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Nutty band Madness are having a great time at the moment – remembering the past as they make their movie, Take It Or Leave It, about their early days forming the band. Recently Look-In’s Ian Shurey talked to the boys about the film and this is what they had to say:
SUGGS
Acting, according to Suggs.
“Sometimes we’re funny, sometimes we’re not – there’s no actual script, we remember what happened and then use our own words, so it depends on the mood we’re in. There are some funny bits, though. Lee’s going to fly like Superman at one point – just walk away and take off. That never really happened, but we thought it was a good idea.”
MIKE
“My wife’s in the film,” he said, “my real wife, that is, and there’s a bit of romance between us. That’s more fun than getting an actress to play her. We wanted the real people to be in it as much as possible.”
CHAS
“I haven’t eaten so well in years,” he said. “The catering truck’s always there, wherever we’re filming, and it’s great food – fish, meat, steaks, chicken, there’s a real variety. They even do apple crumbles.”
But Chas doesn't like filming!
“It can be embarrassing to see yourself,” he laughed, “but then it gets to be a giggle.
“There’s one scene in a pub where there’ll actually be a juke box playing but they put that sound on later, so we had to shout as though there was a lot of noise. That felt real weird.”
LEE
“When I first saw myself I seemed to be too grumpy – I am a bit of a moaner but not that bad – so I’ve tried to change that a bit. I don’t find the serious bits too difficult but I find it really hard to laugh in front of the cameras, though once they filmed us without us knowing and I never seemed to stop laughing.”
But he has got a favourite scene.
“There’s a bit showing my only saxophone lesson, I go along and the teacher’s saying ‘play the scale of C’ I said, ‘I don’t know that, that’s why I’ve come here’ and the next thing I know he’s asking loads of questions about where I got my sax, looking at numbers on it, and behaving like I’d nicked it. I can still remember exactly how I felt, how my cheeks were burning up in front of these other students. In the end I walked out and never went back, he made me feel that embarrassed and stupid.”
BEDDERS
Bedders took a lot of trouble to get things right.
“We checked the old photographs and had the right haircuts, then we went digging through scrapbooks and all things like that to try and bring back the mood. Mind you, I think I’ve aged a lot in the last four years but I’m doing my best to look younger, shaving every day and so on.”
CHRIS
“It’s a bit difficult to come across as yourself. I mean, I’ve watched some of it and it doesn’t look like me. I think it looks awkward, it’s hard, sometimes, to say things as though you mean them – especially if you’re going through it for the eighth time for a different camera.”
“I like the bit where Lee drives a lorry under a bridge,” Chris grinned. “It was loaded up with stuff and the bridge was a low one. Something got caught and he left half the roof behind. He really did do that and I thought it was very funny.”
WOODY
What did Woody enjoy most?
“We did a car chase – one of our famous rushes across London between gigs. But I didn’t do the nutty driving, that was down to Lee!”
- Contributed by Lee "Loobyloo" Buckley
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