As soon as James Bourne, Matt Willis and Charlie Simpson walked on stage at Bristol Sounds 2024, they brought 100% energy with them. Busted went straight into performing Air Hostess and the crowd suddenly got taken back to nostalgic 2003. Playing classic songs including What I Go To School For and Crashed The Wedding, there…
We’re at a Fightstar show. No, you haven’t been sent back in time to 2008, so there’s no point trying to log in to MySpace. The band have reunited for a 20th anniversary show at the OVO Arena Wembley, their first time playing live since 2015. Frontman Charlie Simpson is probably best known for his…
Earlier this year Busted announced a reunion tour to celebrate their 20th anniversary, a tour which sold out the first set of dates in just 10 minutes. We sent photographer Jemma Dodd to capture Matt Willis, Charlie Simpson and James Bourne at their Birmingham show, which included all the hits, throwback visuals and footage from…
It may be only just be February, and the snow may be falling, but my favourite time of the year is already creeping up on us. The first festival on my calendar for 2015 is the mighty Takedown Festival, which takes place at Southampton University on Saturday the 7th of March 2015. Launched in 2012 and now…
Following on from the recent news that the current darlings of the UK rock scene Mallory Knox will be headlining Takedown Festival 2015 (read the original news here), the organisers of Takedown have unleashed another eight varied acts to be added to the line up. The most high profile addition comes in the shape of…
