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THE BEST WE CAN BE
THE BEST WE CAN BE

which, there’s no real rhyme or reason why we took so long to make the record… We walk away from it all and be proud of what
people behave a certain way or don’t honour took that long to make the record because we’d done. But sometimes in life you rely on
contracts a certain way or whatever it may that’s how long it took us to put together the people around you that have experience
be. My main thing was that I didn’t want to songs that we were truly happy with and of that and that self-doubt, whether it be the
look back at my life… Essentially all of my proud of and that we wanted to release, but instruction of working with and alongside
teens have been dedicated to music but now for me, individually, there was certainly a Korda Marshall, which I’ve really enjoyed be-
the majority of my 20s has and I didn’t want moment in time when it was very much look- cause I think he’s got a very calming influ-
to find myself in a position where I resented ing like I was not going to be making music ence; certainly a great man and well
my past when I looked back on it, and where with You Me At Six again, or making music, respected in music, and even working along-
I allowed myself to be constantly stressed period. And that’s nothing against the other side Jacquire.”
and tired and not in sync with my friends and lads in the band; they know that there’s no The band recorded ‘Night People’ with
family.” distortion around that, it was just that I Jacquire King at Blackbird Studios in
He looks back and continues, “There wasn’t happy and I didn’t think that music Nashville.
was certainly a period of time… the reason would make me happy, so I was willing to “My fiancée and my mom and dad and

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