nice things! It was cool and I think it went down as good as we wished it could.”
Bring Me have also been confirmed to be headlining Reading & Leeds 2025 alongside Chappell Roan, Travis Scott, and Hozier. Although they have played at the twin-site festival several times in the past, their only headline appearance to date was for their epic set back in 2022, when they shared top-billing with but played before fellow Sheffield band Arctic Monkeys.
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