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\"Cavalier-Youth-Packshot\"<\/a><\/strong>Celebrating their tenth official year as a band, You Me At Six<\/a> just finished their North American tour in support of their latest release, Cavalier Youth<\/em>.<\/h4>\n

Released earlier this year, the British quintet’s fourth studio album has encountered recent success on the  Billboard Alternative Albums chart reaching the #22 spot. Moreover, their hit single, ‘Room To Breathe,’ has continued to dominate the Top 10 on the Top Rock Songs chart, peaking at #4 and lasting 26 weeks on the chart thus far.<\/p>\n

AltWire’s writer, Mattison Keesey, recently had an opportunity to sit down with guitarist Chris Miller before an acoustic performance at a pre-show meet & greet on October 17th. Read why Chris feels this album may just be one of the band’s best works ever in our exclusive interview below.<\/p>\n

AltWire [Mattison Keesey]: Cavalier Youth is your fourth studio album since 2008, how would you say your writing and recording styles have changed throughout the years?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Miller \/ You Me At Six:<\/strong> Hmm, they\u2019ve changed because we\u2019ve gotten older. When we were writing our first album we were writing music for the first time; we were 15- 17 so we were trying to imitate our peers at that point in time and trying to look up to our favorite artists. Over the years I feel we\u2019ve diverted and progressed as a band and started to find our own sound and really I think \u201cCavalier Youth\u201d is the beginning of where we are [as a band]. We feel comfortable with where we\u2019re at sound wise and what songs we\u2019re producing right now ourselves. It\u2019s just a natural progression as well because you\u2019ll hear from our earliest records that we had more of a pop-punky sound to where now over the years it\u2019s just transcended from that to being more of just a rock band instead of adding the brackets around things to classify it as a certain genre. I would say it [Cavalier Youth] is just a straight up rock record and I think over the years we\u2019ve really improved as we\u2019ve worked with some great producers now who have shown us different ways of writing songs and techniques of how you can \u2018learn to do this\u2019 and make the songs better.<\/p>\n

I think over our travels we\u2019ve developed all these characteristics and skills working with people that finally on Cavalier Youth we\u2019ve reached an album that we\u2019re all very happy with and we felt that we made a truly cohesive record for the first time. When we did Sinners Never Sleep people were confused because one minute you could have a song like \u2018Bite My Tongue\u2019 with screams by Oli Sykes from Bring Me The Horizon in it and then two songs later you almost have a ballad with \u2018No One Does It Better\u2019 or \u2018Crash\u2019 you know? Previously we hadn\u2019t listened to our albums and thought \u201cOkay cool if this is a new person picking up our album for the first time are they going to be like \u2018this is confusing\u2019 or will they get it?\u201d and I think that was our mindset for Cavalier Youth. To make a record that anybody could pick up and listen to and be like \u201cI get it\u201d. It\u2019s a complete work and I think we haven\u2019t felt like that before.<\/p>\n

AW: Absolutely, and I can definitely hear that on the album! Another thing I wanted to ask you as well was: Neal Avron, what was it like working with him? I see he\u2019s worked with a lot of great artists, and you guys chose to work with him on this album.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Miller \/ You Me At Six:<\/strong> We definitely had a few producers in mind, but Neal was our number one pick. We really liked the records he had done and as we were saying he\u2019s worked with bands like Linkin Park<\/a>, mixing their albums and producing and mixing Fall Out Boy albums and working with our friends in Yellowcard. He\u2019s done Switchfoot<\/a> and loads of different styles of bands. When we met up with him it was just an instant click between us and him and we felt that he was the right man to do this record because he was going to push us and he was going to make us go harder than we\u2019ve ever done before but still really enjoy what we were doing. He made us concentrate as to why were there as in \u201cyou\u2019re not just here to make another You Me at Six record, you\u2019re here to make the best one you\u2019ve ever done in your career so far\u201d. And at this point in time I definitely think we did that with him. And like I said earlier, he kind of directed us and helped us progress as a band and I think you can really hear that on this record moreso than any other record we\u2019ve done before. There was just a bond with Neal and the whole team, including him and Eric Tabler, who worked with us as well \u2013 he\u2019s an engineer on the record \u2013 and it was just a comfortable environment.<\/p>\n

We did drums at a place called NRG in Los Angeles, which is an amazing and famous studio that has done records with Limp Bizkit, Incubus and all that, but then we went to Neal\u2019s house and it was a lot different from a studio where it can be dark and dingy whereas there it was bright, you have windows and you see the daytime and I think that really lifts your mood when you\u2019re recording a record and you can hear that come out [on the songs]. Sometimes you get stuck in a dark, dingy studio and your settings kind of reflect on the record. That\u2019s what happened with Sinners for us we were in dark, dingy studios and I think it reflected on that, but Cavalier Youth is a far more positive record. The whole entire time from the writing process to the end of the recording process was enjoyable as hell and I\u2019d say Neal really improved us and benefited us a band.<\/p>\n

AW: It\u2019s interesting you mention Linkin Park, because at AltWire we\u2019re big supporters of the band so we we\u2019re actually already slightly familiar with Neal\u2019s style of mixing. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Miller \/ You Me At Six:<\/strong> Yeah definitely. From his work with Minutes to Midnight, that to us as a band was a big selling point because we wanted to sound like a big rock band and Linkin Park were one of those bands that growing up really did push the boundary and went to the next step and for us on our fourth record we felt like yeah we may only be 24-25 but we want to push it now. We\u2019re really hungry to be as successful as every other band and we\u2019ve had a taste of success in the UK and Australia and we\u2019re finally getting some love in America but we want to take that even further now. Before this tour we went to Manila, Singapore and Kuala Lumpor for the first time, which shows that our music is opening up to a lot more people now and I feel that maybe if it wasn\u2019t for Cavalier Youth perhaps none of this would be happening. So I could say thanks to Neal for that!<\/p>\n

AW: You guys also did a really cool string quartet performance with Dean Street Studios. In addition to all the acoustic work you did for the special edition, could we maybe expect a full acoustic EP in the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Miller \/ You Me At Six:<\/strong> It\u2019s definitely something we\u2019ve always talked about, as maybe doing an acoustic tour or potentially doing one of our CDs stripped back acoustically. <\/strong>I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the right time and place now as we\u2019ve been so busy \u2013 I think this year alone, we\u2019ve only had a month or two off and that\u2019s it so I think after all this we\u2019re probably just going to relax for Christmas and all that. But maybe in the future you\u2019ll probably see something from us doing something in that kind of vein. I know we\u2019re all interested in that side of us as well.<\/p>\n

AW: It\u2019s a softer side that some people wouldn\u2019t expect and fills a bigger audience so that would definitely be cool! Now, last year was your first US headlining tour. Going back in time, how did it feel to be away from home in another country for so long?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Miller \/ You Me At Six: <\/strong>Hmm, it\u2019s not the longest I\u2019ve been away but it\u2019s obviously because America is so big as well. Like there\u2019s a lot of land to tour in but you never actually are leaving the country. Where with the UK it\u2019s such a tiny island like three times smaller than Texas and we\u2019ll be going there in a week or two. With America you kind of get different flavors of everywhere. You can tell the difference between the West and the East Coast and the accents from the North to the South, and which area likes football and which area likes Ice Hockey and things like that. So I don\u2019t think it was in the vein of what you were talking about, as in being away for so long and growing worried about it. It was just nice to come over and do a headline tour over here and be away for such a long time but still maintain and be in one country. There are not many other places in the world where you can actually do what you do in America touring-wise. You\u2019ve got mainland Europe, but you\u2019re going into different countries every day whereas America is such a big place and mostly everyone speaks the same language.<\/p>\n

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“There are not many other places in the world where you can actually do what you do in America touring wise.”<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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AW: You know, I\u2019ve never thought about it way before, but that\u2019s a really interesting way to put it! <\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Miller \/ You Me At Six:<\/strong> Yeah plus you speak English as well. When you go to mainland you have people speaking French, German, and sometimes you\u2019ll be like \u2018I don\u2019t really know what you\u2019re saying\u2019 but here I get everybody and understand what everyone is saying.<\/p>\n

AW: Yeah I get you! So you guys just recently announced a co-headlining tour with All Time Low. Are you excited about it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Miller \/ You Me At Six:<\/strong> Yeah totally! We\u2019re looking forward to touring with those bands again. The last time we played with them was Spring Fever and I think we\u2019ve got different fanbases, but we\u2019ve got similar fans as well and then fans who do like both bands. For us ever since we did that Spring Fever tour we were like \u2018we should do this again\u2019. We thoroughly enjoyed it, we saw how much fun we were having and we felt like both our bands really worked well together in a show. That was the whole point of taking it to the UK as well as they saw the Spring Fever Tour and thought \u2018why don\u2019t we get that over here?\u2019 We talked about it for a while with All Time Low and now we\u2019re going back out on tour with them. So it\u2019s nice to actually tie the knot as one would say and make it happen.<\/p>\n

AW: Great! So do you think this tour might make its way to the states? Or is this more kind of UK only?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Miller \/ You Me At Six:<\/strong>  I don\u2019t know to be honest with you. It depends on really what goes on next year with our schedules. We\u2019ve got plans at the moment, but I don\u2019t know if we\u2019re looking at another tour like that over here or supporting somebody else or trying something new. I think we can\u2019t really see what happens over the next couple of months for us a band. We\u2019ve had very good success at radio to say for the first time with Active Rock and now it\u2019s going into Alternative as well and it\u2019s only our first single so if it ends up breaking out of Alternative as well, the options might be endless. There could be different things we could do, so for us we love doing those kind of tours, we just have to weigh up our options as well and see what happens next year.<\/p>\n

AW: Lastly, the band has been running a Spotify #perfectplaylist contest. What inspired the idea behind doing that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Miller \/ You Me At Six:<\/strong> As a musician or as a touring artist I don\u2019t think you ever stop listening to music and you\u2019ve always got to have a playlist that goes on either before you play or after you play post party or pre-party or traveling music and for us it just shows the people what our music is all about and that we don\u2019t have a narrow-minded sense of \u2018oh we only like one style of music\u2019. We\u2019re very open across the board to different styles of music. We all love hip-hop<\/a> we all like rock we all love indie we all love pop punk the list of genres can go on and on and on. So I think this just shows people what we actually listen to and also keeps them up to date as well.<\/p>\n

AW: Gotcha! Well you have a show to do so we have to wrap it up! <\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Miller \/ You Me At Six:<\/strong> Yes! Sorry Gentleman!<\/p>\n

AW: Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Miller \/ You Me At Six: <\/strong>No worries! Pleasure speaking with you!<\/p>\n

Listen to the band’s hit single from Cavalier Youth, “Room To Breathe” Below:<\/h1>\n