Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:03:35 +0000 http://www.mis-online.net/mis/ PostNuke Powered Site en-gb http://www.mis-online.net/mis/images/logo.gif http://www.mis-online.net/mis/ staff@mis-online.net http://www.mis-online.net/mis/Article49.html Washing up in a bottle on the beach... About 12 minutes of music, mostly drum bass and piano only pre 1981 7 album release. With nutty comments. Lost In Nassau. Presented by MR Bosh. (carl) Instrumental raw snippets of 7 tracks and Bsides. Inside now. Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:03:35 +0000 http://www.mis-online.net/mis/Article48.html Welcome dear readers to a special MIS News , Live from Hackney, and the rising Empire of Norton Folgate New Album played in Hackney.... SET 1 ACT 1 Overture (1) - Orchestra only We are London Idiot Child Bingo NW5 On The Town (featuring Rohda Dakar) ACT 2 Overture (2) - Orchestra only MK II Sugar and Spice Dust Devil Clerkenwell Polka Forever Young ACT 3 Overture (3) - Orchestra Only The Liberty Of Norton Folgate INTERVAL SET 2 One Step Beyond Embarrassment The Prince House of Fun Baggy Trousers Madness Our House It Must Be Love My Girl Night Boat To Ciaro USB Wrist bands of the gigs are available to buy. check out Madnessīs Myspace page www.myspace.com/madnessofficial for details of this must hear new style of show with 11 new recent songs. MISCast is available now in the download section of this website. In Three acts we recorded the excitement and review of Madness fans attending Hackeny if you did or didnt make it, you can listen again to how joyus we all found the event. Each of the Acts features comments from the Band, Lee in act I and III, Suggs in Act III and Mark and Steve in act II along with a genuine pearly king! Very london. Here is some review... FOLGATE'S FIRST STEPS It began Monday. Let's have a rehearsal run. Madness with Ian Horne locked away in the Hackney Empire spotted by Alan Smithee, the band had been running through songs and things all day, and in and out of the Old Ship Pub behind the venue, putting the finishing touches to Folgate's unveiling. Alan, checking out the area in advance for Tuesday night rings me, telling me he can hear violinists during their fag break grumbling that the way their parts were written was making it near impossible to play and they were thinking of simplifying it... they also said that their electric strings were really hard to tune to the brass section ... but it all sounded great to Alan through the crack in the stage door! Through the wonders of his mobile phones up against closed stage doors. I got to hear a new song. Not one we've heard yet for sure. It was a two beat marching sounding song, very good from the little snips I heard. As far as I could hear it was definitely Suggs singing and the lyrics were... mmmmmm mmmmm mmmmmm mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm But then there was that door in the way. :-) This song would turn out to be a Polka. Who could have predicted that one! Still the band rehearsed till Midnight on Monday putting more finishing touches to the Folgate show. Then the day of Folgate Dawned... Jonathan Young/Alan Smithee's Phone FOLGATE'S OPENING NIGHT - FIRST REACTIONS An incredible day in Hackney. A great mad meet during the whole day in The old Ship next to the venue in Hackney. With the backstage entrance just next door in an alley at the back of the pub, to witness arriving band members, passing fans and pearly kings and queens entering the venue. Nice to meet so Many fans during the day, including Owen from the Nutty forum, a real top young dude with inflateable sax in hand, to later be seen waving it in the crowd! and then coming away with the set list taped to it at the end of the night!. Andrew Langmead is a name it was nice to put a face to finally as well and we enjoyed Our House together stood next to Clive Langer later in the day. A great Mad meet full of excited anticipation from fans and the band alike, but what of the show. It's amazing gig of 2 halfs. A bizzarre experience of completely new and reletively new songs all presented in 3 acts. With an orchestra of the 3 violin monkeys, the 4 actual violin girls and 1 extra clarenette player, sat in a front of house orchestra pit position. They were playing an intro with the curtain down before each of the 3 acts began, of music orchestrated from the new songs. I am told this was at least in part scored and arranged by Joe from the Violin Monkeys. Well done Jo and everyone else in that team. 2nd set a short frenzy of familiar hits, with My Girl with it's slow intro moved to the encore position quite effectively, and almost equally fresh in some ways was the shorterned nature of this set and the moved around order. This had the crowd bouncy and sweating the heat in the theatre to noticable contrast with the outside temperature. All four teirs of the old theater venue dancing and singing like a concentrated happy collective. It was amazing new material, great new varied songs, 14 track names were listed on the front of the fold out poster programme which was in the same style as the hackney poster but with more vicotriana writing and the 02 flyer picture inside. But not all of them were actually played Tuesday. "That close" was dropped and not played. Lee told me the band hadnt done enough homework on that one in time. Equally I dont remember new song "Seven Dials" appearing anywhere either, showing how rehearsal work which has been long and arduous, but fun im sure, not quite covering every idea of what might make the new set for these shows. Focusing on what did get played though, which was a truly brilliant pay off for all the hard work the band have put in, the songs were nearly all executed fantastically. A short immediate stop at the start of Folgate it's self, but then bang brilliant all the way through it. The experience was a polite and listening crowd trying to take in the new songs, not the greatest of atmosphere or dancing during the first set, due entirely to the familiraity gap, but attentive ears. That said the single, live albums and internet effect did make NW5 a big singalong, Norton It'self appreciated, and Forever Young being crowd sung a bit too. Followed by a boom of dancing cheering in part 2. Again on the programme "sun and the rain" and "shut up" were listed but I dont remember them being played on Tuesday night. I've a feeling Wednesday Press night may be a little longer show and maybe more new songs or hits might be played. All in it was hard to take in all the new material at first, but it was the most interesting presentation of a new Madness album ever, and I've a feeling it'll be even better on the 2nd and 3rd nights. Of the completely new songs arriving in this set. "Clerkenwell Polka" is my favourite. I was not expecting a Russian traditional dance themed song blended perfectly with the up beat Madness nutty sound and it blew the crowd away to the biggest cheers for a completely unheard song, with a bit of "oh wow" thrown in. Lee Buckley said to me "I think Carl wrote that" based on his beaming smile at the end. Carl played acoustic guitar during the songs. Dust Devil I am sure I will love, it's got a lot of upbeatness and fun lyrics, but that was my first hearing at this show. I've still to hear it more. MKII which you can see rehearsals of on youtube is really nice slow piano lead sad song, which is only 2 minutes long. We are London is clearly a Carl song, he sang heavy on it playing acoustic guitar and it's equally a song about London harmony, it name checked Camden lock and it's the words he read out on a recent sky interview a few months back as reported in MIS. Now let's talk about Lost and found my friends, because not only was Rohdar Dakar a surprise guest on track "Out on the Town" but it's a song from "The lost" reclaimed. In the third lot of "The Lost" that recently went up on the MTR and the MIS site. There is a tune named as "Mike on Piano" ' inside I dont want to know' based on the lyrics of what we could hear mike playing. Well that track is called, and has been worked on and become, "Out on the Town" with it's lyric refrain "out on the town, sick and tired of your frown". Obviously a relationship bickering lyric there, and so elevated by the inclusion of a female singer and no better choice than Rhoda. Really weird experience for me to hear this entirely new song I knew nothing about and think to myself deja vu I know this, I was wondering if it was a suggs tune for a brief minute reworked and then it clicked. No Longer a lost, welcome home "Out on the town" :-) Another new track being mentioned by the band on the day was called "one fine day" Lee and Woody both spoke about it. This might appear at some point before album release. No Let's go. Has it been let go? I really want to hear a studio version of let's go but equally I think it was have stuck out as too different to the songs Madness were playing in the new material set. No appearance of Hunchback, or Africa so those rumoured songs have yet to appear live. Oh and I didnt see the naked Ballon dancers, but then I was outside during the interval so couldnt comment on if the appeared but no one mentioned them at any point. What did happen during the interval is 2 Oliver style chimmeny sweeps, played Bingo and a few other riffs on 2 banjo/ ukelele style string instruments in a box left of stage. Which was equally cool addition. The Full Folgate then. The bits we have heard on mood board, steve wright show and even that extra snippet off the background of sky news for it indeed was a part of Folgate and I've just lost my bet with Patrick Murphy on that baby! We heard it all and there is some repeating, returning to the same bits as well a ####### market peice we've not heard in the track before. All the theatre extras were dancing on stage, against the vicotrian big screen backdrop stage set and Suggs appeared in a box at one point, during this long song. The crowd joined in with the "Ahhh ahhh ahh ahh" chant. While not everyone is liking Folgates disjointed and overblown grandeur, and it's a bit like a reworked part of the our house musical in the new middle, I personally lapped it up and for the first time understand it's need to be album title track. All that and I get to hear it again very soon on the Ģ15 wrist band usb. To quote Folgate, us Madness fans in London this week... "We are living like Kings" Jonathan Young AXE CAM IN THE STUDIO Studio videos that offer the smallest of glimpses, into the recording of new tracks. A snip of Idiot child, and a song called, Misson from Hell are audible within the studio videos. The later written by Lee we are told. With a click track over a Barso piano piece. Plus a new track called MKII which is the name of a jaguar. Yes that's right Driving in My Car was not quite one but this is! http://www.youtube.com/madnessstudio2008 Madness in Studio - Woody drums http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZJlfvJVW-U Axe Cam Falls over - Clive takes a leak http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=I2xJcYLPqkk Barso gets ready to rumble - The band rip on Barso as they play 'Mission From Hell' http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=X833xvdcIUs Axe Cam test http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ZJcksTvxQ Exciting Footage - Langer in Action http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4h5_w4hLqjs Bedders cam - 'Idiot Child' Ends http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4U_SpFSmooo Bedders Ukelele - George Formby fun with Lamposts http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cTEb85MvTYA Forever Young Recording - Suggs and Lee http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hPYewx71GRo Forever Young Rehearsal - The Band play http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IQhHIr3O8OY Dueling BanJo Joe - Violin Monkey Vs Bedder Ukelele http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QdHpvfgmbuM MKII - Middle 8 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jYIsCuG4H-U MKII - Rehearsals and comedy arguments http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hdPKImJEyUQ The New Song is two minutes according to the text on it's page. Makes me wonder if this is some kind of intro possibly the track This is London. There are small echo's of Carl's Velvet Ghost music from 'Viva Londinium' in it. Which makes me guess at such things. Flogate MoodY Board 2 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwztPwi_CVs Two Two - In Hackney sound check http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTYUuOmhEQo Axe Cam Test - on stage test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgwUMbVUQtE Bedders in ear cam - sax warms up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Zla_yh9-g Woody drums - petticoat lane http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHv--65RuBA Old Dusty Devil - instrumental rehearsing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WUsrqgL4-o Madness with Rhodar Dakar - Out on the town http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8U-Rig0mNU front line orchestra - joe on banjo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHg3ypgy77k Thomo - fat lady makes thommo sing? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqHCUveOUNo Overture - violin monkey and brass string girls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5TdGmCFtRE And on top of all this more Videos follow from the Axe Cam during Showtime. NORTON FOLGATE There coming left and right trying to flog you stuff you dont need or want and there is a smiling man trys to take your hand and lead you into his uncles resturaunt We Are Living like kings... THE LIBERTY OF NORTON FOLGATE (MOOD BOARD) A 6 minute mix of the new album'###### anticipated title track, along with a film montage of suitable skullduggery and phantasamagoria to set the mood of song which is about the history of east end London from 1900 to today. Be a part of everything you see, listen and watch it. This is the edited highlights of a 12 minute track due to be on the album. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXFJVsjpfg8 MORE TO FOLLOWGATE If you want to know more, click on the link below to read full articles about the tracks references in London history, lyrics and Vince Carden Madness Unsugged Editor's comments on the track and Madness today. Sun, 18 May 2008 19:09:51 +0000 http://www.mis-online.net/mis/Article47.html Here's a full run down of all the announced Madness Gigs so far. Americans please note that Madness were never confirmed to be playing Cochella, in California and WON'T BE PLAYING, Very Sorry. Despite early flyers and radio stations announcing them. Very Sorry. But here is where they are playing around the world in 2008... Aintree England - Summer Race Evenings from 4pm - Friday 13th June +44 [0]151 522 2929 Dublin Ireland Tripod Tueday 17th June Dublin Ireland Tripod Wednesday 18th June http://www.ticketmaster.ie/artist/941984?tm_link=tm_home_h6 SONAR FESTIVAL, BARCELONA, 20TH JUNE 2008 http://www.sonar.es/2008/eng/prog/concerts.cfm Bilbao in Spain - Sunday July 6th bilbaobbklive.com Montreux Jazz Festival - Tues July 8th http://www.montreuxjazz.com/concerts/artists_details_fr.aspx?id=592 CANCELED Newbury Racecourse - Friday July 11th CANCELED Refunds if you dont want to see UB40 instead of Madness from http://www.newbury-racecourse.co.uk Look for UB40 then click Madness funds. Sandown Park Racecourse - Thursday August 7th http://www.sandown.co.uk/fixtures/madness-music-night/ Newmarket Racecourse, England Friday, August 8th www.newmarketracecourses.co.uk O2 Arena London Friday 19th of December http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/1200407FF0FD5073?artistid=941984&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=60 Plus...... A TRIBUTE NIGHT FOR DAINTON CONNELL - The Pet Shop Boys are playing a small set and Suggs and Carl from Madness will be there as a support act at a Tribute event at London's Heaven Night Club near Trafalger Square, on Friday May the 2nd. The night starts at 10pm Crunch also play at the Barfly May Bank holiday weekend (see flyer on this page) Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:04:32 +0000 http://www.mis-online.net/mis/Article45.html On CD, DVD, 7inch and Download... The CD, DVD and 7inch all come packaged in unique 7inch sleeves, the CD and 7inch include a cover of 'Bittersweet' (by the Undertones). Whilst the DVD includes the 'NW5' video and 3 video recordings 'Night Boat', 'My Girl', 'It Must Be Love' from the Suggs & Barzo Piano performance at Bestival 07. Madness - NW5 DVD Tracks 1. NW5 Video 2. 'Nightboat To Cairo' (Performed by Barzo & Suggs @ Bestival) 3. 'My Girl' (Performed by Barzo & Suggs @ Bestival) 4. 'It Must Be Love' (Performed by Barzo & Suggs @ Bestival) CD Tracks 1. NW5 (Radio Edit) 2. NW5 (Full Length Version) 3. Bittersweet 4. NW5 (Man Like Me Remix)* *Oh look Johnny Langer remixes Clive Langer, Nice! 7" Tracks 1. NW5 (Full Length Version) 2. Bittersweet With the download set to be an exclusive mix. Pre order all three physical formats for Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:54:24 +0000 http://www.mis-online.net/mis/Article43.html Madness have performed "London Calling" by the Clash live at a gig. The charity side of the gig in Bridgewater on January the 8th was linked to Joe Strummer you see thats why the song "London Calling" was played in the encore. With Suggs reading the lyrics to the classic clash song. Read on for a full review from the Bridgewater Mercury newspaper. It has also come to light since this review that Anday MacKay Roxy Music Saxophonist and legend, played sax with the band on One Step Beyond at this show. Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:42:14 +0000 http://www.mis-online.net/mis/Article42.html News from the Madness Trading Ring of the Return of the Our House musical in the uk.... "Hi everyone. Thought you might be interested in this. After so long it finally looks like the musical tour might be taking place. The last I heard The Richmond Theatre production company were involved as I signed the domain name for www.ourhousethemusical.co.uk to them well over 1 1/2 years ago and never heard anything else but I came across this today. Birmingham Rep Run... MAY Thursday 29/05/2008 @ 7:30 pm Friday 30/05/2008 @ 7:30 pm Saturday 31/05/2008 @ 7:30 pm JUNE Monday 02/06/2008 @ 7:30 pm Tuesday 03/06/2008 @ 7:00 pm Wednesday 04/06/2008 @ 7:30 pm Thursday 05/06/2008 @ 2:30 pm, @ 7:30 pm Friday 06/06/2008 @ 7:30 pm Saturday 07/06/2008 @ 5:30 pm Monday 09/06/2008 @ 7:30 pm Tuesday 10/06/2008 @ 7:30 pm Wednesday 11/06/2008 @ 7:30 pm Thursay 12/06/2008 @ 2:30 pm, @ 7:30 pm, Friday 13/06/2008 @ 7:30 pm Saturday 14/06/2008 @ 2:30 pm, @ 7:30 pm Monday 16/06/2008 @ 7:30 pm Tuesday 17/06/2008 @ 7:30 pm Wednesday 18/06/2008 @ 7:30 pm Thursday 19/06/2008 @ 2.30pm, @ 7:30 pm, Friday 20/06/2008 @ 7:30 pm Saturday 21/06/2008 @ 2:30 pm, @ 7:30 pm UK TOUR Initial Tour Schedule 2008/9(subject to change and extension) week commencing: 23.06.08 Stoke 30.06.08 Glasgow Theatre Royal 06.07.08 Edinburgh Playhouse 13.07.08 Bromley, Churchill Theatre 21.07.08 Bradford Alhambra 28.07.08 Summer Break 25.08.08 Re-rehearse 01.09.08 Milton Keynes 08.09.08 Wimbledon 15.09.08 The Lowry, Salford 22.09.08 Sheffield 29.09.08 Sunderland 06.10.08 T.B.C. 13.10.08 Dartford 20.10.08 Truro 27.10.08 Lincoln 03.11.08 Blackpool Opera House 10.11.08 Leeds Grand 17.11.08 Oxford New 24.11.08 Ipswich Regent 01.12.08 T.B.C. 08.12.08 Christmas break 02.02.09 Bristol Hippodrome 09.02.09 Wolverhampton Grand 16.02.09 T.B.C. 23.02.09 Cardiff New Theatre 02.03.09 Woking 09.03.09 Southend 16.03.09 Cheltenham 23.03.09 T.B.C. 30.03.09 Crawley 06.04.09 onward tour being booked OUR HOUSE - THE MUSICAL TimFirth.com can now give advance notice that the Madness musical OUR HOUSE is to live again, in a brand new production featuring the original creative team of Tim Firth, Matthew Warchus (Director), Rob Howell (Designer) and Peter Darling (Choreographer). It will be performed initially at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Stay tuned for dates and further information. (11/12/07) http://www.birmingham-rep.co.uk Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:20:58 +0000 http://www.mis-online.net/mis/Article41.html The O2 Arena. Awesome venue. Purpose built arena with an entertainment avenue of restaurants, bars and clubs, oh and an ice rink and chill out bubble, and a cinema, and a museum to ancient Egypt's Tutankhamun, all with it's own tube station for easy access. The 02 staff told us that, Tutankhamun woke up during Night Boat to Cairo and wandered around the main street area until the cold from the ska ice rink froze him up again, and they could put him back into the exhibit. You can buy this gig on CD now from " Concert Live " website. Jonathan Young Reviews the last night of the tour.... read on.... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:16:26 +0000 http://www.mis-online.net/mis/Article40.html So here we go, back aboard the Nutty Train once more..... I think I must have been one of the first people to book tickets forthe Aintree gig - so I Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:10:38 +0000 http://www.mis-online.net/mis/Article39.html Jonathan Young and Graham Yates review the Astoria gig. The highlights of which include New songs Forever Young and Sugar and Spice. Refined versions of Let's go and Bingo, Nw5 and a special guest vocalist. It's all here including the set list. And why you should go buy the live CD from concert live now. Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:09:18 +0000 http://www.mis-online.net/mis/Article38.html The latest Madspace blog brings news of single formats, stuff to win and a sneak peek at tour merchandise. Plus In the following MadBlog news of Concert Live Website now taking orders on 2 London 2007 Christmas Tour Live CD's and NW5 Single packs, as well as the DVD extras and an Undertones Cover B-side. Wow! https://www.concertlive.co.uk/Live%20CDs/Madness/On%20Board%20the%20Nutty%20Express%202007.aspx# Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:01:41 +0000 http://www.mis-online.net/mis/Article37.html The Telegraph talks to Chris and Woody and Suggs.. As Madness prepare for a new tour, the masters of joyous English pop tell Thomas H Green why they fight shy of celebrity Also appearing at London's 02 arena in December are Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen and the Spice Girls, yet there's a sense that the heritage-rock industry has not yet canonised Madness. "Don't start me off," says Madness guitarist Chris Foreman. "I can't stand The X Factor, all that. The thing about Simon Cowell, look at anything he's created - it never has any artistic merit. The mind boggles - Louis Walsh, 29 No 1s and you can't remember one of them. Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:45:49 +0000 http://www.mis-online.net/mis/Article36.html The tour starts on Monday at The London Astoria! And the official Madness Madspace page are giving away a pair of tickets to each one of the shows... Plus the prize list tell us that there will be a 7 inch and a DVD single as well as the CD released of the NW5 single and some interesting tour merchandise... check out www.myspace.com/madnessofficial Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:33:54 +0000 http://www.mis-online.net/mis/Article35.html MADNESS legend Suggs is reminiscing about the great days being in Britain's most fun band and ranting about the manufactured pop acts currently wowing the public on X Factor. " It's all just theatre, isn't it?" he says. "There's nothing real going on there. They've got it down to a fine art, haven't they? "They've got them crying in every single f***ing shot, innit? So I've just got a bit bored of it, to be perfectly honest." "We just did something inadvertently when we were kids. A lot of the music business today is press-driven and PR-driven. Frankly, it's boring. People see through it. "We were just mates and we did something about community and family and getting on together. We weren't going to wait for someone to stick us on a TV talent show. "We just wanted to be out there having fun - and I think we did. That's why it's so great to be back." Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:59:56 +0000 http://www.mis-online.net/mis/Article34.html This year Madness conquered Earth (the mud at Glastonbury), Wind (the marque blowing over in Cork) and Fire (the car burning riot in Athens). How do you follow a year like that? With ICE of course! Here's Iain Mason with news of the coldest gig to turn you blue. Madness Headline SNOWBOMBING 2008 week long Ski festival. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:36:21 +0000 http://www.mis-online.net/mis/Article30.html Please note- All past and current bulletins are available by clicking MIS Bulletins on the left menu. Cheers Jon, Rob and Simon. 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