Radio: Active!

Power pop chart-toppers, Mcfly have just released their new album Radio:Active on their own label Super Records after giving half of it away free with the Mail. We spoke to bass player Dougie Poynter about going toe to toe with Gordon Ramsay, touring those massive arenas and setting certain sensitive parts of your anatomy on fire.

Three's A Crowd - So the give away in the Mail was a huge success. Whose idea was that?

Dougie Poynter - Well, our manager came to us and asked if we'd be interested in doing it and we were very keen. We're very proud of the album and thought it would be the best way of getting it out there, so we had no hesitation

TAC - Do you think that musicians should be giving away more music for free?

DP - Maybe. I don't know. For us, it definitely was a good idea, but times are a changing, so you never know

TAC - What do you think of file sharing?

DP - It doesn't bother me. I personally don't do it, I'm a big fan of iTunes, but I used to share stuff when I was younger, but I think everybody did.

TAC - Starting your own record label – Super records – how's that been going?

DP - Great. Things are far busier now, we've got a lot of things to do

TAC - Any other planned signings?

DP - For the time being stick with ourselves. There aren't that many people involved in the label. We're really busy already, we wouldn't be able to hack it if we brought any more people in.

TAC - You've said that the single Lies is the darkest song you've written.

DP - That's what press release said. I guess it's one of the darker songs we've written. It's not like Not like Enter Sandman or anything like that though.

TAC - Does this mark a big change in direction for McFly?