The Madness Central Blog

The Official Madness website has announced yet another gig for this summer concert season. 28th May, 2010, will see Madness returning to France to play the Festival Papillons de Nuit (Moths Festival) in St-Laurent de Cuves, Normandy.

http://www.papillonsdenuit.com

Boasting three stages and 35 acts, this is one of the biggest annual musical festivals in France drawing other noteworthy bands like Gossip and Gogol Bordello this year.

Tickets purchased by May 23 are:

1 Day Ticket: 27€
3  Day Ticket: 59€

Tickets purchased from May 24 until the day of the show (including at the venue) are:

1 Day Ticket: 32€
3 Day Ticket: 69€

Tickets can be purchased through the official Festival Papillons de Nuit website:

http://www.papillonsdenuit.com/sommaire.htm

Anglo Hannah Management & Union Square Music Jointly Nominated

News out today that the 2009 marketing campaign in support of the band has been nominated for the newly created “Independent Artist Marketing” category as part of the Music Week Awards, which are due to take place at the London Hilton on Park Lane on Thursday 15th April 2010.

The nomination is jointly accredited to Anglo Hannah Management (who are behind the marketing of “The Liberty Of Norton Folgate”) and Union Square Music (who are behind the marketing of “Total Madness” and the back catalogue).

More information about the award nominees can be found if you click here

Our congratulations go to all at Anglo Hannah Management and Union Square Music.

Music Week is released weekly and is the UK’s music industry trade journal.

Band To Play Weston Park, Staffordshire on 21st August and Hylands Park, Chelmsford on 22nd August

In what is shaping up to be a busier summer for the band than last year, and following on from last weeks “T In The Park” announcement. It’s been confirmed on the V Festival official site today that Madness are to make an appearance at the festivals 15th anniversary.

The festival which sees bands playing two gigs over one weekend – one at each site (Hylands Park and Weston Park) on alternate nights, has grown to become one of the highlights of the summer alongside T In The Park and Glastonbury.

Also announced to appear are Kasabian (who like at T In The Park will headline the Madness gigs), Faithless, Pet Shop Boys, Cheryl Cole, Kings Of Leon (who headline the opposite night to Madness), Paolo Nutini, Paul Weller, The Prodigy and many more.

Tickets go on sale on Friday 5th March at 0900GMT from all the usual outlets (see the V Festival site for full details.

Be warned this one always sells out very fast so have your mouse poised on Friday morning to be in with a chance!!

It’s been bought to our attention today that Ticketmaster are advertising tickets for an appearance by the band at Newmarket Racecourse on Friday 6th August 2010. Indications are that tickets are due to go on sale here on Friday 26th February 2010.

At the time of going to press there has been no confirmation of this gig on either the official Madness site gig pages or the Newmarket Racecourse site so it’s probably worth checking before proceeding with booking tickets.

The band are of course no strangers to Newmarket having played there in both 2007 and 2008 – as well as making regular appearances at other racecourses across the UK in recent years.

We bought you news a while back of a show called Songs In The Key Of London at the Barbican Centre, London on 9th March 2010. The show a one-off “London themed” event to be hosted by Phil Daniels and has been put together by Chris Difford (of Squeeze fame) will feature Suggs and Mr Smash as well as the likes of Chris Difford, Glenn Tilbrook, Chaz Jankel, Andy Serkis, Blaine Harrison, Jools Holland, James Hunter, Mike Lindsay and Becky Jacobs (of Tunng), Natty, Rico Rodriguez, Kathryn Williams and more.

Madness Central have today been contacted by The Barbican Centre who tell us that tickets are still available and sent us an eFlyer for the show which can be found here

If you want tickets and more information about this event then click here – it promises to be a good night.

The dates just keep rolling in

In what is shaping up to be another very busy year for Madness on the gig front, the band have today been confirmed to appear at Scotland’s “T In The Park” festival by the band’s official website and Facebook page. According to the official site gig listings page the band are due to appear on Sunday 11th July 2010. Headliners for that night are confirmed as Kasabian.

Tickets for the festival go on sale on Friday 26th February here. Other acts confirmed to appear include Muse, Eminem, Black Eyed Peas. The Prodigy, Stereophonics.

“T In The Park” is Scotlands biggest summer music festival taking place over 3 nights (9th to 11th July this year) on a disused airfield at Balado in the Perth & Kinross area of Scotland. The festival has been running since 1994 and usually shares a very similar line up to Irelands Oxegen Festival which takes place the same weekend.

If you can’t wait for the UK release of the Absolutely and Seven 2 cd reissues from Union Square Music, word is in that both albums can be had at Amazon German and Amazon US.

Absolutely at Amazon.de

Absolutely at Amazon.com

Seven at Amazon.de

Seven at Amazon.com

The UK release of both reissues is April 12.

As reported last year on Madness Central, Union Square Music was constructing a site for the direct sales of USM releases to the public via their Salvo project.

http://www.salvo.dloadshop.com/index.asp

Steve Bunyan of Union Square Music had this to share with Madness Central concerning the recent launch of the Madness page on Salvo:

We’ve just soft launched the new site while we iron out any glitches and get the hang of running a shop. The aim is for all new release to be available at the same price and the same time online (Madness.co.uk, play, amazon, hmv, salvo etc). We will try and mail out our Madness database with each news story as it comes up so it’s worth people signing up on the Madness page although it’ll normally only be news about USM Madness releases that we’ll be first with.

The next installments from USM are the reissues of Seven and Absolutely set for release in the UK on April 12.

You can visit the Salvo Madness page directly at:

http://www.salvo.dloadshop.com/artists/artistmaintop.asp?MArID=63

Madness To Go On A Jolly Boys Outing To Margate

Along with the Epsom Racecourse gig already blogged here news reached us today from the official site and the official Facebook page of another UK gig at the Sound Island Festival, Quex Park, Margate on Saturday 24th July 2010.

Tickets priced at £36.85 (including booking fee) can be purchased here

Madness To Go Racing Again

News in today from the official site and also the official Facebook page that Madness are to play Epsom Racecourse on Thursday 29th July 2010 – for tickets call 0844 579 3004 or click here

The Epsom Racecourse site had this to say:

MADNESS TO PLAY EPSOM LIVE!
YOU’LL BE MAD TO MISS IT

The strongest ever line up for the Epsom Live! series comes to a grand finale with a live performance from Suggs and the boys from Madness who will be entertaining the crowds after racing at Epsom Downs Racecourse on Thursday 29th July. Epsom Live! has it all this year with pop, soul and indie performances from a host of top, chart topping bands and is set to end with an explosive and memorable performance by Madness.

The band is Britain’s most successful chart band in music history, having had 21 top-twenty singles in a seven year period from ’78-’86, and many more since (over 30 in total), which include ‘It Must Be Love’, ‘Embarrassment’, ‘Baggy Trousers’, ‘My Girl’ and ‘One Step Beyond’. Madness went on in 2009 to further release their critically acclaimed studio album ‘The Liberty of Norton Folgate’ last year.

Rupert Trevelyan, Managing Director for Epsom Downs Racecourse commented: “The line up for Epsom Live is now complete and we are really looking forward to staging such entertaining events in July. Our music evenings have proved hugely popular amongst both racing and music fans alike over the last few years and we believe 2010 offers the best line up yet. To avoid disappointment, make sure you book early as we are anticipating sell out crowds.”

http://www.epsomdowns.co.uk/Madness2010.ink