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Sunday, April 22, 2007
Monday, April 16, 2007
MORE MADNESS GIGS THIS SUMMER
MADNESS - KNOWSLEY HALL MUSIC FESTIVAL
Liverpool Sunday 24th June 2007 1PM - 11PM
www.knowsleyhallmusicfestival.co.uk
In a stately home setting with Keane, The Zutons, Madness, Joss Stone, Ian McNabb,
Sunday: Standard: £37.50+BF / Gold Circle: £55+BF / Hospitality: £99+BF
Ticket Outlets: Piccadilly Ticketline: 0871 424 8000 / See Tickets: 0871 220 0260 / Ticketmaster : 0870 169 0109 Online Tickets: www.ticketline.co.uk / www.seetickets.com / www.ticketmaster.co.uk Information Tel: 0151 707 1309 Website:
THE MARQUEE CORK, IRELAND
5TH July 2007 – Live at the Marquee Cork
Aiken Promotions are proud to present MADNESS live in concert for one night only on 5th July Live at the Marquee Cork, Tickets, priced €60 GA and €65, go on sale next Thursday 19th April at 9am from all Ticketmaster outlets nationwide, Booking line no.0818 719 300.
http://www.aikenpromotions.com
GUILFEST FESTIVAL
Headling the festival on the Final night on Sunday 15th July.
http://www.guilfest.co.uk/
Madness are also booked for the following gigs:
Sunday 3rd June 2007 - Peel Bay Festival, Isle of Man
Friday 20th July 2007 - Newmarket Race Course, Newmarket
Sunday 22nd July 2007 - Bickling Park, Norfolk
Tickets for the Newmarket and Bickling Park gigs can be purchased at www.ticketmaster.co.uk
Liverpool Sunday 24th June 2007 1PM - 11PM
www.knowsleyhallmusicfestival.co.uk
In a stately home setting with Keane, The Zutons, Madness, Joss Stone, Ian McNabb,
Sunday: Standard: £37.50+BF / Gold Circle: £55+BF / Hospitality: £99+BF
Ticket Outlets: Piccadilly Ticketline: 0871 424 8000 / See Tickets: 0871 220 0260 / Ticketmaster : 0870 169 0109 Online Tickets: www.ticketline.co.uk / www.seetickets.com / www.ticketmaster.co.uk Information Tel: 0151 707 1309 Website:
THE MARQUEE CORK, IRELAND
5TH July 2007 – Live at the Marquee Cork
Aiken Promotions are proud to present MADNESS live in concert for one night only on 5th July Live at the Marquee Cork, Tickets, priced €60 GA and €65, go on sale next Thursday 19th April at 9am from all Ticketmaster outlets nationwide, Booking line no.0818 719 300.
http://www.aikenpromotions.com
GUILFEST FESTIVAL
Headling the festival on the Final night on Sunday 15th July.
http://www.guilfest.co.uk/
Madness are also booked for the following gigs:
Sunday 3rd June 2007 - Peel Bay Festival, Isle of Man
Friday 20th July 2007 - Newmarket Race Course, Newmarket
Sunday 22nd July 2007 - Bickling Park, Norfolk
Tickets for the Newmarket and Bickling Park gigs can be purchased at www.ticketmaster.co.uk
Saturday, March 17, 2007
NW5 German CD Maxi Single out March 30th
1. NW5 [I WOULD GIVE YOU EVERYTHING]-RADIO EDIT
2. IT MUST BE LOVE [WIXX-MIXX 2007]-ALBUM VERSION
3. NW5 [I WOULD GIVE YOU EVERYTHING]-ALBUM VERSION
4. NW5 [I WOULD GIVE YOU EVERYTHING] - LIVE @ WEMBLEY 12/06
5. IT MUST BE LOVE [2007] CD-ROM VIDEO
6. NW5 [I WOULD GIVE YOU EVERYTHING] CD–ROM VIDEO
7. MAKING OF NW5 [I WOULD GIVE YOU EVERYTHING] CD-ROM VIDEO
Friday, March 9, 2007
SUGGS' GUILTY PLEASURE LIVE ON BBC RADIO
Renowned club night Guilty Pleasures held a fantastic live event at London's Hackney Empire on March 20th, with guest artists including Suggs backed up with a house band and a 40-piece BBC Concert Orchestra.Artists included The Magic Numbers, The Specials' Terry Hall, Les McKeown (Bay City Rollers), Chas'N'Dave, Cerys Mathews and Ed Harcourt singing the classic 70s and 80s songs that made Guilty Pleasures such a successful nightclub.
After seeing Terry Hall duet with Cerys on "Islands in the stream"...
Suggs ended the evening singing classic "Love is in the air" with a light and enthusiastic mood that conveyed the song up to the theatres upper levels and saw a fitting conclusion to an excellent show presented by club night DJ Sean Rowley. The show was recorded to be broadcast on BBC London radio on Easter Monday. 12midday to 2pm.
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
BBC NEWS TALKS TO SUGGS
On the new album....
"While we wanted to get back to that classic pop/reggae Madness sound, we also wanted to create a more complex record for people of our age.... we started it last year and we are driving our managers to distraction. It's about half done. We booked five nights at the Hackney Empire in June to give us a deadline for launching it. But it's already looking like we are going to have to shift those dates. Hopefully, really hopefully, September. Maybe Christmas."
About Sway and Sorry...
"I first heard him through my daughters and I liked his stuff. We heard he liked Madness because the first flat he moved into someone had left a Madness album in a cupboard and
it was the only music he had for a while. We are careful of trying to combine styles of music but we tried this and it was perfect."
About ageing Madness...
"I feel that I am part of the first generation which didn't want to let go of being young.
It used to be pipe and slippers on the dot of 35 but that boundary is increasingly blurred.
At the same time as I would like Madness to have the same energy we had as kids, it would be undignified not to realise it has to change slightly and that has been going alright. I take a lot of inspiration from the film Buena Vista Social Club, that's how to grow old gracefully as a musician!
Remembering appearing on The Young Ones...
It was a great time. We knew Ade Edmonson and Rik Mayall and those comedians and we would go and see each other perform. Then we were offered this TV series where Margaret Thatcher went back to Mars and we were elected to government. But the BBC decided it was too expensive. Then bits of that show turned up in this new comedy The Young Ones, so we went on. It had the same sense of fun we did, very spontaneous. You could veer off the script. One time we said 'Why don't we have a fight with police and smash up a few cars?' and they went 'great idea!'.
On appearing on Strictly Come Dancing...
"We get offered all sorts of things and the great thing about being in a band is that only about four of you have to turn up to make it happen and the rest can be padded out with blokes in sunglasses. Enough agreed to do Strictly to make it worthwhile. You can't argue with the bald facts, it's one of the most watched programmes on TV. Having done a bit of media, my attitude is a bit more laissez-faire. Some of the others think rock and roll should be more, well, rock and roll."
"While we wanted to get back to that classic pop/reggae Madness sound, we also wanted to create a more complex record for people of our age.... we started it last year and we are driving our managers to distraction. It's about half done. We booked five nights at the Hackney Empire in June to give us a deadline for launching it. But it's already looking like we are going to have to shift those dates. Hopefully, really hopefully, September. Maybe Christmas."
About Sway and Sorry...
"I first heard him through my daughters and I liked his stuff. We heard he liked Madness because the first flat he moved into someone had left a Madness album in a cupboard and
it was the only music he had for a while. We are careful of trying to combine styles of music but we tried this and it was perfect."
About ageing Madness...
"I feel that I am part of the first generation which didn't want to let go of being young.
It used to be pipe and slippers on the dot of 35 but that boundary is increasingly blurred.
At the same time as I would like Madness to have the same energy we had as kids, it would be undignified not to realise it has to change slightly and that has been going alright. I take a lot of inspiration from the film Buena Vista Social Club, that's how to grow old gracefully as a musician!
Remembering appearing on The Young Ones...
It was a great time. We knew Ade Edmonson and Rik Mayall and those comedians and we would go and see each other perform. Then we were offered this TV series where Margaret Thatcher went back to Mars and we were elected to government. But the BBC decided it was too expensive. Then bits of that show turned up in this new comedy The Young Ones, so we went on. It had the same sense of fun we did, very spontaneous. You could veer off the script. One time we said 'Why don't we have a fight with police and smash up a few cars?' and they went 'great idea!'.
On appearing on Strictly Come Dancing...
"We get offered all sorts of things and the great thing about being in a band is that only about four of you have to turn up to make it happen and the rest can be padded out with blokes in sunglasses. Enough agreed to do Strictly to make it worthwhile. You can't argue with the bald facts, it's one of the most watched programmes on TV. Having done a bit of media, my attitude is a bit more laissez-faire. Some of the others think rock and roll should be more, well, rock and roll."
Saturday, March 3, 2007
KILLER MADNESS - Nutty Queen track on ITV
AL MURRAY'S HAPPY HOUR - ITV1 - 22:25 - 23:25Saturday Night March 3rd and shown again Friday March 9th...
Catch Madness performing new single Sorry and a snippet of Our House on Al Murray's chat show.
For those not aware Al Murray's Pub landord is a comic character with old fashioned distilled ideas about what used to make Britain great. In this chat show vehicle for the character he performs stand up interviews celebrity guest in character and then forces the resident band to return to the bogs (which passes for the dressing room) and learn a song by Queen (the worlds greatest british band) to end the show with, often joining the band onstage to join in the singing. So Madness will have to attempt... Killer Queen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy0otVqmiqM
Thanks to Mr Wheeze check out the Madness parts of the show at the above link.
Suggs and Woody appeared on Sky Sports Soccer AM show on Saturday morning. A clip of Sorry was played and presenter Tim asked how the young rappers became involed. Suggs was reading that Sway thought "Driving in my Car" was a great song when he was growing up and he liked Madness and Suggs found this odd with Sway being a rapper. He quipped "I asked him was he sure it wasnt 'Drive By in My Car' but no it turns out he grew upin Muswell hill."Tim asked why they felt ready now to do new "original" material after 1999's Wonderful. Woody made a claim that the band move in 7 year cycles. Woody explained the recent Dangermen history and how it was enjoyable and reminded the band what fun it can all be and it made them ready to start again with new tracks. Talking about new material they said they have 1/2 an album ready.
Talking about the Madstock Concerts the Earthquake story got another mention. Suggs explianed how 36,000 dancers during One Step Beyond "some of them overweight", caused tower blocks to move. They then displayed a top ten of earthquakes on screen showing the force of a small scale atomic bomb to be slightly less than 4.5, Ranking Madstock, just underneath the Nagaski bomb. Suggs said he had never felt so Proud.
Asked if another Madstock was going to happen. Woody and Suggs said they had thought of doing one in disguise, further explaining they had wanted to do a McMadstock in Scotland and a Padstock in Ireland. Which Suggs quickly renamed Oh Madstock as he thought Padstock was a little patronising, but Woody seemed a little sullen that the joke name wasnt going to be used. Suggs then explained how Madness talk alot but turning those ideas into actions is often harder and claimed they have been thinking about doing another Madstock since 1992. So we continue to wait...
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