Hope Is A Drug

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Hailing from Suffolk, Charlie Simpson began his musical career in 2001, gaining commercial and critical success with Busted and Fightstar before going solo. He is the recipient of two BRIT Awards, has performed to sold out arenas and headlined festivals across the UK. He embarked on a solo career in 2010 with two albums hitting Top 10 in the UK album chart. Charlie recently headlined a 2000-capacity sold out show at London’s O2 Kentish Town Forum. With an uncompromising approach to creating truly honest music, 2022 is set to be a hugely exciting chapter for one of the UKs most celebrated voices. Simpson has achieved eleven UK Albums Chart top-40 releases across his musical career, six of which entered the UK top 10. He has also had four number-one singles with Busted and a number-one album, as well as two top-20 singles with Fightstar and two UK top-10 solo albums. Between Busted, Fightstar and his solo projects, he has sold over five million records worldwide, winning two Brit Awards and being nominated for two Kerrang! Awards. Everyone has been touched by the feeling of hope. It’s fascinating how the human psychehas the endless capacity for optimism as a mechanism for overcoming adversity. Theeffects of hope are like a powerful drug, and it’s inspired me to return to the theme timeand time again in my lyrics. Listening to Hotel California’. From my recent single ‘All The Best’. Whoop whoop! That’s easy to remember because I only wrote it around four months ago!” Crashed the Wedding’ kept Britney Spears and Madonna’s collaboration ‘ Me Against the Music’ off the Number One spot upon its release in 2003…

An ‘80s pop star covered ‘ Crashed the Wedding’? I didn’t even know that happened! Was it Chesney Hawkes?” Fightstar end Island Records contract". Digital Spy. 8 September 2006 . Retrieved 8 September 2006. INTERVIEW: Fightstar". Yorkshire Evening Post. Archived from the original on 15 February 2009 . Retrieved 29 January 2009. I get asked to do all that stuff, like Strictly Come Dancing – but I’m a terrible dancer, which would rule that out. Not to say I wouldn’t do something like that in the future, but those shows don’t fit with me at the moment.”Charlie Simpson – Busted. If Busted were the anti-boy band, Charlie Simpson was the anti-lead singer. The well-bred multi-instrumentalist (a direct descendant of Sir William Sterndale Bennett, no less), had enough of singing suggestive lyrics over pop-punk riffs after three years in the Brit Award-winning trio, & left in 2003. Fightstar, his deliberately emo post-hardcore spin-off band, followed, before he took up a solo career. The unthinkable happened in 2015, with news of a full Busted reunion the next year. | From George Harrison to Zayn Malik: the pop stars who left their bands - Music". The Telegraph. 28 January 2016 . Retrieved 10 March 2020. After another four year hiatus, whilst the band focused on other projects, in May 2023 Busted announced they would be returning for a 20 Year Anniversary Greatest Hits tour, which went on to become the biggest selling UK arena tour of 2023. They also released a Greatest Hits album which went to number 1 in the UK album charts. Which series three The Masked Singer character was panellist Davina McCall convinced was you this year? The fourth studio album by Charlie Simpson, the record was announced on November 16, 2021, along with its tour. Hope Is a Drug is preceded by the singles “I See You,” “Blameless,” “One of Us,” and “All the Best”.

Busted Win Record of Year". Sky. Archived from the original on 15 July 2012 . Retrieved 27 July 2009. Charlie says, “Everyone has been touched by the feeling of hope. It’s fascinating how the human psyche has the endless capacity for optimism as a mechanism for overcoming adversity. The effects of hope are like a powerful drug, and it’s inspired me to return to the theme time and time again in my lyrics.” Simpson went into the studio in June 2010 to start recording his full-length debut album with producer Danton Supple, whose previous work includes Coldplay and The Cure. The album was funded through PledgeMusic and as one of the main incentives for the campaign, fans received an EP called When We Were Lions on Christmas Day 2010. The full-length album was finally finished in February 2011 and was mastered by John Davis at Metropolis Studios in London. The first single to be taken from the album was called "Down Down Down" and it had its first radio airplay on 11 April, as Radio 1 DJ Fearne Cotton's Record of the Week. The single was officially released on 16 May, though it was made available to buy on iTunes straight away. The album, titled Young Pilgrim was released on 15 August 2011. It went straight into the UK album chart at number 6, having been at number 5 in the midweeks. Simpson signed to PIAS Records in Germany and the album was released in Europe in August 2012.

Simpson was educated at Brandeston Hall Prep School in Suffolk and then at Uppingham School, where his great grandfather, Robert Sterndale Bennett (1880-1963), had been a most influential Director of Music between 1908 and 1945. [ citation needed] Career [ edit ] Busted (2002–2005; 2015–present) [ edit ] Simpson, Charlie. " "HAUNTED" AVAILABLE NOW". charliesimpsonmusic.com. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014 . Retrieved 2 June 2014. Fightstar 'Be Human' (Search & Destroy)". The Fly. Archived from the original on 5 August 2009 . Retrieved 27 April 2009. Hailing from Suffolk, Charlie Simpson began his musical career in 2001, gaining commercial and critical success with Busted and Fightstar before going solo. He is the recipient of two BRIT Awards, has performed to sold out arenas and headlined festivals across the UK. He embarked on a solo career in 2010 with two albums hitting Top 10 in the UK album chart. Charlie recently headlined a 2000-capacity sold out show at London’s O2 Kentish Town Forum. He met Alex Westaway in late 2003, forming what became Fightstar shortly afterwards. For over a year he would lead a secret "double life": by night he would attend rehearsal sessions with his new band after completing obligated media work and concert performances with Busted. [15] During 2004, he and Westaway wrote Fightstar's debut EP, They Liked You Better When You Were Dead. The EP showcased a heavier post-hardcore influenced sound that differed greatly to Busted's material. [16] The EP was recorded during November with Mark Williams in London. [15] During this time, speculation began to grow about Busted's future. He announced he was leaving Busted to pursue his career full-time with Fightstar in January 2005.

Crumlish, Callum (31 March 2023). "Busted star Charlie Simpson confirms second Gunship collaboration". Express.co.uk . Retrieved 1 October 2023. Hari, Johann. "Busted: An Interview". Archived from the original on 18 September 2010 . Retrieved 22 November 2009. a b c d "I Am Fightstar..." Archived from the original on 14 August 2009 . Retrieved 5 August 2009. Everyone has been touched by the feeling of hope. It’s fascinating how the human psyche has the endless capacity for optimism as a mechanism for overcoming adversity. The effects of hope are like a powerful drug, and it’s inspired me to return to the theme time and time again in my lyrics. O'Brien, Jon. "Biography: Charlie Simpson". Allmusic ( Rovi Corporation) . Retrieved 22 August 2011.

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Goods that are faulty or sent in error must be returned to Crash Records Limited, 35 The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 6PU within 7 working days of the item being received by the customer. America Or Busted Episode 2". Archived from the original on 4 June 2011 . Retrieved 7 December 2011. In October 2014, Simpson announced that he would play a 13 date UK solo acoustic tour in January/February of the following year. [27] So I spoke to Jordan [Fish] two weeks ago because we want to do a project together. We became buddies after doing Warped tour together years ago. So we’re trying to think of something we can do together, and I’m trying to think of something I can get him on. Which would be awesome!” Charlie has also been involved in film scoring, stating in an interview that this was something he was keen to pursue later in his career. He wrote the score for an independent British film ' Everyone's Going To Die', which debuted at the SXSW Film Festival in March 2013. [ citation needed]