Madness Central Newsletter: Issue 3.
Kevin Tizzard
17th October – 23rd October 2009.
Welcome to another edition of the Madness Central Newsletter.
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Contents:
1. Latest News And Information
2. Brit Awards: Outstanding Contribution to Music Award update
3. Tourdates.co.uk OSB Reissue Review
4. Total Madness Competition Postal Update
5. Chris Foreman: The Mad Hatter
6. Madness Central Updates: The Nutty Caption
7. One Step Beyond Reissue official release on Monday.
8. Contacting Madness Central
9. Newsletter Subscription Details.
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1. Latest News And Information
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The following are the currently weekly news snippet(s) taken from the Madness Central blog at:
http://www.madness-central.com/blog
# Alive, Alive-oh…
News in from our Irish correspondent this evening to let us know that Dublin has been added to the Xmas tour. The band will be playing the O2, Dublin on Monday 28th December 2009 - the night before they play the Odyssey Arena, Belfast.
Read the complete blog at:
http://madness-central.com/blog/?p=711
# Dublin Addendum-diddle-dee-dum-dum
Following yesterdays blog announcing the Dublin O2 gig on 28th December 2009 - the gig has now been announced on the official site with news that tickets are available for pre-sale to fans on Tuesday 20th October 2009 from 0900
Read the complete blog at:
http://madness-central.com/blog/?p=714
# Record Collector - 30th Anniversary Edition
On the shelves from today (22nd October 2009), the latest edition of Record Collector magazine (which is also celebrating it’s 30th Anniversary with this issue) has a number of features relating to Madness. There’s a 6 page article, including an interview with five of the seven band members (Messrs Foreman and Bedford were missing) - said interview doesn’t totally follow the same old formula either, so is definitely worth a read.
Read the complete blog at:
http://madness-central.com/blog/?p=720
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2. Brit Awards: Outstanding Contribution to Music Award update
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After several high profile campaigns on a number of social networking sites, including Myspace and Facebook, it seems that Madness have been overlooked once again for the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award for The Brits 2010. The rumoured winner for next years events is Robbie Williams. The story first broke in The Daily Star newspaper and on the BBC News Entertainment website.
You can read the full story at the link below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8321080.stm
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3. Tourdates.co.uk OSB Reissue Review
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The following is a review by Tourdates.co.uk regarding the imminent release of the One Step Beyond 30th Anniversary album.
Source:
http://www.tourdates.co.uk/news/15046-madness-to-reissue-debut-album
UK ska heroes Madness plan to release an expanded edition of their debut album to mark its 30th anniversary. One Step Beyond will be reissued on October 26th, containing a host of extras not found on the original record. The new version will compromise two discs, with the first holding the original tracks and the band's music videos.
Among the including promo videos is One Step Beyond, My Girl, Bed And Breakfast Man and Night Boat To Cairo. On the second will be live songs, a John Peel session and several B-sides such as Stepping Into Line, Mistakes and Nutty Theme.
Madness will also tour the UK later this year, playing 17 shows in December. Starting on December 1st at Bournemouth's Intl Centre, the band will play in the cities across the country, including Sheffield, Manchester, Belfast and Brighton. The tour will culminate with a performance at the Edinburgh Hogmanay on New Year's Eve.
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4. Total Madness Competition Postal Update
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Just a quick update regarding the Total Madness CD/DVD competition. The winners will be receiving their copies within the next few days. There has been a slight hold-up in receiving the respective copies due to the current postal problems in the UK. We now have these in our possession and they will be sent out this weekend.
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5. Chris Foreman: The Mad Hatter
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This bizarre story appeared in Dunstable Today following former Luton Town football manager Mike Newell being sacked by League Two strugglers Grimsby Town after a poor start to the season.
"The manager of Madness guitarist Chris Foreman was approached by the Hatters to get the musician – with a penchant for boaters – to wear a club hat on stage for their new tour. However, Foreman supports another team and the idea progressed no further.
Luton director Stephen Browne said: "A fan had written in. It was a sensible suggestion and would have been a bit of publicity but it didn't come to anything. He does have a team so therefore so if he was going to do it it would have been something from the team he supports. If you get emails and people have ideas you do like to try and act on them."
Source:
http://www.dunstabletoday.co.uk/luton-sport/Newell-sacked-by-Grimsby.5750293.jp
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6. Madness Central Updates: The Nutty Caption
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The Nutty Caption has once again been updated on Madness Central. This weeks 'victim' is Lee Thompson. The image was taken at the Troubadour, West Hollywood by photographer Annette Ovanessian.
You can enter your caption here:
http://www.madness-central.com/interactive/caption/caption.php
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7. One Step Beyond Reissue official release on Monday.
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For those who may have missed the news, the 30th Anniversary release of the bands first album, One Step Beyond, is due for official release on Monday 26th October. The album has been remastered with bonus tracks, videos, a John Peel session and liner notes by Irvine Welsh.
You can purchase this item and view full tracklisting details at the Official Madness shop:
http://www.recordstore.co.uk/madness/productdetail.jsp?productPK=unittest-9Of8TpzvIplss3zFqN3IEb-1
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8. Contacting Madness Central
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9. Newsletter Subscription Details.
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