Busted reunion: Charlie Simpson responds to Fightstar fans disappointed with him for rejoining boyband
'I can’t spend my life worrying about what other people are going to think'
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Your support makes all the difference.Charlie Simpson may have said being is Busted was ‘like torture’ but that hasn’t stopped him getting the old band back together.
Simpson, Matt Willis and James Bourne announced the reunion through a YouTube video, detailing a number of tour dates across the UK scheduled for next year.
As happy as thousands of millennials may be right now, there are also a lot of fans very disappointed that the Fightstar frontman has gone back to his boyband past.
One wrote on Twitter: “Well Charlie Simpson and Fightstar release a brilliant new album, he then manages to make me hate that album by rejoining Busted!” while others have implied he only “wants more money”.
In a press conference, Simpson responded to those criticising the move saying: “If people have a problem with the decisions I make then I totally respect that but I can’t spend my life worrying about what other people are going to think.”
Watch a clip of the conference below, filmed by the BBC.
Simpson said: “I felt a huge amount of guilt when I left Busted the first time because I knew that they didn’t want to stop and that was hard to deal with.
“We were really good friends and you don’t want to upset anyone you care about. But staying in the band at that time could have risked our friendship.”
Willis and Bourne joined forces with McFly in 2013 to form supergroup McBusterd, fulfilling fans’ wildest fantasies of hearing both “Year 3000” and “5 Colours In Her Hair” at the same concert.
Tom Fletcher of McFly and McBusted first sparked rumours last month when he posted an Instagram photo of himself playing guitar and looking up, with a caption reading : “Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Charlie freakin’ Simpson! Or so rumour has it.
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