IN THIS ISSUE ...

1 - THE EDITOR SPEAKS - Latest news in brief.

2 - MADNESS LIVE - After a recent outing with his `Madness Live`
    volume 1 video, MIS Online subscriber, Dean makes a return with
    volumes 2 and 3! As with the first release, these two are ones
    you'd be mad to miss!

3 - DR. MARTENS BOOTS - THE CD - Once upon a time there was no Doctor
    Martens boot. The year was 1959 and Bill Haley had
    single-handedly transformed the music-cultural landscape of
    America. Then something happened. The year became 1960 and the
    Doctor Marten boot was born. Launched on the market originally
    as the workmen's boot, it was soon kidnapped by the restless
    youth looking for ways to express themselves.

4 - HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN PRESENTS... SKAFEST 2000 - Held over 3 days
    at The Empire Arena, Morcambe from Friday 16th to Sunday the 18th
    of June, this looks like being one of the biggest and best ska
    festivals of the year.

5 - NEWS FROM WWW.BLOCKHEADS.CO.UK - Here's some exclusive news, sent
    to me by "Mickey Gallagher", a Blockhead. MIS Online subscriber
    and Blockhead fansite maintainer, Wozza reports.

6 - GENTLEMEN PLEASE TIME - Thanks and closing words.

[1] - THE EDITOR SPEAKS

Evening Maddies!

I hope everyone has had a good week. From just one look at this
edition of the MIS, I'm sure it's obvious that news has certainly
not been hard to come by this week. There has been loads happening
over the past 7 days, and with the `Ian Dury Concert` and `Velvet
Ghost` events in the not-too-distant future, I think we'll be in for
a lively couple of weeks.

Fanzine news now, and Vince Carden has contacted me to say that
subscribers to Madness Unsugged will receive issue 4 in about two
weeks time. He apologises for the delay caused by an annoying
printing problem and says that if anybody wants to take out their
impatience and aggression on him, you can beat him up at either of
the forthcoming madmeets!!!

Just hold your horses. It'll be worth the wait - trust me! Thanks go
to Vince for keeping us all up-to-date. I'm sure Vince will be
treating us all to a free pint when he meets up with us for the Ian
Dury tribute bash. Ok, maybe not!

New just in from Jean-Pierre Boutellier of France's up the minute
`Ska News` who tells me that you can now access a Madness review and
a collection of rare photographs simply by visiting the Ska News
website. Just point your browser at:
http://perso.club-internet.fr/skanews/

Thanks go to Jean-Pierre for the info.

I'm sure many of you have noticed that the Official One Step Behind
website at www.onestepbehind.co.uk is very often not accessible, and
instead displays a `page not found message`. To make sure that you
can access all the latest information about one of the UK's finest
Madness tribute bands, the website has been moved back onto the same
server as the ill-update MIS Online website. You can now access the
One Step Behind site by simply clicking to:
http://www.jabba.demon.co.uk/osb/

Thanks to Brendan Phipps, you'll also find an up-to-date photo of the
band displaying all current members of the group. It's well worth a
look.

Alongside the Ian Dury tribute gig on Friday 16th of June, TMML
subscriber, Scatty has been beavering away organising additional
events of which, some have been listed in past editions of the MIS
Bulletins. If you're planning to come along to the show and would
like to come along to the pre and post-gig events as well, Scatty
tells us that it's your last chance to put your name down. If you're
interested, please drop Scatty a line at: p-scat at supanet.com

Still on the subject of `Madmeets`, Scatty and MIS subscriber, Vince
Foley are also organising a little get together on 10th June to
celebrate Mr Smash's appearance in London's Finsbury Park. For more
information, please get in touch with Scatty (address above) or Vince
Foley at: vjfmadness at yahoo.com

And with that, lets get on with this weeks collection of news
articles and announcements.

Enjoy the read!

All the best,

Robert Hazelby (MIS Online Editor)

[2] - MADNESS LIVE

After a recent outing with his `Madness Live` volume 1, and the number
of positive reviews I've received about the compilation. MIS Online
subscriber, Dean makes a pleasant return to the bulletin with the
exciting news that two more Madness tapes have been compiled and are
now ready for public release!!

Many famous TV appearances made by the boys over the years can be
found on these tapes, as well as promo videos of the excellent
`Lovestruck`, `Johnny The Horse` and the rarely seen `Drip Fed Fred`
shoot which I know many of you took part in.

For you Crunch fans out there, Dean has managed to get his mitts on
a 13 track live promo from a few years back which will surely bring
memories flooding back to those who've seen Lee, Chris and the band
perform, whilst providing an opportunity for those who have yet to
seem them play, an insight into what goes on.

There's too much for me to mention here, but the contents of both
tapes are listed below so you can see for yourself just how much
material has been crammed onto each video cassette.

So, without further ado, here are the tracklistings...

MADNESS TV APPEARANCES (TAPE 2) - £17-50(inc p&p)

My Girl               Top of The Pops 1992 (live)
My Girl               rare promo (totally different!
I am                  National Lottery
House of Fun          Young Ones
Tomorrows Just....    Jim'll Fix it
Our House             Top of The Pops
Night Boat to Cairo   live
One Step Beyond       live
The Tune              promo video
Off on Holiday        HMV Records (acoustic!)
I'm Only Sleeping     HMV Records (acoustic!)
I'm Only Sleeping     promo video
Camden Town           promo video
I'm Only Sleeping     Top of the Pops
Mistakes              Nottingham 1981 (live **)
Razor Blade Alley     Nottingham 1981 (live **)
Day on the Town       Hamburg 1981 (live **)
One Step Beyond       Hamburg 1981 (live **)
A Tribute             To Ian Dury (from Suggs)
Lovestruck            promo video
Johnny the Horse      promo video
Drip Fed Fred         promo video
Madness               Princes Trust Concert
Baggy Trousers        Princes Trust Concert
Listen to Your Father with Fergal Sharkey
Lovestruck            'worm' Top of The Pops Version
Camden Town           Richard and Judy Show
One Step Beyond       Party in the Park
Lovestruck            Party in the Park
Crunch! live          13 live numbers (very rare promo!!!!!)
This is Your Life     a tribute to Suggs

running time 3 hours!

** full concert available...mail me for details

MADNESS LIVE!!  TAPE 3

£17-50 (inc p&p) UK. If ordering from outside the UK, please ask for
further details.

THESE ARE TOP QUALITY RECORDINGS, NOT THE USUAL BOOTLEGS!!

HAMBURG 1981                NOTTINGHAM 1980

THE OPIUM EATERS            NIGHT BOAT TO CAIRO
EMBARRASSMENT               ERNIE
SIGN OF THE TIMES           MISTAKES
CLOSE  ESCAPE               CLOSE ESCAPE
MY GIRL                     CRYING SHAME
CARDIAC ARREST              RAZOR BLADE ALLEY
MRS HUTCHINSON              BAGGY TROUSERS
BAGGY TROUSERS              MY GIRL
MISSING YOU                 LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY
MADNESS                     EMBARRASSMENT
GREY DAY                    ON THE BEAT PETE
IT MUST BE LOVE             THE PRINCE
ONE STEP BEYOND             ONE STEP BEYOND
                            MADNESS....

various!

Tommorrows Dream   - The Tube, 1983
It Must be Love    - The Tube, 1983
One Step Beyond    - Madstock 2, 1994 (excellent audience recording)
Embarrassment      - Madstock 2, 1994 (excellent audience recording)
Lola               - Madstock 2, 1994 (excellent audience recording)
Night Boat         - Madstock 2, 1994
Madness            - Madstock 1, 1992   (last number-never seen before)
Swan Lake          - Madstock 4, 1998
Night Boat         - Madstock 4, 1998
Lovestruck         - TFI, 1999
One Step Beyond    - Man in The Mad Suit Tour, 1993
The Prince         - Man in The Mad Suit Tour, 1993
Los Palmos 7       - Man in The Mad Suit Tour, 1993
My Girl            - Man in The Mad Suit Tour, 1993
Grey Day           - Man in The Mad Suit Tour, 1993

total running time 3 hours!

For further information, please drop Dean an E-mail at the following
address: dean at assessment.demon.co.uk

If all goes to plan, we'll be featuring a review of both tapes in a
forthcoming edition of the MIS so you can see just how good these
compilations are.

For all those who missed volume 1, get in touch with Dean and get him
to pop a tracklisting in the E-mail.

Many thanks to Dean for the above.

[3] DR. MARTENS BOOTS - THE CD

Once upon a time there was no Doctor Martens boot. The year was 1959
and Bill Haley had single-handedly transformed the music-cultural
landscape of America. Then something happened. The year became 1960
and the Doctor Marten boot was born. Launched on the market
originally as the workmen's boot, it was soon kidnapped by the
restless youth looking for ways to express themselves. The old way
was just that, and not for the likes of them. The big band and town
hall dance was out, rock n roll was in.

1st April 1960 the original 8 hole boot was launched (also known as
the '1460' it soon became a modern design classic. Look it up in the
dictionary. Go on. A brand of lace-up boots with thick lightweight
resistant soles. How many brands can you think of that make the
dictionary - Levis, the Beetle, maybe even Malboro cigarettes. Well
there's a few of them but none sum up British Youth subculture in
the way that Docs have over the past 40 years. That is why 40 years
on and the Doctor Martens commemorative album is being released.
Entwined with youth pop culture like nothing else, history makes
fascinating reading.

Punk broke in 76. well, the purists amongst you will note that the
Sex Pistols debut gig was at St Martins School of Art at the arse
end of 75 - it wasn't for another 8 months that the Pistols had
scorched a hole through the insipid parchment of the current music
scene. Although you will hear Johnny Rotten telling of how the
Pistols were never about establishing a cultural scene (he just
wanted people to be individuals; "I was wearing rubbish as there
was a rubbish strike at the time so I was just dealing with the
problem") - he did so none-the-less. The Clash concurrently pushed
the 10 hole DM's and bands such as The Buzzcocks and The Damned gave
their support. Not that that was the only subculture wearing DMs in
the 70s, notably Slade and other glam rockers couldn't resist either.

Then there came the 80s. Looking back at the decade from the 90s
perspective was initially a painful experience. Enough distance has
now elapsed to realise that the decade was rammed with great music.
Oi music was fleeting and patched the time between the punks and the
next partisans but wore DMs anyway! Again British bands dominated
both sides of the Atlantic and bands such as The Smiths and Madness
epitomized the British way in 2 very different ways. An emotional
see-saw, these bands were both leading exponents of the Doctor
Martens. Madness were born out of the 2-tone and ska movements that
Jerry Dammers originally lead from Coventry (of all places) with the
seminal "The Specials". Lifting fashions and beats from 50s rude boy
Jamaica, The Specials were indeed that and along with The Beat and
Selector formed a great period for British music and the boot.

Onto the political correctness of the 90s gone mad. Artists quite often
had to refer to metaphor in a decade where it became a crime to speak
your mind and debate essentially went underground. Although it will
be remembered for the Brit Pop subculture culminating in the Oasis v
Blur debacle, British music finally split into a thousand fragments.
Whilst many were reassembled in the most sublime ways possible,
British musical subcultures were starting to falter.

How many times did you hear the "We can not be pigeon-holed - we do
what we do" line coming from the mouths of the bands in the 90s.
Left over dogma from the 80s pushed bands into individualist
statements of intent. The Doctor Marten boot remains strong though
despite the lack of discernible British subculture. But who knows,
traditionally new scenes can spring over night. Whilst radio may be
lazily dominated by US RnB and pop, British music is tough and will
not go away. Today in the Year 2000 the eclectic mix of Idlewild
happily sitting alongside PJ Harvey, Asian dub Foundation and
Looper form the latest line of Doc Marten wearing British ambassadors.

The full tracklisting :

CD1

DESMOND DEKKER ISRALITES
THE WHO WONT GET FOOLED AGAIN
SLADE CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE
SEX PISTOLS ANARCHY IN THE UK
IGGY POP THE PASSENGER
SHAM 69 THE KIDS ARE UNITED
THE UNDERTONES TEENAGE KICKS
IAN DURY HIT ME WITH YOUR RHYTHM STICK
BUZZCOCKS EVER FALLEN IN LOVE
SID VICIOUS MY WAY
THE CLASH RUDIE CANT FAIL
THE MEMBERS SOUND OF THE SUBURBS
THE RUTS BABYLON BURNING
SIMARIP SKINHEAD MOONSTOMP
MADNESS SHUT UP
BAD MANNERS WALKING IN SUNSHINE
THE SPECIALS GHOST TOWN
THE STRANGLERS GOLDEN BROWN
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES DEAR PRUDENCE
KING KURT DESTINATION ZULULAND

CD2

THE POGUES DIRTY OLD TOWN
GUANA BATZ THE CAVE
KILLING JOKE LOVE LIKE BLOOD
KING LOVE AND PRIDE
MORRISSEY EVERY DAY IS LIKE SUNDAY
THE MISSION TOWER OF STRENGTH
SISTERS OF MERCY DOMINION
WONDERSTUFF DONT LET ME DOWN
CARTER USM SHERIFF FAT MAN
THE LEVELLERS ONE WAY
BILLY BRAGG SEXUALITY
RANCID SALVATION
HENRY ROLLINS LIAR
ELASTICA STUTTER
ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT ON A ROPE
PRODIGY BREATHE
PJ HARVEY A PERFECT DAY ELISE
IDLEWILD LITTLE DISCOURAGE
ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION NATALITE
LOOPER THESE THINGS

Many thanks to Complete and Utter Madness for supplying the above
article for this week's MIS bulletin.

For up to-the-minute Madness news and information in bite-sized
nuggets, pop along to the Complete and Utter Madness website at:
http://www.nuttyboys.com

[4] - HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN PRESENTS...

SKAFEST 2000

Held over 3 days at The Empire Arena, Morcambe from Friday 16th to
Sunday the 18th of June, this looks like being one of the biggest
and best ska festivals of the year.

Thanks to MIS Online subscriber, Nigel Ward, we have the superb
line-up organised for this mammoth event.

Friday 16th June 4pm - 2am

     - 2 Tone Review - Featuring the original
       British Ska legends from The Beat,
       The Specials, The Selecter.
     - Spunge
     - Link 80
     - The Chinkees
     - Capdown

     With aftershow set from MG330

Saturday 17th June Noon - 2am

     - Dr. Ring-Ding & The Senior Allstars
     - The Hotknives
     - Jeffries fan club
     - Mistakes
     - Intensified
     - The Riffs
     - The Rough Kutz
     - Too Hot
     - Zen Baseball Bat
     - Lightyear
     - Shootin Goon

Sunday 18th June Noon - 11pm

     - The Busters
     - Laurel Aitken
     - The Trojans
     - Citizen Fish
     - The Toasters
     - Mark Foggots Skasters
     - Too Many Crooks
     - The Splitters
     - Rebelation

Tickets for the 3 day event are priced at £55 pounds and can be
ordered from the following locations;

     - www.pulped.com

     - HITS, PO BOX 2650, Wells, BA5 1YL. Please make cheques or
       postal orders payable to "D.Russell Smith". Enclose an SAE
       and allow 14 days for delivery.

     - Credit card bookings from DATA RECORDS
       Telephone - 024 765 05946
       www.datarecords.com

     - E-mail: blue at punks.co.uk
       www.punks.co.uk

     - Hitshop Records in Belgium
       +32 (0) 503 72658

And finally, for those of you worried about missing the Euro 2000
football, you can relax, safe in the knowledge that the organisers
will be putting on multi-screen television footage of the event to
keep you all bang up-to-date with proceedings!

Many thanks to Nigel Ward for providing the above details.

[5] - NEWS FROM WWW.BLOCKHEADS.CO.UK

Hey All Madness/Dury fans,

Here's some exclusive news, sent to me by "Mickey Gallagher", a
Blockhead. If you want to put this info no your site, please
mention my site, I thang you....

     "Hi Wozza

      Sorry about the delay in replying. Yes,
      there are various projects scheduled for
      this year involving the band.

      First. As you've already probably seen in
      the press,there is a gig at the Brixton
      Academy on 16th June as a tribute to Ian
      in aid of Cancer Bacup. This will involve
      the Blockheads as a house band for singers
      such as Robbie Williams to sing 'Sweet Gene
      Vincent' and 'You're the why' (the last
      song Ian wrote and the one the band sang at
      his funeral service), Mick Jones of the
      Clash singing 'I'm Partial to your Abracadabra'
      Suggs of Madness will do 'My Old Man', Phill
      Jupitus & Mark Lamarr will attempt 'Reasons to
      be Cheerful', and Kathy Burke 'Billericay Dickie',
      Keith Allen 'Blackmail Man'.

      Other luminaries are still being contacted for a
      contribution to the evening.

      There is a tribute album more or less in the same
      vein on the cards for September called 'Brand New
      Boots and Panties' which will have contributions on
      it from Robbie Williams, Paul McCartney, Neneh Cherry,
      Madness, Billy Bragg, Keith Allen and more.

      Before Ian died we had recorded four songs together
      and, using these along with some earlier recordings
      not used on previous albums, we are attempting to put
      together a final 'Ian Dury and The Blockheads' C.D.
      Album.This project is of course subject to the wishes
      of Ians' family."

There you have it folks!

Cheers,
Wozza.
http://www.blockheads.co.uk

[6] - GENTLEMEN PLEASE TIME

Hey, ho, the end of another MIS Online Bulletin. Hope you found
something of interest or amusement in this week's issue.

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this week's edition
of the MIS including; Dean, Jean-Pierre Boutellier, Scatty, Wozza,
Vince Foley, Brendan Phipps, Complete and Utter Madness, Nigel Ward,
Vince Carden, and everyone who took the trouble to get in touch and
send me snippets for publication.

The next edition of the MIS will be arriving in your mailboxes
slightly earlier than normal. Issue 54 should be with you on
Saturday. The reason for this is that I'm taking advantage of the
English Bank Holiday weekend and will be away from the keyboard until
late Monday.

In the meantime, if you've still not got yourself tickets for the Ian
Dury tribute gig, you'd better get your skates on. In case you missed
last week's MIS, here's where you can order tickets.

Tickets are £20 (subject to booking fee)
Brixton Academy - 020 7771 2000
Stargreen Box Office - 020 7734 8932
Ticket Master - 020 7344 4000
Way Ahead - 020 7403 3331
Credit Card Hotline - 020 7287 0932

Unitil next week.

All the nutty best,

Robert Hazelby