One of the only groups around which can still call themselves a boy band without the assistance of mood lighting or a syringe-full of dermal filler.

While Take That and Westlife have stretched the meaning of the word boy band tighter than the skin on David Cassidy's face, the oldest member of McFly is just 21.

But despite qualifying on the age front, the tag leaves a bad taste in the mouth of McFly bassist Dougie Poynter.

"The term boy band is kind of offensive - you think of Westlife and suits," says Poynter, whose band's power-pop owes more to Blink 182 than Blue. "I don't want people to take us so seriously, like Coldplay-type serious. But I think over time, as our fans grow up with us, people will realise that we do actually play our own instruments and write our own stuff, and that's just one of the most important things.

"Being a musician and having people think that you don't play your own stuff is, well, not very nice."

Named after Michael J Fox's character, Marty McFly, in the Eighties classic film, Back to the Future, the band stormed into the charts in 2004 with ridiculous haircuts and the Number One single, Five Colours in Her Hair.

Their debut album, Room on the Third Floor, saw them swipe the title of youngest band to have a debut album enter the charts at Number One from The Beatles.

Despite once being largely considered a poor man's Busted, 11 Top Ten singles, two Number One albums and one supposed steamy clinch with Lindsay Lohan later, the boys are still around.

Rumours surfaced that drummer Harry Judd had joined the large proportion of the world alleged to have snogged the actress after the band's cameo in her film, Just My Luck. Unfortunately Lindsay's people denied the rumour, claiming the band were trying to create publicity for their album, Motion in the Ocean, which, the band say, is meant to be "horny" - a bit like some of their fans.

While nice girls emblazon banners in strawberry-scented marker pens with wholesome words like We (heart) Take That, McFly's fans scrawl, "Spank us like you spank your drums." But, then again, that's maybe not surprising when the band's idea of a love song (Star Girl) includes the verse: "There's nothing on Earth that can save us/When I find love with Uranus." Nice.

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