Small Fandom Overview: McFly (RPS)

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I Fell In Love With Uranus: A McFly Primer

Hello hello! Small fandom time! I’ve got the rest of the month to introduce you to the joys of British pop band McFly, their dorky love for each other, and tales of their escapades in fiction form.

McFly formed in 2003 and spent a year mucking around and pretending to be serious musicians before releasing their debut single and album in 2004. Since then, they’ve released five albums, three dvds and starred in a Hollywood film, Just My Luck, with Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine. The youngest band to ever have their debut album go straight to #1 in the charts (a record held for forty years previously by the Beatles!) they were part of the revolution of the UK music scene, helping pioneer the reemergence of bands of boys with guitars and bad fashion. Ten #1 singles, a handful of charity hits and chart-toppers and five years of sell-out tours. They’re adorable and awesome, so here we go!

The Boys.

Captain Tom Fletcher.

"When I was little, I fancied the Little Mermaid."

This is Tom. He’s basically awesome, and the entire band is his fault. He tried out for UK group Busted and was in for all of 24 hours before they decided to be a three-piece group instead of four. Management kept Tom on anyway and he wrote a bunch of Busted’s music while working part-time as a general aide and going to college. Tom is a big sci fi geek. He loves Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Star Trek and Back To The Future. He wears Tron trainers and Darth Vader shirts. He loves to bake and knit and spends his evenings watching Friends, knitting scarves and drinking wine or Horlicks. Obsessed with musicals, especially Wicked. He’s a licensed pilot, and isn’t much of a party kid, but when he drinks he gets giggly, then grumpy, then punches people. Then hugs them a lot. Tom <3

Danny Jones.

@tommcfly: Danny: "Is this origami on my salad?" He was a little confused between herbs and paper swans.

Danny went along for a band audition, not realising that it was for a traditional, synchronised dancing, ballad-performing boyband. He turned up and played The Verve and Paul Weller on his guitar. Tom was taping the auditions and took him into the corner to try teach him pop songs. Then gave up and offered to steal him for songwriting instead. The two spent a few months sending each other minidisks through the post and meeting up at weekends before Danny moved in with Tom and his family for a bit. After a while, their management sent them to live in a hotel room together for three months and get an album together.
Danny is an idiot. Amazing at music, but barely two braincells to rub together. Giggly, slutty. Springtseen fanboy. Bizarrely-shaped body and former boxer. Prone to bumping into inanimate objects.

Harry Judd.

"Kinky bitch."

Harry Mark Christopher Judd, posh totty and professional bitch. Proof that you don’t need any musical talent to be in a band as long as you’re really, really determined to be the best at everything. Former youth pro cricketer, marathon runner and obsessive cleaner. Likely to be in your bathroom at 6am scrubbing away limescale. Gets distressed by mess and junkfood. Sporty lad, plays golf to relax.

Dougie Poynter.

Russell Brand: "He could easily have a career as a transvestite. Or perhaps sort of a prostitute. And that's it."

Dougie is what happens when you let teenage boys raise another teenager. Dougie lied his way into the auditions as he was underage, threw up in a bucket and got himself hired. The kind of kid you send out for a pint of milk and comes back with a kitten. Loves porn and scifi. Keeps lizards and tortoises, and a giant labrador to look after him and find his phone, keys, wallet and bandmates. Tiny tiny skater boy with no filter between his brain and mouth. He wanks four times a day.


McFly love each other a ridiculous amount. They’re incapable of functioning as separate people any more, and even when they moved out of the house they used to share, they all moved to the same street. Dougie is being a brave little toaster and attempting to move an entire four miles away, but the effect is spoiled by him having his own bedroom in Tom’s house. They have matching ridiculous tattoos and like cuddling up to each other.

Other people you need to know.

Giovanna

Tom’s fabulous and amazing girlfriend. They’ve known each other since they were thirteen and dated on and off at school. Split up when they graduated until Tom realised he couldn’t live without her and learned to drive so he could visit her. She loves Disney, musicals and pretty dresses, and is a theatre actress. Tom and Gi live together with a bunch of cats and throw superhero-themed parties.

Ant Brant

Ant was in the boyband V, which Danny had originally auditioned for. When the band broke up, Ant kind of stuck around, going drinking and on holiday with the boys. Worked as a backing singer on their latest tour and moved down to London at the end of last year. Lived with Danny, but the flat was too small for them and a dog, so Danny bought another place. Just for them. Aw. Gym-obsessed Northern lad, likes to party.

Izzy

Harry’s girlfriend. Violinist with the band Escala. Looks like Dougie.

Frankie

Dougie’s girlfriend, from girlband The Saturdays. They’ve crushed on each other since they were fifteen. Bit vacant, but really, really adorable.

Fletch and Tommy

McFly’s long-suffering managers. Tommy makes sure they get from place to place in one piece, and Fletch works the creative side. In return, McFly steal their cars.

On to the pairings!

[on threesomes] Would there be ground rules about touching each other?
Dougie: Nah, fuck it.

FletcherJones

The original mcpairing. From sharing a hotel room for three months, to their habit of touching each other up on stage, everything about these two is natural and lovely.

“Tom is like my lover. I feel like I’m married to Tom.”

PoynterJudd

Oh, boys. It’s a running joke among fans that Harry and Dougie are having some not-so-secret love affair. They’re constantly professing their love for each other, keep telling the world they’re shagging, and like to pretend they’re married. They go on little boydates together, have breakfasts and cinema trips and buy each other little presents.

“I love you and I don’t know what I’d do without you!”

Have you ever woken up in your own vomit?
Dougie: If it wasn’t for my hero Harry... I was nearly dying.
Harry: Dougie got really pissed on Ouzo and went green and disappeared into the bathroom. He had his head in the loo and was like, ’Harry don’t leave me, I’m going to die if you leave me‘.
Tom: And that was the night we drew on his balls. It was a funny night.
Harry:The bathroom was next to my bedroom, so he was like, ’Can’t I just sleep in your bed, dude?‘ So I was sat on the floor and then he was like, ’Dude, can you not leave me, can you sleep next to me tonight?‘
Tom: They didn’t get up till about seven, they just napped all afternoon.

FletcherJudd

For when you like your pairings argumentative and alpha-male growly.

"Harry: I know it's a sterotype to have one gay member in a boyband, well that's me..."

PoynterJones

They’re hot together, but they’re also really, really stupid and would possibly manage to accidentally kill each other by leaving the cooker on when they went off to shag.

PoynterFletcher

Cute, and slightly creepy. Tom and Dougie love to geek out together and play Star Wars, and Tom is the one that makes sure Dougie eats and pays his bills. Tom is Dougie’s mummy, so, yes. Slightly weird.

JuddJones

They like to dress like lumberjacks and play golf together. Clubbing buddies from the beginning, as Dougie was too little and Tom was too uncool to go with them.

OT4

Because, yes.

Where to go next.

Well, it’s a small fandom. Actually, incredibly tiny fandom.

http://mcfly.forums.umusic.co.uk/
Official forum for the band, best place to start to find out about them. There’s a graphics section, and a fiction section as well. Tom approves of bandfic. Of course.

www.myspace.com/mcfly
Although mostly inundated with teenie messages, has fab music and video links.

http://community.livejournal.com/mcflyslash
Fab little fic comm, with brilliantly organised memories and tags to find whatever you are in the mood for!


Twitter
For random ridiculousness, accusations of gayness, daft photos and bodily functions.
www.twitter.com/mcflymusic
www.twitter.com/tommcfly
www.twitter.com/dougiemcfly
www.twitter.com/dannymcfly
www.twitter.com/mcflyharry (Harry struggles with any technology invented after 1950.)
www.twitter.com/gfalcone601
www.twitter.com/brantanamo

Would you ever get your knobs out for a photoshoot?
Tom: Can you imagine us four naked? It would be the most fucking ugly sight.
Harry: I’d never get fully naked, I’d have to cover my willy up.
Why, are you ashamed of your willy?
Harry: No, not at all, but I think it’s a bit fucking personal, that’s all.
Dougie: I’ve got a fanny.
Harry: I don’t think men should see us naked, it’s not a nice sight. We’ve got deformed cocks. There you go, that’s your last line.

Comments

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i have been watching lots of mcfly primers, fanvids, etc this last week (i'm new to both the band and the fandom, yay me!), and this is the 1st time i bother to comment. i'll tell you why...

"Dougie Poynter.
Russell Brand: "He could easily have a career as a transvestite. Or perhaps sort of a prostitute. And that's it."
Dougie is what happens when you let teenage boys raise another teenager. Dougie lied his way into the auditions as he was underage, threw up in a bucket and got himself hired. The kind of kid you send out for a pint of milk and comes back with a kitten. Loves porn and scifi. Keeps lizards and tortoises, and a giant labrador to look after him and find his phone, keys, wallet and bandmates. Tiny tiny skater boy with no filter between his brain and mouth. He wanks four times a day."


THAT. IS. GOLDEN.
seriously, the hole primer was entertaining, but that! omg! hilarious! perfect! kdasfuayhgfyi!!
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