By that point, of course, the band will be on the road with their first headline arena tour, some of whose dates sold out so quickly that additional gigs have already been added. They�re promising a bigger, better live experience than autumn 2004�s sold out theatre tour, and you can expect to hear a whole raft of new material when they do hit the road, because the boys have already been writing for the successor to last year�s Number One album �Room On The Third Floor�. �We have,� Danny declares, �got some tunes.� He�s remaining tight-lipped on any further details, but from the early demos it sounds as if the band will breezily sidestep any �difficult second album� issues.
In fact, with all this happening in 2005, the band�s first single seems a long time ago now - but �Five Colours In her Hair� was actually released less than a year ago. After spending two weeks at Number One, �Five Colours�� was followed by the band�s second Number One smash, �Obviously�, which itself was followed two weeks later by an album teeming with love, loss, frustration and a humorous songwriting spark that set McFly head and shoulders above the vast majority of the pop pack. �Room On The Third Floor� shot straight to Number One � putting McFly in the Guinness Book Of Records as the youngest ever band to achieve such a feat. Two further Top 5 hits followed � with �That Girl� in September and the album�s title track, with its astonishing �Airfix� video, in November.
Under their belts � which are riding as low as ever � the lads already have hundreds of thousands of record sales, a Brit Award, thousands of gig tickets sold, and so many Smash Hits awards that they needed a shopping trolley to get them home, and right now they�re sounding more fresh and creative than ever. Amazingly, their momentum is still building. If you thought McFly made a big impact in 2004, that�s was just the beginning�
Feb 2005
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