Busted and McFly are reuniting for a co-headlining UK tour in 2025. The announcement came during a surprise onstage appearance from Busted at McFly’s twenty-first anniversary show at London’s O2 arena on October 9.
@radiotimes Take us back to the year 2013 because Busted and McFly are hitting the road again! Announced at McFly’s 21st anniversary gig, the bands will be facing off in Busted vs McFly 2025! Will you be going? #mcfly #busted #mcbusted original sound – RadioTimes
McFly and Busted are two pop-punk bands which have created hits since the early noughties, known respectively for their tracks ‘Five Colours In Her Hair’ and ‘Crashed The Wedding’.
The two bands reunite once again for their forthcoming 2025 tour, a reunion much needed after the success of their last co-headline tour, the ‘McBusted Tour’ in 2014 which featured 34 sold-out shows throughout the UK. However, this upcoming tour includes all the members of both bands, including Charlie Simpson of Busted, who did not feature on the last McBusted tour.
The upcoming tour takes the formation of a battle between the two iconic pop-punk bands. Accompanying the announcement, McFly commented: “Busted gate-crashed our show last night (not cool), and challenged us to a VS tour next year. They’re old men now, and we are gonna blow them and their carers of the stage next year. We’ve had a great time celebrating our 21st birthday this week and next year is going to be even better – P.S. Busted Suck.”
Busted added: “There’s been a lot of talk recently… This is where the talking ends…! We are ready to show who is the better band once and for all. McFly suck and Busted Rock!”
The competitiveness from both bands to depict their superiority means both McFly and Busted will plan to dazzle fans with their biggest and greatest hits, along with their newer tracks. This is not surprising given that McFly released their most recent album Power To Play in 2023 and Busted re-recorded and released their Greatest Hits last year.
Often pitted against one another during their emergence in the early 2000s, McFly and Busted have manipulated this concept to create a supergroup tour catered with bucket loads of nostalgia for noughties music-lovers and their diehard fans.
As the tour announcement emphasised: “the whole tour is to find out who’s a better band. Fans can decide. They can come and support their band, and they might change their mind. It’s going to be a fight to the death.”
Tickets for the iconic tour will be available via artist pre-sale on October 16 at 9am, or alternatively general sale starts October 18 at 9am.
The dates for the Busted vs McFly tour:
September
16th – bp Live, Birmingham
19th – OVO Arena Wembley, London
20th – The O2, London
23rd – Utilita Arena, Cardiff
26th – Utilita Arena, Sheffield
27th – First Direct Arena, Leeds
30th – P&J Live, Aberdeen
October
2nd – OVO Hydro, Glasgow
7th – MS Bank Arena, Liverpool
10th – Utilita Arena, Newcastle
14th – Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham
17th – AO Arena, Manchester
20th – 3Arena, Dublin
21st – SSE Arena, Belfast
Tickets are on sale here.
