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Tour Madness 11 & 12 August, 1980 - NOTTINGHAM: TV: Theatre Royal - Filmed for ATV: Rock Stage
Attendance: 2,000 sell-out
Support: The Mo-Dettes
Set first show:
Night Boat to Cairo
E.R.N.I.E.
Mistakes
Disappear
Close Escape
Not Home Today
Crying Shame
Razor Blade Alley
Baggy Trousers
My Girl
Bed & Breakfast Man
Land of Hope and Glory
Embarrassment
On The Beat Pete
In the Middle of the Night
Swan Lake
The Prince
One Step Beyond
encore: Madness
Madness interrupt recording sessions to play two shows that will be taped by ATV for the ‘Rock Stage’ concert series (aired in 1981). For the band this is the perfect opportunity to showcase more tracks off the new album. Both shows are attended by a teenage audience. They see their fun slightly spoilt by the TV crew who instruct them not to dance as one.
Set second show: same as the first, plus Deceives The Eye after Madness.
Madness spend the afternoon lip-synching to the first show so that the TV crew can film the required close-ups. Tony Fletcher, junior reporter of The Face magazine, writes in his review: ‘The new numbers work well; best songs are Baggy Trousers and Disappear. Mistakes is a song “about last night’s gig”. The final number, Deceives The Eye, is dedicated to me by Mark, as the line “The quickness of the hand deceives the eye” is supposed to have some cryptic meaning concerning the two days I spent with them. Chris Foreman tells me afterwards that I’m the only person from the press he’s ever seen dancing at their gigs. All I know is that Madness may not be the most original or musically competent band on earth, but as long as they do it because they enjoy it, then they’ve got a fair old lifespan ahead of them with me as a fan’. 16 tracks are used for the eventual edit.
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