Fightstar: Anyone Heard Them yet?/What Will Happen To Busted?

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Charlie From Busted's New Band
Has Charlie left Busted yet?


A nice review from Peter Robinson at NME: "Fightstar are a lot harder sounding than Busted. But one thing they do have in common is a knack for a killer chorus. The band are really tight musically, and after the show people who'd never heard of Busted were saying how good they were."
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Busted Fan, Friday, 19 March 2004 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

3. Charlie was wearing a black Von Dutch cap (you can take the boy out of the not-boyband, etc) and a black Biffy Clyro t-shirt. BIFFY CLYRO!
4. Yes - Biffy Clyro!
5. "Our tuning," Charlie announced at one point, "is fucking shit." Isn't that the whole point of The Indie?
6. Precisely zero bottles were thrown at the stage, even though the band quite patently featured Charlie From Out Of The Busted. This fills us with hope that in 2004 little indie boys and indie girls will be able to join hands with little pop boys and pop girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.
7. The band's only cover - of Nine Inch Nails' 'Hurt', dedicated to an absent friend - was fucking brilliant.

Busted Fan, Friday, 19 March 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

NMe likes them? The kiss of death.
When will they release something?

Pod, Sunday, 28 March 2004 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate have you heard them yet?

Pete kember, Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

the first rule about Fightstar etc

Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Sunday, 11 April 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't heard Fightstar yet, do they have an singles out?
What are they meant to sound like? I hope Charlie doesn't leave Busted.

Donald, Sunday, 11 April 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

All dates are featured on the website http://www.fightstarmusic.com/

Another Busted Fan, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I still haven't heard them but I don't think Charlie will leave Busted.

Donald, Thursday, 15 April 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Doomie, I don't need to hear them to know that I don't like them. The angsty "indie"-bits are the worst bits about Busted.

Like I have said on other threads, the day that James and Fletch from McFly go solo together to do the ultimate Boyce and Hart routine is the day that I die happy.

Psuedo-indie public schoolboys faking grunge because they believe in "authenticity" is a big, fat yawn. Bring back the Ohio Express!

Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 15 April 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I think I would possibly like Busted even *more* if Charlie left.

Why doesn't he just leave already? He's the most unattractive member. And the annoying indie-cred-obsessed one. All the things totally opposite to what I love about Busted.

Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 15 April 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

eh? i wasnt on this thread at all?

doomie x, Thursday, 15 April 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

fighstar rawk duz n e 1 know there tour d8z or sumink like th@ or wen they will b performin n e wre plz tell uz if ya do charlie aint leavin the band e iz just tryin stuff out elswere!!
www.fightstarmusic.com
xxXXx

maz4tomfletcher, Thursday, 15 April 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, Doom, I thought that was you being "Pete Kember". Same person has posted before and it turned out to be a friend taking the piss, so pardon me for the mix-up. ;-)

Wow, Maz. That's, like, not even English, that's like, Esperanto or something. I work for a Dyslexia learning centre, and we can really do wonders these days!

Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 16 April 2004 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, she works at a diesel axle manufacturers. But she's working on it...

mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 April 2004 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Im loving Fightstar at the moment. I don't think Charlie will leave Busted though, I hope not anyway! He's the fittest one there and the only one who always delivers live, so I'm not sure whether I would like them as much if he left. I also love the songs he wrote himself like Without You and Why. Ok sorry I get a bit carried away when I start talking Busted!
Anyway FightStar rock!

Grace, Friday, 16 April 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

How do I join the Busted street team? I mean, honestly. They must get, like, naked photos or something for this.

Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 16 April 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.busted.com/street_team/

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 16 April 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

There's nothing in there about naked pictures.

Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 16 April 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

lol. If only.......

Grace, Saturday, 17 April 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...
OK, special prize to the first person to work out which label Fightstar have signed to...

Chairman ROFLMAO (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Domino?

mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, ta to google.

A clue:

Pierce Fan, da?

mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed. This is the worst (best) news ever.

Chairman ROFLMAO (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, they found Keane. How much more badder could it be?

mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty sure Hundred Reasons are a greater FP crime.

Chairman ROFLMAO (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...
Fightstar scrap their 'Flood' EP
Friday, January 7 2005, 17:06 GMT -- by Daniel Saney


Fightstar, Charlie Simpson's more credible band, have decided to change the name of their first EP in light of the events of Boxing Day, reports Gigwise.

The EP, originally titled Swimming In The Flood will now be released under the title of They Liked You Better When You Were Dead and the title track will now be called Palahnuik's Laughter.

The record is to be released on February 28.

On Wednesday it was reported that Charlie Simpson would be prepared to quit his other band Busted in order to focus on Fightstar.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...
fightstar are on that "friday night project thing" (uk) as i (drunkenly) type. i really thought i might like them. i really was wrong.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 4 February 2005 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.normanrecords.com/records/95547

Fightstar = noise?

DJ Mencap, Friday, 14 December 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

“DEATHCARS ARE CHINESE VANS - IF THEY NEED AN ORGAN DONOR FOR SOMEONE, THEN THEY EXECUTE DEATH-ROW PRISONERS IN THE VANS AND BRING THE ORGANS TO ACCIDENT VICTIMS,” EXPLAINS SINGER CHARLIE SIMPSON. “I HEARD ABOUT THEM ON THE NEWS AT THE SAME TIME AS I HEARD THAT MY EX-GIRLFRIEND WAS GOING OUT WITH SOMEONE NEW. I’VE SORT OF MERGED HIM AND THE DEATHCAR TOGETHER. I’M DRIVING AND HE’S IN THE BACK…”

DJ Mencap, Friday, 14 December 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

WHY IS THIS PRACTICE NOT CARRIED OUT ON OUR LAW-FLOUTING EVIL VILLAINS IN BRITAIN? Leo McKinstry writes

Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 14 December 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

“DEATHCARS ARE CHINESE VANS - IF THEY NEED AN ORGAN DONOR FOR SOMEONE, THEN THEY EXECUTE DEATH-ROW PRISONERS IN THE VANS AND BRING THE ORGANS TO ACCIDENT VICTIMS,” EXPLAINS ORGANIC FARMER CHARLIE WINDSOR. “I HEARD ABOUT THEM ON THE NEWS AT THE SAME TIME AS I HEARD THAT MY EX-WIFE WAS GOING OUT WITH SOMEONE NEW. I’VE SORT OF MERGED HIM AND THE DEATHCAR TOGETHER. I’M DRIVING AND HE’S IN THE BACK…”

DJ Mencap, Friday, 14 December 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

Written by Charlie and produced by Danton Supple (Coldplay, Doves) Down Down Down is an acoustic based, harmony flooded alt.ballad inspired in part by Charlie's love of the Beach Boys, Jackson Browne and Elliott Smith.

(Just noticed the thread I had revived was on ILE, i.e. wrong board)

Mark G, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 10:39 (fourteen years ago)


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