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Newsletter Contents 1. Latest
News And Information 2. www.retro-madness.co.uk - This week's special offer 3 Madness Central YouTube Launches 4. Audio Bullys “Higher Than Eiffel” feat. Suggs and Barzo – Contest Open Now. 5. Madness Central Update: The Nutty Caption 6. Official Madness News Twitter Page Now Available 7. Shadness: Scottish Madness tribute band is looking for a guitarist 8.Suggs fronts Wandsworth
Councils new 'Council tax direct debit payment Campaign' 9. Coming Soon: The MadQuiz
returns - hosted by John Reed. 10. Madness 2010 UK and European Tour Dates Listing 11. RIP: Matthew Stzumpf, former Madness manager 12.
Contacting Madness Central 13.
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Madness Central YouTube Launches – Rare US Footage To Come. Despite a joyous number of video’s of Madness on YouTube these days, what you don’t tend to see very often are the American TV appearances, which have become somewhat of a rarity amongst the Madness fanbase ...
Read the complete blog at: http://madness-central.com/blog/?p=90 Note: The above blog has also been reproduced in its entirety in Section 3 of this newsletter.
Madness To Headline “Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza” – Saturday 7th August 2010
Band To Perform In Grounds Of Glastonbury Abbey – Steve Harley To Open. News in today that Madness have been confirmed to headline the “Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza” on Saturday 7th August 2010 with Steve Harley And Cockney Rebel confirmed to open the show ...
Our House The Musical – Arthur Cotterell Theatre, Kingston Upon Thames – 13th-17th April 2010
Madness Musical Gets Another Local Theatre Outing Courtesy Of Studio 7 Productions. Continuing our theme of bringing you news of the spate of local theatre group productions of “Our House – The Musical”, we’ve heard today that Studio 7 Productions are to perform the show at the Arthur Cotterell Theatre, Kingston Upon Thames from 13th to 17th April 2010, including a matinee performance on Saturday 17th April...
Madness – Rock Palace, Los Angeles – Madness Central YouTube Update
Footage From “Rock Palace” American TV Show Now Posted. Our season of USA Madness television continues by finally landing on Uncle Sam’s soil with live concert footage from 80’s LA. “Rock Palace” was a short-lived television show hosted by a comedian guest who presented footage from concerts filmed at the local Palace venue...
Audio Bullys “Higher Than Eiffel” feat. Suggs and Barzo – Contest Open Now!!!
The new Audio Bullys album “Higher Than Eiffel” was released this past Monday (29th March), and it’s well worth the 10 quid if you’re a fan of their ska-and-punk-driven house beats. Their third album out and they’ve found a groove diverse and unique for sure...
Note: The above
blog has also been reproduced in its entirety in Section 4 of this
newsletter.
Our House The Musical – White Rock Theatre, Hastings – 12-14 August 2010
News of another production of “Our House The Musical” reached us via a member at the Madness Central Forums today – this time it’s being performed in Hastings at the White Rock Theatre with five performances between 12th-14th August 2010...
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www.retro-madness.co.uk - This week's special offer With several amateur productions of Our House the Musical being staged around the UK over the next few weeks, we have decided to reduce the prices of our official Our House T Shirts to prices even less than they cost to be made!!! We hold the remaining stock of all the Our House merchandise left over from the West End Show and the UK Tour.
All items are in completely brand new condition. Some lines and sizes are now sold out, but for those we have left we have reduced the prices of the Red and Navy T Shirts to just £4.50 (Small), £4.99 (Medium & Large) and £5.99 (X Large). We have also reduced all sizes of the Ladies/Childs Red Polo Shirts to just £3.50 each. All prices include UK p&p.
Click the link below and scroll to the bottom of the page to view these items. The prices will be held for the whole of April, or until the items are sold out.
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Madness Central YouTube Launches Despite a joyous number of video’s of Madness on YouTube these days, what you don’t tend to see very often are the American TV appearances, which have become somewhat of a rarity amongst the Madness fanbase.
To start off our new Madness Central Youtube channel, we bring you a 40-minute documentary that was screened on US MTV in 1983. Not only does this programme feature some wonderful interview footage with Carl, Suggs, Lee and Chris by the ‘Professor of Pop’ Paul Gambaccini, intertwined with it is rare live footage that was recorded on the ‘Rise and Fall’ tour, mainly at the Brighton Conference Centre gig on March 5th, 1983. See ‘Madness (Is All the Mind)’ with a viola player in spotlight and ‘Blue Skinned Beast’ live with a back drop of footage from the Falklands War. All brilliant stuff.
Over the next few weeks, courtesy of our main man in LA, musician, record producer and Madness fan, Andrew Sandoval and The Madness Central Team, we will be bringing you some more of these exclusive American clips right here. From the band’s hilarious appearance on American Bandstand in 1980 right up to the fantastic live 2-song set on Saturday Night Live in 1984. That’s all to come in the near future, look out for announcements on the forum, news blog, newsletter and our Facebook site.
If you’ve got rare footage and need help putting it online please contact one of us on the Madness Central Team in the usual way.
4. Audio
Bullys “Higher Than Eiffel” feat. Suggs and Barzo – Contest Open Now. The new Audio Bullys album “Higher Than Eiffel” was released this past Monday (29th March), and it’s well worth the 10 quid if you’re a fan of their ska-and-punk-driven house beats. Their third album out and they’ve found a groove diverse and unique for sure.
Of course, as Madness fans, it doesn’t hurt that Suggs and Barzo feature on the album, on the two songs “Twist Me Up” and “Goodbye”. This makes the 10 quid all the better spent.
We’re holding a contest for three lucky winners who will each receive a copy of “Higher Than Eiffel”. You can enter the contest here:
The contest runs until 5 pm GMT, 12 April 2010. So be sure to get your entry in if you want a chance at a free CD, courtesy of Cooking Vinyl Records and Audio Bullys Management.
You can hear the full album in stream at the Audio Bullys official MySpace page.
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Madness Central Update: The Nutty Caption Have you ever seen a picture of Madness and, with puzzled amazement,
said to yourself, "Just what the blue blazes were they thinking?" Why
not put some words in the mouths of Madness and answer that question for
yourself?
6.
Official Madness News Twitter Page Now Available This week saw the launch of the Official Madness News Twiiter Page. For those of you with Twitter accounts, and also those without, you can view and/or subscribe to all the latest Tweets at: http://twitter.com/madnessnews
7. Shadness: Scottish Madness tribute band is looking for a
guitarist Ayrshire and Scotland’s newest Madness tribute band have gigs lined up – but no guitarist.
Shadness has been formed by three members of top Bon Jovi tribute band, Non Jovi, together with other great local musicians. As soon as the band were formed, offers of gigs came flooding in. But there’s only one problem – they have yet to find a guitar player.
Things are getting tight now as the first gig is on Saturday, June 5 at The Ferry in Glasgow, supporting soul band Counselled Out. Shadness bass player Rod Anderson from Troon said: "We know lots of guitar players, but they are all too busy to join us. We really need to find an experienced player who loves ska and fancies joining a band which will be a great laugh to play in."
Shadness drummer Brian McKinlay played with renowned local band The Rhymes in the 90s, and last year organised Ayr’s Jam at the Dam. He said: "When The Rhymes were reforming for a SeptembAyr concert in 2003, we had lost contact with singer Helen Frater.But an appeal in the Ayrshire Post did the trick, and we’re hoping it will work again."
Anyone interested should e-mail shad...@virgin.net or call 07817 208219.
8. Suggs fronts Wandsworth
Councils new 'Council tax direct debit payment Campaign' Popstar Suggs says that with a £25,000 cash prize on offer it would be "madness" not to sign up to a new council tax direct debit payment campaign. People who sign up to pay their council tax by direct debit before July 15 will be entered into a prize draw and could win themselves £25,000.
The cash prize is being offered by Bacs Payment Schemes Ltd (Bacs), the organisation responsible for direct debit. It has teamed up with Wandsworth Council and some other London boroughs in a drive to increase the use of this easy and convenient payment method.
The public awareness campaign is being fronted by Madness singer Suggs. He was joined at the launch of the new initiative last week by the chairman of Wandsworth's corporate resources scrutiny committee Cllr Vanessa Graham.
9. Coming Soon: The MadQuiz
returns - hosted by John Reed. The long fallow Madquiz, now helmed by "The Nutty Sound" author John Reed, will be going live this weekend on Madness Central this weekend. News of it's launch will be posted in the forum, on the Madness Central homepage and News Blog. Watch this space ...
10. Madness 2010 UK and European Tour Dates Listing Lots of UK and European tour dates are now scheduled for the next few months. Here's what's confirmed so far...
28.04.10 - B1 Maximum Hall, Moscow, Russia 01.05.10 - Estrella Levante SOS 4.8, Murcia, Spain 08.05.10 - Milan Palasharp, Italy 11.05.10 - Berlin (C-Halle), Germany 12.05.10 - Dortmund Westfalenhalle, Germany 14.05.10 - Zenith De Paris, France 15.05.10 - Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, Holland 28.05.10 - Papillons de Nuit, Normandy, France 12.06.10 - Caribana Festival, Switzerland 09.07.10 - The Marquee, Cork, Ireland 11.07.10 - T In The Park, Scotland 23.07.10 - York Racecourse 24.07.10 - Quex Park, Margate 29.07.10 - Epsom Racecourse 30.07.10 - 01.08.10 - Camp Bestival, Dorset 06.08.10 - Newmarket Racecourse 07.08.10 - Glastonbury Abbey, Glastonbury 21.08.10 - V Festival, Weston Park 22.08.10 - V Festival, Hylands Park
Links to purchase tickets for the above dates can be found on the ofiicial Madness website at: http://www.madness.co.uk/
11. RIP: Matthew Stzumpf, former Madness manager As many are already aware, Mr Smash posted the sad news on his Facebook page that Matthew Stzumpf, former manager of the band, passed away recently. Everyone at Madness Central would like to extend their wishes and condolences to Matthews' family and friends.
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