Backstage with Busted vs McFly: Harry, Dougie & Matt Get Deep on Tour
On The Mend
High Performance
4.9 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Recorded literally backstage, Matt Willis sits down with Harry Judd and Dougie Poynter for a candid, funny, and surprisingly heartfelt conversation about life on the road, friendship, and everything in between.
Between playful banter and a spontaneous “backstage set list” game, the trio open up about the chaos of touring, the lessons fame taught them, and how they’ve each learned to stay grounded through recovery, fatherhood, and music. There’s nostalgia, honesty, and plenty of laughter as they revisit wild early days, reflect on how their bands shaped them, and share what keeps them going now.
It’s more than just a reunion, it’s a raw, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the lives of three friends who’ve grown up in the spotlight, stumbled, recovered, and learned to keep playing the music that connects them.
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| 0:00.0 | Want to know who's coming up next? Hit follow wherever you get your podcast and you'll be the first |
| 0:04.3 | to find out. You always need friends in your life that you can get deep with. |
| 0:08.6 | You go there. Let's get deep together. On the man. Backstage set list. That is good. That is deep. |
| 0:17.8 | I was backstage going, I can't feel my hands. I can't feel my hand. I think I'm having a panic attack. |
| 0:22.8 | For a year, I was on the verge of tears all the time. |
| 0:26.4 | Really? Yeah. If I came with a warning label, what would it say? |
| 0:30.6 | I'm sorry, audience, for what you're about to see. |
| 0:36.1 | Hi, everybody, it's Matt. Welcome back to On the Men, the show that looks back to move forward. |
| 0:40.5 | Now, we are filming this backstage today on the Busted versus McFly Tour right now. |
| 0:45.5 | Now, I'm with two, what shall I say, two friends of mine? |
| 0:50.5 | I mean, ideally you would have had the other half of McFly because they've got better numbers online and they're probably a bit more famous. They said no. But they said no. So with the two other bloats from McFly, they said it was beneath them. And we're desperate for work. So I'm looking for any opportunity. So here we are. This is Harry Judd. He's available for work, if everyone notices that, please. Please, call my manager. It's the two other members from McFly. It's Harry and Dougie. Hello. Hi, guys. Hello. The other ones. I like that. The other ones. Yeah. Now, we're backstage in a room in Birmingham. What venue? Is this the NIA? No, this is the utiliter. Oh, it used to be NIA, didn't it? |
| 1:30.2 | It's where they shot Gladiators? No, this is Utiliter, right? Yeah, I have a thumbs up. Yeah, we were in the NEC at the beginning of the tour. Oh, right, okay. Now we're in the utility. Now we're back in Birmingham. Yeah. Right, okay. And we're in like a little room backstage, which they've made look quite nice, to be fair. Everyone on my team has done a very good job. Well done. Also, there's some music going on in the background. So if you hear a little bit of music, then you ignore it. Please don't report us because we'll have to clear it and we can't. Clear our own music. Clear our own music. Exactly. Now, usually we sit down with just one person for this podcast, but right now we've got two, which is the first time ever. Okay. Which is quite exciting. So we're spit roasting you. You're spit roasting me? Yeah. I'm being roasted by the fly. Exactly. I I'm quite excited. Are you excited? Are you intimidated? I am besides. When it's one and one, I feel kind of okay. I feel a bit outnumbered and a bit scared. Maybe you should have sat like here and so it was more like you could just look at us both instead of, you know. But then it felt like a bit like too much like an interview Okay, fine. You know, it's a bit more like we're all in this together. |
| 2:36.1 | Okay. |
| 2:36.6 | You know. |
| 2:36.9 | It's a chat. |
| 2:37.4 | It's McFusted. |
| 2:38.6 | It's McFustid. |
| 2:39.0 | It's not. |
| 2:39.2 | It's not. |
| 2:39.2 | It's notherstead talk. |
| 2:40.0 | Yeah. |
| 2:40.1 | Right. |
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