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Fronted by <a href="spotify:artist:3Z6IRCo7umuk8K2XQy0ZDj">Busted</a>'s <a href="spotify:artist:4b9X9koqzHEUbaG6dr0OJQ">James Bourne</a>, five-piece guitar band Son of Dork briefly found success with their brand of <a href="spotify:artist:6FBDaR13swtiWwGhX1WQsP">blink-182</a>-influenced punk-pop. Named after a line in Problem Child, the band formed just months after <a href="spotify:artist:3Z6IRCo7umuk8K2XQy0ZDj">Busted</a>'s shocking split in 2005, when <a href="spotify:artist:4b9X9koqzHEUbaG6dr0OJQ">Bourne</a> recruited lead guitarist Chris Leonard, a former member of BBC Kids TV house band <a href="spotify:artist:1Od3JSQ9e1vPf7JINXT8c9">Stamford Amp</a>, rhythm guitarist David Williams, bassist <a href="spotify:artist:3485sdV3uGYu3lkPfcs9r2">Steven Rushton</a>, and drummer Danny Hall through adverts placed in <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22NME%22">NME</a> and The Stage. The band soon signed a deal with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Mercury+Records%22">Mercury Records</a> and released its first single, the Top Three hit "Ticket Outta Loserville," and the Gil Norton-produced debut album of the same name in 2005. A year later they scored another Top Ten hit with "Eddie's Song," wrote the theme tune to the <a href="spotify:artist:2gmeFH5Iz8UEA7K0OHDePQ">Ant & Dec</a> film Alien Autopsy, and toured with <a href="spotify:artist:4mYFgEjpQT4IKOrjOUKyXu">Wheatus</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:5ND0mGcL9SKSjWIjPd0xIb">Bowling for Soup</a> on the U.K. leg of the Get Happy tour. In 2007, various members left the band due to inactivity, eventually resulting in the group officially disbanding. In 2009, <a href="spotify:artist:4b9X9koqzHEUbaG6dr0OJQ">Bourne</a> teamed up with playwright Elliot Davies to produce a musical based on their album, which proved so successful on its short run that a transfer to the West End was planned for 2011. ~ Jon O'Brien, Rovi
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