Live Review: McBusted, Jordan Millar

Never before have so many guys, with so many guitars, had so much fun on stage at Metro Theatre.

Well that may notbe entirely true, but it just goes to show that when two bands become one (McFly and Busted), and that one band goes on tour with 1D, sometimes magic happens.

As Jordan Millar kickstarted the night, hundreds waited in line wrapped around the Metro to get inside, after making it through the chaos of the Chinese New Year celebrations happening just outside. This reviewer managed to make it in to catch Millar performing a rendition of Latch by Disclosure, which had the crowd sufficiently amped.

Half an hour later, and fresh from supporting One Direction on their On The Road Again tour, McBusted played their first headlining show in Sydney to a sold-out crowd. When the lights dropped, McBusted high-kicked their way onto the stage and it felt like the heat in the room went up a few notches. The pop-rock supergroup played a high energy mix of covers from each of their former bands, as well as some McBusted originals, live for the first time.

Drummer Harry Judd had the room (which was 99% full of screaming girls) going crazy from the minute he ran onto the stage, sans shirt and sporting a killer set of abs, while the rest of the band – particularly Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter, and James Bourne – were just cray, running and jumping all over the stage from start to finish. The perennial support group had the whole crowd jumping for the entire hour-and-a-half set.

Matt Willis said, “We're used to being a warm-up act, we don't need to do that tonight, but anyway, who wants to get sweaty?” The crowd knew every lyric to every song, with favourites being Air Guitar, Obviously and Year 3000.