Busted.
Brighton
Centre - 14th February 2017.
Last
year saw the release of Busted's 3rd album Night
Driver, their first studio album
since 2003. So now they are back on tour with this latest album and
have landed at The Brighton Centre on Valentines day.
Night
Driver is a major departure from the wannabe pop-punk of the early
noughties,
and to prove this Busted kick off tonight's show with Kids
with Computers, an interesting
choice to say the least. Is this Busted's way of proving to us that
they are a changed band? One where there are no guitars in sight?
Has
Charlie (Simpson, guitars, vocals and breaker-upper of Busted)
decided that he's done pop-punk, done rock and acoustic and now wants
to play at being an 80's popstar? It does look like it.
This
is not to say that new Busted is not enjoyable, it is, and they are
pretty good at this synth pop thing, the major problem seem to be
that most of the crowd don't want 80's Busted, they want Air
Hostess Busted,
proven by the excited screams and continuous jumping around that
occurs when said song is played.
The
show continues bouncing to-and-frow between old and new songs, and
there is nothing bad to be said about the performance tonight. It is
full of energy, its slick, its sexy and it sounds good. When the band
leave the stage after and encore of What I go to School
for, Coming home and
Those days are gone,
the crowd still want more and a guarantee if Busted come back to
Brighton they will be welcomed back with open arms, and intrigue as
to what their next sound will be.
