Almost a decade on from their split in January 2005, the pop rock group Busted have joined forces with close friends and equally loved noughties pop rock group McFLY to form the ultimate supergroup. Five days into their thirty-four date tour around the United Kingdom, McBusted took to the stage of London’s O2 arena. Following on from the tour, the boys commemorated their successful joint comeback by taking their set to the biggest audience the group and both original groups had ever seen: London’s Hyde Park.
Headlining the Barclaycard’s British Summer Time festival, McBusted were supported by one of the most impressive line-ups of the festival. Beginning with Essex-bred Britain’s Got Talent winning dance troupe Diversity, followed by indie pop band Scouting For Girls, the next performers to grace the stage were one of the hottest pop groups of this year. The Vamps got the crowd pumped for the ultimate group that started the boyband hype: The Backstreet Boys.
Arriving from the sky in the DeLorean, the supergroup – comprised of two Busted members James Bourne and Matt Willis and McFLY members Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Harry Judd and Dougie Poynter – took a trip down memory lane performing fifteen of their twenty-seven combined top ten singles plus some special surprise songs, starting with a selection of Busted’s top hits including You Said No (Crash and Burn) and Who’s David.
Paying homage to the iconic 80s cult movie Back to the Future in such a spectacular fashion is not just pertinent because it is the favourite film of Tom and James, but it is also the inspiration for McFLY‘s name. Followed by a video taking fans back to the day Busted announced their split, Matt and James descended from the sky, exiting the DeLorean from to then be joined on stage by the boys from McFLY, who burst through the stage floor and went straight into their opening number Air Hostess. However, this was not the only spectacular surprise stunt pulled off by the band: halfway through the set, they took to the sky in the middle of the crowd on a UFO on which they performed Star Girl followed by an unreleased song from Busted’s second album and finishing with McFLY’s fourth single Room On The 3rd Floor.
Not only did the boys entertain with their highly acclaimed set list but also with their ongoing shenanigans, comprising synchronised dad-dancing to a special cover of The Jackson Five’s I Want You Back and launching merchandise at fans with guns and cannons. Of course, there was also a whole lot of banter between the bands, the majority of which was shown through the use of pre-made videos, such as the hi-jack of the best men section of Tom’s infamous viral wedding speech by James and Matt which naturally led into the first song of their encore: Crashed the Wedding. The atmosphere was then calmed with a heart-warming performance of McFLY’s number one Comic Relief single All About You, going on to finish the show with the electrifying crowd-pleaser that sparked this ingenious fusion of the two bands: Year 3000.
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