Tag: madness

FESTIVAL GUIDE: Kendal Calling 2016

Name: Kendal Calling. Where: Lowther Deer Park, Cumbria. When: Thursday 28th – Sunday 31st July 2016. Headliners: The Charlatans, Rudimental, Madness, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Also Featuring: Catfish & The Bottlemen, The Hives, Maximo Park, Ash, The Darkness, Everything…

Ten Tracks To Remember Glastonbury 2016 By

Somehow, it’s been a week since that one crazy weekend in the year where seeing the Cool Runnings team propping up the bar of a cider bus, while a giant David Bowie slides past in the mud heading to hear…

ALBUM: Madness ‘Madstock’

Rating: Originally released as a separate album and VHS, this Madstock collection brings together the CD and DVD to celebrate perhaps one of the most criminally ignored live music events of our time. This is their Spike Island or Knebworth;…

ALBUM REVIEW: MADNESS ‘ONE STEP BEYOND…’

Rating: Whether as reminder or introduction, these songs capture the giddy headiness of youth; the transition from adolescence to adulthood with its trials, misadventures and (loss of) innocence.  Deriving from ska, vaudeville, pop, rock, jazz and with punk’s “will-do” attitude,…