Jordan Fish, formerly of Bring Me The Horizon, has been working with Busted on new music, the band has revealed. Speaking to Rolling Stone UK before a set on June 14, the group said they are working on “experimental” new material with Fish, set to follow up 2023’s Greatest Hits 2.0. Busted’s Charlie Simpson said: “We’re doing some writing with him and we’ve got some great songs already. We want to try and get a whole bunch of songs that we can choose from because I think this next album is very important for Busted.”
Matt Willis added: “We’re experimenting, we trying to not be tied down to anything too hard right now. We’re in a position where we give less fucks and we just want to do what makes us really fucking stoked. Jordan’s the best thing to happen to Busted in a long time. He’s the most creative person and he’s different to us because he loves all the same shit as us, but he brings all the stuff we’ve never had.”
Fish left Bring Me The Horizon last December. He had been part of the Sheffield rock band since 2012 and had been instrumental in shaping the band’s songwriting approach and modern sound by adding more electronic elements, particularly on 2013’s landmark record ‘Sempiternal’. He was also part of the band for 2015’s ‘That’s The Spirit’, 2019’s ‘Amo’ and 2020’s ‘Post Human: Survival Horror’.
Since leaving the band, Fish has worked with the likes of Poppy on her latest Madonna-meets-metal single ‘New Way Out’, House Of Protection and Architects. Speaking to NME about the musicians he works with, Fish said: “I’m usually attracted to artists who don’t want to go down the same road as something that’s been before. I’ve worked in rock music for quite a while, and there are a lot of bands that do sound similar.”
Busted spoke to Rock Sound ahead of their debut Download set and opened up about the fan reactions to them performing at the festival. “It’s one of those things where it came through and we have a five-minute conversation because we were like ‘Is this right? Is this the real deal? But then it was announced and it was straight to the comments. I was like ‘I want to read all this shit’ and it was all really cool and I was like ‘This is all really rad.’ I feel like it’s a real positive feeling,” Matt Willis explained
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