[MIS] NEWS AND INFORMATION - SUN 18TH MAY - SAT 24TH MAY 2008
Robert Hazelby
robert at hazelby.co.uk
Sun May 18 16:44:48 EDT 2008
M.I.S ONLINE - NEWS AND INFORMATION - SUN 18TH MAY - SAT 24TH MAY 2008
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ISSUE NUMBER 472 MIS ONLINE: http://www.mis-online.net
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1 - THIS IS WHERE THE NEWS BEGINS - The obligatory intro.
2 - THE MOOD BOARD: THE PARTS OF EVERYTHING YOU SEE - Here's a Mood
Board. A Montage video for the song 'The Liberty Of Norton
Folgate'. Since Tuesday when this was put online fans have been
asking and spotting what are the films and video sources used in
this mood board. And for that matter what is a mood board anyway?
Graham Yates, Jonathan Young and Phil Pugh report.
3 - THE LYRICS OF NORTON FOLGATE... SO FAR - The Liberty of Norton
Folgate (6 minute mix) Lyrics transcribed by Graham Yates.
4 - THE LIBERTY OF NORTON FULL GREAT: FANS REVIEWS - What do Madness
fans think of the preview of the new track Norton Folgate? Here's
just a few opinions from fans. Views from the likes of MTR regular
Andrew Langmead through to Madness Unsugged's ex-editor Vince
Carden. It's nearly all glowing praise, and it's been hard to
find anyone who doesn't like something, and those that don't have
little to say as to why, those that do like it have some in-depth
opinions about why.
5 - THE REFERENCES OF NORTON FOLGATE... SO FAR - It's littered with
references is this new track, so we take a look at the geography
mentioned in order to update our listing of all locations
mentioned in Madness songs. Plus who are the people and
characters mentioned in the song so far? Graham Yates and
Jonathan Young reports.
6 - PRESENTING - MADNESS IN PRINT - For the past week we've been
busily putting together a new project called "Madness In Print."
The skinny is we're collecting and collating as many articles,
interviews, and web blurbs on our nutty boys as we can and
archiving them in an easy-to-use webpage. Here's Lee Buckley.
7 - THE DANCE BRIGADE DEBUT - For all of you that have been asking us
when we will be playing we now have a date and venue and we are
letting people know way in advance in order that we get to all of
those that said they were interested in attending our first show.
Taken from the Madspace site, and dug out by Lee Buckley.
8 - SUGGS IN THE CITY - Suggs in the City brings together two London
legends for a brand new show, as Suggs invites viewers to join him
at world famous members bar The Colony Room. Lee Buckley explains.
9 - MADNESS LAUNCH SUMMER FESTIVAL - BAGGY trousered Rude Boys Madness
will 'launch' a string of live music events at Doncaster
Racecourse that take place over the summer. From the South
Yorkshire Times web site.
10 - MADNESS CANCELLED, UB40 HIRED - Due to personal reasons beyond
the racecourse’s control, Madness have had to cancel their live
performance with Newbury Racecourse. However we are delighted
to announce that UB40 with special guest Maxi Priest, the UK’s
premier reggae band with over 70 million albums sold worldwide,
have been secured and will be performing live on stage after a
great evening of racing. Taken from the Newbury Racecourse web
site.
11 - THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS - MIS co-editor, Rob Hazelby takes
another walk down memory lane. This time we journey back to
issue 210, and the week of the 18th to the 24th of May 2003.
12 - THAT'S YOUR LOT - A few final words before we finish for the
week.
[1] - THIS IS WHERE THE NEWS BEGINS
There's no denying that at the moment it's a very exciting time for
all Madness fans.
The past few weeks have seen gig after gig added to this year's line
up, the Our House musical back up and running, a three night stint at
The Hackney Empire, and this week a mood board montage video for the
song 'The Liberty Of Norton Folgate' has appeared on YouTube.
This 6 minute slice of remixed Madness has been going down a storm
with the fanbase, and we've got fan views, lyrics, and more in this
very issue.
On the subject of this issue, and we wouldn't have had half as much
Liberty coverage and content if the we'd not had the services of The
eminent gentleman librarian of Googleshire, Graham Yates. Graham has
been in constant contact with the MIS team by using specially trained
pigeons of all modern forms.
We've also had a fair slice of help with the welcome return of
Unsugged's fanzine scribe, Lord Carden, the irish wagtail, and we mean
wag in the sense of Old-fashioned a humorous or witty person.
Now, enough of our waffling. There's so much to get through that we'll
leave you to get on and start reading!
Simon Roberts, Lee Buckley, Jonathan Young, Robert Hazelby
Email us at: simon/loobyloo/jonathan/robert at mis-online.net
[2] - THE MOOD BOARD: THE PARTS OF EVERYTHING YOU SEE
Here's a Mood Board. A Montage video for the song 'The Liberty Of
Norton Folgate'. Since Tuesday when this was put online fans have been
asking and spotting what are the films and video sources used in this
mood board. And for that matter what is a mood board anyway?
It's a term most often used in design circles, one definition of a
mood board is "a type of poster design that may consist of images,
text, and samples of objects in a composition" often used by designers
as a brain storming technique to develop their design concepts and to
communicate to other members of the design team. A frame of reference.
Here though it's a video montage of film clips designed to match the
mood of the 6 minute preview mix of the Norton Folgate song, something
we think it does very well the overall sense of slightly otherworldy
Victoriana, and a fantasy dreamlike journey through london past,
really comes across and compliments the song.
Composed of perfectly blended images of London down the ages, taken
from feature films and music videos, with some other far flung places
thrown in for good measure (New York being one of them!!) the video
literally unfolds before your eyes enticing you in, enhancing the song
and making you cry out for more more more.
Watch it here, and let your mind wander the dim streets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXFJVsjpfg8
And here is a list so far that people have spotted as the
source of the clips.
Oliver
Elephant Man
Jacob's Ladder
The Prodigy's "Smack My B*tch Up" video
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Brazil
Clockwork Orange
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Edward Scissorhands
Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow
Also possibly Being John Malkovich, and Dark City.
...and finally Madness in bare breasted cavorting women shocker??
yes it's true....but it's all in the name of art of course!!!
Graham Yates/Jonathan Young with help from Phil Pugh
[3] - THE LYRICS OF NORTON FOLGATE... SO FAR
The Liberty of Norton Folgate (6 minute mix) Lyrics
Old Jack Norris, the musical shrimp, and the cadging ramble
A little bit of this, would you like a bit of that
But in weather like this, you should wear a coat, a nice warm hat
A needle and thread the hand stitches of time
Battling Levinsky versus Jackie Berg
Bobbing and weaving, an invisible line
So step for step and both light on our feet
We’ll travel many along many dim silent street
Would you like a bit of this, or a little bit of that? (Misses)
A little bit of what you like does you no harm, you know that
The perpetual steady echo of the passing beat
A continual dark river of people
In it transience and in it’s permanence
But when the streetlamp fills the gutter with gold
So many priceless items bought and sold
So step for step and both light on our feet
We’ll travel many along many dim silent street (together)
Once round Arnold Circus, up through Petticoat Lane
Sailors from Africa, China and the archipelago of Malay
Jump ship ragged and penniless into Shadwells Tiger Bay
The Welsh and Irish wagtails, mothers of midnight
The music hall carousel enspilling out into Bow fire light
Sending half crazed shadows, giants dancing up the brick wall
Of Mr Trumans beer factory, waving, bottles ten feet tall
Whether one calls it Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets
or Banglatown. We’re all dancing in the moonlight, we’re all
on borrowed ground.
Oh, I’m just walking down to, I’m just floating down through
Won’t you come with me, to the Liberty of Norton Folgate
But wait! What’s that? Dan Leno and the Limehouse golem
Cos in the Liberty of Norton Folgate
Walking wild and free, in your second hand coat,
Happy just to float
In this little piece of liberty
You’re a part of everything you see
There’s the sturdy old fellows, pickpockets, dandy’s, extortioners
and night wanderers, The feeble, the ghastly upon whom death
had placed a very sure hand, Some in shreds and patches, really
inarticulate full of noisy and inordinate vivacity
Which jars discordingly upon the ear
And gives an aching sensation to both pairs of eyeballs
(Noisy and inordinate vivacity)
They made their home there down by the riverside
They made their homes there down by the riverside
The city sprung up on the dark mud of the Thames
I’ll say it again
**Ukulele break – woo hoo!!**
'Cos in the Liberty of Norton Folgate
Walking wild and free
And in your second hand coat
Happy just to float
In this little taste of liberty
Cos you’re a part of everything you see
Yes, you’re a part of everything you see
Ohhhh ahhhhhh ahhhhh etc etc (repeat to end)
Transcribed by Graham Yates
[4] - THE LIBERTY OF NORTON FULL GREAT: FANS REVIEWS
What do Madness fans think of the preview of the new track Norton
Folgate? Here's just a few opinions from fans. Views from the likes of
MTR regular Andrew Langmead through to Madness Unsugged's ex-editor
Vince Carden. It's nearly all glowing praise, and it's been hard to
find anyone who doesn't like something, and those that don't have
little to say as to why, those that do like it have some indepth
opinions about why.
Mikel says...
"It is GREAT Madness sound...Unmistakeable."
Graham Yates enthuses....
"Having now listened to the song 3 or 4 times (it's Tues evening at
8.30pm BTW) what can I say...the first listen which was snuck in
while I was at work totally blew me away, it's like nothing they
have done before with everything they have done before thrown in
for good measure!! The 6 minutes and 7 seconds of pure excellence
we have been privileged enough to hear is just of such epic
proportions that evoke the feeling of London perfectly...that's
London of old, London of now and London of the future by the way!!
There are elements of Waltz Into Mischief meets Brand New Beat
meets New Delhi meets Town With No Name and so much much more
thrown in that you can't begin to imagine what the song will be
like if it truly does exist in the extended 10-15 minute version
that has been promised and rumoured for over a year. And then
there is the ukulele break.....did I ever really think I would
hear myself mentioning "ukulele break" in the context of a
Madness song? Probably not but I have now, and it's perfectly
slotted in about half way through. The cosmopolitan vibe that
the song conjures up is just perfect and brings to mind visions
of everything that the accompanying video lays out before you.
The only things that I would say in balance (just to show I'm not
being totally sycophantic!!) is there doesn't appear to be a great
deal of brass in evidence on this version, which isn't to
criticise it, and perhaps it will be more evident on the full
length version (if there is to be one), but you need a bit of
brass in there somewhere surely? I also can't imagine this is
a song that will be played on Xmas tours for ever more, so if
you do want to hear it live I suggest you get yourself down to
the Hackney Empire in late June!! Now I know all that sounds
very gushing and sycophantic but trust me I'm the first to say
that I don't like something by the band if I truly don't like
it - but this has blown me away totally in a way that the band
haven't done for many a year, and leaves me incredibly excited
about the album.....now give me my Liberty!!!!"
French MIS Jean-Pierre Boutellier comments...
"The best song since The Rise and Fall!! I think the brand
new album will be a MASTER PIECE!!"
Mad chart compiler Paul Muscat thinks...
They sound like they're REALLY enjoying themselves, aren't they?
Suggs has never sounded better and the Middle Eastern swagger
it unleashes works wonders, It reminds me of The Beatles' 'For
The Benefit Of Mr Kite' off their Sgt Pepper album as well as
'Rise & Fall' (obviously) and Suggs' own 'Three Pyramids Club'
bring on the full version"
Mark Robinson tells us...
Hit!
Being a true Madness fan isn’t just about Baggy Trousers and House
of Fun. Any one of the MIS members could wax lyrical about their
fave album tracks and you could bet your life most of them aren’t
the singles that everyone else knows and loves. All of their
albums have been written from the heart and we all know how
passionate the band are about that. While this is clearly not
single material who can begrudge the band producing a musical
masterpiece like this? Look at Rise and Fall. Not their biggest
selling album but it was musically acclaimed, and if this track
is anything to go by we can look forward to a well-produced
classic Madness album.
No one ever complains about the likes of U2 and, years ago Queen
(I’m thinking Bo Rap here), producing songs like this which have
since become top of every radio stations “All Time” lists. If
you’re not a fan you don’t have to listen. As a fan right from
the word go as a mad 15 –year-old I like the fact that our
favourite band can still come up with unique and interesting
music.
Long may it continue. Who cares if we have a long hot summer –
the best band in the world have got a another treat lined up for
the faithful.
Andrew Langmead was first in with his thoughts...
Good tuneage. I don't know how much airplay it'll get,
though (because radio stations are loathe to step outside the
3 to 4 minute time stamp per song, at least in the US). It's
good to see them try their hand at a "mini-rock opera." Green
Day gave it a shot a few years back with "Jesus of Suburbia" and
things worked out for them with that lengthy song as a single.
Fingers crossed.I think we know by now what the airplay situation
is likely to be. Radio 1 won't play it. Radio 2 will play it maybe
3-4 times per week, 8-10 in total if we're lucky. Virgin may play
it once or twice while no-one's listening (i.e 3 in the morning).
As for chart position - it will spend one week on the charts
somewhere between 20 and 30 because all of us will buy it in each
format, but as long as the boys aren't discouraged from making
more music by poor sales and lack of airplay, who cares?
I think that by this stage in their careers, they are not as
motivated by sales or chart success as would have been expected
(mainly by the record company) in the early days. The boys win
because they're doing what they do best - i.e. write songs
together and us fans win because we get to hear the efforts
they've made.
Nutty Forum's On the beat pete posted...
This has to be one of the strangest composition of music ever,
and no doubt like other Madness tracks a grower. But I like it,
there's some weird instruments on there for sure. At one point
it sounds as if Suggsy is going to break into "Forever Young",
"Drip Fed Fred" or even "March of the Gherkins"
Paul Rodgers ex-PLR Madmail & Benny bull blogger informs...
Lads you have done yourselves proud with this work. All bands
exist to create great work, few manage it. when I heard there was
to be a 13 minute suite on the album I was intrigued. Now I've
heard half of it I can't wait to hear more.
Absolutely, undoubtedly Madness, immediately recognisable as you,
but something new, fresh, invigorating. How could it not be with
the drums and bass driving the song along to a little bit of what
we like?
Then we delve into Norton Folgate and Waltz much further into
mischief than we dared on Keep Moving. This is a dark dark place,
from which we escape with our alibis intact into the liberty of
a part of everything we see, which is of course consummate
Madness pop classicism. I love this music. It speaks volumes of
why I've been a fan for nearly 29 years now and it speaks of a
band at the top (or possibly still heading for the top of a
creative wave).
It is probably the cleverest thing they've ever done lyrically
and it is certainly a masterwork musically, recalling styles of
many of my other favourite artists, not least Brian Wilson, The
Beach Boys, The Divine Comedy and Pulp. It is at the same time
the finest tribute they could ever pay to themselves, Ian Dury
and the whole "That Nutty Sound" ethos.
It is perfection in its perception of a small part of old London
Town and new London Town as a metaphor, which can be extrapolated
for England as a whole. We are not living as most people state
on borrowed time, we are living on borrowed ground. Who are we
to say who should come and go in this great capital city of
ours and who are we to turn away anyone wishing to visit or
live in this country of ours?
Many of Madness' songs were about coming of age, drinking
and London. This song has all three and marks a whole new
awareness. I somehow think that many of the band, not least
Suggs, wish they'd been this free thinking when they were
in their late teens and early twenties.
Long live Norton Folgate Long Live Madness Hip Hip
Madness For Sale Chris Carter Pegg muses...
I've checked out the 'moodboard'; Makes me wonder if Suggs's
latest ambition is to become the new Lionel Bart! Maybe The
Liberty of Norton Folgate 'The Musical' could one day be the
sequel to Our House!
We leave our last word to the ever detailed... Vince Carden
FOLGATE UNSUGGED
I shall let others describe the sound of the track, I'd like to
just remark on what this experiment represents in terms of the
band changing its mindset. Having long wanted to hear Madness
experiment a bit more, The Liberty Of Norton Folgate is exactly
the kind of song that I have been wanting to hear for years.
There was progression from album to album from '79 to '85 with
each album having a different sound. When Madness came back in
1999 the only songs that could represent experimentation such
as You're Wonderful and Dreaming Man were kept off the album
(call it risk minimisation or cold feet or perhaps Virgin only
wanting Suggs' vocals on the album) which was a pity as the
former could have been a massive single (many of us fans have
friends who don't like Madness but loved that song). They
seemed to be stuck in the sound of 1984 with Wonderful
adhering closely to the sound of Keep Moving - don't get me
wrong I loved both albums - but the odd bit of experimentation
does go down very nicely with yours truly.
The only other time I can remember Madness experimenting since
1992 was with Moondance. I loved this song (better than 4 or 5
tracks off Wonderful IMHO) but it was a step too far for many
fans, never mind the general public. It was a song without a
central chorus that just went off on one. That's what you get
with Folgate which sounds like 3 songs plastered together. Can't
wait for the second half of this 12 minute nugget.
Back in 1999 / 2000 there was an obsession amongst all us fans
of what song off Wonderful would make a great single after JTH.
Should it be DFF? Could it be The Communicator? Would Elysium
come off? It seemed to be almost more important than the quality
of the song. When you get to that stage you start to release
tracks like Sorry...
Folgate is the sound of a band not giving a flying fword about
the commercial / radio friendliness of their music. It's the
sound of a band saying 'let's have a go at making something really
different. Stuff whether people like it or not'. Madness no longer
care anywhere near as much about chart positioning as they know
this is decided by radio station execs and when that's the case
you get tracks like Folgate. I'm glad that is where the mindset is.
Back in 1999 Madness wrote great songs but just went in to the
studio and didn't really care about perfecting the sound. This
time round we have had NW5 recorded twice to get the right sound
and word is that the band have been really working hard at
getting the right recording for all tracks, such as changing the
likes of Let's Go to adapt to the capabilities of Suggs' vocals
and now employing an Orchestra amongst other extra musicians on
Folgate. This would never have happened in '99 which was Madness
plus Terry Edwards.
This will make the album of the same title as good as anything
the boys have ever written - FACT!
I love this song - FACT!
If you don't like it, there's always Going To The Top - FACT!
Yesh,
MIS Thanks to all the fans who wrote in or posted views.
[5] - THE REFERENCES OF NORTON FOLGATE... SO FAR
It's littered with references is this new track, so we take a look
at the geography mentioned in order to update our listing of all
locations mentioned in Madness songs. Plus who are the people and
characters mentioned in the song so far?
"The Liberty of Norton Folgate, Spitalfields,
Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, Bangala Town"
All of these are London Locations, mostly near to each other, and on
top of areas past which have changed over the development of London.
We point out to anyone outside of London that Norton Folgate's Liberty
as a place doesn't exist anymore, because the rest of the names took
over that space, over time as the words in the song say it's
rebranding but hardly anything permanent.
Norton Folgate... a brief history can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Folgate
http://www.hidden-london.com/nortonfolgate.html
In short...."Until its merger with the parish of Spitalfields in 1911,
Norton Folgate was an extra-parochial liberty, which meant that it was
outside the influence of the church."... It is now just the name of a
road near Liverpool Street...
Brick Lane connects nearly all the names mentioned in the song, it has
tried to re-brand itself by using the label "Banglatown" according to
a guardian article found online. As a label Banglatown was established
in recognition of the large Bangladeshi community living in and around
Brick Lane (London, E1). Banglatown, modelled on the popular
Chinatowns found in countries around the world, has recently gone
through a transformation, Brick Lane, is one of the most popular areas
in London, mostly known for its assortments of cheap curry houses,
situated only 5 minutes from the city.
Equally Whitechapel and Tower Hamlets cover ground in the same area of
London though we are moving further east now, Whitechapel a district
and Tower Hamlets a London borough, which includes Limehouse, more of
which later.
"Mr Truman's beer factory"
Truman, Hanbury and Buxton's Brewery at Brick Lane, though truman was
there first! Mostly Taken over it's area now houses art galleries,
restaurants, and retail shops in that space, but back in the past of
the songs history it was famous for being a place where a p*ss up
could be organised.
"Fire light and The music hall carousel"
As for the "Bow fire light" thing.... a little more research reveals
that the Bryant & May match factory was located in Bow further east.
Though were not totally sure it's not Bonfire instead. Either way
there is no specific musical hall mentioned that is creating the
noise but given the geography The Shoreditch Empire aka The London
Music Hall, 95-99 Shoreditch High Street, seems a likely candidate.
Famous in it's day, it once saw Chaplin on stage, and was built by the
same architect as the Hackney Empire.
"Once round Arnold Circus, up through Petticoat Lane"
Both areas that were traditionally Jewish settled at one time,
Petticoat Lane was and is a Market street, and one that is surviving
in the language despite the fact that the street isn't there anymore!
Petticoat Lane is now called Middlesex Street and also parts of
Wentworth Street E1. It's probably the most famous of all London's
street markets, and derives its name from its long history as a centre
of the clothing trade. Arnold Circus E2 is a residential circus (a
circus being in this context a point where several roads meet)
"Shadwell's Tiger Bay and the dark mud of the Thames"
Tiger bay is actually a dock in Cardiff mentioned by Ian Dury
in Hit me with your rhythm stick, but here it's being referenced
as a similar to Shadwell by the thames. So we've gone south
now to the Thames North bank. In the history of the song it's
Shadwell Basin that used to be a busy dock and is now more
closed off. The name supposedly derives from an unpleasant
(Shad, literally 'sh*te') local well.
And the Thames mud of course, here being described like a
primordial soup is London's river but you all new that right?
especially those of you who watch Eastenders, and last time it
was in a Madness song it was "set alight", hey maybe that was
with Bow Bryant and May matches!
The sailors origins of Africa and China are plainly whole
countries, but the archipelago of Malay if you're less aware is
a large series of islands between Southeastern Asia (Indochina)
and Australia, maybe it's where Suggs sent "our man".
--
So what of the characters of the past from these areas...
"Old Jack Norris, the musical shrimp, the cadging ramble"
I came across the following link that takes you right to Mr Norris
from an 1824 published book called The Cabinet of Curiosities,
http://tiny.cc/WCLu6
The link is to what appears to be an old news article in which it
states on p348: A short time ago Old Jack Norris died suddenly
and an inquest was held on the body. It was reported the deceased
was starved to death. The evidence proved, that latterly the
deceased, who was nearly seventy years of age, was unable to
pursue his occupation of a dealer in shrimps, which from his
peculiar cry, gained him the appellation of the "Musical Shrimp
Man"...the article goes on to suggest that he was a bit of a
ne'er do well and was known to give advice "on the subject of
"cadging" (begging)"...and no-one could "make a more profitable
harvest from a cadging ramble".
"Battling Levinsky versus Jackie Berg"
Two Jewish Boxers, from Londons past, Levinsky
http://www.jewishsports.net/biopages/BattlingLevinsky.htm
http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/levinsky.htm
The other boxer is Jack Berg...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4354243.stm
was apparently a Jewish boxer in the 1920's, known as the
Whitechapel Whirlwind...although there's nothing to suggest that
he and Battling Levinsky ever fought each other...so perhaps
the latter was used in the song by way of poetic licence...
"Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem"
A 1995 novel by Peter Ackroyd, A Gothic comedy tale of
19th-century London, based on a serial killer from jewish
folklore The Limehouse golem.
Synopsis of the book here:
"Set in pea-soup foggy Victorian London in the world of music hall
and pantomime, 'Dan Leno & the Limehouse Golem' begins with the
death-by-hanging of Elizabeth Cree for the murder of her husband.
But was she guilty? What terrible secret was she hiding? And what
are we to make of the late Mr Cree whose journal begins; 'It was
a fine bright morning and I could feel a murder coming on?' I
could feel those goosebumps coming on from page one ... this
brilliant novel pervades the midnight movies of the mind and makes
the blood run chilly... Mesmerising, macabre and totally brilliant"
I wonder what streets we will turn and which characters will sulk
out of the past, into the full length version of The Liberty of
Norton Folgate.
Graham Yates/Jonathan Young
[6] - PRESENTING - MADNESS IN PRINT
30 YEARS OF WORDS AND IMAGES
A band can't be in the international public eye for 30 years without
having a few articles written about them. The band can't be expected
not to have a few things to say to the masses themselves, either. In
the past three decades, you'll find Madness didn't dodge the articles
and interviews one bit. From the sheer volume of text, from cover
stories with NME to the odds-and-ends blurbs in The Sun, one could
wager successfully that they embraced the press and public with truly
genuine sincerity, with so much more than the ease of a practiced
smile and the tears of a crocodile that you'd get from the likes of
the typical jaded pop band. This is all the better for their legions
of nutters and nuttettes aching for any glimpse past the album liner
notes to see if Madness really is all in the mind.
MADNESS IN PRINT is an ambitious undertaking for the MTR. What we're
hoping to do is collect and collate the nearly 30 years of articles
about Madness and interviews with Madness that have appeared in
magazines and newspapers from around the globe (and more recently in
our World-Wide-Web-World, the numerous bits that have appeared on the
internet). We're off to a humble start, busily transcribing our
personal collections of Madpress; this will be one of the more active
pages of the site as more and more articles are added. There're
stacks upon stacks (literally) to transcribe yet and a whole seven
years of archives to scour (also literally)!
We're off to a great start, thanks in no small part to our new
MADNESS IN PRINT Project Manager, Ms. Lee "Loobyloo" Buckley. She's
going to be taking care of things around here so let's turn over the
floor to Looby:
I am very excited about being the newest addition to the gang here at
the Madness Trading Ring and I hope to maintain the excellent work
that Steve and Kev have done and continue to do over the years.
Anyone who knows me at all will also know that I am rather passionate
about the Magnificent Seven and I therefore feel I have the relevant
skills for dissecting and analysing for your perusal all of the best
information on our lads. However, this task is a hefty one to say the
least, and I cannot even attempt it without the support of the Mad
Community, therefore, if you have any reference material whether it
be magazine/newspaper articles or internet features/websites please
send them to me at this address - mrs_smash777 at hotmail.com
Our ultimate aim is to build and maintain a reliable and up-to-date
online reference point for anyone requiring info on our boys that
ranges from the past to the present. We are well up for the job here
at the MTR and we hope you will be too.
Here is the link to the new section of the site.....
http://www.madnesstradingring.com/InPrint/InPrint.html
If you head over to 'In Print' now you will be able to see the kind
of thing we are looking for - there's a fair few examples on there
already - I am relying on you all to send me your stuff and I am
willing to promise a hug (yes I said 'hug') to each and every one of
you that do next time I see you :)
I would prefer all contributions that are forwarded to my e-mail
address to be in the form of jpeg scans that show the whole article
plus any pictures that went with it. For those of you that do send
anything in you will be acknowledged on the site for doing so.
So what are you waiting for?
Loobs xx
[7] - THE DANCE BRIGADE DEBUT
Taken from the Myspace site..........
THE DANCE BRIGADE DEBUT LONDON GIG 17TH SEPT
For all of you that have been asking us when we will be playing we
now have a date and venue and we are letting people know way in
advance in order that we get to all of those that said they were
interested in attending our first show.
Due to some of the members other commitments THE DANCE BRIGADE will
be performing this one off show for friends, families and fans,
please let us know if you will be able to attend ahead of time as we
already have a list and the capacity of the venue is only 300
Tickets will be on sale at £10.00 from www. wegottickets. co. uk from
the end of the month although you can enquire immediately if you
wish...we would all really like to see you there coz we are unsure of
when the next one will be...SO IF YOU LIKE YOUR SKA UPBEAT AND PURE
DANCE THEN PLEASE JOIN US ON THE NIGHT - dress code is the bleedin
obvious...
The Dance Brigade have now added a further two members to their
impressive line-up and they are Steve (Chalky) White (trumpet player
for the Madness Tribute Band Los Palmas 6 and Crunch! session man)
and the latest addition is guitarist Dan Burdett (Like Father Like
Son and JAG).
Dug out by MIS co-editor Lee Buckley
[8] - SUGGS IN THE CITY
I've just been invited to a new group over on Facebook and here's
what it's about......
Suggs in the City brings together two London legends
for a brand new show, as Suggs invites viewers to
join him at world famous members bar The Colony Room.
Each week Suggs invites an all star cast to chat,
make merry and enjoy exclusive acoustic performances
from rock icons and the hottest acts around.
Catch the first show on Thursday 29th May on ITV London
at 11PM. Stay tuned for more details
Here's the link to the Reef website.....
http://www.reef.tv/productions/suggsinthecity.html
Lee Buckley
[9] - MADNESS LAUNCH SUMMER FESTIVAL
BAGGY trousered Rude Boys Madness will 'launch' a string of live music
events at Doncaster Racecourse that take place over the summer.
Known globally for their twenty-one top-twenty singles over seven
years in the late 70s and 80s, including 'It Must Be Love', 'Baggy
Trousers', 'My Girl' and 'One Step Beyond', the band's sound developed
from their early Ska roots.
Suggs and Co. will take to the stage at Town Moor on Saturday, 28th
June with an outdoor concert to kick off a line up of three more
Urban-i Live Music shows scheduled to take place at the racecourse on
10th, 17th and 24th July, all Thursday evening race meetings, with the
music starting shortly after the last race on each date. Artists due
to appear during July will be released shortly, full details will be
available on the racecourse website: www.doncaster-racecourse.co.uk
From www.southyorkshiretimes.co.uk
[10] - MADNESS CANCELLED, UB40 HIRED
From http://www.newbury-racecourse.co.uk
15/05/2008
Madness Refund Information
Due to personal reasons beyond the racecourse’s control, Madness have
had to cancel their live performance with Newbury Racecourse. However
we are delighted to announce that UB40 with special guest Maxi Priest,
the UK’s premier reggae band with over 70 million albums sold
worldwide, have been secured and will be performing live on stage
after a great evening of racing.
However, if you wish to cancel your tickets or restaurant booking we
are offering a full refund and ask you to follow the refund procedure
detailed below and on the form enclosed.
Due to high call volumes, please complete and send the refund form for
the simplest and quickest way to receive your refund and cancel your
ticket. If you have a query please email
party at newbury-racecourse.co.uk
Please note we are unable to process any refunds over the phone and
will only accept refund requests via this form.
Please accept our apologies for this change, we do still hope you will
come along and enjoy what will be a truly great evening of racing and
live music.
[11] - THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS
MIS co-editor, Rob Hazelby takes another walk down memory lane. This
time we journey back to issue 210, and the week of the 18th to the
24th of May 2003.
Issue number 210 - Sunday 18th May - Saturday 24th May 2003
We started off this week's issue with news in from Graham Whitfield
revealing that a new ad was currently being aired on UK TV promoting
a new CD celebrating 25 years of `Smash Hits` magazine. Madness were
one of the groups listed, and it looked like the song would be `Baggy
Trousers`. The CD also featured such nastiness as Steps and Take That.
Elsewhere, and it looked like the promotion of the `Our House` musical
was continuing, with news in from Phil of the MTR that last Wednesday
(14th May) Suggs appeared on the Richard and Judy show. They showed a
short video montage of madness videos, then a short video montage of
clips from OUR HOUSE, none of Suggs though. After this Suggs was
interviewed but Phil says that there was nothing to report, although
Suggs did mention that he got annoyed when the audience started to
sing along during the musical.
We'd waited for an age for it to appear, and it seemed that the
Madness messageboard on the official site was starting to become a bit
of a victim of its own success with the page getting larger and larger
each day, and the screwy dating system making the finding of new posts
a real chore.
Well, Mark (Bedford) got in touch and told us that he was aware that
the dating system was up the spout, and the problem was being looked
into. He also said that things will be a little more organised soon,
with a clearing down of the old postings.
Would Madness be performing at this year's Party in The Park? With
no official announcement, MIS subscriber, Chris Carter-Pegg took it
upon himself to find out more. Speaking to someone at Capital FM who
was kind enough to reveal the line-up so far, it would seem that
North London's most famous band were at present not down to play.
Long-time subscribers to the MIS or MTR may recall that after a Crunch
gig a few years back Chris' famous leather hat went `walkies`. Well,
this week it looked like it had finally turned up when a certain
"Murray" posted on the official Madness messageboard explaining that
he thought Chris had leant him the hat, and was now wondering if Chris
wanted it back. Not only that, but this chap even dared to ask if he
could have some backstage passes for a forthcoming gig!
Chris, was non too amused, and rightly so. It turned out that the hat
wasn't leant, but was in fact stolen. Giving Murray a PO Box address
to return the hat to and accusing the chap of being light fingered,
Chris finished off by saying "Backstage passes... You'll be lucky.
Did you also nick our guitar tuner?".
Rob Hazelby
[12] - THAT'S YOUR LOT
We're almost done for this week, but before we go, we'd just like to
pass you over to Paul Muscat:
"Quick reminder once again, boys and indeed girls...
keep those votes coming in :) I am at the moment in
possession of 98 lists (41 of which are from mtr/mis).
We need more... MUCH more :) Great choices you're all
coming up with, by the way... it's gonna make for
REALLY interesting reading and intriguing stuff"
To submit your top 20 Madness tracks, (in order of preference), email
them over to paultpmuscat at yahoo.com, and Paul will do the rest.
Until next week. Take care,
Simon, Lee, Jon, Rob
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