Madness Information Service Online Newsletter Issue Number: 787 – Sunday 8th June to Saturday 14th June 2014
Hello, and a very warm welcome to this latest issue of the MIS Online bulletin.
This week we bring you news of a Madness themed World Cup competition, report on Suggs’ support of the Specialized Mad Not Cancer album, and announce the winner of our recent Suggs Selection competition.
Alongside that we have our usual listing of forthcoming gigs, links to recent Madness related news articles, reveal what you should be spending your hard earned money on, and much, much more.
So, sit back and enjoy the read,
Jonathan Young, Rob Hazelby, Simon Roberts, Paul Williams
SHOWTIMES
See below for all forthcoming Madness and Madness related gigs and events. If there’s something we’ve missed off or you feel should be added then please let us know.
Madness
June 2014
June 27th Jiwapop Festival, Montcada, Barcelona, Spain http://www.jiwapop.com/
June 28th, Night in the Park, Den Haagm Netherlands, http://www.nightatthepark.nl/
June 29th, Tivoli Utrecht, Netherlands http://tivoli.nl/
July 2014
July 3rd, Vienna Arena, Austria
July 31st – 3rd August, Reggae Sun Festival, Bordeaux, France
August 2014
August 2nd, Suikerrock, Belgium
August 12th Mallorca Rocks
August 13th Ibiza Rocks
August 18th, Kubana Festival, Krasnodar, Vesolovka
November 2014
November 21st – 24th 2014 – Minehead – Earlybird tickets can be ordered here: http://www.bigweekends.com/splash-pages/madness2014.aspx
December 2014
All for the M.A.D.H.E.A.D Tour
Thursday 4th, Capital FM Arena, Nottingham
Friday 5th, Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff
Saturday 6th, Brighton Centre, Brighton, Matinee
Saturday 6th, Brighton Centre, Brighton * SOLD OUT *
Monday 8th, Plymouth Pavillions, Plymouth
Tuesday 9th, Bournemouth International Centre, Bournemouth Thursday 11th, First Direct Arena, Leeds
Friday 12th, Newcastle Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle
Saturday 13th, LG Arena, The NEC, Birmingham
Monday 15th, Odyssey Arena, Belfast
Tuesday 16th, The O2 Dublin, Dublin
Thursday 18th, The SSE Hydro, Glasgow
Friday 19th, Phones 4u Arena, Manchester
Saturday 20th, The O2 Arena, London
Links to purchase tickets for the above tour can be found at: http://madness.seetickets.com/tour/madness/?pre=premad&src=madnesspre
For tickets also see links via: www.madness.co.uk
Suggs Live
No further gigs planned at present
The Magic Brothers
Magic Brother Friday Headline set:
November 14th. The Big One 3. Park Dean, Sandford Dorset.
The Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra
June 2014
June 29th Glastonbury Festival
July 2014
July 12th Lewisham’s People Day – Free!
July18th Brixton Jamm, London. Tickets from Skiddle.com
July 26th Wickerman Festival
August 2014
(Unconfirmed) August 16th, Newham, Under The Stars – Free!
August 31st, The Big Feastival, Alex James’ Farm, Cotswolds
October 2014
October 2nd, The Jazz Café, Camden Town
More festival dates to follow.
Ska Orchestra web site: www.ltso.mis-online.net
The Lee Thompson Ska Band
An appearance at the Boom town festival, Hampshire’s pop up city four day event begins on August 7th into the weekend.
Chinatown district is full of Ska and more bands this year, but we can confirm that this won’t be playing host to the Ska Orchestra
http://www.boomtownfair.co.uk/news/chinatown-district-line-up-released-199
The Silencerz (Featuring Lee Thompson)
June 2014
*** New *** Lee Thompson closes the Barnet Music Festival on Sunday July 6th, at The Builders Arms
June 15th – Dublin Castle. 1.30pm £7 on the door.
November 2014
16th November – Confirmed in the Sunday Lineup of bands at Specialized The Big One 3. In Dorset.
Lee will be doing a photo signing session too.
(Under a new name, The Daley fronted Lee Thompson band line up)
Near Jazz Experience
No further gigs planned at present.
Deaf School
August
9th, The Islington, North London
10th, Rebellion Festival, Blackpool
For details of future gigs keep an eye on http://deafschoolmusic.com for more information.
Clangeratti
June 19th. Dublin Castle – Clive Langer’s new band featuring members of Deaf School.
BUY IT
If money’s currently burning a hole in your pocket then perhaps we can help with your dilemma.
Gorgeous George – Girl’s Night Out Single
Out on now. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Girls-Night-Out-Gorgeous-George/dp/B00K8I9PYG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1399747064&sr=8-2&keywords=gorgeous+george+girls+night+out on Beer Belly Records.
LTSO, Bangarang, Featuring Dawn Penn & Sharon Shannon
Out now.
itunes http://tinyurl.com/p2bquak
Amazon http://tinyurl.com/pwg6du2
Check out the Bangarang-Anim-ad here… http://youtu.be/YCSM9eTe08k
Let’s Skank For England – Specialized World Cup Single. Mr Scurf’s Koast Train Crew team up with Andy Keys Clark.
The new unofficial England World Cup 2014 Skanthem “Let’s Skank For England” is now available to buy. The Specialized track has been composed to help raise money for The Teenage Cancer Trust … Special thanks to Paul Willo … available at iTunes, CDbaby … Please share & let’s get the word out there together!!
https://www.facebook.com/skaforengland
The Suggs Selection.
The new Suggs release we told you about recently, turn out to in fact be predominantly a chosen selection of his favourite all time music.
It features one Madness track It must be love, and one solo track – So Tired. Alongside one self produced track The Farm’s – Stepping Stone.
The rest of the 60 track 3cd is his own personal music joys.
Signed copies are available from record store.
http://www.recordstore.co.uk/recordstore/Signed/The-Suggs-Selection-Signed/3C6C02BP000
Tracklisting
Disc 1
1. The Upsetters – Return of Django
2. The Jam – Beat Surrender
3. Freda Payne – Band Of Gold
4. Stevie Wonder – Uptight (Everything’s Alright)
5. The Miracles – Going To A Go-Go
6. John Lennon – Stand By Me
7. Faces – Stay With Me
8. The Kinks – Victoria
9. The Specials – Do Nothing
10. Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Israelites
11. Toots & The Maytals – 54 – 46 Was My Number
12. Harry J Allstars – Liquidator
13. The Skatalites – Guns of Navarone
14. Sly & The Family Stone – Family Affair
15. Betty Wright – Clean Up Woman
16. Ritchie Valens – La Bamba
17. Candi Staton – Young Hearts Run Free
18. The Temptations – Ball of Confusion (That’s What The World Is Today)
19. Junior Murvin – Police & Thieves
20. Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)
Disc 2
1. The Who – I Can’t Explain
2. Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)?
3. Dexys Midnight Runners – Geno
4. Booker T. & The MG’s – Green Onions
5. The Beat – Mirror in the Bathroom
6. The Selecter – The Selecter
7. Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Watching The Detectives
8. Bobby Womack & Peace – Across 110th Street
9. James Brown – I Got You (I Feel Good)
10. Echo And The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon
11. Happy Mondays – Loose Fit
12. Bad Manners – Lip Up Fatty
13. Lou Reed – Vicious
14. Dandy Livingstone – Rudy, A Message to You
15. The Ethiopians – Train to Skaville
16. Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers – Egyptian Reggae
17. Max Romeo & The Upsetters – Chase The Devil
18. Georgie Fame and The Blue Frames – Yeh, Yeh
19. Ray Charles – What’d I Say
20. Etta James – At Last
Disc 3
1. Massive Attack – Teardrop
2. Primal Scream – Loaded
3. The Farm – Stepping Stone
4. Teardrop Explosions – Reward
5. The Cure – Close To Me
6. Deaf School – What A Way To End It All
7. Suggs – So Tired
8. Ian Dury & the Blockheads – Sweet Gene Vincent
9. Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel
10. The Pioneers – Long Shot Kick De Bucket
11. John Holt – Help Me Make it Through the Night
12. Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band – Express Yourself
13. Jean Knight – Mr. Big Stuff
14. Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – I’m Ready For Love
15. Womack & Womack – Teardrops
16. The Coasters – Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)
17. Ken Boothe – Everything I Own
18. Susan Cadogan – Hurt So Good
19. Jimmy Cliff – Many Rivers To Cross
20. Madness – It Must Be Love
SIGN OF THE TIMES
A collection of articles that have caught our eye over the course of the past week or so.
Madness Frontman Suggs: Baggy Trousers is my Pension
Source: The Telegraph web site
Fame & Fortune: Madness frontman Suggs talks of how some hits have a life of their own – even if the royalties have to be split seven ways
Suggs: I’ve Lived in the Same House For 35 Years
The Madness singer has disclosed that he still lives with his wife Anne in the “modest” family home he bought 35 years ago.
Source: The Telegraph web site
Wilko Johnson Recovering After Nine-Hour Operation
Legendary guitarist Wilko Johnson is now recovering at home after a nine-hour cancer operation.
Source: www.rte.ie
SPECIALIZED – SUGGS SUPPORTS
With the album nearly due, Suggs himself sends out the message here. Buy Specialized.
Many, many thanks to Mr Graham McPherson for taking the time to help us with this enthusiastic message of support for the Specialized Mad Not Cancer Album. The Pre Order Link is coming very soon.
Meanwhile. The first prize giveaway of Suggs’ new album The Suggs Selection, is complete.
Congratulations to Sean Gaskin for winning the Specialized Suggs Selection Competition.
There will be a couple more albums giving away soon, in ATM’s World Cup competition and in MIS’s Mad Chart readers voting soon.
Jonathan Young
I REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN
This week, MIS co-editor Rob Hazelby, goes back in time to report on what was going on in the world of Madness 5 years, 10 and 15 years ago this week.
5 years ago…
Issue 527 – Sunday 7th June to Saturday 13th June 2009
Following Madness’ recent performance at the Pinkpop festival, which took place between the 30th of May and the 1st of June, we had links to the entire concert, specific songs (if you’d rather skip to a particular track), and an interview with the one and only Suggs.
The audio and video quality was great, and for the vast majority of us who were unable to get along to the event, it was a fantastic way to see just what we’d missed without having to miss out.
Following that, the band continued to work through an extremely hectic schedule. On Tuesday Suggs appeared on the Five Live radio network, taking part in a short interview for the station, then on the 4th of June the band played at The Newbury Racecourse.
The following day the band flew to Berlin, where they played a full gig at Zitadelle Spandau, and then on the 9th they’d be off to Portugal for Lisbon Calling.
These gigs were only the tip of the iceberg, in what was going to be an extremely busy couple of months touring for the band. It would be pretty unlikely that any of us on the MIS team or you, the readers, were going to be able to get along to all of these performances, so we urged you to keep subscribed and reading, and we promised to do our best to give you the lowdown on just what went on at these events.
On to the articles, and we had a packed selection for you. We began with a transcript of the Newbury Racecourse programme, featuring Madness. “Loud, Manic and Surreal” were how the organizers were describing the band’s Party in the Paddock, coming this summer.
Paul Rodgers took time out of his busy schedule to give us an update on, as he called it, “The Folgate Success Story”, as he reported that the album was more than halfway towards silver status in the UK.
Following Suggs’ recent appearance on Five Live, Owen the Nutter had been busy transcribing the whole thing, and was kind enough to submit it to the MIS for publication in this very issue.
Suggs discussed many things in the interview, including how he’d been compared to Status Quo and Tom Jones!
We moved on to German Folgate reviews next, as Pete On The Beat from the Madness Central Forum had been kind enough to translate and transcribe a review from Rolling Stone, where the magazine had given the album a very favourable 4 out of 5.
Next, we reported that we’d been contacted by Mark over at Cancer Research, who emailed in to tell us that there were still tickets left for the Busking for Cancer lunch, which featured Suggs and a number of other band members.
At the time the original article appeared in the MIS, the band had been around for a good 30 years, and while many other bands had also been around for as long as them they’d been blessed with a legendary Brit Award. It would seem that North London’s finest had sadly been neglected.
Campaigns had come and gone over the years, so it came as no surprise to us when we learned that a brand new campaign had gone live, and this time it was via Facebook.
This week you were all invited to a wedding. Yes. Seriously. MadGirlAllie and OnTheBeatPete of the Madness Central forum were about to get married and they wanted you to join them in a drink or three to help them celebrate their big day.
We brought this issue to a close with the news that subscriber Vicki Lee had attended the Madness gigs in Zitadelle Spandau Berlin, and had been kind enough to send in a full tracklisting. What’s more was that she promised to send in a full review shortly.
10 years ago…
Issue 265 – Sunday 6th June – Saturday 12th June 2004
We started off this issue with an article by recent M.O.T convert, Celia Moore, who was kind enough to give us all the lowdown of the lads’ most recent performance down at the famous Bull and Gate.
It certainly sounded like she (and everyone else present) had a fantastic night, but there was complaint – the band weren’t on for long enough, as they only got to do a mere 30 minutes!
Here’s what she had to say at the time;
“The crowd was great and were disappointed when MOT came off stage after such a short time. Their set mix of ‘old’ and new songs is brilliant, `Tell Me` is a new and very moving song – for young lads they write with great insight, and following in the footsteps of Madness, each one of their songs has a meaning”.
Back to Madness, and news reached us, courtesy of Metro gossip columnist Neil Sean. We’re not sure how Neil obtained this information, but one Chris Carter-Pegg was quick to ensure we all took this with a pinch of salt, offering the following words of wisdom;
“Personally speaking as the musical hasn’t even yet toured the UK, I’m a bit surprised that it would be heading first for the US, but you never know. On the basis that his column is generally just a plethora of rumours, I wouldn’t rely too heavily on this news just yet”.
A decade on, and Chris has yet to be proven wrong on this!
We all know that Suggs is a man of many talents, and always seems keen to try new things. So when we learned that he’d be Djing on Virgin Radio there was a certain amount of excitement amongst the Madness fanbase.
So, how did he get on presenting his first show? Here’s what Steve Bringe reported back with at the time;
“I’m listening in on Suggs via webcast and the first impression is, “He’s not doing too bad.”
I’d heard him dj’ing a few other radio shows, like the Stiff Story a year or so ago, and I wasn’t too impressed with his hosting style.
He seemed a bit stiff and forced previously.
The Mighty Man is much more relaxed in this format (Virgin Party Classics), and it shows in both his cadence and in the tunes he’s choosing. It seems like he knows he’s in familiar territory”.
In a lengthy piece of research one Jonathan Young investigated a set of Russian bootleg Madness flexi vinyls that were doing the rounds in the usual places.
The items were certainly curiosity pieces, but as to whether they were worth adding to your collection, only you could answer that one.
With that lot out of the way, we finished this issue with an amusing question and answer session between MIS subscriber Graham Wardlaw and a certain Chris Foreman.
15 years ago…
Issue 3 – Sunday 6th June – Saturday 12th June 1999
Three issues in, and I was obviously confident that the bulletin was going to be around for a while, as at the very top of the issue were the words “website coming soon – watch this space”. Part of the reason for this was a certain feeling of confidence as the emails of support for the service the MIS was trying deliver continued to come in.
On the subject of emails, I’d been receiving a fair number from fans asking “Robert, what were the US shows like? What new songs were played, and were they any good?”. I’d been planning to produce a write up of each show, but was beaten to it by Total Madness Mailing List maintainer, Jenny Payne, who had already produced a massive gig by gig lowdown.
Moving on, and we had news revealing that thanks to Lars of the ‘Madness Site of Hope and Glory’ web site, Windows users could download and install two Madness themes on to their PCs. The themes didn’t provide a complete re-skinning of your system, but did come with new backdrops and sets of sound samples to annoy those sitting close by you with.
Elsewhere, and for those who weren’t able to attend the recent Stateside shows and hear the new tracks, all was not lost. Thanks to the efforts of Steve Bringe and Alan Redpath, we were promised that there would soon be a selection of samples taken from short segments of each tune.
Rob Hazelby
MIS EXCLUSIVE – THE HARP STRINGS OF CATHAL MO CHROI
This week we had the pleasure of talking to Angelina Warburton, a harp player from The North Of England. She is one of the musicians who were backing up Cathal Mo Chroi at his first concert last year at The Number 6 festival in Picturesque Portmeirion,
She’s kindly expanded her blog entry on the event for our additional reading pleasure. So read on now and hear a bit more about that gig we’ve heard only a little of up until now, what it was like to play that concert, and also how the hell you get a harp to Wales and back!! Here’s Angelina.
“Between the 12th and 15th September I was in Portmeirion playing for Festival Number Six. This was a real experience and, considering I hesitated a little when originally asked to do it – I’m so glad I did.
The first day was chaos. There’s no other way to describe it. I thought I’d be clever and set off super early to allow for ‘getting lost’ time once we’d arrived. I was giving a lift to horn player Joel Roberts – hi Joel! – and we set off around 8am. The postcode we’d been sent to was an empty business park (later we realised it was only empty because we were so wonderfully early) – so we drove on to the main festival site – which I later realised I wasn’t allowed to drive on to … naughty me.
Anyway, fast forward about an hour of wondering if we’re in the right place we’d managed to find the Cassia String Quartet, fresh from driving up from the South of France, as well as our artist wristband.
KEEP MOVING THE HARP…
After being given wristbands I was told there was no way I was getting my car on to the Festival site to drop off the harp. Just no way. They offered to take it by golf buggy – I politely declined. I ended up having to put my harp into a Volvo four by four. I couldn’t believe it fit! The driver of the Volvo – Sid – was lovely and said they were there to give lifts to the artists when we needed them. I think he somewhat underestimated how busy they were going to be over the next few days as I was only able to use a Volvo at the beginning and the end of the Festival. (Getting the harp out again was equally a burden, I left my car on the football field. – unfortunately due to the crazy weather this field turned into a muddy mess – it took me ages to get my car off the mud and onto the safety of an actual road. Getting off the field involved taking a ‘run up’ to the curb in order to get up the muddy slope and onto tarmac, not so easy with a weighty harp onboard. There were three Welsh car park attendants egging me on telling me to go faster – I was so not in the mood for that.)
My harp’s home during the festival was the Town Hall. It wasn’t until later that evening that we (the ensemble) found our home for the weekend. ‘Artist Camping’ – when we eventually found it, was about 15 minutes walk from the main village, and completely devoid of showers/toilets. Not to be deterred though, we set up our tents in some sort of circle – some quicker than others. Joel had the unpleasant experience of a drunk festival-goer tumbling into his tent in the middle of the night, who somehow managed to crawl in between the inner and outer part of the tent… how? I have no idea.
So the camping part of the trip was cold. I won’t lie. It was cold, windy and damp, but I had my inflatable mattress and memory foam pillow, as well as lots of layers for the night. The weather got progressively worse as the weekend went on (Saturday – lovely then rain, Sunday – rain and so windy I saw three tents blow away).
IN CONCERT…
The playing part of the weekend was great. The Cassia Quartet, formed of Amy, Tori, Laurie and Josh, as well as horn player Joel and percussionists Delia and Graham, along with myself we formed the Festival Number 6 Ensemble directed by Joe Duddell:
The ensemble was to accompany a few different acts during the festival. Daughter, Jackie Oates, and Cathal Mo Chroi (aka Chas Smash from Madness).
Working with Cathal was certainly fun. He did a set of six songs:
Love Songs No. 9 and 7
A Comfortable Man
Do you Believe in Love?
Goodbye Planet Earth
The Wren’s Burial
The harp was needed for everything, yay!
There’s also a youtube video of my favourite, which can be found here.
I remember during one of the breaks, Cathal met up with us in the cafe and showed us some poetry he’d written and recorded – very amusing and well written (and naughtily rude). The gig was emotional and afterwards Cathal was very pleased with how the short set had gone.
The overall vibe I got from working with Cathal is that he’s very chilled out, and definitely doesn’t take himself too seriously. It’s so nice when the people you’re playing for actually make the effort to hang out and talk to you backstage. It doesn’t happen all that often.
Playing with Daughter was amazing as well – not only were they incredibly professional, punctual and efficient in setting up all their equipment – they also had a pleasing attention to detail in rehearsals. As well as that, they are absolutely lovely people, a real pleasure to work with.
The Daughter gig was on the Saturday night, which was followed by some drinks and dancing – loads of fun. On Sunday the weather turned really nasty. I was so worried my tent was going to blow away – I actually saw several tents blow over in the wind. It turned out that I wasn’t actually needed for any rehearsals or sets that day so I set about trying to take down the tent and pack all my things. By some miracle I was allowed to bring my car back on to the festival site to pick up my harp. Hurray!
The first night back in my own bed again in Manchester was amazing! I think my harp was very happy to be back – I’d [booked] it in for a service the following day as a much needed treat.
So, lots of good things from the Festival, fun music, lovely people in the bands and the ensemble – but the weather could have been better/less muddy. Definitely an experience I’ll remember.
Angelina Warburton
MIS FEATURE – THE MAD HEADER! (Prizes to be Won)
“The Mad Header!”
You join us here again as the 2014 World Cup is about to take place. Yes, It’s time again to ask the question, “What’s the best Mad album?”
Last held in 2006 at MIS headquarters, “Absolutely” took the world cup top spot as The champion Number 1 Madness album voted by online fans.. After a tense series of head to head voted matches, the final game news was here…
http://www.robomod.net/pipermail/madness/2006-July/000346.html
Now, in 2014, we are mad heading over to the twelve and a half thousand seater ATM Grand Stand Stadium. “All Things Madness” are hosting this year’s event, with prizes.
The Mad Header! – The 2014 Mad Album’s World Cup. – For Specialized: Mad Not Cancer.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/249838181711283/
With two more celebrated Madness albums out since the last time this world cup took place, who will take the cup in this competition?
While the real world Brazil competition for the football takes place over 32 days, (From June 12th to July 13th) “All Things Madness” will be riding alongside with 32 days of Head to Head Madhead album voting on the top Madness albums.
THE TEAMS
One Step Beyond, Absolutely, Seven, Presents Rise and Fall, Keep Moving, Mad not Mad, Wonderful, The Liberty Of Norton Folgate, Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da, The Dangermen Sessions, The Madness, & Suggs – The Lone Ranger, Suggs – Three Pyramids Club, LTSO – The Benevolence of Sister Mary Ignatius, Magic Brothers – The Magic Line, Crunch! – The Nutty Boys
16 teams this time around are in the running, while some plucky underdogs perhaps have little chance at the title, early classic line ups face off again the familiar in recent memory releases to see what rankings can be achieved. Various compilation teams have failed to qualify.
THE COMPETITION
16 Albums. 12 Head to Head Matches.
The Draw will take place out of a hat into 4 groups of 4. A B C D. Four group matches are voted. Top Two of each group going through. Four Quarter Finals follow. Two Tight Semi’s. Before The Final Match in July when two top heavy weight beloved Albums fight for the title of Best Mad Album. All voted for by you, in “All Things Madness” Pinned post of the day. (Additionally a third place play off will too be staged at competition end.)
PRIZES, SUPPORT & MATCH FEES
The MIS will keep you up to date on the game scores too, and this year a fabulous pitch load of prizes is up for grabs.
With our focus on Specialized for Teenage Cancer this year, we will be urging you to either. Pre-order/buy The Specialized – Mad Not Cancer Album. Or Buy the Let’s skank for England. Koast Train & AKC Football single. To enter the first rounds of the prize draw, though voting is free and open to all to take part. Or we will be asking you to just bung us a few quid in match fees sponsorship into the back of the net here, particularly in the finals when the prizes reach Trophy level.
https://www.justgiving.com/misthemadcharts
Each Match will have a prize draw, details on each match posted will be at “All Things Madness”, as the competition progresses. A Signed Suggs Book, Signed drum sticks by Woody, A vintage Madness football shirt, a copy of The Madness, Sealed Suggs Selection albums and German Madness CD’s
Some uniquely crafted Madness Clocks, Madness Football Stickers, brand new Crunch! and Magic Brothers shirts, even a CD promo fit for Father’s Day.
To all voters who take part in voting the best ever Mad album, many thanks from me, MIS and Specialized. Many thanks for the community for supporting this.
Let’s All Go Brazil Nuts! All for the Mad Header!
The draw is soon and the first match to vote in starts June 12th.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/249838181711283/
And our thanks to Referee Warren Moyle, and Lines Men Darren Jones and Alan Flynn & Geo Adam and Coaches Maria Ashe, Hazel Foster, Monika Cooper, Clare Marshall.
Jonathan F Young
PAUL RODGERS’ CHART STATS, FACTS & FIGURES
As it’s a chart I don’t often look at I don’t know when the Official Chart Company (OCC) updates their website for the various artist compilations albums chart I’ve started this article unsure whether it will have an ending or merely be a teaser for more next week.
You see the Suggs Collection has been doing rather well on Amazon and iTunes, backed as it is by a TV ad. Depending on how it has done at retail shops I would expect it to enter the compilations chart at number 5 or above.
Some of the charts update every week at 7pm, but some are not updated until Tuesday or Wednesday. The compilation albums chart is not one I ever look at, so I don’t know if it is a 7pm Sunday one or a Tuesday one!
This article is here and written but has no chart position yet. However there is no analysis to write as I wouldn’t compare it to the success (or otherwise) of Suggs’ two studio albums.
If it sells well next week’s Music Week will likely mention it in the sales analysis article that they usually issue on a Monday. So there might be more from me (stop booing at the front!) next week.
Right I can’t contribute any more as Bedders, my cat, likes to jump up on my desk when I am typing and sit on my hands.
STOP PRESS! The album has landed at a commendable number 8. This means that Suggs is slightly less popular than Eddie Stobart and slightly more popular than Summer Workout hits. It also suggests that Stobart should not attempt a compilation of workout songs for truck drivers!
Paul Rodgers
TIME…
We’re almost done for this week’s issue of the MIS, but before we go we do have a few final bits and pieces to pass your way.
First-up, and Quercus Books have been giving away paperback copies of Suggs’ Book, and, as a small extra thing, 100 limited edition bookmarks were also part of the giveaway.
Check out the photo using the link below;
https://twitter.com/QuercusBooks/status/473436451259314176/photo/1
Moving on…
28 Pictures Of Women From London’s Lost ’80s Subcultures
Anita Corbin spent 1980 and 1981 photographing women in London – she’s now trying to find out where they are.
Can anyone identify the two girls (Karyn and Sarah) in Nutty Boys T-Shirts infront of the British Museum? The photo’s at the above link. It would be interesting to know where they are now and if they are still fans!
And finally, don’t forget to take part in the Specialized ATM Madheader World Cup. Please visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/249838181711283/
Until next week, take care,
Jon Young, Rob Hazelby, Simon Roberts, Paul Williams
(With thanks to Duff Kelly and Paul Rodgers)
The Author
