Custom House Square, Belfast, UK
Custom House Square, Belfast, UK
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Madness are coming to Belfast & Galway
After scoring their first studio UK Official Charts No.1 album, Theatre Of The Absurd Presents C’est La Vie on Friday, one of the biggest and most loved British bands Madness, announce their ‘C’est La Vie’ summer tour.
As well as performing tracks from their brand-new UK Official Charts No.1 album Theatre Of The Absurd Presents C’est La Vie, Madness will also perform some of their greatest hits from a career spanning over four decades.
The governing principle behind Theatre Of the Absurd Presents C’Est La Vie, is: “let Madness be Madness”. The result is an album of typically timeless brilliance that also reflects the wonky years of its creation, these 14 songs representing the cream of the bumper crop of tunes the group cooked up, whittled down this punchy, focused set. There are moments of ineffably catchy pop excellence (drummer Daniel ‘Woody’ Woodgate’s beguiling, bittersweet carousel ‘Round We Go’, Chrissy-Boy’s anarchic anthem to perhaps-justified paranoia, ‘Run For Your Life’), lead single from the album ‘C’est La Vie’ reflects on the perils of everyday life while the album is bookended by two of Suggs’ finest compositions.
Talking about the album, Madness said “Well, well, well, here we are.. Our thirteenth album (lucky for some) “Well, well, well, here we are.. Our thirteenth album (lucky for some) Theatre Of the Absurd Presents C’Est La Vie is ready for your ears. For us, recording it was the perfect antidote to the chaos of the past few years – we were all there, properly in the zone. It was just us, in an industrial unit in Cricklewood, playing together. We loved it!”
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What a show! Beautiful weather, beautiful people, and to top it all, the best ska band the world has ever seen or heard. We danced and sang for one and a half hours to the rockiest rocksteady beat of Madness and the Lightning Seeds. Only one thing wrong—give us more merchandise at a good rate, LOL! Again, many thanks to Madness. It was my 57th time seeing this amazing, spectacular show, and probably one of the best yet. All I can say now is, can’t wait for the next show!