Busted and McFly announce MORE UK tour dates after selling out arenas — and tickets go on sale TODAY

TICKETS for the upcoming McFly vs Busted tour have flown off the shelves and now even more dates have been announced.

The noughties bands are going mic-to-mic against each other in a series of UK tours in 2025.

Due to popular demand, more dates have been added and a final pre sale has opened up today.

New dates for the 'final battle' in 2025 are 12 October in Newcastle, 28 October in Birmingham and 30 October in London.

James Bourne, who is in Busted with Charlie Simpson and Matt Willis, said: “The whole tour is to find out who’s a better band. Fans can decide.

“They can come and support their band and they might change their mind. It’s going to be a fight to the death.”

Matt continued: “It has been a long time coming, this tour. Fans have wanted this.

“There’s a massive crossover in the fanbases but secretly I think everyone likes Busted more.”

McFly drummer Harry Judd said: “To be honest, these guys have obviously had their 20th anniversary and rinsed that and I think they’re a bit short on ideas, so they needed us and we felt charitable.”

Tom Fletcher joked: “We said, ‘We’ll save you again’. We did it once with McBusted.”

But Charlie butted in: “We said, ‘We don’t want to go out again, but we will if we have to take you on. You can support us one more time, yes. Just like you did in 2004’.”

The news follows a summer of shows across the country where both bands made digs at each other.

On who get to close the tour, Harry insisted: “We’re not precious like that.”

Matt smugly replied: “Great, so we can finalise it that we headline, right?”

Harry joked: “I wouldn’t say ‘headline’. We just have to take care of Busted’s egos.”

The lads have asked fans: "It’s time to settle this once and for all. Who’s team are you on?"

McFly added: “Busted gatecrashed our show (not cool), and challenged us to a VS tour next year.

"They’re old men now, and we are gonna blow them and their carers off the stage next year.

"We’ve had a great time celebrating our 21st birthday this week and next year is going to be even better – P.S Busted Suck."

Busted fought back and added: "There’s been a lot of talk recently… This is where the talking ends…!

"We are ready to show who is the better band once and for all. McFly suck and Busted Rock!"

Busted's Charlie said: "It won’t run like a co-headline show. It will run in a way that you won’t have seen before.

"I just saw the renders of the staging, and that alone looks incredible, and something that I haven’t seen before. There’s going to be a lot of cool s*** – there’s some WWF vibes as well!"