Technically, Leah Massey wouldn’t be here without Busted. It seems a contradictory picture given what she’d grow up to be, but as a young girl, the band eased her into a brave new world dominated by loud guitars. She even name-checks James Bourne’s short-lived pop-punk outfit Son Of Dork – “If anyone remembers them” – who she kept up with after Busted first broke up in the ’00s. Today, Leah’s recounting this to Kerrang! as the singer of one of the UK’s brightest and most exciting hardcore bands in years. Having started as an idea for a thrash outfit over lockdown, Pest Control are about to head out on the road with Knocked Loose on the Kentucky bruisers’ biggest UK tour to date, where they’ll tread the boards at no less a venue than London’s O2 Academy Brixton. A...