BUSTED AND MCFLY GO HEAD TO HEAD ON 2025’S BIGGEST AND MOST UNMISSABLE TOUR!

Recently pop rock legends Busted stormed the stage at McFly’s sold out 21st birthday headline show at the iconic O2 Arena in London to announce they will be going head to head on tour together this year! Fans got to hear first-hand the exciting news of, no doubt, one of the most highly anticipated tours of 2025.

The Busted vs McFly Tour will see the two groups visit some of the UK’s biggest and best venues. They will kick the tour off in Birmingham at the bp pulse Live Arena on 16th September 2025. The tour will then hit cities including London, Cardiff, Sheffield, Leeds, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham, Manchester, Dublin and will then wrap up at Belfast’s SSE Arena on 21st October 2025.

Speaking of the tour, McFly threw down the gauntlet and commented: “Busted gate crashed our show last night (not cool), and challenged us to a VS tour this year. They’re old men now, and we are gonna blow them and their carers off the stage. We’ve had a great time celebrating our 21st birthday and this year is going to be even better – P.S Busted Suck.

Busted fought back and added: “There’s been a lot of talk recently…. This is where the talking ends….! We are ready to show who the better band is once and for all. McFly suck and Busted Rock!

It’s been over 20 years since both band’s formed and they are still two of the most loved and successful British bands, inspiring many other artists over the past few decades.

Busted first bounced into the charts with the irrepressible pop-punk energy of their debut single What I Go To School For. It kickstarted a succession of hits for the trio, including the number one smashes Crashed The Wedding, Who’sDavid, Thunderbirds Are Go, You Said No and the top three singles Year 3000, Air Hostess and Sleeping WIth The Light On. Last year Busted’s Greatest Hits 2.0 crashed into the charts at number one remarkably achieving their first number one album twenty-one (!) years after debuting with What I Go To School For.

Three of their four studio albums have peaked at number two, with 4.5 million sales leading to eight Platinum certifications as well as a total of twenty five weeks in the top ten and two five times Platinum selling albums. They have won two BRIT Awards; Best Pop Act and Best British Breakthrough, while multiple sold-out arena tours have seen them sell more than two million tickets, including 26 sold-out UK arenas last year.

It’s been 21 years since McFly first formed, a journey which has taken them from their breakthrough hit Five Colours In Her Hair to last year’s full-force rock album Power To Play. Along the way Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd have scored seven number one singles including Obviously, Star Girl and All About You, seven top ten albums, ten million sales leading to multiple Platinum certifications, a BRIT Award for Best British Pop, sold-out countless arena shows and still remain the youngest band to ever have a debut album go straight to number one, beating The Beatles. McFly have continued to push boundaries, last year’s Power To Play was the album they always wanted to make; a larger-than-life rush of hard rock and pop-punk thrills. The album, featuring standout singles God Of Rock & Roll and Where Did All The Guitars Go? charted at number two on the Official Albums Chart. Their touring in support of the album took them from two surprise shows in a day in London’s sweaty, intimate Underworld right through to the Royal Variety Performance via a massive sold-out headline show at Alexandra Palace. Last year saw them sell out two O2 Arena’s to celebrate their 21st Birthday.

TOUR DATES 2025

September

October

November

Tickets are now on sale