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Emily Eavis: Glastonbury Acts Like Ed Sheeran Help Raise '£2million Every Year' For Charity
By Clive King in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15 June 2017
Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis says the headline acts, which this year include Ed Sheeran, Foo Fighters and Radiohead, help the iconic festival to donate £2million each year to charity.
Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis has praised Ed Sheeran, Foo Fighters and Radiohead for donating their feed to a £2million charity pot.
Headliners of the iconic music festival miss out on huge performance fees in favour of allowing Emily and her dad, Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis, to make a whopping donation to good causes every year and she says it is the ''absolute, most paramount'' aspect of the music extravaganza.
Speaking to BBC Radio 6 music, she said: ''The charity thing is the absolute, most paramount thing of the biggest importance, really. The most important part of the festival is the fact that we can give that money to charity. It makes it all totally worthwhile. We try to give £2million per year, and on a wet year it's harder because it costs more, but we give as close to £2million as we can.''
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McFly To Experiment With Next Record
By Clive King in Music / Festivals on 09 December 2016
McFly are feeling less ''pressured'' about the style of music they make for their next record.
McFly have teased that their new music could be a departure from their previous rock pop sound.
The 'Obviously' hitmakers - comprised of Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Harry Judd and Dougie Poynter - are feeling less ''pressured'' to produce a record of a ''particular'' style and so they've decided to experiment.
Tom, 31, said: ''There's been such a big gap between McFly's albums, that now we're at the stage where we're not tied down to a particular sound.
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Busted (Matt Willis, Charlie Simpson and James Bourne) perform at Free Radio Live 2016 held at Genting Arena - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Saturday 26th November 2016
Busted at Free Radio Live 2016 held at Genting Arena - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Saturday 26th November 2016
Busted Will Go On A UK And Ireland Tour Next Year
By Clive King on 13 October 2016
Busted are set to go on tour to support their upcoming album 'Night Driver', which will be released in November this year.
Busted are set to go on tour to support their upcoming album 'Night Driver'.
The British pop rock band - which is made up of Charlie Simpson, Matt Willis and James Bourne - are due to take to the stage across the UK and Ireland to perform their recent release in 21 shows.
The trio's pending concerts will start their tour in January next year, which will see them perform at London's Hammersmith Eventim Apollo on February 3, 2017, as well as other sites before finishing up in March in Dublin, Ireland.
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Busted band mates Charlie Simpson, Matt Willis and James Bourne outside ITV Studios. The trio will release a new single and album in the coming weeks and have announced a tour in 2017. London, United Kingdom - Thursday 13th October 2016
Busted Don't Want Their New Album To Be 'too Retro'
By Clive King in Music / Festivals on 05 October 2016
Busted don't want their new album to be ''too retro'' but are strongly influenced by the electronic sound of Diplo and Skrillex.
Busted don't want their new album to be ''too retro.''
The pop rock band, which is made up of Charlie Simpson, Matt Willis and James Bourne, are set to release their first single in 13 years called 'Night Driver', however guitarist Bourne is fearful the track will be too similar to their previous work and sound ''too throwback''.
Speaking to
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Charlie Simpson Rejoins Busted For New Album And 2016 Tour: All The Details
By Stephanie Chase in Music / Festivals on 10 November 2015
Simpson has also responded to criticism from Fightstar fans unhappy with his decision to rejoin his former band.
It’s a millennial pop fan’s dream come true! A decade after leaving Busted, Charlie Simpson has announced he’s returned to the band for a new album and tour in 2016. Simpson previously vowed never to return to the group after leaving in 2005, but it seems the singer has had a massive change of heart.
Simpson and his Busted bandmates Matt Willis and James Bourne announced the reunion at a press conference on Tuesday (November 10th) and confirmed that a tour and new album were on the way in 2016.
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All You Need To Know About McBusted's New Album
By Joe DeAndrea in Music / Festivals on 19 November 2014
McBusted finally has an album, and the track listing is more familiar than you'd think.
Only a year has passed since the epic announcement that former Busted members, James Bourne and Matt Willis, would join forces with UK popstars McFly, and its been a pretty wild ride for the McBusted group since then. It only makes sense now that things get even crazier as the band has finally announced their debut album, set for release on December 3.
“This tour could easily have been joyless and desperate,” said a review on The Guardian. “Instead, the show is fun and idiosyncratic, this six-headed pop conglomerate proving far greater than the sum of its parts.” McBusted, however, is without a third of the original Busted members. Charlie Simpson (unsurprisingly) opted not to take part in the McBusted festivities, but he at least got a decent sum of money to let them carry on the name. It isn’t stopping Busted in its current iteration to continue its juggernaut status that it had in the early 2000’s. McFly, on the other hand, seemed to be on their way out after a couple of dud albums, but it seems like McBusted is reviving both bands and making them better than ever.
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Mcbusted Announce Two Huger Than Huge Outdoor Live 2014 Summer Shows
Posted on27 January 2014
McBusted To Play 'Biggest Show Of Our Lives' At Hyde Park Next Year
By Holly Williams in Music / Festivals on 09 December 2013
McFly and Busted reunion tour sees them hit Hyde Park 2014 with special guests Backstreet Boys.
McBusted announce the biggest show of their careers as they prepare for British Summertime Hyde Park in London on July 6th 2014.
McFly and Busted have taken the world by storm since they decided to team up as McBusted (minus Charlie Simpson), so much so that they have been forced to extend their original 9-date tour next year to 32 dates, to their utter amazement. And things are only getting better for this newfound supergroup as they were recently told they'd be headlining at the British Summertime Hyde Park next year, with special guests fellow boyband Backstreet Boys.
They have been posting messages to their followers on Twitter about a major announcement, yesterday (December 8th 2013) revealing, 'We have HUGE announcement to make on Monday morning...we cannot wait to tell you about it!' and eventually confirming, 'Have you heard? MCBUSTED ARE HEADLINING @BSTHydePark on Sunday 6th July.... Tickets go on sale Friday at 9am!' Their combined Twitter account also saw various re-tweets from each of the band members expressing their insatiable excitement.
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James Bourne, Busted and Matt Willis Wednesday 16th April 2008 arrives at the High Court. Ex-Busted band members James Bourne and Matt Willis are being sued for royalties by former members of the pop group, Ki Fitzgerald and Owen Doyle, who left the band before their chart success. Fitzgerald and Doyle claim to have started Busted and written several of the band's hits and allege they were forced to sign away their rights. Three of the defendants named in the action, the band's former manager Richard Rashman, record producer John MacLauchlan and Rashman's management company Prestige, have already settled out of court. London, England