pauld37

Going to see Madness on Sunday at the BIC in Bournemouth

Ahh! Madness, those were the days .

They are playing 6 dates starting in Manchester tonight, anyone else going?

Markus

Excellent! Bit of a Madness fan myself, went to Madstock II and III

Very funny to see scary looking skinheads bopping along to their songs in Finsbury Park.

davegtt

Only 26 but think Madness are great, well ahead of their time IMO. lyrically brilliant, have a good time

logiclee

I bought every single and LP they made back in the 80's.

Never had chance to see them live though.

Enjoy!

Cheers
Lee

pauld37

Now thats a line up

pauld37

Will be interesting to see what sort of age span the audience will be

Shouldn't be the oldest, I hope

Adidas

I went to see them at Finsbury Park in 1993, amongst others there was The Buzzcocks and Ian Dury

Fantastic day

n one

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Madness Madness they call it Madness.


I`ve seen `em live. Excellent

pauld37

"Baggy trousers, dirty shirts, pulling hair and eating dirt" classic, they dont write them like that anymore

Markus

The supporting acts I recall at the Madstock events were:
Space
Catatonia
Finley Quaye
Mike Flowers Pops
Squeeze

Have to say Squeeze live was pretty darn good, as was Space.

V5

That was Madstock IV - the pre-World Cup warm-up in '98. Was a really, really good day out. Cerys and Space singing The Ballad of Tom Jones was The grief Finlay Quaye got wasn't quite so cool cos he cut his set short. Mind you, it was a bit self-inflicted cos he made some cracks about being a Scottish fan!

Oh, and Madness?


(And this gets rid of that poxy "You haven't posted for a while" whinge. Bonus!)

Markus

hmm, so perhaps it was III and IV then Fantastic regardless though.

I rememer Cerys getting some stick on account of her being a bit welsh and England were playing (think we won the match).

Bloody good day out

hectic

those were the days.... the Beat , too.. they rehearsed up the road from where I lived and all drank in my mates dads pub..

valley commando

iTrader: (1)

i was there myself
very funny when they all decided to throw bottles of pi$$ at morrisey

pauld37

Well, had a great time the BIC was packed out with middle aged two tone fans wearing trilbies and braces .

The Aggro lites from America were supporting, they were good but a bit new for most of us in the audience.

Jerry Dammers was spinning records during the interval

v5 man

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Wow im jealous! Went to see Madness at Wembley in 2004, what a brilliant night. Even dragged V5Man along who used to be a Mod, must be LOVE!!!

Mrs V5 Man

Milamber

iTrader: (2)

I'm going tomorrow night to Wembley

pauld37

You wont be dissappointed

RobP

Going tomorrow night too. Cant wait......

RobP

Gav-WRX

I saw them in Manchester last week, only one word for it, brilliant. Have a great time tonight

lozgti

I was a 'rocker' at that time but with a secret admiration for all two tone stuff

As for Madness,Night boat to Cairo..grrrreat

p1mark

It's just gone noon, half past monsoon on the banks of the river Nile.
Here comes the boat only half afloat, oarsman grins a toothless smile,
Doesn't seem to care no more wind in his hair as he reaches his last half mile.

What a tune

Gonna have to put one step beyond CD on tonight when i get home now.

I saw them at a Matinee performance for the kids in the afternoon (de montfort hall Leicester) on the one step beyond tour. 13 years old in my Harrington jacket, staypress trousers, Apple turnover shoes with about 20 Segs in each sole

Neverguess

I saw them many years ago in Finsbury Park. Think it was the first and second ones they did there. Wings of A Dove went down a storm at the first gig

And the nekid man in the tree