Flicking through the NME live ads one afternoon was a 16-year-old Ipswich boy by the name of Charlie Simpson. When he passed the audition - Mattie and James still say there was no competition - Charlie found Busted to be a slight change of direction. Through his early-to-mid teens he'd been more at home behind a set of drums, in bands going under names like FUBAR. But if it's good for the Grohl it's good for the Simpson, and before long Charlie's role as one of the trio's three frontmen was cast in stone. Where James brings the pop to the Busted table, Charlie throws in his encyclopedic and sometimes terrifying knowledge of the alternative world, from global acts like The Deftones and Jimmy Eat World to the output of tiny indie labels like Fierce Panda and Chemikal Underground. Charlie recently bought his first Porsche, and has yet to receive a parking fine. 

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