Pop group McFly are making a return after signing their first record deal since 2009 with BMG. The band, which is made up of Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd, are set to release a new album this year, and we might be getting our first taste of their work later this month.
This comes seven years after their last single Love Is On The Radio. The album was scrapped so the band could join up with Busted to form the supergroup McBusted, which toured the UK and Ireland in 2015.
There was a period of time following this tour where we never thought we would seen McFly together again. Tensions formed among the group following side projects the members took on outside of the band. Tom and Dougie worked on a series of children’s books, Harry was on the 10th season of Strictly Come Dancing, which we went on the win and Danny wrote and produced music for other artists such as Rihanna and One Direction.
The band members spoke openly about how they felt jealous and left out when the others would do things outside of the group, saying; “A lot of those things became the unspoken issues.“ Speaking to the BBC about the rough patch the band experienced, drummer Harry Judd said: “We tried to talk it out a couple of times over those years and it just was very unproductive. So, yeah, there were moments where we talked about, ‘Do we need to get in a room with a therapist and document this?'”
The push the band needed to reunite was delivered by their long-time manager, Matt Fletcher. Matt booked the band to play in the O2 London last year, without telling the band. Tom added: “I think having a date in the diary that said ‘McFly at the O2′ just made us all realise we’d been stupid.” The show sold out in minutes. The band played their classic hits and it inspired them to release their demos for the album they had originally planned to release before joining McBusted. They were called The Lost Songs.
The inspiration didn’t stop there, the band has totally changed the way they make music. The new album began recording at the beginning of 2020, which they decided to compose and write together, rather than waiting for one person to bring the song to the group.
Tom Fletcher, who would have written a lot of songs for the band said to the BBC; “That really puts pressure on you as the writers, to come up with a hit that all your fans will love, but will also reunite you as a band and repair your relationships. We needed to get all of that out of the way first and come at it completely fresh.” Danny added; “It’s the first time I feel like we’ve all been part of it. We were all involved, split down the middle, and it was just such a collaborative, energetic process.”
