Album review: Madness
With their first album in a decade, the one-time Nutty Boys seek to be taken seriously. A 10-minute title track recounts the social history of a corner of east London that is legally independent from its surroundings; clearly, we’re far from...
Wonderful
What relevance Madness will have in the days of market niches and digital simulcasts is debatable. Yet, it must be said that the seven-strong Camden Town gang have come back older, slightly more depressed and more or less musically intact. Even...
London Camden Electric Ballroom
The second song is called 'Embarrassment' . Now, in the normal critical scheme of things, this would provide the top and tail of the NME review of a gig by the reformed Madness . You don't have to be mad to work here, just desperate,...
