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Tour Madness 25 June, 1985 - LONDON Capital FM Studios: RADIO: Gary Crowley Show
Chris and Lee stand in for Gary Crowley, a fan since the early days. One of the songs on the playlist is Fireball XL5 a psychobilly song recorded for the B side of The Sun & The Rain single. Lee can’t resist yelling along to his own vocals, supplying some loud “Right off, right on’s!” The Style Council’s Walls Come Tumbling Down is aired before Chris phones Paul Weller at the BBC Studios where the Council tape a session for ‘The Old Grey Whistle Test’. Weller, surprised to hear whom he’s talking to, discusses the ‘Our Favourite Shop’ album, but Lee rudely interrupts to express interest in the contributing horn section. Closing off the interview, the guest DJ’s air the Council’s new single Come To Milton Keynes with Chris humming along to the final notes.
Lee announces Listoon Varna by Irish singer Christy Moore. He heard the song while on a cycling holiday in Ireland with Carl and sings along to the namechecking lyrics. In order to liven things up a bit, Chris gives away a copy of the ‘Complete Madness’ video cassette to the one who knows who wrote It Must Be Love. A girl called Canda Dunn becomes the lucky winner. Her name reminds Chris of a North American soft drink brand. “But Lee’s the man who drunk Canada Dry.” The second caller, a girl called Angela, asks why the band cancelled their appearance at the ‘Glastonbury’ festival (scheduled for June 22) after press reports announced that they would replace The Thompson Twins as headliners. “You have to rehearse for two, three weeks to play the songs well” Chris explains. “I just wish we hadn’t announced that we were doing it. It was a bit silly of us. There’s nothing else to say. Sorry about it. We’ll send you a T-shirt.” The third caller is a guy called Andrew who claims he’s short sized. Although Chris advises him to wear platform boots nothing is further from the truth. Andrew turns out to be Suggs who made his surprise call earlier than expected. Suggs acts as if he isn’t a member of Madness and even asks what band Chris and Lee are in. “They were big in the Seventies” Lee quips. “Psychedelic” Suggs says before hanging up. A girl called Angela wants to know when the new Madness single will be released. Lee forecasts that it will be next month and discusses the unmaterialised plans to record a covers album a la UB40’s ‘Labour of Love’. (It’ll take the band 18 more years before finally deciding to do it). With the Glastonbury no-show in mind, he optimistically promises that not a single date will be cancelled on the forthcoming tour. Lee sings and hums along to I’m Hungry. “Are you hungry Chris, fancy a McDonald’s?”
The guest DJ’s talk about their musical influences and today’s favourite artists before airing the Band Aid-style cover version of The Pioneers’ Starvation that was recorded for the Ethiopian Famine Appeal on initiative of a Madness fan. Lee regrets that this third Zarjazz single release only reached Number 33 in the Top 40. Winner of a competition to write down and pronounce the name of the Madness’ manager Matthew Sztumpf is a guy called Barry who gets T-shirts captioned with ‘ZARJAZZ’, ‘FIREBALL’, and ‘JUBILEUM’ each. The last caller, Andy, asks if there’ll be a B sides album as he likes them so much. “We’re doing the business” Lee prophetically says before rounding off with the last single on Zarjazz: Charm School’s Life’s A Deceiver.
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