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Despite occasional sound problems Madness and Squeeze bring joy to the south coast. Review by Thomas H Green.

Lennon and McCartney go head-to-head yet again. Ram was McCartney’s second solo album, released in 1971, and is a prime example of how popular music, on its release, is adjudged by so many factors other than music. Macca was in disfavour in 1971, regarded, wrongly, as the man who broke up The Beatles and also as the politico-spiritual lightweight of the quartet (Ringo has always been given a pass on these matters!). 50 years later, disconnected from all such blather, Ram is a jolly thing, s...

Madness, who head to Sheffield Arena in December Throughout their five-decade career, Madness have had 10 UK top ten albums, 15 top ten singles and have won a multitude of awards including a prestigious Ivor Novello. They’ve performed on the top of Buckingham Palace as part of the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations and set the record for the biggest-ever audience for the BBC’s Live New Year’s Eve Broadcast - the most watched TV music event of 2018. Guests Squeeze formed in 1973, shortly after...

Madness: The Ladykillers Tour with guests Squeeze coming to Yorkshire British pop giants Madness with special guests Squeeze have announced a return to the road this year with The Ladykillers Tour – including Yorkshire dates. Promoted by SJM Concerts Saturday, 15th May 2021, 1:39 pm They play Sheffield Area on Saturday, December 4, then Leeds First Direct Arena on Friday, December 10. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 21, at 9.30am. Full UK tour list and tickets links below. BUY TICKETS: For t...

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 ...

The Commotions, Cole told Ross, started off trying to make music in the same vein as Scritti Politti or the Style Council. “I was just no good at it,” Cole admitted. “I definitely was trying to be a male Aretha Franklin.” The mind boggles. It was only when the band wrote Are You Ready to be Heartbroken in a day in the studio and realised it was much better than the song they had been working on for ages that they started to get a glimpse of what their first album, Rattlesnakes, coul...

Saxophonist’s career tested chaos theory We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Jim Bright Save Normal text size Advertisement “If you remove adversity, you remove ingenuity and creativity with it. There is no need to strive to make something beautiful or better if it already is,” writes Ilona Andrews in her novel Magic Binds. The novel is sometimes described as being urban fantasy. The recently published autobiography by Madn...