The mellow band have a summer full of festival dates having just played Download festival before taking their McFly Vs Busted show to Capital’s Summertime Ball this weekend
Twenty years into their career and McFly couldn’t be further from prima donnas. In fact the band are a festival organiser’s dream booking . Minimal requests, a dreary rider, and a strict routine before stage time.
Dougie Poynter told me: “We forget we have a rider, I mean at the end of the day we pay for it, and so we don’t like to waste money and put things on there that nobody wants.
“We used to, we used to have a cheeseboard on there, and wine, grapes and stuff but nobody touched it. Going on stage is like going to a work out class or something, the last thing you wanna do before a workout class is eat a bunch of cheese and down wine!
“It’s a really gross feeling, imagine like ‘here’s a handful of Babybels’ now go on and jump around’.”
He added that after so many years on the road they’ve learnt keeping things simple off stage means they can rock harder on stage: “Yeah we have a routine, we have to!
“We have to eat at 5, we always eat at 5, food at 5 because if you mess that up it can mess the show up.
“If I don’t eat enough at 5pm I can get hungry before a set.”
Tom Fletcher interrupted: “Yeah and Dougie isn’t very good when he’s hungry!”
The band have a summer full of festival dates – They just played Download festival before taking their McFly Vs Busted show to Capital’s Summertime Ball this weekend.
And Tom revealed playing live is when they’re their most relaxed around one another: “What would we all fall out about?
Touring is like a holiday, there’s no decisions to be made, it’s already been done in rehearsals and pre-production.
“The bit we bicker the most is when we are writing and recording, touring is the easy bit.
“There’s no push pull, you’re just having fun every night and every day.”
But finessing their setlist can be tricky, Dougie exclaimed: “We have over 100 songs now!
“We take a lot of pride in the setlist and things flowing, that’s the hardest thing as you gotta change guitars, tempos and stuff.”
There are some songs that sadly for Tom “have never ever worked live” too.
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