March 29, 20232 yr Pre-sale has been - to put it mildly - an absolute shit show this morning. I'm just gonna have to try my luck on the general sale on Friday. Honestly 😩
April 2, 20232 yr Author They were pretty decent on SNT tonight! God I really hope the new album is just straight up high quality re-recordings of their old stuff, I *need* ‘Crashed the Wedding’ in their ‘Half Way There’ style.
April 2, 20232 yr Pre-sale has been - to put it mildly - an absolute shit show this morning. I'm just gonna have to try my luck on the general sale on Friday. Honestly 😩 The demand was insane!
April 2, 20232 yr The demand was insane! I did eventually have better luck on the Ticketmaster pre-sale and got a decent O2 seat that way. But it left such a bad taste in my mouth, particularly with James being all non chalant and annoying about it on Twitter. It felt disrespectful.
April 3, 20232 yr I enjoyed their Saturday Night Takeaway performance. I never realised how much of a natural performer Matt actually is. Charlie and James can come across quite awkward on these types of shows but Matt just looks like he’s enjoying every second. I do think they should have really had the album up for pre order with all the promotion they have been doing to get a few extra sales.
April 3, 20232 yr Author I enjoyed their Saturday Night Takeaway performance. I never realised how much of a natural performer Matt actually is. Charlie and James can come across quite awkward on these types of shows but Matt just looks like he’s enjoying every second. I do think they should have really had the album up for pre order with all the promotion they have been doing to get a few extra sales. Yeah I thought not having it up for pre-orders was a bit strange, most artists suggest that you buy it to get a pre-sale code for the tour.
April 3, 20232 yr More dates announced! Mayhem - I went to 4 dates on their tour 4 years ago and most venues had black curtains up to hide the empty seats and they were selling tickets to Wembley Arena for £20 to fill it up and now they are selling out everything in seconds.
April 3, 20232 yr Author Well they do say that nostalgia comes around in 20 year cycles! I imagine it’ll be back to lower numbers for whenever their next tour is in a few years, but the numbers are great to see now.
April 5, 20232 yr Did Charlie ever say what changed his mind about returning to Busted? I used to be a researcher for MTV News team in Camden and Charlie's band was interviewed once (and performed), and they of course asked Charlie if he would ever consider a return to Busted and he laughed (along with the rest of the band) and said not in million years. He was actually really rude off camera to everyone who wasn't Laura Whitmore.
April 5, 20232 yr Needing the money I would imagine. They strike me as being colleagues and nothing else, I don’t think there’s much of an actual friendship there.
April 5, 20232 yr Author They’ve also confirmed that Neck Deep will feature on a track! They didn’t say what song it is, but it’s an acoustic one that is now a proper rock song.
April 6, 20232 yr What did he say? Oh it was along the lines of "I'm trying as well" and "Oh well". Maybe I misread too much into but it just came across as irritating and rude. I actually concur with what you said earlier in the thread, he is annoying. Like he's an undeniable talent when you look at the songs he's written and produced but there's an arrogance with it as well that I've always found ugly with James. I've been reading that "Reach For The Stars" book by Michael Cragg that came out last week and he didn't come off all that great in that either.
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