heat
the following interview was in heat magazine i know some of you will have already seen it but the peopl from different places might not have.i dont know what to think about this to be honest
its a weird interview but i think the interviewer has put a good spin on things,she/he has made them sound a lot worse than they actually are and i think they did it intentionally.they asked quetions that the band obviously didnt want to discuss adn they made charlie sound really moody..i think that charlie has to deal with teh fact that along with the performances he also has to do some promotion work to get where he wants to be.i think the boys maybe had a bad day and didnt want to do this particular interview.what do you all think about it?
HEAT:
It’s a good job Charlie Simpson is a successful musician because he’d never make it as an actor. The ludicrously tall, heart-breakingly good looking singer hates photoshoots, interviews, and basically everything to do with being in a band apart from the music - and while he’s not actually being rude, its obvious he’d rather be anywhere else in the world than at the heat shoot today. Or any shoot. Ever.
Together Charlie, 19, Matt, 21, and James, 20, are Busted, a band that have clocked up three #1 singles, a sell out arena tour, two Brit awards and album sales ov over 1.5 million so far. They despise “Pop Idol culture” as it’s made the public think all bands are “manufactured, given a new hairstyle and some clothes along with a song and hey presto, you’re a pop star”.
Because, actually, busted aren’t manufactured. They play instruments and write their own songs - and they’ve got the royalty cheques to prove it.
And so, to the interview. As Matt (funny, cheeky, charming, outgoing) and James (geeky, soft-spoken and sweet) often talk over each other excitedly, Charlie stares at the floor and sits with his head down so low he’s practically in an aeroplane crash position. Unless a question is directed totally at him, he’s silent. By the end of the interview, we almost feel sorry for him - which, considering he’s a rich, successful international popstar, is pretty ridiculous eh?
What’s the best thing about being in Busted?
James: The free clothes and the free…everything.
Matt: touring
Charlie: Free concert tickets for whatever the fuck I want.
And the worst?
Charlie: That I can’t go to festivals, just chill out and camp amongst the crowd.
Matt: I went to Glastonbury and I didn’t get bothered at all
Charlie: but you didn’t camp.
Matt: No, I didn’t camp. But why would you want to camp if you had a hotel?
Charlie: Because it’s part of the fun
Matt: Bollocks.
Do you get in trouble for smoking or drinking because you have a young fan-base?
Charlie: No, that’s bullshit.
James: we do what we wan to do…and we don’t do what we don’t want to do.
Matt: We don’t really have any ground rules. Basically if one of us is being a cock, our management might ask us to stop being a cock but that’s it really.
When you get approached in the street, do you always smile nicely and sign autographs?
Matt: Sometimes I wish I had the nerve to tell people to fuck off.
Charlie: Because they’re fucking rude.
Matt: I was in a pub yesterday, this bloke walked up and said, ‘You’re from Busted ain’t ya? I don’t really like your music but my mate’s kid is mad about ya so sign that.’ I felt like going ‘No. Fuck off.’ Fucking twat.
Do people think they can touch you too?
Matt: That fucking pisses me off. The only time I’ve ever said anything bad to a fan was when we were doing a Saturday morning kids TV show. I was standing there with all these girls around me and I had to introduce what was coming on next. They just constantly pinched my arse. It was quite funny the first time, I was like ‘Oi! Cheeky!’ but after 35 pinches, like proper pinches, I said ‘Can you stop pinching my arse please?’
Did you think you’d ever be saying that?
Matt: I know. Exactly. But it hurt.
Charlie: People come up and say ‘I guess you’d better do a fucking signature then, go on.’ I’m like ‘You think I want to do this?’
Matt: Yeah, I got up this morning with the one intention of giving you an autograph.
Charlie: I’m fine with it if people are polite but when people are expectant and rude, its just like, ‘You know what? Fuck off’
What’s the raciest thing a fan’s ever said to you?
Matt: ‘My fingers are rusted from frigging over Mattie from Busted’
Charlie: [quietly, like he wants to die] Pubes in the post. I got sent pubes in the pose.
Matt: A girl in Germany with scabs all round her mouth offered me a fellatio.
James: And I’ve got a porn star in Japan!
Do you ever get star-struck?
Charlie: [sighs] No.
James: At the Duran Duran party, Justin Timberlake walked into the room and everyone turned around. He came over. Stopped. And talked to us. I was like, this is so wow!
What did he say?
James: It was just after the Brits, he said congratulations..
Were you thinking ‘Don’t say anything stupid’ to yourself.
James: more like, ‘don’t say anything! Just say thankyou and smile.’ It was weird because you meet loads of people when you’re in a band, but he’s just SO famous.
Charlie: I see through fame now. It doesn’t really impress me much.
You seem quite bored with it all, Charlie.
Charlie: Fame to me is just a bit of a joke - unless it’s one of my idols. If it’s someone really famous, I’m just like ‘Oh. OK.’ I just think when you look at fame for what it really is, when you’re amongst it the whole time…[sighs]
Matt, is it true you’ve given up boozing because it got out of hand?
Matt: that’s just a rumour. I went out quite a lot and I’ve stopped doing that so much because I got bored of going to the same places and seeing the same people all the time.
Like Stringfellows?
Matt: Peter Stringfellow fucked me over. I walked in there, really pissed with a mate and Peter Stringfellow invited me to his table. He was on a throne, it was so cheesy and he had this ridiculous hair…He talks exactly like Paul Daniels. Anyway, I didn’t pay for one single thing all night, not one drink, not one dance - he got me bladdered. Every time I had three quarters of a drink left, another one appeared on the table, he got me really drunk. I was steaming, I couldn’t even stand up. We were about to leave, he asked for a photograph of me with some of the girls, so one sat on my lap, he grabbed my hand, whacked it on her arse. I was pissed, I looked dreadful…and she got her face in the paper.
Were you angry?
Matt: I felt like a mug because he set me up and I fell for it. But at the end of the day, fuck it, I don’t really care.
Matt, are you and your girlfriend Holly on or off at the moment?
Matt: On.
How old is she?
Matt: She’d 30. We’re only recently back on, it’s still new so we’re not proposing or living together, we’re taking our time.
Did she get in trouble for going out with you because she works for your record company?
Kind of, but they’ve accepted it now, you can’t help who you fall for.
Has anyone ever suggested you should keep it quiet that you’ve got girlfriends?
Charlie: No. If people don’t like what I do because I’ve got a girlfriend, then I couldn’t give a shit about them. I’m a musician, not a fucking girl-pleaser.
James: At the end of the day, people should buy our records because they like them, not because they fancy us.
But aren’t they buying the records because of both?
Charlie: If they’re ONLY buying them because of what we look like, that’s wrong.
James: Theres nothing wrong with liking a band, AND fancying them, but if that’s the ONLY reason…
How are things with you and GA now? Didn’t you call Nicola a minger or something?
Matt: I called her an ugly ginger bich actually. I’m a lairy young man, and sometimes I go off on one. She was rude to me, blanked me in a bar after their first arena gig when I tried to congratulate her.
James: I was there, for the record, and she was very rude to him.
Matt: Very rude. So I went off and started ranting about her to some magazine and it caused a big thing. But now we’re friends and everything is lovely and joyous in the pop world.
James: the fake world that is pop.
And Kelly Osbourne?
Matt: She’s just a dick. But if you woke up to that face in the mirror every morning, you’d be a fucking bitch as well.
James: She made a lot of wrong comments about us, said stuff when she didn’t know what she was talking about. I think she knows she played it wrong now.
Charlie, you once snogged Heidi Sugababe didn’t you? Is it awkward when you see her now?
Charlie: [mumbles] Sometimes.
Matt: [laughing] We were in the same hotel bar as them recently, us on one side, them on the other.
Charlie: I was a bit pissed off actually, because I wanted to smoke and I had to go over to their half, we were in the non-smoking bit. I took our drummer with us.
Matt:[laughing] And our drummer doesn’t smoke! It was totally obvious, he just stood there, watching Charlie smoke.
Now the eyebrows section Charlie, which I’m sure you’ve been looking forward to.
Charlie:[rolls his eyes] Oh, for fucks sake.
Have you ever thought about plucking? It’s good enough for Becks.
Charlie: That’s gay.
James: He only does it becaise Posh tells him to.
What if your girlfriend asked you?
Charlie: I’d say no.
James: My girlfriend asks me to pluck in-between mine and I always say no. nothing’s wrong with them.
Charlie: Why would I care about that?
Charlie, you play guitar and sing in a band called Fightstar. What’s happening with them?
Charlie: We’re just gigging at the moment.
Where does your heart lie - with Busted or Fightstar?
Charlie: They’re both totally different things.
If you HAD to choose…
Charlie: You can’t compare them
What if they both wanted you to be a full time member of Fightstar?
Charlie: I can’t answer that question, that decision would never have to be made. It’s not that kind of thing, it’s all about the music.
There are rumours that you’re unhappy in Busted…
Charlie: There’s a lot of shit in the pop world that I hate. I’m not going to deny it, because I do hate it, but I’m having a wicked time doing this job, it’s one of the best jobs you could ever do in the world.
But surely, if you were just in Fightstar it WOULD just be about the music, none of the silly pop stuff…
Charlie: It’s two different things. I totally enjoy doing music with Busted and I totally enjoy doing music with Fightstar, you can’t compare. All I care about is music.
You’re going to end up a hermit recluse aren’t you?
Charlie:[laughs] Seriously though, some of the stuff that goes on pisses me off.
Is it worth it, even for the music?
Charlie: Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t. When I’m on stage, or in the studio it’s fucking great, it’s what I want to do. But the fame means nothing to me at all. Nothing.
its a weird interview but i think the interviewer has put a good spin on things,she/he has made them sound a lot worse than they actually are and i think they did it intentionally.they asked quetions that the band obviously didnt want to discuss adn they made charlie sound really moody..i think that charlie has to deal with teh fact that along with the performances he also has to do some promotion work to get where he wants to be.i think the boys maybe had a bad day and didnt want to do this particular interview.what do you all think about it?
HEAT:
It’s a good job Charlie Simpson is a successful musician because he’d never make it as an actor. The ludicrously tall, heart-breakingly good looking singer hates photoshoots, interviews, and basically everything to do with being in a band apart from the music - and while he’s not actually being rude, its obvious he’d rather be anywhere else in the world than at the heat shoot today. Or any shoot. Ever.
Together Charlie, 19, Matt, 21, and James, 20, are Busted, a band that have clocked up three #1 singles, a sell out arena tour, two Brit awards and album sales ov over 1.5 million so far. They despise “Pop Idol culture” as it’s made the public think all bands are “manufactured, given a new hairstyle and some clothes along with a song and hey presto, you’re a pop star”.
Because, actually, busted aren’t manufactured. They play instruments and write their own songs - and they’ve got the royalty cheques to prove it.
And so, to the interview. As Matt (funny, cheeky, charming, outgoing) and James (geeky, soft-spoken and sweet) often talk over each other excitedly, Charlie stares at the floor and sits with his head down so low he’s practically in an aeroplane crash position. Unless a question is directed totally at him, he’s silent. By the end of the interview, we almost feel sorry for him - which, considering he’s a rich, successful international popstar, is pretty ridiculous eh?
What’s the best thing about being in Busted?
James: The free clothes and the free…everything.
Matt: touring
Charlie: Free concert tickets for whatever the fuck I want.
And the worst?
Charlie: That I can’t go to festivals, just chill out and camp amongst the crowd.
Matt: I went to Glastonbury and I didn’t get bothered at all
Charlie: but you didn’t camp.
Matt: No, I didn’t camp. But why would you want to camp if you had a hotel?
Charlie: Because it’s part of the fun
Matt: Bollocks.
Do you get in trouble for smoking or drinking because you have a young fan-base?
Charlie: No, that’s bullshit.
James: we do what we wan to do…and we don’t do what we don’t want to do.
Matt: We don’t really have any ground rules. Basically if one of us is being a cock, our management might ask us to stop being a cock but that’s it really.
When you get approached in the street, do you always smile nicely and sign autographs?
Matt: Sometimes I wish I had the nerve to tell people to fuck off.
Charlie: Because they’re fucking rude.
Matt: I was in a pub yesterday, this bloke walked up and said, ‘You’re from Busted ain’t ya? I don’t really like your music but my mate’s kid is mad about ya so sign that.’ I felt like going ‘No. Fuck off.’ Fucking twat.
Do people think they can touch you too?
Matt: That fucking pisses me off. The only time I’ve ever said anything bad to a fan was when we were doing a Saturday morning kids TV show. I was standing there with all these girls around me and I had to introduce what was coming on next. They just constantly pinched my arse. It was quite funny the first time, I was like ‘Oi! Cheeky!’ but after 35 pinches, like proper pinches, I said ‘Can you stop pinching my arse please?’
Did you think you’d ever be saying that?
Matt: I know. Exactly. But it hurt.
Charlie: People come up and say ‘I guess you’d better do a fucking signature then, go on.’ I’m like ‘You think I want to do this?’
Matt: Yeah, I got up this morning with the one intention of giving you an autograph.
Charlie: I’m fine with it if people are polite but when people are expectant and rude, its just like, ‘You know what? Fuck off’
What’s the raciest thing a fan’s ever said to you?
Matt: ‘My fingers are rusted from frigging over Mattie from Busted’
Charlie: [quietly, like he wants to die] Pubes in the post. I got sent pubes in the pose.
Matt: A girl in Germany with scabs all round her mouth offered me a fellatio.
James: And I’ve got a porn star in Japan!
Do you ever get star-struck?
Charlie: [sighs] No.
James: At the Duran Duran party, Justin Timberlake walked into the room and everyone turned around. He came over. Stopped. And talked to us. I was like, this is so wow!
What did he say?
James: It was just after the Brits, he said congratulations..
Were you thinking ‘Don’t say anything stupid’ to yourself.
James: more like, ‘don’t say anything! Just say thankyou and smile.’ It was weird because you meet loads of people when you’re in a band, but he’s just SO famous.
Charlie: I see through fame now. It doesn’t really impress me much.
You seem quite bored with it all, Charlie.
Charlie: Fame to me is just a bit of a joke - unless it’s one of my idols. If it’s someone really famous, I’m just like ‘Oh. OK.’ I just think when you look at fame for what it really is, when you’re amongst it the whole time…[sighs]
Matt, is it true you’ve given up boozing because it got out of hand?
Matt: that’s just a rumour. I went out quite a lot and I’ve stopped doing that so much because I got bored of going to the same places and seeing the same people all the time.
Like Stringfellows?
Matt: Peter Stringfellow fucked me over. I walked in there, really pissed with a mate and Peter Stringfellow invited me to his table. He was on a throne, it was so cheesy and he had this ridiculous hair…He talks exactly like Paul Daniels. Anyway, I didn’t pay for one single thing all night, not one drink, not one dance - he got me bladdered. Every time I had three quarters of a drink left, another one appeared on the table, he got me really drunk. I was steaming, I couldn’t even stand up. We were about to leave, he asked for a photograph of me with some of the girls, so one sat on my lap, he grabbed my hand, whacked it on her arse. I was pissed, I looked dreadful…and she got her face in the paper.
Were you angry?
Matt: I felt like a mug because he set me up and I fell for it. But at the end of the day, fuck it, I don’t really care.
Matt, are you and your girlfriend Holly on or off at the moment?
Matt: On.
How old is she?
Matt: She’d 30. We’re only recently back on, it’s still new so we’re not proposing or living together, we’re taking our time.
Did she get in trouble for going out with you because she works for your record company?
Kind of, but they’ve accepted it now, you can’t help who you fall for.
Has anyone ever suggested you should keep it quiet that you’ve got girlfriends?
Charlie: No. If people don’t like what I do because I’ve got a girlfriend, then I couldn’t give a shit about them. I’m a musician, not a fucking girl-pleaser.
James: At the end of the day, people should buy our records because they like them, not because they fancy us.
But aren’t they buying the records because of both?
Charlie: If they’re ONLY buying them because of what we look like, that’s wrong.
James: Theres nothing wrong with liking a band, AND fancying them, but if that’s the ONLY reason…
How are things with you and GA now? Didn’t you call Nicola a minger or something?
Matt: I called her an ugly ginger bich actually. I’m a lairy young man, and sometimes I go off on one. She was rude to me, blanked me in a bar after their first arena gig when I tried to congratulate her.
James: I was there, for the record, and she was very rude to him.
Matt: Very rude. So I went off and started ranting about her to some magazine and it caused a big thing. But now we’re friends and everything is lovely and joyous in the pop world.
James: the fake world that is pop.
And Kelly Osbourne?
Matt: She’s just a dick. But if you woke up to that face in the mirror every morning, you’d be a fucking bitch as well.
James: She made a lot of wrong comments about us, said stuff when she didn’t know what she was talking about. I think she knows she played it wrong now.
Charlie, you once snogged Heidi Sugababe didn’t you? Is it awkward when you see her now?
Charlie: [mumbles] Sometimes.
Matt: [laughing] We were in the same hotel bar as them recently, us on one side, them on the other.
Charlie: I was a bit pissed off actually, because I wanted to smoke and I had to go over to their half, we were in the non-smoking bit. I took our drummer with us.
Matt:[laughing] And our drummer doesn’t smoke! It was totally obvious, he just stood there, watching Charlie smoke.
Now the eyebrows section Charlie, which I’m sure you’ve been looking forward to.
Charlie:[rolls his eyes] Oh, for fucks sake.
Have you ever thought about plucking? It’s good enough for Becks.
Charlie: That’s gay.
James: He only does it becaise Posh tells him to.
What if your girlfriend asked you?
Charlie: I’d say no.
James: My girlfriend asks me to pluck in-between mine and I always say no. nothing’s wrong with them.
Charlie: Why would I care about that?
Charlie, you play guitar and sing in a band called Fightstar. What’s happening with them?
Charlie: We’re just gigging at the moment.
Where does your heart lie - with Busted or Fightstar?
Charlie: They’re both totally different things.
If you HAD to choose…
Charlie: You can’t compare them
What if they both wanted you to be a full time member of Fightstar?
Charlie: I can’t answer that question, that decision would never have to be made. It’s not that kind of thing, it’s all about the music.
There are rumours that you’re unhappy in Busted…
Charlie: There’s a lot of shit in the pop world that I hate. I’m not going to deny it, because I do hate it, but I’m having a wicked time doing this job, it’s one of the best jobs you could ever do in the world.
But surely, if you were just in Fightstar it WOULD just be about the music, none of the silly pop stuff…
Charlie: It’s two different things. I totally enjoy doing music with Busted and I totally enjoy doing music with Fightstar, you can’t compare. All I care about is music.
You’re going to end up a hermit recluse aren’t you?
Charlie:[laughs] Seriously though, some of the stuff that goes on pisses me off.
Is it worth it, even for the music?
Charlie: Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t. When I’m on stage, or in the studio it’s fucking great, it’s what I want to do. But the fame means nothing to me at all. Nothing.