It's Dork 'n' roll for Welsh star!

Mar 30 2006

Sian Watts, Celtic Newspapers

BLEACHED blond Dave Williams is going to have his hair done, and he's pretty excited about it. Now he's a pop star, he's got a personal stylist, and he's even more excited about that. In fact, the 19-year-old from Abertillery seems excited in general. And so he should be. As a member of pop-rock band Son of Dork, Dave is living the high life, and he doesn't seem to quite believe it.

The band was formed by ex-Busted star James Bourne who sings lead vocals.

Their first single, Ticket Outta Loserville went to N 3 in the UK charts last November.

In between games of Boppit with band-mate Steve, and spontaneously gasping at the cars that go by, Dave tries to describe what the band have been up to.

"We've just finished a photo shoot and we've been working on our new single.

"It's called We're Not Alone and it's the soundtrack for the new Ant and Dec film, Alien Autopsy," he says.

A Lamborghini speeds by on the Kings Road in Chelsea.

"Wow, that car was amazing," he says.

"There are so many amazing cars on this road."

"We all went to the screening of the film and it was really good - so funny."

Just a few weeks ago Son of Dork won the Worst Band award at the NME Awards.

"I was over the moon with that, I thought it was brilliant.

"If I had been there I would have definitely got up to collect the award."

The band are living in London now in the same complex as fellow pop-rockers McFly and Girls Aloud.

It's a far cry from Abertillery but Dave still enjoys coming home.

"I've been at home in Abertillery over the past few weeks and doing some recording in a studio in Pontypool.

"I get recognised all the time at home - it's weird.

"Nobody cares in London because there are famous people everywhere.

"I don't go out much in Abertillery or Cardiff, because at night people seem to want to cause trouble with me.

"The other day I was stalked in Cardiff by a group of girls for two hours."

Talking about girls, Dave says he is "free and easy" when it comes to his relationship status, despite rumours in the tabloids he is seeing wild child Kelly Osbourne.

He says: "There's nothing going on with Kelly.

"We are close friends and I think she's wicked, but the tabloids have blown it up out of all proportion.

"They made it into something it wasn't.

"Her and Danny (his band mate) were having a head butting competition and at the time one of the papers said we were having sex in the toilets."

Dave explained it is hard to have a girlfriend because he's always working, but he's not ruling out the idea of a relationship if the opportunity presents itself.

However, Son of Dork are probably far too busy at the moment, recording the video and the B-sides for their new single.

Band mate Steve interrupts and

desperately tries to chat politely before

blurting out: "Steve got the high score on Boppit! It's going to be really hard to beat that - I'm gutted."

The new single We're Not Alone will be in shops on April 10.

Wait! Shouldn't McFly own this?

Artists: Busted, Son Of Dork

The 3am Girls may hardly be Victoria Newton's Bizarre, but nevertheless they've delivered a good today, with the news that Son Of Dork singer-slash-Pokemon-lookalike James Bourne has splashed out on the original Delorean from Back To The Future.

Really, if you ever needed a reason to hate the former Busted boy, this is it.

The car cost a whopping �18,000, which, frankly, is ridiculous for a car that was never any good in the first place (although this one does have a Flux Capacitor). The girls, writing in The Mirror, quote a source thus:

"James loves Back To The Future, and when he found out the original car was for sale he went to Bath to buy it. It's only got 100 miles on the clock as it was only driven around on set."

DiScuss: BASTARD. Oh, and I suppose this money has come from Busted, eh, cos Son Of Dork have sold exactly diddly-nothing albums.