One of the funniest interviews I’ve seen, absolutely brilliant, pop up album cover, gymnastic outfit, listening to my own music, Paul Weller, Kylie, hilarious!
Ever since I saw one of the kids at junior high school (c. 1982) walking the hallway between classes with a canvas backpack, having written with a big black marker "MADNESS," I have enjoyed the band. At that time, without a hip sibling, one had to guess if it (Madness) was a band or a declaration, but it was common to write one's favorite band on your backpack in suburban California. I bought an American release, "Complete Madness" and have loved their music ever since.
These guys should be so proud 👏 of what a positive part of my youth they were aged 17 to now.... any time I need positivity and cheering up in this crazy world .... turn to any madness 🎵 🎶 song .... it doesn't matter... all Madness members should be proud of themselves for evermore.... Live long and prosper as my old Dad used to say
Keep writing ✍ and singing we need you.... you're London and the world through and through .... keep living and coming up with 💡 ideas you keep us real.... im sad Im also a big Slade fan and 1973 I would have been 13 and you and Slade got me through my teenage and University years
I just love how laid back and humble these two are... Suggs is there drinking casually and smoking and the other guy ( sorry his name escapes me) is just there munching =P xxx Chatting as if to a friend about how work is going xxx
I've already got that album. It includes all of their biggest hits in crystal clear remastered sound. What's not to like? Tou just can't beat listening to a bit of Madness.
Madness been a fan since one step beyond and seen them 20 times the best live band I have ever seen and Ive seen the Foo Fighters the Rolling Stones and still prefer to see Madness always a party
He does indeed. We've all had friends like that....someone with a dry humour and an often deliciously cynical slant, they start talking and you giggle before they get anywhere with it.
I never thought Madness's later, "serious" songs (eg Uncle Sam) were any good. "My Girl" and "Embarrassment" were serious song but they were balanced by the fun ones. They had the problem of many successful bands, how to replicate their initial success without being stuck in the past or moving into musical/image territory where they didn't belong.
I know what you're saying, but I wouldn't say Uncle Sam was a serious song. In fact, I think uncle sam is one of their most underrated songs.... it got their reggae/ska beat back (which had gone missing for a time). "I never knew your name" is one of my favourite of their serious sounds. It's so melancholic and so English. I think, us male of the species anyway, have all been there. Peace ✌
@@eddabbs8690 I agree. Uncle Sam is my favourite. No, wait... it's Yesterday's Men. Ah, no, it's One Step Beyond... No... Night Boat to Cairo... Baggy Trousers... Ah... and a few more to contemplate...
When Suggs said about we could of had couple of years off but they were told if you stop working now you won't work again or when Mike left said when Slade stopped touring America they lost their whole audience.......Come on other bands/artists took very long breaks then came back still having an audience like: Kate Bush, Dire Straits, Janet Jackson, etc
@@eddabbs8690 Yep you are very late to the party. lol You mean Dire Straits not Straights. 😂 Janet Who?(love your sarcasm) Madness could of still taken a break for a couple of years and come back with a new album and it be a success. But they waited till 1992 to do that as you know. Other stuff you know like Divine Madness was released and peaked at number 1 in the album charts. Madness then announced plans for a reunion concert, Madstock!, which was held at Finsbury Park, London on 8 and 9 August of that year. The original line-up reunited, performing together for the first time since Barson left the band in 1984. Over 75,000 fans attended the weekend festival, and the dancing of the crowd caused some nearby tower blocks to shake perceptibly as they resonated with the frequency of the music! Where you from?
@@mikekaraoke Hi fella, I'm from near to Birmingham England, but have lived in many parts of UK and Europe. I'm now settled in Finland with wife and children. How about you? Madness and the whole 2 tone ska revival came about during my last year in high school. I'd kind of had the initial ska / rocksteady thing first time around through my older brothers and sisters. That and the whole original skinhead reggae vibe (before it became oi and racism infiltrated the whole scene). I was pretty young at the time but the music became ingrained (Dave and Ansil Collins, Harry J All Stars and the like). So I was really into the revival that broke out in 79 and was at the perfect age to live it. I think what Suggs meant, even if he didn't say it, was that the record industry was very different then. As soon as record sales dipped, the labels would put more and more pressure on artists and then drop them very quickly if things didn't improve. So a break would have been out of the question for a band like madness whose appeal had started to wane a bit, and their music, for me, had lost its ska reggae vibe. They came back big time with Madstock and everything that followed and thank god they did. I think by then that nostalgia had entered the equation, and everyone was glad to see them back. Some of their later stuff has been fantastic. Kate Bush has always done what she wanted when she wanted, but she is a genre all of her own. Dire Straits are essentially a blues rock outfit, and that market is very different to the market Madness were operating in. That leaves us with Janet Who? 🤣 Peace ✌
Mmmmm ..I thought Woddy and Bedders weren't consulted and kept out of the loop. And Suggs Kix Chas and Chrissy boy went on to form ther own band . Don't think Woody and Bedders were treated the best. In reality when Barson left Madness completely lost ther way.... In my opinion. Madness are a one entity and now with Chas out ther is a massive whole in the band. All for one one for all. Come on Carl come back home
you threw off the Happy and lost your way....of course the music industry only paid attention to you when you got depressing which matches their view of the world (and that involves all suffering and victims)
Really good interview. Don't think I've ever seen Suggs and Mike so relaxed and open in an interview.
A great interview and Madness still making music some 40+ years later. Suggs was class when presenting Disappearing London.
We miss chas smash,please bring him back, i want to see the magnificent seven.
Suggs has an amazing voice xx that beautiful Southern drawl xxxx
I agree ☝️
Suggs was great in Back To The Future.
"What you looking at butthead!"
Classic.
😂😂😂
I've seen Madness and I've seen Paul Weller. Both totally different but both well worth seeing.
One of the funniest interviews I’ve seen, absolutely brilliant, pop up album cover, gymnastic outfit, listening to my own music, Paul Weller, Kylie, hilarious!
Brilliant Interview.
El loco mike Barson is the boss🤟🎹 greetings from Argentina
Ever since I saw one of the kids at junior high school (c. 1982) walking the hallway between classes with a canvas backpack, having written with a big black marker "MADNESS," I have enjoyed the band. At that time, without a hip sibling, one had to guess if it (Madness) was a band or a declaration, but it was common to write one's favorite band on your backpack in suburban California. I bought an American release, "Complete Madness" and have loved their music ever since.
These guys should be so proud 👏 of what a positive part of my youth they were aged 17 to now.... any time I need positivity and cheering up in this crazy world .... turn to any madness 🎵 🎶 song .... it doesn't matter... all Madness members should be proud of themselves for evermore.... Live long and prosper as my old Dad used to say
Keep writing ✍ and singing we need you.... you're London and the world through and through .... keep living and coming up with 💡 ideas you keep us real.... im sad Im also a big Slade fan and 1973 I would have been 13 and you and Slade got me through my teenage and University years
Both a Class act... Great band!
Barson goes off in one and suggs starts cracking up,BRILLIANT.
I just love how laid back and humble these two are... Suggs is there drinking casually and smoking and the other guy ( sorry his name escapes me) is just there munching =P xxx Chatting as if to a friend about how work is going xxx
His name is literally in the description of the clip you watched 😂
Suggs and Barzo...top lads 👍
Love gorgeous suggs xxxx
I love how barson cracks up suggs.good team.
Well that worked a treat lads, I have just ordered the album from that prime place.
Hermosa entrevista!!!!
40 odd years , well done guys .
I've already got that album. It includes all of their biggest hits in crystal clear remastered sound. What's not to like? Tou just can't beat listening to a bit of Madness.
Get chas smash back for 2019 the 40 the anniversary of band
Madness been a fan since one step beyond and seen them 20 times the best live band I have ever seen and Ive seen the Foo Fighters the Rolling Stones and still prefer to see Madness always a party
Suggs finds Mike very funny.
He does indeed. We've all had friends like that....someone with a dry humour and an often deliciously cynical slant, they start talking and you giggle before they get anywhere with it.
You can see with Mike that there's a huge amount going on it that brain.
how proper honest human spirit n all that
I hope when I'm their age I'll still be laughing with my friends from these days like this
suggs is pissed brilliant....
Not really. He sounds like it's the day after though.
great interview!
do the dublin castle again
They were equal parts but I always felt Mike was more ‘equal’ than any of the others.
Yes please.....brimg Carl back.....i miss him ....and its Just a shame....the band Need him as much as he nerds them......
I never thought Madness's later, "serious" songs (eg Uncle Sam) were any good. "My Girl" and "Embarrassment" were serious song but they were balanced by the fun ones. They had the problem of many successful bands, how to replicate their initial success without being stuck in the past or moving into musical/image territory where they didn't belong.
I know what you're saying, but I wouldn't say Uncle Sam was a serious song. In fact, I think uncle sam is one of their most underrated songs.... it got their reggae/ska beat back (which had gone missing for a time).
"I never knew your name" is one of my favourite of their serious sounds.
It's so melancholic and so English. I think, us male of the species anyway, have all been there.
Peace ✌
@@eddabbs8690 I agree. Uncle Sam is my favourite. No, wait... it's Yesterday's Men. Ah, no, it's One Step Beyond... No... Night Boat to Cairo... Baggy Trousers... Ah... and a few more to contemplate...
Suggsy smokes the same roll-ups as my old man used to, licorice papers and everything!
"It's not all about the sales. But buy it!" Suggs' humour rules.
My old girlfriend Jennie was so in love with Suggs in the eighties
I m a great Paul Weller fan but wow these guys just crack me up, entertainers they be!
Mike isn’t knocking Weller, in fact he and the rest of the band are big fans of him. Paul W just needs to loosen up at times.
I love their music, always have (I'm 48 now) ... and.... I think Suggs is sexy, really... Don't know what it is... 😊
I WANT THAT TEESHIRT!! :)
Mike is hilarious when he goes off on one about other bands & singers.
When Suggs said about we could of had couple of years off but they were told if you stop working now you won't work again or when Mike left said when Slade stopped touring America they lost their whole audience.......Come on other bands/artists took very long breaks then came back still having an audience like: Kate Bush, Dire Straits, Janet Jackson, etc
Sorry I'm two years late with a reply.
Madness are not Dire Straights, Kate Bush or Janet Who? though. Are they?
@@eddabbs8690 Yep you are very late to the party. lol
You mean Dire Straits not Straights. 😂
Janet Who?(love your sarcasm)
Madness could of still taken a break for a couple of years and come back with a new album and it be a success.
But they waited till 1992 to do that as you know. Other stuff you know like Divine Madness was released and peaked at number 1 in the album charts. Madness then announced plans for a reunion concert, Madstock!, which was held at Finsbury Park, London on 8 and 9 August of that year. The original line-up reunited, performing together for the first time since Barson left the band in 1984. Over 75,000 fans attended the weekend festival, and the dancing of the crowd caused some nearby tower blocks to shake perceptibly as they resonated with the frequency of the music!
Where you from?
@@mikekaraoke
Hi fella, I'm from near to Birmingham England, but have lived in many parts of UK and Europe. I'm now settled in Finland with wife and children. How about you?
Madness and the whole 2 tone ska revival came about during my last year in high school. I'd kind of had the initial ska / rocksteady thing first time around through my older brothers and sisters. That and the whole original skinhead reggae vibe (before it became oi and racism infiltrated the whole scene). I was pretty young at the time but the music became ingrained (Dave and Ansil Collins, Harry J All Stars and the like). So I was really into the revival that broke out in 79 and was at the perfect age to live it.
I think what Suggs meant, even if he didn't say it, was that the record industry was very different then. As soon as record sales dipped, the labels would put more and more pressure on artists and then drop them very quickly if things didn't improve. So a break would have been out of the question for a band like madness whose appeal had started to wane a bit, and their music, for me, had lost its ska reggae vibe.
They came back big time with Madstock and everything that followed and thank god they did. I think by then that nostalgia had entered the equation, and everyone was glad to see them back. Some of their later stuff has been fantastic.
Kate Bush has always done what she wanted when she wanted, but she is a genre all of her own. Dire Straits are essentially a blues rock outfit, and that market is very different to the market Madness were operating in. That leaves us with Janet Who? 🤣
Peace ✌
Great band shit T-shirt . Happy days
Amen to that shite t-shirt supporting that clown mate. Each to their own eh. 🇬🇧🍻
Suggs rolls his own smokes.cool.
Barson is still a right sort!
I' m italian And i don't understand any words that they sad, But i laugh a Lot.
Mike is a natural comedian lol He had suggs in stitchesslok
Best band ever , off there nuts 🥜
Mmmmm ..I thought Woddy and Bedders weren't consulted and kept out of the loop. And Suggs Kix Chas and Chrissy boy went on to form ther own band . Don't think Woody and Bedders were treated the best. In reality when Barson left Madness completely lost ther way.... In my opinion. Madness are a one entity and now with Chas out ther is a massive whole in the band. All for one one for all. Come on Carl come back home
For 2019 I'd like to see them redo their first album how they'd do it now with them been older, but make it whacky still
I reckon thy should re do the first videos
Real people that i waz brought up with, and stayed mates with ...before we was we...i waz them.
Suggs using roll ups, times must be 'ard😜
Madness = posh lads on council estate safari
you threw off the Happy and lost your way....of course the music industry only paid attention to you when you got depressing which matches their view of the world (and that involves all suffering and victims)
manuelkong10 great comment, very true