Having completed his latest charge around a runway that encircles a portion of the crowd, James Bourne looks as if he might expire on the spot. Stopping at his microphone, the baseball jersey-clad guitarist confirms that he is still breathing. Growing old gracefully was never an option for Busted, so approaching their 20th anniversary tour with a dose of humour is a wise move.
Two decades ago, Bourne, Charlie Simpson, and Matt Willis’s initial success – four No 1 singles and a couple of multi-platinum albums between 2002 and 2004 – felt inevitable after mashing together boyband cooing and juvenile pop-punk, two styles of music that were already monumentally popular.
