McFly left Island Records to avoid a chilled-out direction

McFly's Tom Fletcher has revealed that his band decided to leave their former label, Island Records, and go it alone, after they were advised to take their music in a less rocky direction. Fletcher told The Daily Star: "We always wanted to be bigger and better and we never felt that we had achieved our true potential so we felt that we could get closer to achieving that on our own. They wanted to take us in a direction that we really didn't want to go in. They wanted us to be a bit more chilled out and more subdued, but that is not who we are. We like having a laugh and felt we were being pushed in a direction we really didn't want to go in".