I think McBusted hit at the sweet spot where McFly and Busted's fans were becoming fully functional adults with disposable income with not much other financial responsibilities. We were all say 20-25, starting to get good careers, but probably still living at home so had the money to burn going to every show in your city and neighbouring cities, and staying over, then buying OMFG tickets
Now we're all older and can't just splash £50+ on tickets with barely any notice.
Totally agree Tom is greedy, and their demise is down to him
I feel sorry for Dougie (he is my fave as well!) I think he just needs to call on his Blink 182 connections with Travis Barker, and become a touring musician with him. Travis is doing tit loads of stuff right now bringing pop-punk back to the forefront and Dougie would fit right in, and he fits more into the pop-punk genre than McFly (Tom's) Beatles rip off tit. All of Dougie's songs he's led on have been boss - like Do Watcha for example was amazing! (editing to add - the live version of Do Watcha that's on YouTube, not the recording studio one)