McFly's Dougie Poynter dubs Busted 'STDs of the music industry' in pre-tour trash talk

Even with rehearsals months away, Dougie Poynter showed helium is already going for their rival band's jugular erstwhile asked astir 'going astatine it WWE-style' successful our exclusive interview

McFly’s Harry Judd and Dougie Poynter can’t hold to quadrate up to Busted connected stage… and assertion they already person the borderline erstwhile it comes to trash talk.

The 2 bands volition instrumentality their affable rivalry connected the roadworthy adjacent twelvemonth with the Busted vs McFly tour, which kicks disconnected adjacent September. But adjacent with rehearsals months away, Dougie showed helium is already going for their rival band’s jugular erstwhile asked astir “going astatine it WWE-style” successful our exclusive interview.

He admits: “I’ve been calling them the STDs of the euphony industry. Because you tin ne'er get escaped of them – each present and again they amusement up again unannounced. And similar an STD, their past medium was a existent dilatory burn.”

But Busted’s James Bourne insists helium is unfazed by the jibe, adding: “Believe it oregon not, that’s rather tame compared to what we’re utilized to.” Bandmate Matt Willis chimes in: “This is decidedly a ‘versus’ tour. We’re going astatine it WWE-style, and the s***-talking happening gets rather real.

“There’s a enactment that we’re inactive learning however to tread, due to the fact that it conscionable comes naturally.” While the rivalry is simply a healthy(ish) one, the lads accidental some bands bash person immoderate hardcore fans who get progressive with their ain trash speech connected societal media.

And they admit they adjacent considered dividing circuit audiences by their set loyalty – but ditched the thought due to the fact that of the “massive” crossover among their fans. Matt says: “The breathtaking happening astir this is that nary one’s ever done it before. I’m not definite what different bands could – they wouldn’t person the aforesaid past arsenic us.

“We’re intertwined, you can’t speech astir either without mentioning the other. That’s wherefore this works truthful well. We privation it to beryllium much than conscionable 2 shows successful one, there’ll beryllium amusive bits.

“There’s a happening that happens with america erstwhile some bands get unneurotic – it takes distant the request to effort to marque the gig cool. We conscionable accidental right, let’s marque this the astir entertaining, amusive f****** amusement you could see. Let’s propulsion each these originative ideas astatine the partition and spot what sticks. It’s nary holds barred.” We can’t hold to spot the outcome…

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