McFLY Review in the Daily Mail
05-05-2007 17:55
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"Harry is McFly's seriously beautiful one. Danny cracks the jokes, Tom talks intensely about music and Dougie, almost hidden under his hat, stays silent."
"I love that we can be in a band and be successful, but I could really say goodbye to the fame," says Tom, rolling his eyes. "None of us goes to celebrity parties."
They don't consider themselves celebrities; they consider themselves musicians. "And we like to go down the pub," says Danny, who adds: "When we see famous people, we're really intimidated."
They had a spat with Daniel Radcliffe, the star of Harry Potter, who gave an interview to a magazine and said: "All the kids in my school like McFly. I don't get it. I like the Libertines." McFly debate how old Daniel was when he took them on. "Twelve," says Harry. "Thirteen," disputes Dougie. McFly cursed Potter in the Press and stopped only when Daniel's mum rang their management to complain. "But he started it!" McFly giggle, and I'm reminded how young they are.
But against all odds, they are paying their dues and attracting some unexpected fans. Danny says, "Slowly, the word is getting around that we're not a bad band live. We're even getting guys aswell as girls now. Sometimes," he whispers, "they are dragged by their girlfriends, and they become McFly fans. It might not be cool to like us, but people are realising we've got good songs."
"People want something more from pop now," ponders Tom. "Bands like us and Busted helped speed up the decline of old-style pop. Now you are getting much younger kids who are into really great bands like Kaiser Chiefs, Keane and FOB. I went to see FOB recently and the crowd wasn't that different to our audience."
The greatest triumph, says Harry, was establishing McFly as a credible live act: "I don't know of any bands who go as mental as we do onstage. We're doing 34 gigs on this current tour. With sound checks, that's two hours every day on a stage. Playing that much, you are bound to get better."
"What is normal life?" Dougie asks. "We will go on making music for as long as it sells", adds Tom, while Harry interrupts: "There was this man in his 60s in the fourth row the other night, and we were playing. This is what we do. You get used to it. And every day, something amazing happens."
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