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Hit follow wherever you get your podcast and you'll be the first to find out. Hello everyone and welcome back to On the Mend. I'm Matt Willis and I'm very, very pleased to be here. We're going to do a Q&A episode today. So we're going to have, well, I've been asking people on social media for questions and they've come back and there's lots of them. So I'm going to get for as many as I can today before we run out of time. But I like this. I like interacting with you guys. You know, I'm going to be asking more questions of you about the podcast and kind of how we can improve things and what you would like to see more of because, you know, I really want to build like a bit of a community between us. You know, like it's not going to be a cult. Don't worry. If it is, it's a good one. I really want to kind of interact with you guys and kind of make this a kind of collaborative affair, you know. So please let me know what you would like me to be talking about. If you'd like me to do an episode specifically on something,

that would be really, really helpful. But today, we're going to answer your questions. First question was, what have you been up to? And my life right now is a bit strange. I feel like I have a few

different hats that I wear. You know, I have, I have this hat. We do on the end, and it's a really

massive hat, and I love it, and I take it very seriously, you know, as much as I take anything seriously, you know, but I do enjoy this. And I have, I've been working a lot with Emma, which has been really nice. We're doing Love is Blind UK, which is out very soon, and I've been really really enjoying that and we've been doing loads of

press for that and and busted it on tour you know we're kind of um it's festival season you know so

it's every other summer it kind of comes up that it's festival season and um which is nice because

I kind of get to do other stuff during the week it gets to do on the on the end and other work that I do. And then at the weekends, I jump up and down and pull faces

and play music, which I love and I love it so, so much. It's a great life. You know, I'm really,

really happy for it and I'm so glad to get to do these things that I love. You know,

Busted is a massive part of my life and I think it always will be.

I can't quite believe I'm still doing it.

You know, there's moments when I'm singing a song that we've got called What I Go to School for, that we wrote when we're 16, and I'm still singing that song.

Something about that, you know, when I think of schoolboys writing songs about fantasy and teachers like childhood fantasy stuff you know teenage

fantasy i kind of think that's weird that i'm still singing that i'm 41 you know i remember there's

one lyric in the song um so she may be 33 but that doesn't bother me and we wrote that song because we

thought 33 was well old you know and um and i'm 41 you know, James now changes that lyric to so she may be 53, but it doesn't bother me, which I think is a good touch. Well done, James. Good thinking on your feet. So, yeah, I've been really enjoying that. We're playing loads of festivals at the moment, and it's been really fun. We played, you know, a highlight for me was playing Download Festival. We played

Download recently and this was a big one for us. It came up. We met the guys from Download at the

Rolling Stone Awards and I went and chatted to them on their table. They asked, you know,

a guy called Andy Copping who runs Download, came out to me and said, would you meet the guys

from Download? And I was like, yeah.

And I met this kind of really cool, young table, and they were all busted fans. And they kind of said to me, would you ever play Download? And I was like, really? You know, because Download, for people that don't know, it's like a metal and rock festival. And, um, and that isn't the kind of

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