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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 Want Babies To Be 'conceived' To Their New Album
By Clive King in Music / Festivals on 25 November 2016
Busted want babies to be ''conceived'' to their new album.
Busted want babies to be ''conceived'' to their new album.
The electronic pop trio - who have recently reunited - comprised of Charlie Simpson, James Bourne and Matt Willis, have admitted they are desperate for their fans to love their music and want people to have special ''moments'' when they listen to their comeback album 'Night Driver'.
Speaking to the Daily Star newspaper, Bourne said: ''I want people to have moments to our music. I want people have children to our music.''
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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
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.
The self-titled record, which will be distributed via Island Records, will be the first official McBusted release, but it'll also be the first album in general from all of the guys in quite a while. The last we heard from McFly was 2010's Above the Noise, while James Bourne released his Future Boy solo album in the same year as well. It's more of a musical homecoming for Matt Willis, however, as his last material came in the form of his excellent solo effort back in 2006.
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Charlie Simpson Says He Didn't See Busted Bandmates For Seven Years
By Lauren James in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 12 June 2014
New album, McBusted, and a wedding: Charlie Simpson discussed it all on ITV's 'Lorraine.'
Charlie Simpson has finally opened up on a few issues that have been plaguing him for years - namely, his relationship with his former Busted bandmates Matt Willis and James Bourne, who have since formed supergroup McBusted. Speaking this morning on ITV's Lorraine, the now solo singer and guitarist was happy to chat about his life lately.
On having recently re-discovered his friendship with Bourne and Willis, Simpson said. "I hadn't seen them for a long time, six or seven years, and it's been really nice. Almost rebuilding our relationship so I'm pleased - everyone is in a good place, everyone is enjoying doing what they're doing and it's all good."
However, Charlie made sure to point out that his 2005 departure, subsequent folding of the band, and seven years of not seeing Matt and James wasn't due to hard feelings between the group members. "There was never any animosity between me, Matt and James. They're doing the supergroup now and I'm really happy for them," he revealed.
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Meet McBusted: The 'Air Hostess' With 'Five Colours In Her Hair' [Tour Dates]
By Lauren James in Music / Festivals on 12 November 2013
Mcfly and Busted: two guitar pop camps unite for a UK tour. Can this work?
At first we thought it was a hoax now we're doing the Busted jump for joy at the news that early noughties boybands McFly and Busted are finally teaming up to bring us an entire UK 2014 tour under the portmanteau McBusted.
Back In The Day: Busted & McFly Were Rivals In Their 2004 Heyday.
McBusted will see the Mcfly line-up of Harry Judd, Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter and Tom Fletcher unite with two of the three original members of Busted: Matt Willis and James Bourne. Charlie Simpson, whose departure for heavier rock in 2005 caused Busted to split, will not feature in McBusted but he has wished his former bandmates success.
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Busted Plus McFly Equals McBusted: Coming To An Arena Near You
By Lauren James in Music / Festivals on 11 November 2013
Who hasn't dreamed of the day we'd get to year 'Year 3000' and 'Five Colours In Her Hair' on the same stage?
Suppress your squeals! Calling all fans of early millennial guitar pop: two of your favourite bands, Busted and McFly, are combining to form one powerful supergroup. The inventively named McBusted will be touring the UK next year with tickets on sale this Friday from 9pm.
Dougie, Tom, Danny & Harry Will Take On Two More Members For A UK Tour...
The line-up will consist of the entire McFly crew, Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter, Danny Jones and Harry Judd, as well as Matt Willis and James Bourne from the original Busted line-up.
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The Great Hip Hop Hoax Review
By Rich Cline
Excellent
Both engaging and eye-opening, this spirited documentary recounts an outrageous story with humour and honesty, revealing some nasty truths about the music industry in the process. The big issues are prejudice and greed, of course, but the film thankfully keeps its focus on a friendship that is pushed to the breaking point.
Billy Boyd and Gavin Bain first met in their hometown of Dundee in 2000, discovering that they had a mutual love of rap music as well as the talent to write and perform extremely catchy tunes. But record labels and performance venues just laughed in their faces: dismissing the mere idea of Scottish rappers. Then in a moment of frustration, they tell a London club that they're from Southern California, and suddenly everyone wants to hear more of their music. So they re-record their demo with American accents and create elaborate alter egos so they can convince everyone that Silibil n' Brains are partying L.A. skater dudes. Soon they have a big-time manager (Shalit) and a lucrative deal with Sony Records.
Filmmaker Finlay makes terrific use of Boyd and Bain's own video footage, capturing their crazy stunts and buoyant energy. We also see their skills as musicians in clips from their riotous performances. And we know that they have a bigger plan: to become superstars before they expose the hypocrisy in the music business. So it's fascinating to watch everything spiral out of their control. While living the high life and appearing all over the media, their debut album stubbornly refuses to come together, delayed even further when Sony goes through a restructuring. And it isn't easy living 24 hours a day as a fictional character.
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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