This May Busted begin their Pigs Can Fly tour and will be joined by Wheatus and singer Emma Blackery.

Wheatus, famed for their anthem track ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ which reached Number Two in July 2000, also charted well with their Erasure cover ‘Little Respect’.

Busted are to release new material and their third studio album this autumn.

In an interview with Digital Spy, Busted said:

“There will hopefully be something to drop before the tour, and then the proper single in the summer afterwards,” said Matt.

“Busted is very different, but the thing is it’s still Busted. The essence of it is still us three.”

Busted also told BBC’s Newsbeat:

“The whole pigs can fly thing sums up how we feel about this,” said Matt Willis.

“There have been times that we thought Busted could never, ever possibly happen and we were quite right in thinking that.

“But this summarises that anything is possible.”

Some gigs have already Sold Out, here is a list of Busted’s available dates:

11/5 – SSE Arena – Wembley

13/5 – SSE Hydro – Glasgow

15/5 – Metro Arena – Newcastle

17/5 – Arena – Sheffield

18/5 – Motorpoint Arena – Nottingham

20/5 – Genting Arena – Birmingham

22/5 – Echo Arena – Liverpool

25/5 – Bic – Bournemouth

27/5 – The O2 – London

30/5 – SSE Arena – Belfast

31/5 – 3 Arena – Dublin

2/6 – Motorpoint Arena – Cardiff

3/6 – Arena – Manchester

4/6 – Barclaycard Arena – Birmingham

Featured on their website, the band confirm their nostalgic return:

“Why are we here?” ponders Simpson, the guitarist whose departure precipitated Busted’s demise after four Number One singles, two albums, five million record sales and that run of 12 sold-out Wembley Arena shows. “Because a year ago James and I got together and just started hanging out. It really has been 10 years since we hung out; we’d talked on the phone a few times, and met a couple of times. But there was this huge void of time where we just didn’t speak. Not because he had any issues but I was off doing my own thing, and he was busy, so we just drifted apart.

“And we just started… getting on,” he smiles. “And it felt really different, somehow, to how it had ten years ago. And the idea crept into my head after all that time apart: what would Busted look like today?”