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Tour Madness February 21st to March 9th 1983 - RISE AND FALL TOUR: Leg 1 UK
Tickets for this Two Week Tour sold out upon announcement in January.
February 21st and 22nd 1983: NEWCASTLE: City Hall
Attendance: 4,000 - sellout
Support: The Jo Boxers (same for all the gigs on this page)
February 23rd and 24th, 1983: MANCHESTER: Apollo
Attendance: 3,000 - sellout
February 25, 1983: LIVERPOOL: Empire
Attendance 2,550 - sellout
Set List:
House of Fun
Dissappear
Close Escape
Bed & Breakfast Man
My Girl
The Sun and The Rain
Blue Skinned Beast
Embarrassment
Rise & Fall
Sunday Morning
Mrs. Hutchinson
Take It Or leave It
Tomorrow's Dream
Primrose Hill
Razorblade Alley
Tomorrow's Just Another Day
Grey Day
Shut Up
Madness
Baggy Trousers
Our House
encore: Mr. Speaker Get's The Word
The Return Of The Los Palmas 7
It Must Be Love
encore: Nightboat To Cairo
Madness Is All In The Mind
One Step Beyond
As a regular on this tour, Suggs tells the teenageaudience that they can get up on the count of 15: "1, 2, 6, 5, 7, 10'. Carl quotes The Jackson Five's "I Want You Back" at the end of "Disappear". Dick Cuthell plays a solo in "Razorblade Alley", and Mark adds a jazzy baseline to the end of "Madness". Sue Rosenfeld, the viola player is put in the spotlight each show during "Madness Is all In The Mind." "This one's especially for you" Carl tells the audience. "One step beyooond".
February 27th 1983: BIRMINGHAM: Odeon
Attendance: 2,550 - sellout
February 28th 1983: POOLE: Arts Centre
March 1st 1983: LONDON: Lyceum Ballroom
Attendance: 1500 - sellout
The London shows form the heart of the tour for a change. Madness play the Lyceum for the first time since june 10, 1980. Jim Reid writes in his review for Record Mirror: "I've never been to a gig where so many people sang along to the songs or where the dancehall literally shook under the weight of dancing feet. Nothing else remains to be said".
March 2nd and 3rd 1983 LONDON: Dominion
Attendance: 5000 - sellout
Set frist night:
House of Fun
Dissappear
Close Escape
Bed & Breakfast Man
My Girl
Blue Skinned Beast
The Sun and The Rain
Embarrassment
Rise & Fall
Grey Day
Sunday Morning
Mrs. Hutchinson
Take It Or leave It
Tomorrow's Dream
Razorblade Alley
Tomorrow's Just Another Day
Shut Up
Madness
Baggy Trousers
Our House
Encore: Primrose Hill
It Must Be Love
Encore: Nightboat To Cairo
Tomorrow's Just Another Day (With Elvis Costello)
One Step Beyond
Encore: Mr. Speaker Get's the Word
The Return Of The Los Palmas 7
The Dominion shows are recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio. Close Escape is dedicated to "all the old phone boxes in the area", and Bed & Breakfast Man to John Hasler who's watching the show. Future performances will also be dedicated to him everytime he's present. Embarrassment; with it's beautiful string arrangements, goes out to all babies and Our House to The Jo Boxers. The well received support band come onstage during Nightboat To Cairo. After the appearance on "The Tube", The Washington Wellfare Brass Band are back to supply the 'Sgt. Pepper' style horn arrangements in Primrose Hill. Elvis Costello sings a jazzy version of Tomorrow's just Another day as recorded with Madness for the 12" record. One Step Beyond is not played on the second night. Twenty tracks from the main sets are selected for two one hour edits. From the second night My Girl, Embarrassment and It Must Be Love end up on 'MIS Live' in 1986.
March 5th 1983: BRIGHTON: Conference Centre
Attendance: 9,000 - sellout
Set: Same as in Liverpool, plus the reprise of Tomorrow's Just Another Day in the encore.
Mr. Speaker is interrupted during the intro because a riot erupts. The song restarts with a longer intro. The show is taped for release as a concert video, but these plans don't materialise. Still, seven tracks are included in an American television documentary that will reintroduce Madness to the states where they've signed to Geffen Records. My Girl and It Must Be Love appear on the 12" records of The Sun & The Rain and yesterday's Men.
March 6th 1983: NOTTINGHAM: Theatre Royal
Attendance: 1,000 - sellout
March 8th 1983: GLASGOW: Apollo
Madness play a sucessful show; a bit too sucessful for thier liking as thousands of autograph hunters make their way to the tour bus afterwards. Because the band are too exahuasted they hand out second hand signatures. Suggs talks to Adrian Thrills of New Musical Express about the fact that Madness' popularity is growing into Duran Duran style proportions. It really hit me when we were onstage; there was this little skinhead at the front, and he couldn't have been more than about ten. It was as if we were "The Who" or something, a totally different generation from our audience. This tour is different from before in terms of the adulation we've been getting outside the gigs. It's hard to handle sometimes because I despise that situation where you've got a band on a coach waving at people outside. I never feel proud of the fact that there's all these people screaming mindlessly at us. I also prefer playing smaller places than all these Apollos and Playhouses that we'll probably never play again.
March 9, 1983: EDINBURGH: Playhouse
Attendance: 5,000 - sellout
After 14 shows, the tour reaches its finale. An afterparty is held at the hotel.
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