This is important.





You Me At Six frontman Josh Franceschi has appeared before a UK Parliament committee to discuss the secondary ticket selling market.



He criticised websites that automatically buy up large numbers of tickets for resale - at a profit - arguing that the 'botnet' software they use for this should be made illegal.



As reported by the Daily Telegraph, he said that, "There needs to be legislation. I'd like to see tickets only being sold through primary websites. There are a lot of derelict large music venues being shut down regularly because the business isn't going through those halls.”



"I feel like we made some steps today in a big way and...there's a lot of evidence to suggest changes should be made," he later told the BBC.



"The main point I wanted to get across is that I want transparency between the consumers and the sellers to live music. Ultimately I don't want to see the industry that I've grown up in and love, shy away from making the right decisions for the people who pump money into it and keep it afloat which is the fans of music."



You can watch him speaking to the Culture, Media and Sport select committee below:





"We’re trying to change the legislation to make it illegal for secondary ticket companies to buy, for some shows, thirty per cent of the capacity of the venue and reselling them at a hiked up price." Josh told NME in a separate interview.



"There’s been a growth in that part of the industry of over one billion pounds last year. It is illegal to tout tickets outside a venue but there don’t seem to be many people trying to give it a voice."



You Me At Six's new album 'Night People' is set for release on January 13 via Infectious Music.



They'll head out on a huge UK tour next year. Those dates are:



APRIL



03 - NEWCASTLE Academy

05 - PLYMOUTH Pavilions

06 - BLACKBURN King George's Hall

07 - DONCASTER Dome

10 - BIRMINGHAM Academy

11 - BOURNEMOUTH Solent Hall

13 - GLASGOW SECC

14 - CARDIFF Motorpoint Arena

15 - LONDON Alexandra Palace