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On Friday, the What I Go To School For trio announced they’re hitting the road later this year for an arena tour commemorating 20 years of their self-titled debut album.

All three members of the group – Charlie Simpson, James Bourne and Matt Willis – will be taking part in the tour, which will see them playing venues around the UK throughout September.

To celebrate the announcement, the band shared a nostalgic clip looking back over their career on social media:

Busted will be joined on the road by opening act Hanson (yes, of MMMBop fame), as well as The Tyne and New Hope Club.

And as if the tour news wasn’t enough, Busted have also announced a new collection reworking some of their old hits – which will be preceded by a new version of the album cut Loser Kid, featuring Canadian rock group Simple Plan.

Tickets for the tour will go on sale on 31 March, with the reworkings album coming on 14 April.

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It’s safe to say the tour news got a big reaction over on Twitter – with many fans particularly excited at the prospect of seeing Busted and Hanson on the same billing:

Front Row & Backstage

⚾Humble big innings: Sometimes worldwide superstardom starts at a 1994 softball game in the Texas capital (l-r): Isaac, age 13, Taylor, 11, and Zac Hanson, 8. While well-rounded players in the field, the trio had 1st and 2nd tenor spoken for, but somehow left 1st bass uncovered…no runs, no hits….yet.

Hanson traveled from their Tulsa hometown to play in Austin, TX during their annual, mid-March South By Southwest music festival (aka South By aka SXSW) in Austin, Texas, exactly 29 years ago, in 1994. Essentially, that’s where and when they were discovered.

Zac, the drummer, and the youngest Hanson, now 38, picks up the story from the lads’ 2017 interview with Spin: “We don’t think of it as discovered because we’re pretty positive that someone discovered us before that.

“But we have a deep connection to SXSW, just because we came down here when we were kids, a few years after we had started [by releasing two indie albums in Tulsa the previous two years].

“You know, we busked in the streets, nobody wanted to listen to us, but eventually we found a guy who came up and was like ‘let me hear your music,’ and that guy became our manager [entertainment attorney, Christopher Sabec], helped us get signed [to Mercury Records], and was with us for years.

“I think the real spirit of SXSW is more that kind of a story. There’s so many people in the streets who are trying to find a way to get their demo into somebody’s hands. Not just like the big showcase where the big band from where ever comes to play, but the kind of nobody who meets someone or gets a chance or networks their way into a deal.”

Along with Zac, the trio is filled out by guitarist Isaac, 42, and keyboardist, Taylor, who just turned 40.

Before “MMMBop”

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