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BBCi Presenter Nikki Cowan: Hello world and welcome to your BBCi Live Chat Studio. I'm Nikki and it's my pleasure to welcome three guys taking the charts by storm. Answering your questions today are James, Matt and Charlie, better know as BUSTED!
Lucy Mills, Ipswich
Matt: Freebies are good! Before Busted we never got anything for free, but now we do!
James: Performing
Charlie: Being in front of the fans
Nikki
Matt: I like parts of both, a lot of different music - hip hop.
Charlie: I think we have a lot of influences as Busted.
James: I think we'd like to create something in the middle between pop and rock, but it's hard to do that.
Laura, Yorkshire
Matt: Hopefully not too much like what we say it is - I don't fancy living underwater!
Charlie: I think we'll be on another planet. I think we'll have moved on! I think Earth will be gone!
Maggie, Bedz
Charlie: Matt had a crush on his schoolteacher - Michelle!
cherryuk19
Matt: Too busy!
Charlie: Unfortunately not.
Matt: Too much hassle.
James: Same for me.
Matt: It's nice being bachelors and being free!
Jaz
Matt: There wasn't enough thought into it!
James: I think we were just thinking of a name, and that one stuck.
Matt: We never really thought of it properly.
James: It's hard to think of good band names.
Charlie: Some bands like the Smashing Pumpkins have awful names but they're really cool. Unless you're called One True Voice!
Mairi
Matt: My CD collection!
James: I have loads of CDs now.
Matt: Thousands!
i_Love_Charlie
Charlie: It was based on Back to the Future the film..
Matt: We just wrote lyrics that came into our head just for the sake of melody - so we put some silly words in there.
Charlie: It was just a joke but ended up being released!
Nishtro
Charlie: It's on the CD, the acoustic track.
James: All our songs are written on acoustic guitar.
Charlie: It's really cool just to sit down and sing totally raw.
Mary and Becca
Matt: As a band I think Blink 182, American pop-punk..
James: And films!
Louise
Matt: I tap! It annoys people.
Charlie: I never clear up anywhere. Anything.
Matt: A BAD habit!
James: I go somewhere and forget about it, no-one knows where I am..
Charlie_Simpson4eva
Charlie: Mum called me Farley!
James: Charlie Farley!
James: I didn't
Matt: Me neither really.
Freak
Matt: Freak?! I was suspended a few times. Never expelled. I was a good boy!
Naomi
Charlie: We live in Finchley - it's fun. I'm looking forward to moving further into London though, rather than the outskirts!
Matt: I'd like to live more central. We've lived with each other for a year now so I'm pretty used to it.
Gareth from Isle of Wight
Matt: Write good songs!
Charlie: Play good venues. Often there may be someone there from a massive record company. Gigs, gigs, gigs is what you've got to do.
James: Get a manager and get your demo out.
Claire
Matt: I fell down the stairs walking into a club in Dublin. It was a really 'cool' place. Our manager was thinking how bad that would be - then it happened! It was the Smash Hits tour. I ended up having a good night though.
Emily1
Matt: Seeing the album in the shop was pretty amazing.
Charlie: It's just gone gold! So I look forward to getting the big gold disc on the wall.
Susie and Vicky
James: That's my favourite film!
Charlie: I've never seen it!
James: The day we found out the single was at No.3.
Abz
Matt: We love the S Club Juniors!
James: They're all really nice.
Matt: You think they'd be precocious, but they're not.
James: It depends on the attitude - what the bands are like when you meet them in person. If they're nice people, you like them.
Ted
Matt: Jennifer Love-Hewitt! I've heard she's starting a pop career.
James: Someone like Britney or Justin Timberlake. I like both their music.
Charlie: Perhaps some alternative producers like the one who did the Blink 182 album.
Becka
Charlie: It's a really hard question. Mine's Deftones - everything they release I just love.
James: We have common ground but also individual taste.
Matt: My favourite album.. I love the Foo Fighters. I like Cheap Trick as well. And Madness!
Jodie
James: A guitar that never went out of tune! Seriously, that would be amazing.
Charlie: I'd invent a small flying pack - no more taxis.
Lauren1
James: A girl I knew who lives by me... a couple of weeks ago, I spose.
Charlie: Mine was a few nights ago actually! I went to school with her..
Matt: I dunno. Ages ago!
Ellie
James: We'd be trying to be in a band. We'd be doing music as a hobby.
Looby_lou
Matt: I'd meet God.
James: I don't think you can see the face of God and live can you?!
Leah Gray
Matt: I have about.. I get some and wear them for like two weeks and then they become quite messy. I must have about seven or eight pairs.
Gema88
Charlie: James had a psycho girlfriend!
Lipgloss
Matt: I had a good one the other day which I've forgotten about.
Charlie: I got a mini 1 keyring which was pretty cool.
Luck_Lu
Charlie: I'd sink my teeth into Britney!
Matt: I'd like to bite.. no one really annoys me that much. I'm quite a mellow guy. Perhaps someone from Hollyoaks.. Ben Gerard? I'd sink my teeth into your behind!
Charlie: Good answer.
James: Then I'd bite him again afterwards.
Kat
Matt: My mum had someone go through her bin which was quite weird. But I don't live there anymore!
Char_wizz
Charlie: Playstation 2! Fifa 2003..
James: Grand Theft Auto is good.
Matt: I used to love Tony Hawk on the X-Box. Ping pong!
Iluvbustedsomuch
Charlie: Can I have two things? I'd say mobile phone and CD player.
Matt: I'd say the same.
James: Me too!
Matt: And clothes!
Josela
Charlie: Maldives! I'm gonna buy a hut there on the beach.
Matt: I'd always wanna live in London.
James: Somewhere warm. I can't give an exact location! Maybe the beach where Baywatch is filmed..
Heather
James: It has to be something we all feel the same about.
Charlie: If we sit down and say 'let's write a song' - it's not all that great. It's more spontaneous - that gets a better product.
James: Or you sit down to write and come up with something completely different.
Crazililchick
Matt: I'd like to visit that place!
James: I'd like to go further than that. If you're gonna have the benefits of time travel, it would be good to see REALLY far.
Caz01
Matt: She has to be able to make me laugh.
James: That's very important.
Charlie: I've gotta get on with her.
Matt: It tends to help sometimes!
BBCi Presenter Nikki Cowan: That is all we have time for. Here's Busted with a final word..
All Busted: Thanks guys - the single's out on Monday! And the album's out..
BBCi Presenter Nikki Cowan: Thanks to our guests Busted, and to all of you who logged on tonight. Sorry if your question didn't get answered - there just wasn't enough time to cover them all.
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