Busted vs McFly is officially on (Picture: RAY BURMISTON)
The Busted vs McFly tour is around the corner in 2025, and the bands are gearing up to go head-to-head in an epic WWE-inspired on-stage battle.
It’s unclear how this band-off will play out on stage – not because it’s a secret, but because neither McFly nor Busted have the foggiest idea. All they do know is that the audience will crown the winner.
Perhaps Coldplay-esque LED wristbands are a possibility, and audience members will wear a colour according to whether they are Team McFly or Busted. Maybe the loser will have to do a Game of Thrones-style walk of shame through the crowd? Or they might burn the loser alive on stage. Who knows?
These are all ideas that were floated around when Metro chatted to Busted’s Matt Willis and James Bourne, and McFly’s Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd about the big UK tour, kicking off on September 16, 2025.
Many fans will remember McFly supporting Busted on tour in 2004, as they entered into the mainstream – and on Nickelodeon a lot – as the latter’s best mates, but also their biggest pop rivals.
While Busted head-banged part way to the Year 3000 and went to school for hot teachers, McFly bounced in with a more bubblegum pop sound with Five Colours in Her Hair, Obviously, and All About You. Then they formed a supergroup aptly called McBusted in 2014, to the delight of joint fans.
But those days are long gone. Now, it’s time for battle.
McFly’s worst song – both bands collectively agree – is Party Girl (Picture: RAY BURMISTON)
Despite their tongue-in-cheek rivalry, there is one song both McFly and Busted have agreed is their collective worst: that’s Party Girl by McFly. Sorry McFly, sorry Party Girl fans. But it is known.
‘The truth is it wasn’t the band’s fault, it was the management’s fault,’ explains James, as Harry and Dougie chime in, joking: ‘We take no responsibility for Party Girl.’
‘We apologise for Party Girl on behalf of McFly,’ Matt adds. Ding, ding, ding.
‘The thing was, we played it at the O2 and it went down really well,’ added Harry, before Dougie concedes: ‘I think it was just the sound of people laughing.’
Released as the lead single on their 2010 album Above The Noise, the band previously admitted they didn’t want to release it, with the admittedly cringe lyrics – ‘I love this little party girl’ – and an eye-roll chorus.
The dates are set
What’s refreshing about Busted and McFly in a world of music industry cool cats and posers is that they don’t tend to take themselves too seriously.
It seems self-deprecating humour runs through the veins of these noughties legends, as none of the four guys think they would ever beat Oasis, The Rolling Stones, Spice Girls, Destiny’s Child, or Slipknot in a battle of the bands, if in some weird parallel universe that would happen.
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Source:: Metro