NEWS : Madness Matinee

Madness have added two lunchtime shows in December, the first will be in Southend on the 5th of December and the second will be in Newcastle on the 12th of December.

More information can be found at http://www.madness.co.uk/gigs/gigs.html

NEWS : Madness take over BBC FOUR

For those in the UK, Friday 2nd October, BBC FOUR will be airing several Madness related programmes, including footage from this year's Glastonbury Festival performance, the Madness documentary "Young Guns Go For It" and the beeb will also be airing the Julien Temple directed film "The Liberty Of Norton Folgate" for the first time on television.

The schedule will be (all times BST) :

9.00 pm - Madness at Glastonbury
10.00pm - Young Guns Go For It
10.40pm - The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
12.35am - Take It Or Leave It

The programmes will be repeated on Sunday from 22.50 BST, and will be available on iPlayer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/programmes/schedules/2009/10/02


Also on Friday, the band will appear on the Paul O'Grady show - from 5pm BST on Channel 4

NEWS : Madness December Dates

Madness have announced that they will play a run of UK shows this December

The confirmed dates are :

1st December - Bournemouth Intl Centre
2nd December - Brighton Centre
4th December - Plymouth Pavilions
5th December - Southend Cliffs Pavilion
7th December - Swindon Oasis
8th December - Leeds O2 Academy
9th December - Sheffield O2 Academy
10th December - Birmingham O2 Academy
12th December - Newcastle O2 Academy
13th December - Glasgow O2 Academy
15th December - Manchester Apollo


http://www.madness.co.uk/

NEW RELEASE : Madness - The Liberty Of Norton Folgate

Pencilled in for release 18th May, "The Liberty Of Norton Folgate", the first studio album release from Madness since 1999's "Wonderful".

The album comprises fourteen tracks of quintessential Madness; subversive, expansive British pop music at its finest as you would expect from one of the country's most successful and enduring bands.

For more information on the release and to pre-order follow the link here, there is also a Limited Edition Box Set version of the release here.



http://www.madness.co.uk/