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The Busted Experience, Everything I Knew, · Galaxy Crashers: The Busted and McFly Podcast

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  Hello and welcome. You're listening to Galaxy
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  Crashers, The Busted, and McFly podcast.
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  The only podcast where the 2 worlds of Busted and McFly
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  collide. Hosted by us 2 mums who love
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  naughties, nostalgia and nonsense.
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  I'm sham. And I'm Tay, and this week we've
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  got super exciting episode coming up.
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  But before we let you into all of that, we should probably
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  catch up as we usually do. Shan, how are you this week?
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  Oh yeah, yeah, I'm all right. Actually not been up to much
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  really my life. That's a surprise.
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  Phrase not been up to much. It was it was my mum's birthday
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  this week so we took her out for a really nice lunch.
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  Birthday bet. Oh I there we go.
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  Happy birthday nanny hedgehog. I say.
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  It was nice. We we were waiting for her for a
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  while. So our car's gone in for its MOT
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  and it's failed. Nice.
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  So we don't have a car at the moment.
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  So I had to get the bus in and I live in the like shit end of
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  nowhere. So the buses are every three
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  hours. So we were really early.
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  So I took the girls for a really nice breakfast.
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  We went to Boston Tea Party and had like I had like this whipped
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  feta on avocado and sourdough. It was lovely.
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  I saw the photo. Of this, it looked really yummy.
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  It was phenomenal, it was so good.
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  But then by the time mum got there no one was hungry so we
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  just took her to Spoons. So we had this lovely, really
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  nice fancy breakfast and then took mum for a jacket potato at
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  Spoons. I mean, I love her spoons, so
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  that's a win. Win.
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  I know she. Yeah.
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  Well, yeah, to be fair. But yeah, it was really nice.
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  The kids love Nanny Hedgehog. They're like, obsessed with her.
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  Yeah. And then apart from that, we've
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  just been gardening really and and going on play dates.
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  Isn't it really nice when you get on with your kids, friends,
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  parents? Oh, absolutely.
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  I mean, it's kind of the other way round for me.
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  It's like my friends bring their kids and we force them to play
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  together because Marley, so he's still so young.
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  She doesn't have friends yet because she doesn't really,
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  like, go to school or anything. So.
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  Oh yeah. But yeah, I get it.
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  I get it. How about you?
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  What have you been up to? Not much really.
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  I have had a little crystal market this, well, a market this
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  weekend where I went to sell my crystals and I made a grand
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  total of 2 lbs which was absolutely oh.
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  Nice, breaking that money market.
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  Oh yeah, see, this is happening to some.
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  You lose them. Sometimes I do a market and I
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  make like 6-7 hundred pounds. I think my best day I made 1200
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  lbs in one day. And then you do others and you
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  make 2 lbs. So it's just life balancing out,
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  you know, giving and taking a little bit.
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  But I went with a really good friend of mine.
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  She's my crystal bestie. I call her, she's called Sophie.
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  She is Puffin underscore rocks if anyone wants to check her
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  out. She's fantastic.
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  So it was lots of fun, but very little money coming in from it.
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  But yeah, it was still a nice day.
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  And then we had a little birthday party as well on the
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  weekend, which was nice. Marley's friend Finley turned 2,
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  so we went to the soft play which was fun for all of her and
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  really other than that it was just like a really normal week.
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  But this week is like so exciting because I'm off to see
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  young blood on. Saturday.
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  I'm so jealous. Joked about.
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  I'm so jealous. Yes, so emo me is geared up and
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  ready to go. I've ordered the corset, I've
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  ordered the little choker with. Brat.
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  Oh my God, look at you go. I was saying about I've got
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  little chains to hang from my belt.
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  I'm I'm in it, I'm in it, in it to win it.
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  So yeah, a very exciting. I love that for you.
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  But we should talk about this weekend, what's happening right
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  now because we are so, so excited.
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  We are joined by brand new tribute act this week and they
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  celebrate one of the greatest naughties bands of all time 1 as
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  well. Two Galaxy.
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  Exactly. Please welcome to Galaxy crashes
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  podcast, the busted experience. Hello, good guy.
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  Hello, hello. How are you doing?
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  All right. We are good, thank you.
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  How are you? Great.
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  Very well. Very well.
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  Very excited to be here. Thanks for having us.
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  Yay. Oh.
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  So happy to have you and it's really nice because we've had
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  the McFly side of tribute acts. Now we get the Busted side.
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  Nobody can say that we love one band more.
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  Than the best side. Yeah, well, the best.
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  You've had the rest. Now meet the best.
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  I'm joking. Obviously, obviously.
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  So if this is your, this is your chance to introduce yourself,
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  tell us who you are. Tell us a little bit about your
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  band, how the band started, and, yeah, a little bit about what
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  you've been up to. OK, well, I'm, I'm Matt.
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  I am essentially I'm Charlie in the busted experience.
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  Mr Simpson. That's the one, yeah.
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  And I'm Jay. I'm James Bourne of the band.
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  And then we've got Jake who plays Matt is not here at the
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  moment, but yes, so the three of us.
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  And then we have actually got a permanent drummer, which we will
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  shout out woo Hoo. So his his name's Rich and yeah,
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  and he is very, very good. Just.
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  As we call him at the shows, Richard.
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  Richard, yeah, he's, yeah, He's just as if, just as just as, if
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  not more important than us, probably.
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  He's a wicked drummer. Yeah, really good.
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  So and the. Band needs a drummer.
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  They do. They do.
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  He's and busted. Definitely.
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  And actually the setlist that I've got on my wall behind me
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  was handed to me by the the Busted drummer at the gig, which
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  I absolutely loved. He was.
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  There we go. Eddie Thrower.
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  Eddie Thrower? What A drummer, Yeah.
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  He came over to me and was like handed me.
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  He pointed at me and then gave the the set list to the security
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  guard and he like made sure I had it.
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  So, you know, obviously, I'm sure.
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  That he's in love with the I'm sure that the 10 year old girl
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  who he was actually pointing out wasn't disappointed at all.
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  When you took me. Stole it off the security guard.
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  Have you framed it? Snatched it off.
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  I I didn't. Frame she has.
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  Already in. It's in like a gaffer tape, but
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  it's behind me and it's just stuck to the wall.
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  Yeah, I love it. It's absolutely great.
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  It was a great sat there. So yeah, why not love it looks
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  like. Great songs.
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  Yeah, they were. It was an amazing show, but
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  we'll get to that because we'll talk a little bit about that
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  later on. So my first question for you
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  guys is how did the band start? Sort of Why did you choose
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  Busted? What sort of made it all come
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  about? Carl, there's a you're going to
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  have to condense. Yeah, to condense this one.
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  Right, I'll, I'll try and make this Long story short.
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  You get like, but I've I I was the one who basically started
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  the band. I'm James Bond of this, But when
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  I originally started, I wanted to be the bass player and I
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  actually spent I I spent probably about four years trying
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  to find members and for some reason no one wanted to do
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  busted. So then I.
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  I know. Yeah, so and then I, I was in
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  another band at the time. We was just doing like emo
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  covers and I was a drummer in that band because I was getting
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  so bored of being behind the kit.
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  I wanted to be at the front. I started taking my acoustic
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  guitar to the shows and started doing things in between the
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  breaks. And then I'd done the song Meet
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  You There. And I was like, what if, what if
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  I go on guitar and try and try and find a bass player and
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  everything. And then, yeah, found a bass
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  player, went through a few members and everything.
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  And then when the the when the original bass player started two
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  years later, we now have the proper line up and I couldn't be
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  more happier. Oh nice.
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  That for you, I love that wasn't wasn't one of the wasn't one of
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  the the McFly boys in your band originally?
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  Yeah, so Sam played drums originally and then he's
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  defected. So but yeah.
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  And it's yeah. And so from my from my point of
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  view as well, it was so I basically saw an advert on like
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  join my band and I'd wanted to do, I'd wanted to do something
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  like this for for ages. I actually put on, I put on AI
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  put on a gig for my son's birthday when he was 8 and did
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  some McFly, McFly and busted covers with some friends, like
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  with friends of mine who I'm in another band with and they and
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  that just kind of got me that kind of got me that I was like,
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  I'd love to do that. I reckon it'd be really good
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  fun. And yeah, it just so it
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  happened, saw the advert, answered the advert came along
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  for the audition and then what was it?
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  4 weeks later We played, we played the first show like, like
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  with me with me and it sort of thing.
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  And then it's gone on from there.
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  And yeah, we've, we've really like sort of solidified the line
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  up sort of more recently, but we're 100 percent, 100% and
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  it's, yeah, it's really, really, it's really, really game places.
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  So yeah, we're really excited. Nice, I love it.
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  I absolutely love it. We we check out your socials a
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  lot. We we I'm trying to be better on
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  TikTok. This is where I find you guys
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  most of your content on TikTok because we're rubbish at TikTok,
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  but we really do try. It's a wonderful video.
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  I think it was who's who's David you were doing in your video
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  that you posted today. Is that right?
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  That's right, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  Love that. Absolutely love that.
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  And I was like in a public place.
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  I had it in my ear and I was just like listening to it
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  through the speaker of my phone. Just started.
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  Singing so bad. Did you?
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  Yeah, it's joined in. I can't help it.
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  I literally can't help myself. So one of our other questions,
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  Shan, do you want to ask the next one?
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  Oh yeah. So what was your first ever like
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  busted memory or gig that you've been to?
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  They can start this because he's he's OG.
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  Well, the first band I ever saw, the first band I ever saw live
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  was Busted with Real Instruments because before then, before then
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  it was like blazing squads. And yeah, that was the first
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  band I saw. And then, I don't know, I've
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  just loved Busted ever since, so.
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  So. Much and I are.
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  Day daughters so. Yeah.
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  And so I got into, I got into sort of late, weirdly, the first
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  time I saw Charlie play play guitar was actually when I was
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  at uni. And just as he, just after he
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  left busted obviously he started up Fight Star and they happened
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  to be playing down in Portsmouth, in Portsmouth where
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  I was at university. And yeah and so I went to their
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  first tour and saw him there. But then, well, just just
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  generally had an interest in the songs for for ages really.
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  And obviously when they're not around, you listen to them more,
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  don't you? Do you know what I mean?
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  It was such a what feels like forever feels like ages that
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  they weren't there. And then, yeah, then the MC
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  Busted thing happened. And I thought about getting
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  tickets to the tour and didn't. And then they announced that
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  Hyde Park show. So I said to my wife, I was
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  like, right, we're going. And we went to that.
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  And that that that was that was the start of it, really.
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  And I've seen them a fair few times since then.
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  I got to go to when they did the they did the when they released
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  halfway there, they did some release shows at the 100 Club in
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  London and it was like 2 hundreds, 200 people.
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  And it was like I think they did, they ended up doing like 3
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  shows or something, but it was about 200 people in there.
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  And we got to go to we managed to get tickets to one of them,
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  which was which was wiki. It was like they were.
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  Everyone went on the stage, no. No, no.
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  But it was one of them. Like no phones, you can't have
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  anything because they were playing new songs and things
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  like that. So really, really cool.
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  That's so cool. So cool.
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  So my next question for you is why Busted?
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  I know you said that you both, you both like the band, you're
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  both sort of early, you know you like them from early on, but why
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  Busted was were there ever, were there ever any talks about any
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  other kind of tribute band or every any other sort of bands
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  that you liked that you thought would work well tribute wise or
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  has it always been Busted? I just from my point of view,
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  it's, it's a really weird one. I've been in like original bands
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  since like for years and, and actually probably there was a
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  time when I would have been like, no, I never want to be in
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  a in a tribute band or a cover band or anything like that,
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  because I never thought I'd get the same like that, that buzz of
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  obviously playing music to people, especially when it's
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  then your music was what was what I was what I sort of
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  really. And I, and I obviously I still
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  do that now and I still really enjoy that sort of things that,
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  but weirdly I, yeah, I just, I enjoy playing this.
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  I enjoy listening to the songs. I enjoy playing the songs.
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  And then The thing is, it's what's what you find interesting
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  is you know that people are going to know the songs.
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  The key really is to get them engaged.
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  And that I love that. I kind of really, I really enjoy
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  the challenge. So when you're in an original
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  band and you're going out and playing in a in a pub or
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  something, not only have you got to hope that people are going to
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  stay and watch, you've also got to try and convince them that
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  songs they don't know they can get involved with, they're not
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  there. To see the band, are they?
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  No, it's just totally different situations.
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  Whereas whereas with, with this as well, it's like, well, you
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  can just like, you know, they're going to know the songs because
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  they come, they come to watch. You've just got to try and get
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  them involved. And I, I quite enjoy that, that
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  sort of challenge. It's it's probably where we
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  divert slightly from, you know, the sort of the busted tribute
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  thing. And we're, we're a little bit, I
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  guess put our own spin on it to some degree and I'll get it.
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  I'll get in the crowds. I'll, you know, I'll get people
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  to get off their seats and, and, you know, and you know, that
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  sort of thing. And it's.
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  You bring the energy, it's pretty.
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  Chaos. We try to, we try to make it a
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  party. Yeah.
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  Rather than like, you know, there are some situations like
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  where the band, you're the crowds, like sit there and
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  watch. Stand there and watch, yeah?
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  Absolutely. We're not like that.
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  We're like, you know, we love that the stage big enough, we'll
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  get everyone on the stage A. 100%.
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  I love that. That's so cool.
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  Yeah. That sounds right up our street.
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  I think we definitely need to get a show, a show visit
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  organised and it just sounds too.
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  Fun for this. You won't get Taylor off it.
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  You won't get Taylor off the stage.
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  Don't invite that. I love it.
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  That's fine. Yeah, that's fine.
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  I could do in a break every once in a while if you want to come
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  and sing something. Absolutely.
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  And you know, I know all the words, so don't panic.
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  And the drummer will. Be a cowbell.
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  As well. Yeah, yeah.
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  And also so another question is what's your favourite busted
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  song slash member? What's your favourite member and
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  why? Why are they your favourite song
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  and or member? Go, Jay.
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  You go first, Jay. My favourite song would be got
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  what it's called. Brilliant.
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  Good start. You want to start that one
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  again. You love that song.
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  Reunion. Reunion.
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  I love reunion. I love Reunion and I'll tell you
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  what sucks such. A good album.
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  Like that? Well, I'll tell you what sucks
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  about songs like that, right? Yeah, is and I, I genuinely feel
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  like a song like that, unless a hardcore Busted fan are at the
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  shows, the general public or the average person's not gonna know
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  that they. Won't know it, no.
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  You're so right. The Travis, me and Shannon have
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  had this. We've had this conversation
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  about 90s because I love 90s. I think it's such a good song
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  and Shannon doesn't rate it at all.
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  So when we get to that album. Shannon, you can leave the call
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  now if you want that's. Fine, I know, right?
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  Someone. That knows what they're talking
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  about, Sheree. Found my new Co host Shannon.
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  So that's it. Done.
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  Yeah, When 90S comes round, just give me a call.
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  I'll be there. So good, such a good song.
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  It's definitely one of my. Favourites I can Reunion.
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  I feel like Reunion is one of those songs where like, even if
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  people don't know it, like, you know, if it makes your bum
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  wiggle, it's a good change. Oh.
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  So good, absolutely love that. There's a friend of a bum
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  wiggle. Do you know what?
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  On this podcast, sometimes things come out your mouth you
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  just wouldn't expect and there. You go, it makes you bum wiggle.
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  Jay Wilding, 2026, That's what's going on there.
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  OK, Matt, what's your favourite busted?
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  Song Oh, do you know what my my favourite song is?
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  Thunderbirds. And I know that that can be a
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  controversial one because people are like.
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  Taylor loves that song, but. I absolutely do.
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  You hate it, I. Hate it.
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  That's probably my way, no? Travesty.
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  Yeah, sorry guys. Should we just.
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  I know. Should we just cut?
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  I know why he. I know why he loves that song.
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  Why? Is it because you love
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  Thunderbirds movie? Yeah, because in busted songs
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  there's not many chances to do guitar solos.
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  Yeah, and I do do that this. Guitar solo in it.
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  That's me, yeah. So it's all about me.
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  Look at me, everyone. Look at me.
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  Yeah. I, I, I always love that.
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  I always love that song. I actually, I genuinely think
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  it's a it's a, it's got a really a really cool chorus with it.
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  And and I have to say, I suppose now, now that it's taken on the
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  different sort of side for us, I think it's one of the most fun
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  ones to play as well. And so I think that's and that's
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  really that's really then giving it.
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  And The thing is as well, even though people don't always know
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  it, they know Thunderbirds as in the concept, so they kind of
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  recognise it as well. So but yeah, I've just always
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  really liked it. I always thought it was a great
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  song the first time I heard it and it and it hasn't changed.
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  So yeah, I really enjoyed. That I agree with you.
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  When you've got the older people there, yeah, that don't know
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  busted, they're gonna know Thunderbirds.
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  It's just gonna take them. They.
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  Don't know that. Yeah.
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  Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I think for me, I rate it live.
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  I love it live. And we do this when we rate our
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  songs. We always give it like a a CD
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  rating and then like a live show rating.
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  And all the live show ratings are 10 out of 10 because they're
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  always 10 nominal live. I just I think, I think.
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  One of those skip songs for me, but it's not a bad song.
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  It's just not so I think the I think the 2.0 recorded version
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  is better than the original version.
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  What with McFly on the. No, no, no, the like the no,
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  just the one, just the one where they re recorded it.
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  I just think. That's one of the arguments we
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  always have is I really like the old versions, he really likes
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  the new versions. OK.
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  So I'll be like, oh, this goes like this.
• 18:20
  Jay, we we do this one. He goes no, actually if you
• 18:23
  listen to the 2004 version, it doesn't do that.
• 18:25
  I'm like, what's your opinion on the, what's your opinion on the
• 18:28
  re, the re recording of meet you there?
• 18:30
  Because they made that like a bit heavier, didn't they?
• 18:33
  That is wicked. Yeah, it's it's really cool.
• 18:35
  We love playing that one. We've actually talked about as
• 18:38
  well peek behind the curtain. We have talked about doing a
• 18:41
  version where we blend the two together.
• 18:44
  We might start and do like the first verse and chords off of.
• 18:47
  The Abbey Road version. Yeah, like the piano version.
• 18:50
  Oh. My God, stop.
• 18:52
  That's so we do like we do piano and acoustic, yeah.
• 18:55
  Oh my favourite of all time. My favourite.
• 18:57
  We haven't got there yet, but my favourite Busted song of all
• 18:59
  time is the Abbey Road Meet You There 110%.
• 19:02
  I would rank it above any other Busted song.
• 19:05
  So doing that, absolutely, I'm there for it.
• 19:07
  I wish I could play piano. Should be there should be on the
• 19:09
  stage with the cowbell the. Piano.
• 19:14
  Yeah, yeah, that over the over the Abbey Road version, just
• 19:16
  like really nice quiet piano, acoustic guitar Taylors in their
• 19:20
  gang, gang, gang, gang, gang, gang, gang.
• 19:22
  May well may I'm up for. It shows all about everyone
• 19:26
  having a good time, so is that. There we go.
• 19:30
  Sign me up. Yeah.
• 19:34
  It's time for this or that. If you're new here, where have
• 19:38
  you been? This is the section where we
• 19:40
  throw ridiculous choices at each other and our guests and nobody
• 19:43
  gets any time to prepare. So guys this if you've listened
• 19:47
  to the podcast, which I know you guys have, you'll know a little
• 19:49
  bit about how we do this or that.
• 19:51
  We usually try and give each other one a week, but we've
• 19:53
  chosen live for you, which we're very excited about.
• 19:56
  We've gone for Busted and we've gone for sort of some of them
• 19:59
  are songs, some of them are more general.
• 20:02
  OK, we're going to take a turn and I want you to trust your
• 20:05
  gut. Go with your first instinct,
• 20:07
  don't think too much about it, and then we can discuss after.
• 20:10
  Sound good? Yeah.
• 20:13
  OK, super. OK.
• 20:15
  So my first one is year 3000 air Hostess.
• 20:19
  Air Hostess. Year 3000.
• 20:22
  Oh, difference in opinion. Love that.
• 20:24
  We'll talk about that later. Next Sunshine.
• 20:27
  OK what I go to school for or crush the wedding.
• 20:31
  Crush the wedding. What I go to school for?
• 20:35
  I love. This is why, This is why you get
• 20:38
  the full Busted experience, because we between us, we like
• 20:41
  all the songs. It's fine.
• 20:43
  That's what we need. OK, love that next one.
• 20:46
  Three choices here. So it's this, that, or another.
• 20:50
  It is Team Charlie, Team Matt or Team James.
• 20:55
  Charlie. James Yeah.
• 20:58
  I love that. I mean, you just call yourself a
• 21:00
  loser, Team James. Loser.
• 21:03
  Brilliant, yeah. Perfect.
• 21:05
  Obvious answers for the guys that you play in the band.
• 21:07
  Love it, Shannon. I love that old school spiky
• 21:11
  hair busted or like night driver era busted.
• 21:16
  I I literally every question you asked, I know we're both going
• 21:19
  to say the other one. So Sanjay, you say the one that
• 21:23
  you think? Old school spiky.
• 21:25
  And I will be the night driver apologist and say I love Night
• 21:28
  Driver so sign me up. Thank you.
• 21:32
  Yeah, good album. Absolutely.
• 21:34
  OK, last one. Rusted ballads or chaotic punk
• 21:39
  ballads. Try again.
• 21:42
  Rusted ballads or chaotic pop punk bangers?
• 21:47
  Chaotic pop punk bangers. It's a mouthful.
• 21:50
  Isn't it Yay? One out of five, but I love
• 21:55
  that. Amazing.
• 21:55
  We didn't. Fail.
• 21:57
  We just had a no. No, no, just agree.
• 21:59
  Not the same. Yeah, yeah.
• 22:01
  I'll agree. To disagree, love that.
• 22:03
  Let's talk. Let's talk about those answers.
• 22:06
  So year 3000 or air Hostess, you both chose differently, which is
• 22:09
  amazing. Shannon, what would you have
• 22:10
  chosen? Year 3000.
• 22:16
  Such a hard 1 isn't it? I'm also year 3000 girl for
• 22:20
  breasted women. I will say I'm not.
• 22:22
  A fan I'm not a fan of. Go girls, you're not a fan of
• 22:27
  air Hostess? Did you just say?
• 22:29
  I don't think I'm a fan of either of those songs, really.
• 22:32
  Growing penis down the aisle What on earth?
• 22:34
  What, why? Why do?
• 22:36
  Not sorry. If you came to one of our shows
• 22:39
  though, yeah, it would change your.
• 22:40
  It would completely change. Hey hey live Every every song is
• 22:45
  10 out of 10 live. Every song is 10 out of 10 live.
• 22:49
  It's the album. It's the album.
• 22:51
  I think they're like, they're a bit more like Mickey and like
• 22:54
  fun and like silly songs, aren't they?
• 22:55
  Whereas like Busted do have a lot of those, but they also have
• 22:59
  a lot of songs that like are a bit more meaningful.
• 23:01
  But I love the like Mickey side of it.
• 23:03
  I think it's fun. OK, next one was what I go to
• 23:06
  school for or crash the wedding. Shannon, what would you have
• 23:08
  chosen there? What I go to school for?
• 23:12
  See, with versus, I'm crush the wedding, girl, absolutely crush
• 23:15
  the wedding. I'm with you, Matt.
• 23:16
  I'm with you at last I've. Got someone that agrees?
• 23:20
  I love crush the wedding. So good, so much fun, and so
• 23:23
  silly and like. Lyrically fun?
• 23:26
  Great. Song.
• 23:27
  It's good. It's a good song.
• 23:29
  Absolutely. But equally, what I go to school
• 23:33
  for is very, very nostalgic and very much like, hold on, the
• 23:38
  first. Well, I would be old version
• 23:41
  because I'm I'm old school. I love all the old ones.
• 23:46
  OK. I think for me, seeing them in
• 23:48
  their school uniform, like we were also in our school uniform
• 23:52
  at like the same time. So like we were definitely a few
• 23:55
  years younger, obviously, but we were looking at them like the
• 23:58
  cool older boys that they were. We just wanted to be part of the
• 24:02
  gang. So I think that was it.
• 24:04
  That was why I love the old school version.
• 24:06
  Really wanted to be cool. We were not cool.
• 24:09
  Let's, let's make that very clear.
• 24:11
  We we were not cool. Okay, ever see, have you ever
• 24:14
  seen interviews on Busted? They talked about the outfits
• 24:18
  they were originally was gonna wear in there and what James
• 24:21
  describes sounds ridiculous. And he was.
• 24:24
  Like Oh my God, I need to find not.
• 24:25
  Wearing that. Really.
• 24:28
  I need to find this interview. I love that.
• 24:30
  We'll have to we'll have to locate that one, Shan, because
• 24:32
  that sounds like a good one. The next one, obviously for you
• 24:36
  guys playing your individual people in the band, obviously it
• 24:38
  was quite easy for you to answer.
• 24:40
  So Matt, obviously team Charlie J, team James Shannon, you are
• 24:46
  team Matt, but team Matt all the way like.
• 24:50
  Team Matt all the way. I love it.
• 24:53
  We love Matt Willis. I'm very much team James Bourne.
• 24:56
  I just think he's the lyrical genius.
• 24:58
  I just think he is. There is no busted without James
• 25:02
  and obviously with the tour last year.
• 25:04
  He's he's very unwell at the moment, as we all know and it's
• 25:07
  just so sad and it's getting. Better.
• 25:10
  Well, from new updates, we know that something's in in the in
• 25:14
  the works and that hopefully he's getting better seen, but
• 25:16
  it's just not the same without him.
• 25:17
  They did a very, very good job of keeping that tour together
• 25:20
  without him, but it just it wasn't the same.
• 25:23
  Yeah, I'm definitely A-Team James girl.
• 25:25
  I love old school spiky hair. Busted.
• 25:28
  And also, can we remember Matt's like Purple He had?
• 25:32
  Didn't he have like plaible tips at one point?
• 25:35
  I thought the changes address the elephant in the room.
• 25:38
  Matt Williams had some of the the first hairstyles you've ever
• 25:41
  seen on a human just. Like like because James was the
• 25:46
  first Karen. James.
• 25:47
  Was. Wrong.
• 25:48
  Yeah, true, James. Was wrong.
• 25:49
  He was the first Karen. I always, I always look back
• 25:53
  when they did, when they did Mcbusted.
• 25:55
  I always wonder when the Matt Willis looked at it and goes,
• 25:57
  I'm 32 or whatever he was at the time and I've just had my hair
• 26:01
  done as a leopard and you think. It was green as well at one
• 26:05
  point, wasn't. It green, he's had streaks
• 26:07
  through it. When I saw him at Hyde Park he
• 26:09
  had some random blue streaks shaved into it and.
• 26:12
  That's but maybe that's why for it 'cause you remember all of
• 26:14
  them. But it's true exactly.
• 26:16
  Exactly, Yeah. I'm so here for it.
• 26:19
  I'm late for the colourful hair and I also really appreciated
• 26:23
  Tom's blue hair when he had his blue hair after that mcbusted.
• 26:26
  Girl. Oh yeah, I was.
• 26:28
  From McFly. I absolutely loved that love a
• 26:30
  bit but. Watched the I watched when he
• 26:32
  used to do do all the vlogging and stuff and I watched a couple
• 26:34
  of that and I watched him that that one where he actually put
• 26:37
  the the blue hair looked I just expected him to have like a
• 26:41
  massive blue hair. Or something like that.
• 26:43
  It was very bright. It was crazy.
• 26:47
  I loved it. I'm here for it.
• 26:49
  So I'm definitely old school spiky hair.
• 26:50
  Shannon, I imagine you're the same.
• 26:52
  I can't imagine your night. Driving around I'm exactly the
• 26:54
  same I I love a present for everyone.
• 26:57
  It's one of my favourite albums of all time.
• 26:59
  Great album. Yeah, I think it is brilliant.
• 27:02
  It's in my top five, probably my top five albums genuinely of all
• 27:05
  time. I just think, I think I my take
• 27:09
  on the Night Driver stuff because we've spoken about it
• 27:11
  before, haven't we, about whether or not we'd look at
• 27:13
  doing any of any of those sort of songs.
• 27:16
  In the setlist. And, and, and, and I, I just
• 27:19
  think as an album, I think it's a really great, it's a really
• 27:23
  great album. I don't necessarily know that it
• 27:25
  is. It's what people associate with
• 27:27
  Busted. Yeah, definitely.
• 27:29
  But I just think if you listen like from the beginning to end,
• 27:33
  if you just take it as like almost like a piece of music,
• 27:37
  it's in my opinion, it's undeniable.
• 27:39
  It's brilliant, but it's not. It's never going to have the
• 27:42
  energy. And I have to say, when I saw
• 27:44
  them on that tour, it was actually at times quite jarring.
• 27:48
  They play like air Hostess, be jumping around and then they
• 27:51
  play night driver and you go, alright, I'll sit down for this
• 27:54
  one then, shall I? Do you know what I mean?
• 27:55
  It was that sort of, but I think.
• 27:56
  I went to the night driver tour as well.
• 27:58
  I completely agree with that, yeah.
• 28:00
  It was definitely still really good, obviously still.
• 28:02
  Good, I just. Think it's still good?
• 28:04
  Yeah. I just think it's.
• 28:05
  But I love the I love the album. I think as an album, it's it's,
• 28:08
  it's amazing, but you can almost take it out of the catalogue
• 28:11
  can. You.
• 28:11
  Yeah, I think it was very much like a mixture of James's sound
• 28:17
  and Charlie sound. And it was when Charlie sort of
• 28:20
  came back in and like put all of his creative stuff back into the
• 28:24
  band and they were sort of trying to go with a different
• 28:27
  vibe that it worked really well for that specific type.
• 28:30
  But for fans that have been day dot fans, it wasn't the music
• 28:34
  that we were we were wanting from them, which is why when
• 28:37
  they're Meet You Halfway there album came out.
• 28:41
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're on the same way.
• 28:43
  But yeah, exactly. I honestly think you think as
• 28:46
  well the the the the muck Busted album could have easily been the
• 28:52
  Busted album that wasn't, you know what I mean?
• 28:55
  As in because I think it kind of it kind of follows the same.
• 28:58
  It follows if you go from like present for everyone.
• 29:00
  If you then did the muck Busted album, those songs would have
• 29:03
  made sense within the Busted cattle.
• 29:04
  So good as it was. Yeah.
• 29:06
  So air guitar the key. To that as well, is that the
• 29:10
  Muck Busted album? Quite a few of the songs on the
• 29:12
  Muck Busted album were actually written by James way before Sid
• 29:16
  came together, so I think that's a key thing as well.
• 29:19
  When James had his, I can remember James futureboyborn.com
• 29:23
  or futureboyborn.com, and I used to go on there and listen to his
• 29:28
  MP threes from my computer. Yeah, I didn't have the same
• 29:31
  downloads. Yeah.
• 29:33
  And that those songs were on there.
• 29:35
  I remember those songs being on there.
• 29:37
  On on YouTube as well, if you search better than I'm sure you
• 29:40
  have, I'm sure you've delved in, but on YouTube, there's a
• 29:43
  there's a demo of one-of-a-kind from night driver when it's just
• 29:47
  James and it's. So.
• 29:49
  He's written, he's written the whole thing already, didn't he?
• 29:51
  And I know that is it. Get Get over It.
• 29:55
  That was meant to be on Mcfly's sixth album that they didn't do.
• 30:00
  They've written that. They've written that already.
• 30:02
  See. I love Get over it.
• 30:03
  That's a great song. He also did Beautiful Girls of
• 30:06
  the lonely. Beautiful Girls of the Loneliest
• 30:08
  came from James's future boy born background thing as well.
• 30:12
  And what was the other one? Shannon, can you remember?
• 30:15
  It was what happened to your band.
• 30:16
  Be done with Son of Dork. What happened to your band?
• 30:18
  Yes, that was it. That was it.
• 30:20
  So we're hoping, because obviously there's not as many
• 30:22
  Busted albums as there are McFly albums.
• 30:25
  We're hoping that when we get to those points, we'll be able to
• 30:28
  do bit of Son of Dork, bit of Fight Star.
• 30:30
  Yeah. You know, and like Matt Matt
• 30:33
  Willis's solo I love lasted all of what, like 2 songs?
• 30:36
  Hey, leave my Willis. Hey, crossing line with
• 30:39
  powerless, we'll just play cameras.
• 30:41
  Was 10 out of 10. Yeah, we know you don't like
• 30:44
  Charlie. OK, I've got over it.
• 30:45
  Move on. You know, that's fine.
• 30:46
  We love Charlie. I love Charlie Simpson.
• 30:49
  I love Fightstar. I love President.
• 30:52
  I love Charlie Simpson. I think he's a legend.
• 30:54
  What is? He, I think he's great.
• 30:56
  Oh my God, did you not know? Did you not?
• 31:01
  See them? Australian Sydney, Yeah.
• 31:03
  You just ruined it for everything, yeah.
• 31:06
  OK, they need to be more careful if they want to keep themselves
• 31:08
  secret. Don't go to Australia's busiest
• 31:10
  airport with president stickers on your back.
• 31:13
  Also, maybe don't have the most recognisable voice in life.
• 31:16
  Yeah, he's got. Sarah yeah, Pete behind the
• 31:19
  curtain. My friend was in Australia when
• 31:21
  they were on tour in Australia and he went to see them at their
• 31:24
  only headline show they did which was in a pub in Melbourne
• 31:28
  and when they walked through the pub they all had the masks on.
• 31:32
  Oh, they committed it. They.
• 31:33
  Committed it 100%. But obviously not at the
• 31:36
  airport. I'll do that at the airport.
• 31:38
  Security with your president mask?
• 31:40
  Yeah. Exactly.
• 31:41
  Yeah, exactly. Gross.
• 31:43
  Yeah, I get it. Opens his passport.
• 31:45
  He's just got the president mask on.
• 31:46
  It's me. I mean, there would be some
• 31:49
  questions. Let's just leave it there.
• 31:54
  So we've been hyping you guys up on our socials this week and our
• 31:57
  listeners have a few very important questions for you.
• 32:00
  Yes, indeed. So we thought we would do a
• 32:03
  special Busted experience question corner.
• 32:06
  So that's our segmentation, right?
• 32:10
  So we're going to just sort of like, again, fire them off, but
• 32:12
  don't feel like you have to do too much explaining.
• 32:15
  Just give us a few like brief explanations.
• 32:18
  Otherwise, again, this, like you said, it will be a six part
• 32:20
  episode. Not that that's a bad thing, but
• 32:22
  the first question is what's your favourite Busted song to
• 32:25
  perform live? It has to dream reunion.
• 32:34
  Oh, love that. And I would say Thunderbirds or
• 32:37
  who's David? Ah OK, so similar to your actual
• 32:41
  favourite songs. Nice, nice.
• 32:44
  OK, cool, nice. Next one I love.
• 32:47
  That so which member do you most channel on stage do?
• 32:54
  You think it's your member? This is an easy one because like
• 32:59
  I do generally feel like everyone in the band kind of
• 33:03
  has, like they naturally kind of fall into place how the original
• 33:09
  member is if that makes. Sense.
• 33:12
  So like, we're not actually trying to be.
• 33:16
  We're not trying to be. There be there So.
• 33:18
  Happens to be. We kind of all have the same.
• 33:21
  Yeah, I'm tall and I've got eyebrows.
• 33:23
  Yeah, Like, you know, and it's like, you know, I'm sure you've
• 33:26
  seen videos of like, them playing live when like the way
• 33:30
  James just walks about and does silly stuff like.
• 33:32
  Yeah, I just naturally. Do that's you because.
• 33:34
  I just. Oh, no, that's amazing, though.
• 33:37
  You don't even need to put it on.
• 33:38
  Yeah, no, that's good. So you channel those, those
• 33:41
  members, but without even having to like, think about it, that's
• 33:43
  just who you are. On stage a little bit I.
• 33:45
  Love that, that's awesome. Amazing.
• 33:48
  OK, favourite Busted album and not too many to choose from, but
• 33:52
  there's a couple. I'm going to surprise you here.
• 33:56
  From. The halfway album.
• 33:58
  Halfway there, yeah. It's halfway there.
• 34:01
  Mine would be a present for everyone.
• 34:04
  Nice. Love that.
• 34:05
  Good choices, good choices. 10 out of 1010 out of 10 favourite
• 34:09
  deep cut. I don't know what count.
• 34:17
  I mean, what counts as a deep cut?
• 34:18
  I would say like losing you without you.
• 34:22
  Everything I knew is. Probably quite a deep.
• 34:25
  Cut. I like when the day turns into
• 34:28
  night. Yes, great.
• 34:31
  We just got we. That was last week's episode.
• 34:33
  Well, our last Busted episode was When Day Turns.
• 34:36
  You know you've listened to it. Yeah, we love that.
• 34:39
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 34:40
  So yeah, no, but I think that's, I think it's a really a really
• 34:43
  cool song. Cool, meet you there.
• 34:46
  The acoustic Grove is so good. Yeah, yeah, I am 10 out of 10
• 34:50
  here for that. Not that good choices.
• 34:53
  Amazing. What do you think is their most
• 34:55
  underrated song? I'm going to go.
• 34:58
  I'm going to go hard on this one, Nerdy.
• 35:02
  Oh, just Oh yes, nerdy again. So with this of.
• 35:06
  Course, but of course. Is undeniable.
• 35:09
  On that, you probably heard the episode where we actually talked
• 35:12
  about this already, even though we haven't quite got there.
• 35:14
  Do you think? Do you think the words are just
• 35:17
  because I'm nerdy and my friends are 30 or just because I'm nerdy
• 35:21
  and my friends are flirty? I think it's meant to be 30,
• 35:26
  which is depressing because I'm 40.
• 35:29
  So now it just says I've got those young friends.
• 35:32
  But yeah, yeah, yeah, that's me. That is literally me.
• 35:37
  There's a. Massive debate about this
• 35:39
  online. We literally literally went like
• 35:41
  overboard into it because there are no like official lyrics that
• 35:46
  like agree on the on the lyrics being flirty or 30.
• 35:49
  However, Busted did post a live version and they put in the
• 35:53
  captions the lyrics and they put 30, so we agree with that.
• 35:57
  Boston have said that it is. Because it it changes in the
• 36:01
  last chorus. And they say just because you're
• 36:04
  not isn't it don't doesn't mean that you're or.
• 36:06
  I can't remember. I remember.
• 36:08
  I remember what you mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 36:09
  But yeah, and then it wouldn't make sense if they were fled.
• 36:12
  Was the other way round. I think there's got to be two
• 36:14
  cents in there, aren't there? So.
• 36:16
  Absolutely. Good.
• 36:17
  OK. The other most underrated song?
• 36:21
  Loner in Love. Yes, love.
• 36:24
  That show a song. I literally listened to that
• 36:27
  just before we started recording today.
• 36:29
  Oh. My gosh, I haven't heard that so
• 36:32
  long. That's a that that for me.
• 36:34
  That's another song where I'd love to put in a live set.
• 36:37
  We eventually will, but obviously again, unless there's
• 36:42
  hardcore busted. The crowd pleads no.
• 36:44
  One's going to know it. Yeah, Yeah.
• 36:46
  So it's almost like playing an original song to everyone.
• 36:49
  Yeah, it's hard, isn't it? But sometimes it's nice because
• 36:52
  then you might have some people in the crowd that go, that's a
• 36:55
  cool song, haven't heard that before, like, and then go home
• 36:58
  and actually. Think about.
• 36:58
  Downloading it, that's how I've always thought if something's
• 37:01
  not popular, as long as the band plays it like to a high standard
• 37:06
  then people would enjoy it anyway it.
• 37:08
  Should be good. I suppose it would be like it
• 37:10
  would be like us going to a busted show.
• 37:12
  I love all the hits, but if they if they pulled something like
• 37:15
  that out of the bag or played something off of meet you that
• 37:17
  off of halfway there, you'd be like, Oh, this is I remember
• 37:21
  that show because they played that song.
• 37:22
  Because I remember when we did a show, we did a show a little
• 37:25
  while back. And when we do the slightly
• 37:28
  longer sets that we do, So I do why?
• 37:31
  But I just do it on acoustic. It's just me, just me playing
• 37:34
  it. And it can be a it can be a
• 37:37
  moment when it's like people are like, what the hell is this?
• 37:40
  And, you know, you know, when you at a big gig and you watch
• 37:41
  everyone go to the bar, you get a bit like that.
• 37:43
  But sometimes, like, they then look round and there are people
• 37:46
  singing it. So you're like, oh, well, you
• 37:47
  actually do know. Yeah.
• 37:49
  You do know that I just also puts the pressure on to get the
• 37:51
  words right. You know you.
• 37:53
  Go to Busted versus McFly. I did.
• 37:56
  I did. Yeah, they they obviously white.
• 38:00
  Oh, Jay. Oh my God, you missed out.
• 38:02
  You did go to. I'll be brutally honest with
• 38:05
  you, I don't know a lot of McFly songs.
• 38:09
  OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 38:10
  You've picked the wrong podcast to say that because they're.
• 38:13
  No, no. No, I'll be.
• 38:15
  Happy. Because I've paid up members,
• 38:17
  Paid up members. But McFly is one of those bands
• 38:20
  for me. I know they're popular ones,
• 38:21
  obviously. Obviously.
• 38:26
  But. Yeah, I've been past that.
• 38:29
  Yeah, well, for me, going to see bands live, I like to go and see
• 38:34
  bands that I know pretty much majority of the songs and stuff.
• 38:38
  Always I feel like I'm just sitting there like a lemon.
• 38:41
  You don't know. Yeah.
• 38:42
  You're not joining in. Yeah.
• 38:43
  Yeah, I get you. I get you.
• 38:44
  Yeah. It's very good they did.
• 38:46
  And the other reason why I didn't go is because I knew
• 38:49
  James weren't there. Yeah, he was waiting for the
• 38:51
  call up. He was like, you know, he looked
• 38:53
  a bit like James when he played his part from the cold play.
• 38:56
  Yeah. So yeah, screw.
• 38:58
  Chris Braun. We don't need Chris Braun.
• 39:00
  That that medley they did I thought was brilliant.
• 39:03
  Did you, did you hear about the medley that they that they
• 39:05
  didn't play? No.
• 39:08
  Where apparently there was a medley that was going to include
• 39:10
  night driver on what you're on 90s and another one off of
• 39:16
  halfway there. They'd actually practised it and
• 39:18
  everything and didn't and. Didn't so I said this was one of
• 39:21
  the main things I said to Shan is I was really disappointed
• 39:24
  that they didn't do like any of the halfway there songs and I
• 39:28
  feel like they were only catering to like they dot busted
• 39:32
  people and not the people that sort of joined little bit later
• 39:35
  on. Obviously I'm a day daughter
• 39:37
  anyway, but I love that album. I think they missed a real big
• 39:40
  thing there, but equally I know why they didn't because they
• 39:44
  didn't have James and I feel like the energy of that halfway
• 39:48
  there album, it just wouldn't have been matched without him.
• 39:50
  I don't feel like they could have matched the same energy
• 39:53
  because his vocals are so prominent on that album.
• 39:56
  I mean, they're prominent on all the songs that is so prominent
• 39:59
  on that album. And they are, they're shaped by
• 40:02
  James's sound, I think. And like, I don't know about
• 40:04
  you, but my God, I was like holding it together when they
• 40:07
  were singing Sleeping with the Light On.
• 40:08
  And they were like, we don't sing the first verse because
• 40:10
  that's James's verse and we're not going to sing it and we want
• 40:13
  you guys to sing it. And I was just there like, try
• 40:15
  not to bore my eyes out because the whole lady was just singing
• 40:19
  James's part and we were all so sad.
• 40:21
  I just think that they're they really could have.
• 40:23
  It would have been lovely to have heard that, but I
• 40:25
  understand why they didn't at the same time, you know?
• 40:28
  Yeah, I think, I think what that tour actually did, which you
• 40:31
  don't, you don't think of it until it's in another way.
• 40:34
  You don't think of it until he's not there.
• 40:36
  You realise what an like an integral part.
• 40:39
  I mean, obviously I know he writes a lot of the songs, but
• 40:41
  just just the way that he's there and the presents that he
• 40:44
  brings. Yeah.
• 40:46
  And the harmonies and things like that, they're just it, it,
• 40:49
  it was, you knew that it felt like in the nicest way.
• 40:52
  And it was brilliant and they they worked their way through it
• 40:54
  and it was so, so good. But it it wasn't the whole.
• 40:58
  Thing was missing something. And they know that it'd be the
• 41:01
  same. It'd be the same as Top Gear.
• 41:03
  People tried to replace them. It's never the same true
• 41:07
  replace. Yeah, exactly.
• 41:08
  That's the same with busting true.
• 41:09
  Well. Right.
• 41:10
  Unless of course Jay gets the phone call and then they can be
• 41:13
  replaced and Jay's there the. Time is sorted, resorted.
• 41:16
  I love that. I think it's.
• 41:18
  It's yeah, it's fine. Yeah, that's OK.
• 41:22
  No, just. No one would know.
• 41:26
  I love that. So next question is what's what
• 41:29
  song always makes like the crowd go wild?
• 41:31
  What's like the best crowd reaction song?
• 41:34
  Yeah, 321. Yeah, 3000, Bye.
• 41:37
  Wow, we assumed it would be. Yeah, it's not his old school
• 41:42
  favourite and. Like everyone gets up anyway,
• 41:44
  but for that song, the jumps, I don't know, the energy just
• 41:48
  seems to go up by like 10%. Yeah, it's.
• 41:52
  Just and I find that when we played that.
• 41:54
  Forgotten. Yeah.
• 41:55
  And I find that when we play that it doesn't matter how old
• 41:57
  the crowd are that you're playing to, they will still jump
• 42:01
  up and down. Everyone knows that.
• 42:03
  So we, we played at like the, the, we played at a festival
• 42:06
  last year in, in Lincolnshire, which was like a family sort of
• 42:09
  festival. And it was lots of kids that my
• 42:11
  son was there and things like that.
• 42:12
  And they were going absolutely mad to it.
• 42:14
  And then we played, played a pub in Bridlington, which was 18 and
• 42:17
  over, and there was like that everyone was just going
• 42:20
  absolutely crazy, jumping up and down for it.
• 42:23
  And it's. Just the time it's.
• 42:24
  Such a it's such a feel good thing and it and it's I, I love
• 42:28
  playing that song in those in those situations.
• 42:31
  Do you know what I mean? You know, you know, it's the
• 42:33
  song that you know, it's the song that most people have come
• 42:35
  to hear, but also it's the one that they know, you know.
• 42:37
  Oh, well, that's good. Because normally we try to, you
• 42:40
  try where possible to build the set in a certain way that it
• 42:44
  never really like dips down sort of too much.
• 42:46
  Because I, I think so I, I think the way that we do, we do like
• 42:50
  sleeping with the light on. And we'll play that sort of
• 42:53
  somewhere, depending on how long a set we're playing, obviously.
• 42:56
  But we played on Saturday. We did like 10 songs.
• 43:00
  You play that almost bang in the middle and you get everyone to
• 43:03
  get their phones out and everyone's doing that and then
• 43:05
  you then and then you do. But then we did like Wembley
• 43:08
  vibes. Yeah, it was Wembley vibes.
• 43:09
  And then we did like air Hostess.
• 43:11
  And then people are involved. They've they've got that,
• 43:13
  they've done the phone thing and they feel part of it.
• 43:15
  So then you keep the energy going and then you top that off
• 43:17
  with the year 3000. They're like, it was, yeah, it
• 43:19
  was really, yeah. It's really, really good one.
• 43:20
  I think the other reason why there's so much energy in that
• 43:23
  song is because people might bring people that don't quite
• 43:27
  know Busted, and I believe you don't.
• 43:29
  Even they know that one. Who busted are?
• 43:32
  I've heard that. Song somewhere.
• 43:34
  It's classic. It's classic naughties.
• 43:37
  Exactly. It doesn't matter how old you
• 43:39
  are, everybody know my. 2 year old Jonas Brothers cover Come
• 43:43
  on, let's go no. No.
• 43:45
  Well, we've had that discussion. We had that discussion a while
• 43:49
  ago. Yeah.
• 43:50
  We, we had a very few different, different, different opinions on
• 43:54
  that, that cover. I love the job.
• 43:56
  I'm completely honest. I'm the Jonas Brothers.
• 43:58
  But you know, at the same time, it would have been nice to have
• 44:00
  had just the Busted year 3000. You watched the programme.
• 44:04
  Yeah, it's all good. Oh, I love that for you.
• 44:06
  Fair play. OK, next question.
• 44:09
  Have you ever met any of the Busted Boys?
• 44:13
  I haven't. No, I've waved at Charlie at a
• 44:16
  Fight Star group once and then yeah, and then when we.
• 44:23
  Well, Dico, who's that? Weirdo.
• 44:24
  Yeah. Who's that bloke waving at me?
• 44:27
  Security. Security.
• 44:29
  And then when we went to the, the closest we'd got is that
• 44:32
  when I went to the 100 Club show, when they did year 3000,
• 44:37
  Matt dived into the crowd on his back and I and I held him up for
• 44:43
  like a second You've. Saved a minute, yeah?
• 44:46
  No, yes, exactly. So, yeah, that's about as,
• 44:49
  that's as close as we've got. Yeah.
• 44:51
  Was you not bad? Never washing his hand?
• 44:52
  Yeah. Never working, yeah.
• 44:54
  That's what we're like. We are crazy.
• 44:56
  No, Yeah, if it had been Charlie, obviously.
• 44:59
  Yeah, we, we were really lucky at the MC Busted gig.
• 45:02
  We actually won VIP tickets. So we were, we ended up, it was
• 45:07
  so good. It was the best moment ever.
• 45:09
  We ended up in the OMFG pit at the very front where it was
• 45:12
  really Oh my God. And that's like.
• 45:15
  We had timed up from 6:00 AM. Oh yeah, we didn't.
• 45:18
  We were the first people in the team and we didn't even need to
• 45:20
  be there till 6:00 PM because we won the tickets in the end.
• 45:23
  So it was, it was a waste of a day, but it's fine.
• 45:25
  It was worth it, No? It's not a waste though, is it?
• 45:28
  It was the best. I like a good.
• 45:30
  Idea you meet make friends with everyone around you such an.
• 45:33
  English singer, isn't it? Yeah.
• 45:35
  Yeah, definitely. It's so funny.
• 45:37
  We, we were quite, we were so lucky.
• 45:40
  But we, I think, I think the the gig itself, if I think about all
• 45:46
  the gigs I've been to, the macbasted gig for interaction is
• 45:50
  like like God Tia because we, you just don't get the
• 45:54
  interactions from the band like we did.
• 45:57
  It was insane. I chatted to James Bourne about
• 46:00
  how much I loved him. He told me he loved me and we
• 46:02
  were going to get married. That was the best moment of my
• 46:04
  life. You were like, show me outside,
• 46:05
  show me outside. Yeah, we were like, yeah, let's
• 46:08
  and then. Is that legally binding?
• 46:10
  Am I? Is that a proposal?
• 46:12
  Because yes, and that and that person there heard it so.
• 46:16
  Yeah. Me.
• 46:17
  I also this was before I met my husband so you know it's OK.
• 46:21
  You buy in California right now, Yeah.
• 46:23
  I would you will he actually, he actually has a little house in
• 46:26
  Cornwall which is not that far from me.
• 46:28
  So that's where I live. So, you know, not that you know
• 46:30
  where that is or anything, you know, Yeah.
• 46:34
  I know he's talking, so I chat with James.
• 46:37
  I played Tom's guitar. He put his guitar down and I
• 46:39
  like played his guitar. He sang Shine a Light to Me.
• 46:43
  Like he got down on his knees and like pointed at me.
• 46:45
  And Shannon was putting her phone torch on me.
• 46:48
  I was like, shine a light on her and.
• 46:50
  I held Danny Jones's hand and it was just such a good, a good
• 46:55
  like interactive show. And I think like, because we've
• 46:58
  not met them despite like not so like attempting to try to meet
• 47:02
  Matt Willis while we were in London.
• 47:03
  If you heard that episode, Matt, it was absolute nightmare.
• 47:07
  We failed very drastically. But we're still to.
• 47:11
  You've met Shannon's met Tom Fletcher at books.
• 47:14
  I have yeah. And that my.
• 47:16
  Son's met Tom Fletcher. He went to, he got his space
• 47:19
  band book signed by him. He went to that thing at the at
• 47:22
  the church where he did like a little Q&A thing.
• 47:25
  And then my wife and my son queued up for what felt like
• 47:29
  forever, apparently, and he just sort of stood there and he was
• 47:31
  like, hello book. And then just went.
• 47:34
  But it was I've got a picture of him meeting him.
• 47:38
  He's really friendly you, but you've got to be the talkative
• 47:41
  1. I think like for all the videos
• 47:42
  I've watched, like if you don't attempt to have the
• 47:45
  conversation, he will probably just say, Oh yeah, thanks for
• 47:49
  coming. Yeah.
• 47:49
  And then on to the next because obviously some people are there
• 47:52
  are like die hard from someone. From their point of view, they
• 47:55
  must do it to so many people. It's hard.
• 47:58
  Yeah, definitely. Probably hard to keep.
• 48:01
  It hard to make every person's experience like a nice genuine
• 48:06
  moment, yeah. Exactly memorable.
• 48:08
  Yeah, yes, that's just easier to be polite and nice rather than
• 48:12
  try and talk all. About yeah, yeah, definitely,
• 48:15
  definitely, definitely next one. What's your dream venue to play?
• 48:26
  I mean, I'd love to play Wembley.
• 48:29
  Would you? I see.
• 48:29
  I'd turn that down, I mean. Dream big, Dream big.
• 48:32
  Dream big. Oh no, we meant stadium, you
• 48:35
  know, like, yeah, I'll remember. Stadium.
• 48:37
  Yeah, yeah. Principality, I don't know,
• 48:40
  Cardiff. Do you know what from from my
• 48:43
  from my side, I think it's more about I'll go where people want
• 48:47
  us to play. So I don't really care.
• 48:49
  I don't care if it's the the floor of your lounge or if it's
• 48:54
  a big festival or a big venue somewhere or whatever.
• 48:57
  I know that we'll bring the show that everyone wants to see,
• 49:00
  regardless of where it is. We've played, I think, in the
• 49:03
  the. Dream venue to play as a full
• 49:04
  venue we've. Played exactly that I'll and
• 49:07
  I'll tell you now, I'll take a full venue with 50 people that
• 49:11
  holds 50 rather than 50 people in an 800 cap venue.
• 49:15
  Do you know what? I mean I would take that order
• 49:17
  order. We talked about that.
• 49:18
  We played a show in Wales. We played a show in Wales,
• 49:21
  right? Yeah, like, and there weren't
• 49:24
  that many people there. And there's me getting all on
• 49:26
  the floor and everything. Yeah, he was.
• 49:27
  He was the most energetic I've seen him.
• 49:30
  And there was, there was almost as many of us on the stage as
• 49:32
  they were watching, like we turned up to this pub and they
• 49:35
  and the people there were lovely.
• 49:37
  That put us on, right. But how can I put this?
• 49:40
  They weren't necessarily ready for a gig.
• 49:43
  So they were like, right, turn up and they're like, don't
• 49:44
  worry, we've got APA. So we we.
• 49:46
  Were a pub that literally just opened.
• 49:48
  Yeah, right. Yeah.
• 49:49
  So we turn up, we're putting all the vocals are going through the
• 49:52
  television, PA and then and then and then we start playing and
• 49:59
  I'm like, are you going to turn the football off behind us?
• 50:02
  Nope. So what for the playing someone
• 50:04
  in the background and I'm I'm literally playing the
• 50:06
  instrumental bit of one of the songs and I'm checking the score
• 50:09
  and it was just. It was just.
• 50:10
  Just one of those, one of those moments.
• 50:12
  But do you know what random? I'd do it again.
• 50:14
  It was. It was good fun.
• 50:15
  And it didn't. Have a problem?
• 50:16
  We had a good time and I think you've got to make it what it
• 50:17
  is. But yeah, genuine.
• 50:19
  Yeah. Generally speaking, it's I'll
• 50:21
  play anywhere. Good, I love that that's what
• 50:24
  it's all about. Definitely.
• 50:25
  OK, my my question is do you have a favourite bossed music
• 50:30
  video moment? I think back to the music
• 50:33
  videos, are there any that you really love or any moments that
• 50:35
  like stick in your head? Oh, I'm trying to think if I
• 50:37
  even have one. With Is it?
• 50:43
  Is it Tom Fletcher who smashed Charlie's arse?
• 50:47
  Or what in crashed the wedding. Yeah, yeah.
• 50:49
  In crashed the wedding. 17 times.
• 50:53
  Yeah. Yeah, probably going.
• 50:54
  I was never being busted. It was one of the most right
• 50:57
  members weren't. It.
• 50:58
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Love that.
• 51:00
  Brilliant. When I found out, when I
• 51:02
  actually found out I heard about it, I was like, no way.
• 51:05
  I had to go to the video straight.
• 51:06
  I was like direct. To YouTube.
• 51:09
  I'm going to do it again after this guy.
• 51:10
  I can remind myself of that magical moment.
• 51:12
  One of, yeah, one of my favourite, one of my favourite
• 51:15
  videos I think is actually is 90s and I love the bit when
• 51:18
  they're pretending to be the boy band.
• 51:21
  I think that's. So clever.
• 51:24
  So clever. Yeah.
• 51:25
  I love a good music video. And it's really sad because
• 51:27
  obviously there's so many, like, singles that didn't get music
• 51:30
  videos from their albums. And I often think about the
• 51:34
  songs that didn't get their videos that and how those videos
• 51:36
  might be. And we do that with McFly songs.
• 51:38
  Don't you, Shan, often, like, think about if there isn't a
• 51:41
  video, what would we like the video to look like?
• 51:43
  I think for me, the video moment that stands out in my head is
• 51:47
  what I go to school for. It's Matt being bent over a
• 51:50
  table and being whipped by his teacher, who's considerably
• 51:54
  older than him at the time as well, that sticks in my head
• 51:58
  rent free. Yeah, I've got.
• 52:00
  Wait, I've got another one. Yeah, you'll notice this now in
• 52:03
  Shipwreck, the music video. Right.
• 52:05
  Yeah. James is at the front.
• 52:07
  He's got his arms out like. This.
• 52:10
  Oh yeah. Charlie on Matt, they're holding
• 52:12
  him as if like. Yeah, Titanic.
• 52:15
  Like Titanic. Yeah, I love that.
• 52:17
  That's brilliant. That's a.
• 52:19
  Great song. I wonder as well when they talk
• 52:22
  about music videos, when you talk with that, like James and
• 52:25
  Matt always talk about how they wrote songs based on how the
• 52:29
  video is going to be. So like they'd written the video
• 52:31
  for the year 3000 whilst they were writing the song.
• 52:34
  I wonder as well whether they've done that continuously with any
• 52:37
  of the other songs they've written.
• 52:38
  That would be interesting right now, yeah.
• 52:40
  Yeah, especially like even like with the with the halfway there
• 52:43
  stuff when they wrote 90s. Do you think they're going as
• 52:45
  they're writing it? Oh, we could do a thing where
• 52:47
  you dress up like the backstreet.
• 52:48
  Boys and you do this, and you. Do like that.
• 52:51
  I think one of the reasons why their songs are like good,
• 52:54
  catchy and fun is because I don't think they write songs on
• 52:58
  or what will everyone like. I think they just write songs.
• 53:01
  They do it for them. Let's just.
• 53:03
  Have a laugh writing them a. 100% yeah 100.
• 53:06
  Percent. And that's the way it should be.
• 53:08
  That's the way it should be. It's music that they write for
• 53:11
  them that we love. It's time for In the Wild.
• 53:17
  Usually this is the area of the podcast where we talk about what
• 53:20
  the boys in the bands have been up to out in the wild, but this
• 53:23
  week it's all about the Busted experience.
• 53:26
  So tell us guys, what things have you got planned this year?
• 53:28
  Have you got any upcoming gigs, new shows, things that you want
• 53:31
  to share with our listeners? Yes, yeah, we've got, I'll be
• 53:35
  honest, we've got quite a few gigs coming up over the next few
• 53:38
  months, which is always exciting.
• 53:41
  Yeah. So we're, we've got a couple
• 53:44
  couple, I mean, I can list them off, but you know, we're
• 53:46
  playing, we've got a couple in May in Milton Keynes and in
• 53:49
  Colchester, which is kind of close to us, which will be a
• 53:52
  good one. We're in London in June.
• 53:55
  And then at the end of June, we're doing the Busted
• 54:00
  experience versus Mcflyd nice, which obviously you spoke to the
• 54:03
  Mcflyd guys a few weeks. Back battle.
• 54:06
  Of the bands you know exactly that battle.
• 54:07
  Of the bands looking to put, you know, our version of that that
• 54:11
  show on to some degree I think we're going to do some things
• 54:14
  the same and we're also going to try hopefully try a few
• 54:17
  different things that they they didn't do just to try and.
• 54:20
  Get that versus aspect in there, definitely, yeah.
• 54:23
  A little bit and I just, I don't know.
• 54:25
  I don't know about you guys. Obviously you went to the the
• 54:27
  show and the show itself. I thought the sets and
• 54:30
  everything were brilliant. My only thing about it was that
• 54:34
  I felt that they could have done a bit more together.
• 54:37
  Versus we've had this conversation a few times with
• 54:40
  guests. Now all the time, yeah.
• 54:41
  Yeah, with ourselves and two of our other guests, we've also had
• 54:44
  this conversation with and we we completely agree.
• 54:46
  We think that the. Versus aspect, we've lost a
• 54:48
  little bit exactly that. I just feel like it could have
• 54:51
  been more like just, I don't know, little things.
• 54:52
  Like, I would have thought one of the things we've sort of
• 54:55
  chatted about maybe doing is like each band playing one of
• 54:59
  the other band's songs. Yes, I would have loved that.
• 55:02
  I do. How good would it have been to
• 55:04
  hear McFly do, I don't know, a random busted song and then
• 55:07
  busted? Music.
• 55:08
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 55:10
  Or, you know, something like that and busted do like the
• 55:12
  heart never lies or something like that.
• 55:14
  Do you know what I mean? And just give it, give it
• 55:15
  something really different. So that might be something that
• 55:18
  we do, we're gonna do try and do some stuff together and then
• 55:20
  obviously finish with, you know, year 3000 because that's the
• 55:23
  best. Yeah.
• 55:24
  And then we are actually playing a couple of sort of, I guess,
• 55:29
  family festivals, a company called Sky Glow Festival, one in
• 55:35
  Cheltenham, one in Lincolnshire over the summer, which will be
• 55:37
  really cool, Cheltenham Racecourse.
• 55:39
  So that'll be interesting, yeah. We're playing in Leeds in July,
• 55:45
  we're playing in Bridgewater down in Somerset in.
• 55:48
  Sector oh, not that far from that that could be an option
• 55:52
  Shan, we could maybe go up that way a little bit we also.
• 55:56
  Got are you? How close are you to Frome Frome
• 55:59
  I? Don't even know where that.
• 56:01
  Is that's like that's in. Bath evidently not that close.
• 56:04
  Yeah, I don't know. I'll be.
• 56:06
  Honest, I don't know but. Yeah, I think so.
• 56:08
  Yeah. But we're doing.
• 56:09
  We're doing. 3 1/2 hours. Oh, OK, All right.
• 56:12
  Well, yeah, a good 3 1/2 hours, even better.
• 56:14
  Yeah. And then we're in we're, and
• 56:16
  then towards the end of the year we're in York, Chesterfield,
• 56:19
  Derby. And then we're doing another
• 56:21
  Busted versus Mcflyde show in in November in Felix, though.
• 56:27
  Oh my goodness. With our show on the 20th of
• 56:29
  November, I'm looking forward. To that.
• 56:31
  Oh yeah. Because we're playing with a
• 56:33
  Yumi at six, trivial and a. 60 no way that's.
• 56:37
  Going to be a wicked. No, Yeah, yeah.
• 56:39
  Meet you at six my. Lord.
• 56:41
  Oh. My goodness, that's simple.
• 56:42
  Band UK say. Where is that?
• 56:45
  Sounds like the venue cup of tea.
• 56:47
  That's in the venue, that's at the Hairy Dog in Derby, OH.
• 56:51
  My God that's so far but sounds so fun.
• 56:54
  But again, it's a Friday to make a weekend of it.
• 56:57
  And all three bands, like I just feel like all their songs are
• 57:00
  just banners. Yeah, yeah.
• 57:02
  And you, you, me at six are a massive, massive ban for me and
• 57:06
  Shannon. We've been to like a couple of
• 57:07
  their gigs together. We absolutely love.
• 57:09
  We went to the final nights at 6th Tour and it was just so.
• 57:12
  Amazing, yeah. I loved it.
• 57:14
  Yeah. You went twice.
• 57:16
  Yeah, you did, didn't you? Oh, it was just unreal.
• 57:18
  OK. So Derby's five hours drive,
• 57:20
  Shannon, so we could do it? Well, what's interesting not
• 57:23
  there, what's interesting you could do.
• 57:25
  You could do Derby on the Friday and then make your way down via
• 57:28
  Felix, though, and come to the Busted Verse McFly show the next
• 57:30
  day. Oh my God.
• 57:32
  Just be groupies. Yeah, just be the groupies that
• 57:34
  follow you around. What a time, what a time to be
• 57:37
  alive. I mean, there's lovely travel
• 57:38
  lodges along the, you know, along whatever motorway you have
• 57:40
  to go on. You know, it's lovely and.
• 57:42
  There's always an after party, yeah.
• 57:44
  And. You.
• 57:45
  Will you won't have to you won't have to pay to get in either of
• 57:48
  them. So if you can come let us know
• 57:49
  and we'll make sure you. I think we'll get some thing in
• 57:52
  the works, definitely. There we go.
• 57:54
  I think I would definitely come to the to the one in Somerset,
• 57:58
  yeah. It's not.
• 58:00
  Is it a place called Cobblestones in Bridgewater?
• 58:02
  Yeah, that's not far and I can stay up that way anyway, so.
• 58:05
  There we go. See.
• 58:06
  Let us know and we'll do a behind.
• 58:08
  We'll do a backstage podcast. Oh my God, you're so good before
• 58:13
  and after the show. Exactly.
• 58:14
  Yeah, super do you. Another question I thought would
• 58:18
  be quite interesting to ask you is whether or not you have any
• 58:21
  pre or post show rituals. Not so much I am I am one for
• 58:27
  making sure I give everyone either a high 5 or just a fist
• 58:30
  bump beforehand. Because I like to know that I'm
• 58:31
  like have a good show. Have a good show because I like
• 58:33
  to know that it's it's done. Yeah, that's.
• 58:36
  Good. There's a there's a band that I
• 58:38
  there's another band that I like and it's the thing I've always
• 58:40
  thought about doing. I'm like, oh, I don't know where
• 58:42
  they go around. They will put their hands in the
• 58:44
  middle and they go on three don't be shit.
• 58:48
  So I've thought about that, but no, I just I've, I've always
• 58:51
  done that in every band I've been in.
• 58:52
  I've got I just have to go round, be like, yeah, go on,
• 58:55
  have a good literally before you go on.
• 58:56
  I just feel it's that sort of sounds stupid, but like there's
• 58:59
  just that little bit of connection between.
• 59:00
  You. And then as soon as you go on,
• 59:03
  it becomes it's, it becomes, it becomes whatever it is.
• 59:05
  But when you go on that stage, you're doing it sort of
• 59:08
  together. Together I.
• 59:09
  Think the good thing with us as well is like especially with
• 59:12
  this new line up, we do go on the stage as friends and like.
• 59:17
  We have a. Laugh.
• 59:18
  So it's not. That's important.
• 59:20
  I know a lot of bands kind of like take it so seriously,
• 59:25
  almost scared to go on stage and things, you know what I mean?
• 59:27
  You've got to enjoy it. What's the point in doing it?
• 59:30
  Yeah, if you don't. Exactly that.
• 59:31
  And I'm, I'm, you know, I joke about it, but I'm, you know, I'm
• 59:35
  too old in the, I'm too long in the tooth.
• 59:37
  Is that the phrase I'm too long in the tooth now to worry about
• 59:39
  it? Like I, I get up there and I
• 59:41
  have and I have a good laugh. And if people want to have a
• 59:43
  laugh, then they can, they can enjoy it.
• 59:44
  But trust me, I'm going to enjoy it regardless, but it's much
• 59:47
  easier if you do it with me 'cause otherwise I will put you
• 59:49
  out of the crowd and tell you to enjoy.
• 59:51
  It enjoy. If there's a mistake like, we
• 59:53
  just laugh about it like. Ohh, good.
• 59:55
  Yeah, absolutely. That's the best way to do it.
• 59:59
  I love a pre show ritual. We used to do a lot like me and
• 1:00:01
  Shannon did musical theatre for a fair few years and we always
• 1:00:04
  had like, yeah, backstage things that we'd all do together.
• 1:00:07
  But one thing I read so I bought on vintage a couple of months
• 1:00:11
  ago, the Mcbusted like unofficial autobiography, like
• 1:00:15
  tour book. And in there it was talking
• 1:00:19
  about how before they went on stage, every time they do the
• 1:00:22
  unison clap. Have you heard about that clap?
• 1:00:25
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:26
  Where they would all, like, stand.
• 1:00:28
  And then they all just clapped. And the way the writer described
• 1:00:31
  it was so cool. It's like effortlessly just clap
• 1:00:34
  all at the same time. Give it again.
• 1:00:37
  I'll be, I'll be honest, we struggle to play to the click
• 1:00:39
  sometimes when we've got the time.
• 1:00:41
  So yeah, just looking at each other and go clap.
• 1:00:43
  I don't. I can't see it happening
• 1:00:44
  personally. But but I'll give it a go.
• 1:00:47
  That is actually more difficult than you think as well.
• 1:00:49
  It's so hard. We used to do it in theatre.
• 1:00:51
  Yeah, we used to do it in theatre as well.
• 1:00:53
  It's not easy. It's so difficult.
• 1:00:55
  Exactly. You've got.
• 1:00:56
  I'm so used to hearing the. Same wavelength.
• 1:00:58
  Yeah, I'm so used to hearing 123412 guitar stuff in my ears
• 1:01:04
  that I'm like, I wouldn't be able to, I'd have to say it.
• 1:01:05
  I'd have to go clap now and then I'd clap.
• 1:01:08
  I'd be fine. Well, you could give it a go.
• 1:01:11
  Yeah, I love that. Awesome.
• 1:01:13
  Well, thank you so much for sharing.
• 1:01:15
  It's nice for our listeners, obviously, to have a little bit
• 1:01:17
  of a clue as to what's going on with you guys this year.
• 1:01:19
  And before we close this episode in a little while, we'll make
• 1:01:22
  sure that there's time for you to plug your Instagrams and your
• 1:01:25
  Tik Toks and everything like that so people can actually find
• 1:01:28
  links to your shows. So stick around, make sure you
• 1:01:30
  hang about for links to everything.
• 1:01:32
  So if you're fancying going along to a bust experience show,
• 1:01:35
  yes, definitely stick around. You'll find that out at the end
• 1:01:37
  of this episode. It's time for Song of the Week.
• 1:01:43
  And this week we're talking about everything I knew by
• 1:01:46
  Busted. This song is one of those songs
• 1:02:00
  that I think like I almost like forgot about until I realised
• 1:02:03
  the episode was coming up and I was like, oh, I better like
• 1:02:05
  really listen to it because I don't often listen to like and I
• 1:02:09
  listen to the albums on Truffle and sometimes I pick specific
• 1:02:12
  songs I want to listen to, but it doesn't often come up.
• 1:02:15
  But when I tell you when I played this, Oh my God, it was
• 1:02:19
  like all of the lyrics. You know when you know a song
• 1:02:22
  and like from a long time ago and you play it and it just
• 1:02:26
  comes back into your head and you know every single lyrics.
• 1:02:29
  So what we normally do, guys, if you don't know is we talk about
• 1:02:32
  what we like about the song, what maybe we don't like about
• 1:02:34
  the song and we give it a rating out of 10.
• 1:02:36
  We usually give it a rating for like a live and the rating for
• 1:02:40
  the album version. Sham, do you want to go first
• 1:02:43
  And then we'll we'll do our bits quickly and then we'll move on
• 1:02:45
  to the lads so they can talk about it as well.
• 1:02:48
  I really love this song. I really love this song.
• 1:02:53
  I think it's one of one of my highest rated on the album.
• 1:02:57
  I think I'd give this one like an 8.5.
• 1:03:01
  It would be nice. Good, of course.
• 1:03:03
  Yeah, I love it. Good rating.
• 1:03:05
  Straight in. Yeah, I love it.
• 1:03:06
  And I'm not. I'm not one for a good rating
• 1:03:08
  usually. Normally I'm a low rating.
• 1:03:10
  I've heard, I've heard. You'd be quite.
• 1:03:11
  Yeah, quite. She's brutal.
• 1:03:13
  She is brutal. It's not busting, Tom.
• 1:03:16
  Fletcher could just go down a microphone.
• 1:03:18
  You'd be like, oh, it's amazing, absolutely amazing.
• 1:03:21
  Maybe if it was. Danny Dan Yeah, I didn't like
• 1:03:25
  the whole first. I wanna say like 3/4 of the Room
• 1:03:29
  on the 3rd Floor album, but this is probably my yeah.
• 1:03:34
  I would say 8.5, maybe even 9. I love the chorus, I just think
• 1:03:37
  it's so well written. Yes, it's so good.
• 1:03:41
  I completely agree with you. I think I would definitely go
• 1:03:44
  for an 888 slash 8.5. I think what I love about the
• 1:03:48
  song is I love the lyrics and I like the progression of like,
• 1:03:51
  it's almost like a story. I love that.
• 1:03:53
  I think it's very much like, you know, it tells a little bit
• 1:03:57
  about what's actually happening in that, like the story that it
• 1:04:00
  moves through, but it's not like too detailed and that there's
• 1:04:03
  too much going on and you can't really understand the situation,
• 1:04:05
  if that makes sense. You know, when there's a lot
• 1:04:07
  going on and it's hard, I really like that.
• 1:04:09
  And it's very much like feelings that we've all had.
• 1:04:12
  I think we've all had those moments where, you know,
• 1:04:14
  something doesn't quite go the way that you planned it to go
• 1:04:17
  and everything's changed and you're like, oh shit, what do I
• 1:04:20
  do now? Because.
• 1:04:21
  I think I could relate this song as the child and as an adult.
• 1:04:25
  As an adult, everything that they're saying, everything I
• 1:04:28
  knew is, is gone. I can't continue with the way I
• 1:04:31
  am right now because. You are everything I knew.
• 1:04:33
  Yeah, exactly. So that's one of the things, the
• 1:04:36
  reason for me, I think it isn't A10 is I think it's a little bit
• 1:04:39
  in terms of the melodic progression.
• 1:04:41
  I think the chorus is a little bit samey.
• 1:04:45
  I love the chorus. I know I like the chorus, but I
• 1:04:49
  do, I do feel like it's a little bit samey in terms of like the
• 1:04:52
  melody, but it's not. You get what I mean.
• 1:04:54
  Sat in a car because he myself sat in the car screaming that
• 1:04:58
  chorus out of an open. Window.
• 1:05:00
  Oh, I did that today. I did that today.
• 1:05:01
  Yeah, 100. Percent.
• 1:05:02
  I really love the chorus. I like the bridge and I like the
• 1:05:05
  chorus. I love the whole song, I just
• 1:05:07
  feel like if I had to pick something about it that I didn't
• 1:05:09
  perhaps like. Have to pick something.
• 1:05:11
  Taylor choosing to pick something.
• 1:05:13
  Also though I I've rated it an 8 so I have to explain why it
• 1:05:17
  isn't a 10. That's what I feel like when we
• 1:05:19
  rate. Rated 10 because it's not Meet
• 1:05:21
  you there. That's the only reason.
• 1:05:26
  No, I think that's it for me. I think there's just not as much
• 1:05:29
  like melody with the chorus. And I think, again, I do love
• 1:05:32
  it. I think it's really great.
• 1:05:32
  I think for me, that's the only reason I've marked it down a
• 1:05:34
  little bit. Let's go over to Matt and Jay
• 1:05:37
  then. What do you guys think of the
• 1:05:38
  song? What your ratings?
• 1:05:42
  Right. Well this song is a 10 out of 10
• 1:05:45
  for me. Yeah.
• 1:05:47
  So good. You can play it I.
• 1:05:51
  Really enjoy singing it, there's a lot of inside jokes with this
• 1:05:55
  particular song. OK with.
• 1:05:58
  Other people and stuff like the way, like the way I convisioned,
• 1:06:04
  like the way he wrote it, sings it.
• 1:06:06
  But like, yeah. So it's just, I don't know, it's
• 1:06:10
  a 10 out of 10 song for me because it's just a lot of
• 1:06:13
  memories around this song growing up, if that makes sense.
• 1:06:18
  Love that. Yeah, it's nostalgic, definitely
• 1:06:20
  OK. I have AI have a soft spot for
• 1:06:23
  this song. I wouldn't go as far to say the
• 1:06:24
  10. I'd say probably like an 88.5.
• 1:06:27
  I remember it from when I tried out.
• 1:06:30
  So when I came from my audition to join the band, it was one of
• 1:06:34
  the ones that I it was one of the ones that we played and it
• 1:06:36
  was one of the ones that I'd actually had to sort of learn to
• 1:06:39
  come here, if you know what I mean.
• 1:06:41
  So it was one of those ones that really SAT and.
• 1:06:43
  You didn't have to learn. It.
• 1:06:44
  No, but no but. Well, no, but I just.
• 1:06:47
  But as in it was one that I hadn't actually played along to
• 1:06:49
  before, if you see what I mean. So yeah.
• 1:06:50
  It's not like most most popular. Yeah, I enjoy it that side and I
• 1:06:54
  and I remember actually, so I, I remember at the time when Busted
• 1:06:58
  reformed and I went to that like the reunion tour, this was one
• 1:07:02
  of the songs they played when I was like, oh, you know, earlier
• 1:07:05
  on we were talking about that moment where you get a song that
• 1:07:07
  you're not expecting to hear. That was that it's become a much
• 1:07:11
  bigger part of their set and they play it all the time now.
• 1:07:13
  But I remember at the time thinking, I can't believe
• 1:07:15
  they're playing this song. Like I never would have picked
• 1:07:17
  this as one to play. So I think it's got it's got a
• 1:07:20
  soft spot there. I think there's some cool,
• 1:07:22
  there's some cool vocal stuff in there as well.
• 1:07:24
  Yeah, so. Yeah, definitely.
• 1:07:27
  It's a nice mix of everyone's, like, I like the fact here.
• 1:07:31
  One of the big things for me are busted is I love the harmonies
• 1:07:33
  and stuff, but I also like it when they all get their own
• 1:07:36
  little spot within a song. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:07:38
  And I feel like this is a really good balance there.
• 1:07:40
  You've got the verses of Matt, the pre chorus is James and then
• 1:07:43
  the chorus is Charlie essentially and obviously with
• 1:07:46
  some harmonies and stuff. Quite a lot, don't they?
• 1:07:48
  I love that. Yeah.
• 1:07:49
  And I like that because I like the fact that it's it just gives
• 1:07:51
  it a bit of a, an extra, an extra push really didn't and
• 1:07:55
  just highlights that they can all they can all sing and they
• 1:07:57
  can all play lunch. Yeah, I think that's something
• 1:08:00
  that McFly and Busted have in common.
• 1:08:02
  They are quite good at giving each person their moment with
• 1:08:06
  those like it's. There's no lead singer.
• 1:08:08
  They're all. No, Tom and Danny are very much
• 1:08:10
  balanced in terms of what they sing.
• 1:08:12
  And then you do get, obviously Dougie proclaims himself as not
• 1:08:16
  the best vocalist, but he does get his moments as well.
• 1:08:18
  I mean, Transylvania is pretty much a whole Dougie song.
• 1:08:21
  We love Dougie, but I think that like, I think for a long time I
• 1:08:24
  thought that when I was listening, I didn't feel like I
• 1:08:27
  heard as much Matt as I did James and Charlie.
• 1:08:31
  But actually the more I listen now as an adult, I think I can
• 1:08:33
  hear him a lot more than I thought I did as a child.
• 1:08:36
  Like, especially as a teenager, I think maybe I I was just so in
• 1:08:39
  love with James Bond that that's all I heard.
• 1:08:42
  I think Matt's got such a distinctive voice as well, so
• 1:08:44
  when you know it. And in this song, 10 out of 10
• 1:08:48
  Matt, this is a 10 out of 10 Matt for me.
• 1:08:50
  He is amazing in this song. His vocals are so good and he
• 1:08:54
  just like he stands out and that's what I love about all
• 1:08:56
  three of them. They've all got such unique
• 1:08:59
  voices. You can tell when each of them
• 1:09:00
  are singing. They have.
• 1:09:02
  Even when they have. None of them sound like each
• 1:09:05
  other. No.
• 1:09:06
  And that's amazing. Absolutely.
• 1:09:08
  And I also, I also like with this song, the fact that they a
• 1:09:12
  big thing for me with with the harmony stuff, because that's
• 1:09:14
  one of the things it busted as well.
• 1:09:15
  They they really got me into understanding like harmony,
• 1:09:18
  harmony in terms of like that. But what I like here is it's not
• 1:09:22
  always all three of them. So like for example, in the pre
• 1:09:25
  chorus bit, I know I shouldn't have to pay for every word I
• 1:09:28
  say. That bit that James sings,
• 1:09:30
  you've got Charlie singing the harmony underneath, but it's not
• 1:09:33
  a three parter. And I think that really then
• 1:09:35
  gives the impact that the chorus needs.
• 1:09:37
  Yeah, 100% it like builds it doesn't it up and up again for
• 1:09:41
  the for. The exactly that exactly.
• 1:09:42
  And then and then the fact that it then comes down to just
• 1:09:45
  Charlie doing the I don't know what to do because you're
• 1:09:47
  everything I knew that bit. I think that works really well
• 1:09:51
  as well. I just.
• 1:09:51
  It brings the emotion. Actually, I'm gonna, I'm gonna
• 1:09:53
  put it up to a nine. I've decided I've changed.
• 1:09:56
  He's convinced himself. I know you've convinced yourself
• 1:09:59
  to add 1. I love that.
• 1:10:02
  And it's 1. Of those songs where when people
• 1:10:04
  go for a breakup, it's almost like, oh, have they written
• 1:10:08
  that? About me had the hearts.
• 1:10:11
  Broken. Yeah.
• 1:10:12
  Oh my God. I love those songs, though.
• 1:10:14
  Sometimes you just need a soundtrack to your experience.
• 1:10:17
  Like me and Shannon, you've got. You've probably heard us talk
• 1:10:20
  about this before if you've listened, but we are very big
• 1:10:22
  Swifties. And I think for us, like when it
• 1:10:25
  comes to Taylor Swift, yes, love that for you guys.
• 1:10:29
  We're very much like lyrical Swifties.
• 1:10:32
  We are not Shake it off Swifties.
• 1:10:34
  We're not. You know, we do.
• 1:10:36
  We, You know, we're happy to. Well, yeah.
• 1:10:38
  I mean, old school old. I played Love Story at my
• 1:10:41
  wedding wedding party. We had a little doubt around
• 1:10:43
  that. Oh, yeah.
• 1:10:45
  So good. It's the storytelling aspect.
• 1:10:48
  And it's those moments that especially when you've grown up
• 1:10:50
  with a band like we have. And obviously, you guys are the
• 1:10:52
  same age as the Busted members, whereas we're a little.
• 1:10:56
  Bit didn't remind me of. That that.
• 1:11:00
  Nothing wrong with that. Holy unnecessary.
• 1:11:03
  No, it goes. 3010 I'll have you know 3010.
• 1:11:06
  Goes with the point I'm going to make in that you grow up
• 1:11:09
  alongside them and having the same experiences.
• 1:11:12
  Do you know what I mean? Yes, they're famous and they're
• 1:11:13
  in bands, but they still go through heartache.
• 1:11:15
  They still have issues with friendships and family and we
• 1:11:18
  all go through these things no matter where we are in life and
• 1:11:21
  actually experience that at the same time as someone.
• 1:11:24
  Again, why we relate so much to Taylor Swift is because we're
• 1:11:27
  only two years apart in age. We find that we go through
• 1:11:30
  things at the same time as she does.
• 1:11:32
  I'm few releases music that we really relate to and I think.
• 1:11:35
  And also, sometimes you need, sometimes you need those songs
• 1:11:39
  when you're going through something where you're like, you
• 1:11:41
  can't really put your feelings into, you can't, you can't
• 1:11:44
  explain your own feelings. And you're like, this is exactly
• 1:11:47
  how I feel. Thank you for, you know, like
• 1:11:50
  helping me process something. Have you ever done that?
• 1:11:52
  Just sent a song to someone you know?
• 1:11:54
  Like if you've gone through something with them and you
• 1:11:56
  can't explain how you feel, like just listen to this, you'll know
• 1:11:58
  what I mean. I feel like that was my whole
• 1:12:00
  Myspace era, yeah. Yeah, your Myspace song said so
• 1:12:04
  much about you. Then it's like you know, and and
• 1:12:07
  your top friends go, you know. Yeah.
• 1:12:10
  Oh yeah. Choosing.
• 1:12:11
  Quite. But yeah, do other, what else I
• 1:12:14
  think about this song that, you know, we, we touched on it
• 1:12:17
  earlier on about the fact that this, like this album, like the
• 1:12:20
  first album, generally speaking, is, you know, it's got the it's
• 1:12:25
  got the quirky fun songs on it, isn't it?
• 1:12:27
  It's got what I go to school for.
• 1:12:28
  It's got year 3000. It's got, you know, Britney and
• 1:12:32
  that sort of thing, right? Don't go wrong.
• 1:12:34
  All brilliant songs. But then this also shows for me
• 1:12:36
  the other side that they can't they they they do write songs
• 1:12:40
  that actually have a bit of meaning behind.
• 1:12:42
  Them do you? Know what I mean?
• 1:12:47
  All three of us at the same time.
• 1:12:49
  I was going to say this album also has Losing You and Without
• 1:12:52
  You which are also. Really.
• 1:12:54
  Deep cut songs, yeah. Really deep.
• 1:12:57
  Yeah. This is what we said about the
• 1:12:58
  last episode that we recorded. What was it called?
• 1:13:00
  What was the song called? When daytime in tonight?
• 1:13:03
  Like you. Yeah, you, you can almost grow
• 1:13:07
  up with them through the album. Like you listen to that song now
• 1:13:10
  and it's such a grown up version of the Busted that we just
• 1:13:13
  listened to 5 minutes ago 3 songs down the line, you know?
• 1:13:16
  Yeah, 300%. Yeah, I would love to hear, I
• 1:13:19
  would love to hear a 2.0 version of some of those lesser known
• 1:13:23
  ones as well. Can you imagine them doing that
• 1:13:25
  now, like doing what they did with the 2.0 stuff?
• 1:13:28
  Obviously that was always going to be the greatest hits because
• 1:13:31
  it had to be the greatest hits, but to have some lesser known
• 1:13:34
  hits as well, pick the songs off of that that we we've spoken
• 1:13:37
  about as well. Again, maybe further down the
• 1:13:39
  line, we'd love to do a show one day where we play like an album
• 1:13:44
  start to finish, four albums. That's a good idea.
• 1:13:47
  Good luck. Because I think then as well,
• 1:13:48
  you could show a bit more of what you know, everyone you
• 1:13:51
  know. I said generally people, you
• 1:13:53
  play the you obviously play the greatest hits and of course
• 1:13:55
  that's what you want to do because it's a two way St, isn't
• 1:13:58
  it? You get the you get the response
• 1:13:59
  off of people from what you play.
• 1:14:01
  So playing loads of songs they don't know is never going to
• 1:14:03
  work. But it's pointless.
• 1:14:04
  I'd love to do like a show where, you know, it's going to
• 1:14:07
  be pals, court, Busted fans or whatever, and you go, right,
• 1:14:11
  we're gonna do a present for everyone in full, start to
• 1:14:14
  finish the order that it is on the album and everything.
• 1:14:16
  Yeah. So there's gonna be in the bit,
• 1:14:18
  there's gonna be a bit in the middle when there's gonna be
• 1:14:19
  songs that you don't know. Yeah, but you would advertise
• 1:14:23
  it? No.
• 1:14:23
  So they know it's going through the full album, which would.
• 1:14:26
  Yeah, so they know what they were coming to see.
• 1:14:29
  Exactly that. Exactly.
• 1:14:30
  Absolutely. I just, Oh my God.
• 1:14:31
  I think it's so it could show. It could show so much more.
• 1:14:35
  I've I think I'd have to convince Jay to do Night Driver,
• 1:14:38
  but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
• 1:14:42
  That might be a quieter show. He's like you can do.
• 1:14:45
  It Yeah. Yeah, I love that with.
• 1:14:47
  Me on stage, yeah. No, that sounds good.
• 1:14:49
  That's a really great idea and it's nice that you're thinking
• 1:14:52
  about like all of those things and what's to come with the band
• 1:14:55
  as well. I love that for you guys and I'm
• 1:14:56
  sure we've got lots of really exciting things coming up for
• 1:14:59
  you. So we're looking forward to
• 1:15:00
  hearing all about it as as the months go on, it's that time
• 1:15:06
  again for us to say thank you so much for listening and joining
• 1:15:09
  us for another episode of Galaxy Crashers.
• 1:15:12
  And of course, a huge thank you to The Bastard Experience for
• 1:15:15
  joining us. Before we go, tell everyone
• 1:15:17
  where they can find you and all of your like, exciting upcoming
• 1:15:20
  shows. Yeah.
• 1:15:23
  Thanks for having us guys. First and foremost, we've had a
• 1:15:25
  really good time. This has been really fun.
• 1:15:26
  It's. Been a week's.
• 1:15:28
  Show I know it's been really weird listening back to me on
• 1:15:30
  the podcast I. Love it, I don't like listening.
• 1:15:34
  To my own voice, but. Hey, me neither.
• 1:15:35
  So if you can edit that out, that would be great.
• 1:15:37
  Make it sound like Charlie. Yeah, so I'll be honest, we keep
• 1:15:41
  it nice and simple. If you go to linktree.com/the
• 1:15:45
  Busted Experience, you'll find everything you need.
• 1:15:48
  Links to Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, all the shows that
• 1:15:52
  we're playing are all listed on there.
• 1:15:53
  Click on them. It takes you away.
• 1:15:54
  You get the tickets. Couldn't make it more, couldn't
• 1:15:56
  make it more simple. If we could pay for you, we
• 1:15:58
  would. That's the last thing we can't
• 1:16:00
  we. Can't do that but.
• 1:16:01
  Everything else is served up for you, but yeah, our next couple
• 1:16:04
  of shows coming up will be in Milton Keynes at MK11 on the 8th
• 1:16:08
  of May and then The Three Wise Monkeys in Colchester on the
• 1:16:13
  15th of May. Amazing.
• 1:16:15
  So the next. Team so hope to see some of you
• 1:16:18
  there. Anyone listening?
• 1:16:20
  Definitely. And it's going to be a party.
• 1:16:22
  It certainly is. Party.
• 1:16:25
  We are so excited to hear about how all your gigs go this year
• 1:16:28
  and to keep up to date with you guys.
• 1:16:29
  Thank you so much for joining us.
• 1:16:31
  We've really loved having you on and we genuinely can't wait to
• 1:16:33
  see what the year brings for you.
• 1:16:34
  Thank you SO. Much.
• 1:16:35
  Thanks so much. It's been wicked.
• 1:16:36
  Yeah, wicked. Thank you very much.
• 1:16:40
  And so our lovely listeners, as always, keep your playlist loud.
• 1:16:43
  And happiness in your heart. So goodbye everyone.