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Who needs punters? Madness on-stage at the London Palladium
Credit: Aron Klein
Playing a concert without an audience? That would be madness, surely? Please excuse the terrible pun, but it’s been a very long year. Since the pandemic shut down venues back in March 2020, music fans have had to rely on so called “livestreams” to provide a facsimile of the concert experience: shows filmed in socially distanced settings and broadcast over the internet.
There have been spectacular examples but even the best have suffered from an absence of human interaction, the crucial compact of communication between artists and audience that is arguably the essential element of the live experience. And for a knees-up, singalong party band as joyously personable as Madness, the prospect of performing to an empty room seems antithetical to their very nature.
Posted on Saturday, May 8th, 2021 by Christopher Stipp
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?
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Madness Suggs jokes he had to work at the tiny premiere of his own documentary
Madness star Suggs jokingly fumed that he had to work at the London premiere for the band s upcoming docuseries Before We Was We: Madness by Madness
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April 15, 2021, 8:02 pm
Suggs attending the premiere for the documentary Before We Was We: Madness By Madness at Odeon Cinema in London (Ian West/PA)
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Madness frontman Graham “Suggs” McPherson has lamented the loss of pubs in London and said the capital was “better” when he was young.
Speaking during the virtual premiere for a documentary charting the ska music pioneers’ rise to fame during the late 70s, the singer, who celebrated his 60th birthday in January, listed the rise of supermarket alcohol and mobile phones as factors that had led to the decline.