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Tour Madness Over 30 Years of Gigs, Tours, TV & Radio Appearances, & Beyond
Welcome to Tour Madness, Madness Central's complete and comprehensive guide to all live appearances on stage, screen and multimedia...
From a back garden in Islington, 1976, via pubs, venues, theatres, arenas, parks, forests, racecourses, ships, busses and country estates to storming the 02' dome, it's over 30 years of Madness gigs. They became hero's of 80's Top of the pops too, and The Young Ones through 90's TFI Friday to The Paul OGrady Show, and never off the airwaves from John Peel Sessions to BBC6 & Multimedia. There is nothing else quite like live Madness. "All of this".
Tour Madness Recently...
Bournemouth - Tuesday December 1st
It's was a great way to celebrate Advent. The first door of December opening to a Madness Tour of the new sucessful album. The intimate venue shows look set to be some of the best yet. With a fresh set list that on the first night in Bournemouth included 9 songs from the new album, and a new cover version for Madness with Paul Simon's 1972 Mother and Child Reunion. Some returning album tracks of note, one not played since the 80's and still some 12 well known hit singles.
One Step Beyond
Embarrassment
The Prince
Nw5
My Girl
Dust Devil
The Sun And The Rain
Idiot Child
Take It Or Leave It
MK II
Sugar And Spice
Chase The Devil aka Iron Shirt
Clerkenwell Polka
Mother And Child Reunion
Girl Why Don't You
That Close
E.R.N.I.E.
Forever Young
House Of Fun
Wings Of A Dove
Baggy Trousers
Our House
It Must Be Love
We Are London
Madness
Night Boat To Cairo
2nd Night at Brighton December 2nd. Mother and Child Reunion, Girl, We Are London and Take it Or Leave it were not played
In The Rain and Shut Up rejoined the set to stay and Hunchback of Torriano had it's debut live rendition, so far just at this show.
As the tour continues. A 19 track Matinee show in Southend on the 5th featured mostly these 80's hits, Plus Forever Young, Dust Devil and retained the Mother and Child Reunion Cover version. Where as the evening gigs have now dropped MKII/Sugar and Spice section, Bed and Breakfast Man is back, a dangermen song or 2 have varied in and out of the set. The cover version is eventually dropped from the rest of the tour midway.
Tarzan's Nuts has re-appeared for all uk shows since Southend except Edinburgh. As the tour continued Chris and Lee started to take the mic for this song making for an amazing moment of team work in the show. Equally Chris' "Showtime" section introduction get longer and funnier during the tour, including an emotional speach at London's 02 and a scottish McForeman appearing in character at the Edinburgh gig which ends the tour in the cold -6 temperatures that dont stop the party and begins the new year.
The Tour date were:
December 1st - BOURNEMOUTH
December 2nd - BRIGHTON
December 4th - PLYMOUTH:
December 5th - SOUTHEND: Matinee
December 5th - SOUTHEND:
December 7th - SWINDON:
December 8th - LEEDS:
December 9th - SHEFFIELD: 02 Academy
December 10th - BIRMINGHAM: 02 Academy
December 12th - NEWCASTLE: 02 Academy 14:30pm Matinee
December 12th - NEWCASTLE: 02 Academy 19:30pm
December 13th - GLASGOW: 02 Academy
December 15th - MANCHESTER: Apollo
December 17th - WOLVERHAMPTON: Civic Hall
December 18th - LONDON: 02 Arena
December 28th - DUBLIN: O2 Arena
December 29th - BELFAST: Odyssey Arena
December 31st - EDINBURGH: Hogmanay
Tour Madness Forthcoming Events
2010
March 9th - LONDON: Barbican - Suggs & Carl feature in Songs In The Key Of London
April 28th - MOSCOW: B1 Maximum Hall
May 1st - SPAIN: Murcia
May 8th - ITALY: Milan
May 11th - GERMANY: Berlin - Huxley's Neue Welt
May 12th - GERMANY: Dortmund Westfalenhalle
May 14th - FRANCE: Paris Zenith
May 15th - HOLLAND: Amsterdam Heineken Music Hall
June 12th - SWITZERLAND: Caribana Festival
July 9th - IRELAND: Cork Marquee
July 11th - SCOTLAND: Ballado Airfield - T in The Park
July 23rd - YORK: Music Showcase - Racecourse
July 24th - MARGATE: South Island Festival, Quex Park
July 29th - EPSOM: LIVE - Racecourse
July 30th - August 1st - UK: CAMP BESTIVAL
August 6th - NEWMARKET: Nights - Racecourse gig
August 21st -22nd - V FESTIVAL: Staffordshire Weston Park, Chelmsford, Hylands Park
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