Welcome to the Kid's Zone featuring the new single from Busted 'What I Go To School For' which is out on 16th September.
If you live in the semi-posh London suburb of Finchley, the chances are you'll already be aware of Busted. If you're new to Charlie, Mattie and James, hold onto your hat: Busted are finally ready to do to the charts, armed only with their own brand of infectious, boisterous, guitar driven pop and with the axe-flailing cheek of Blink 182.
The band includes James Bourne, an 18-year-old Virgo from Southend-On-Sea. He's delicately, carefully spoken - but don't let that fool you, this boy can party with the best of them. Then there's Ipswich boy Charlie Simpson, the youngest at still only 16, with the sort of modellish good looks you'd usually expect to find staring out from a billboard.
If you're after a bit of rough, Mattie Jay's every inch yer man. The 18-year-old Kingston boy's already had a garage single out ΓÇÿSunshine LoverΓÇÖ, a collaboration with Miles Slater, (on Genius CruΓÇÖs label), and has got the word geezer running through him like some extravagantly coiffured stick of rock.
How they met is simple: Mattie met James at a gig in Southend. The two hit it off straight away and decided to form their own band. They needed another member and placed an ad in the music press. Enter Charlie, accepted into the fold at the end of October last year. They gelled, they bonded, they wrote, they recorded..., and by March 2002 they were signed to Universal. And there's no mistaking - if you want tunes, Busted have 'em by the lorry load. Debut single 'What I Go To School For', whose crashing guitars and high-octane pop choruses, is a classic example.
The bandΓÇÖs ambitions are simple: to take their music to the world, maintain their cheeky view of pop, and to have fun. One listen to ΓÇÿWhat I Go To School ForΓÇÖ is hearty proof that theyΓÇÖre setting off on the right foot.
For more information on the band visit www.busted.com
