Charlie Simpson has been talking a little more about his decision to quit Busted to concentrate on his new band Fightstar. He says the success of Busted came as a big surprise, and that after three years he became tired of being part of Universal
Record's pop machine.
Simpson:
"I was in London and an opportunity came up. At the time, when Blink 182 and Green Day broke and the whole pop-punk thing went really big and I just thought, 'It's better than being at school,' so I gave it a go. And it ended up being this massive thing and I was like, 'Oh shit!' When I joined it was three songwriters writing music for a laugh. And then it got put into this machine that was Universal and came out as a big-branded thing. It was a fun three years and it just came to the point where I wanted something that my heart was in."