Tracksuit bottoms, Nando’s and falling off the stage: Life on the road with Josh Franceschi

You Me At Six frontman Josh Franceschi lifts the lid on the highs, lows, creature comforts and tour-bus weirdness of a travelling band… The thing I have to have on tour is… “Tracksuit bottoms. I have sharp clothes for onstage and going out, but for long drives and flying around, it has to be tracksuit bottoms. Are they fancy ones like Korn wear? No, but they’re really comfortable.” The longest journey we’ve ever made for the least reward was… “After our Hatfield shows this summer, we had [German fest] Rock am Ring the next day. We travelled for about 28 hours, and when we got to site we’d missed the majority of our show. We had to basically run out of the bus and go on. We managed about three songs. I even think Weezer​’s crew helped our guys set everything up, and...

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