TWO-TIME Brit award winners, Busted, has announced extra dates for its Night Driver Tour in early 2017 - including a date in Bournemouth.

Due to popular demand, the trio has added several more venues to its 24 date UK tour including the O2 Academy on Saturday, February 4.

They will also play Portsmouth Guildhall on February 13, as previously announced.

But fans are in for a surprise, as the teen targeted punk pop band that blasted to fame with their debut single, What I Go To School For, in 2002 and notched up four number one singles, is long gone.

The Busted that convenes today, is more mature both musically and personally, far removed from the spike haired punk pop trio of old.

The 2017 tour follows the release of their eagerly anticipated third album Night Driver last month via East/West Records.

The band’s brand new release in 12 years includes the tracks Easy, Coming Home and the current disco-tinged single, On What You’re On.

Bassist Matt Willis said he was looking forward to playing at the O2 Academy.

“I’ve always liked Bournemouth as I’ve stayed there a few times over the years and I’ve got some good friends there so I will be going out on the town,” he says.

“I remember going on a stag do in Bournemouth once though and it was mental - I won’t be doing that again!”

Although the band broke up in 2005, Matt feels it was the right thing to do. After a decade of experiences and newly discovered influences behind them, Busted reunited in the studio in April 2015.

Matt adds: “As soon as we started making music, it became very apparent that we all wanted to make exactly the same thing.”

Charlie said, “We can't wait wait for people to hear this song and be able to share what we have been working so hard on for the past twelve months.”

James added: “The last thing we wanted to do was try to recreate what we used to have. It belongs to that time. All real artists evolve, all real artists try things, it’s unnatural not to.”

Though stylistically unrecognisable and far darker around the edges, ‘Night Driver’ is still the vivid hook riot you would expect from Busted, as vivacious in their early thirties as they were in their teens, and the band are itching to present it to the world.

James, Matt and Charlie first broke onto the music scene in 2002 with their tongue-in-cheek ode to Matt’s school teacher Miss MacKenzie, ‘What I Go To School For.’ Within just two years the three-piece had become the biggest band in the country, with four number one singles, two triple platinum albums, a total of five million records sold, and over 750,000 ticket sales including and a record-breaking run of thirteen Wembley Arena shows.