Friday, January 14, 2005
Busted. Flush.
So, Busted are finally over. Although in a sense they've been pretty much over ever since they decided that doing the theme song for the pointless live-action Thuderbirds movie was a good idea, this is proper over, in the splitting up but we're all still good mates and definitely don't hold a grudge against the emo bastard that decided to quit kinda sense. Charlie has, for better or worse, decided that rather than selling out arenas and playing guitar pop to the masses, he'd much rather be a fulltime member of Fightstar and spend his evenings playing small intimate venues to an audience consisting mainly of Busted fans who have turned up on the off-chance that he might do Crashed the Wedding and who've spent the majority of the gig wondering why neither McFly nor V are doing the support.
It seems an odd time to time to split, they've not even had the foresight to record a final single, to be released with a video featuring a montage of clips of them throughout their time together, and the record company will likely be pissed off that there's not really been enough singles to scrape together a decent Greatest Hits package out of it. Matt and James are no doubt not exactly happy with the situation, but feel that as it's no longer the three of them they're obliged to disband the group. We're positve, however, that they'll soon be back under a new name with a Charlie replacement. Why are we so sure? Well, because we already have a picture of the new line-up:-
They're already looking forward to playing Woodstock.
Distraught fans are advised that they can contact the hotline that has been set up by dialing 08712 12 12 12, though they should also be advised that this is the national Domino's Pizza hotline, but we're sure that as long as you order a Meat Feast Pizza with extra cheese they'll be happy to listen to you sob down the phone about how your life will never be the same again and how you really, really loved Charlie but now you just think he's a bastard. If not then try the Samaritans, they have to care. It's in the contract.
It seems an odd time to time to split, they've not even had the foresight to record a final single, to be released with a video featuring a montage of clips of them throughout their time together, and the record company will likely be pissed off that there's not really been enough singles to scrape together a decent Greatest Hits package out of it. Matt and James are no doubt not exactly happy with the situation, but feel that as it's no longer the three of them they're obliged to disband the group. We're positve, however, that they'll soon be back under a new name with a Charlie replacement. Why are we so sure? Well, because we already have a picture of the new line-up:-
They're already looking forward to playing Woodstock.
Distraught fans are advised that they can contact the hotline that has been set up by dialing 08712 12 12 12, though they should also be advised that this is the national Domino's Pizza hotline, but we're sure that as long as you order a Meat Feast Pizza with extra cheese they'll be happy to listen to you sob down the phone about how your life will never be the same again and how you really, really loved Charlie but now you just think he's a bastard. If not then try the Samaritans, they have to care. It's in the contract.
