I think this is an article from the '97 tour.
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From: Jennifer Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [total-madness] Madness Article
> An article I came across tonight....
>
> Robert, have you seen this?
> Jenny
>
> SONICNET MUSIC GUIDE
>
> Madness Pull Themselves Together For U.S. Tour
>
> Founding members of second-wave ska band to do series of shows, including
> one with No Doubt.
>
> Senior Writer Gil Kaufman reports:
>
> Influential ska revivalists Madness are re-forming with their original
> lineup to play a series of U.S. shows in April, including one to be
> headlined by their most vocal fans in the industry, No Doubt.
>
>
> The band's U.S.-based manager has confirmed that the founding lineup of
> the group -- one of the most popular and well-loved second-wave ska bands
> of the late 1970s and early 1980s -- would be re-forming for the first
> time in 15 years.
>
>
> The two-week "Mad Dogs and Englishmen Tour" will kick off April 22 in Las
> Vegas with a show featuring punk-rockabilly artist the Rev. Horton Heat
> and third-wave ska-punk bands Face to Face and Hepcat.
>
>
> "I think they just felt like doing it," manager Peter Rudge said of the
> decision to tour by the original seven: singer Graham "Suggs" McPherson,
> guitarist Chris "Chrissy Boy" Foreman, trumpet player/dancer Cathal "Chas
> Smash" Smythe, drummer Dan "Woody" Woodgate, saxophonist Lee Thompson,
> keyboardist Mike Barson and bassist Mark Bedford. "They're all living
> comfortably, but they've just become aware of the huge resurgence of the
> ska phenomenon in America."
>
>
> The decision was also spurred by the vocal championing of the band in the
> press by such multi-platinum modern ska acts as No Doubt and the Mighty
> Mighty Bosstones, Rudge added.
>
>
> Some fans are apparently willing to go well out of their way to see the
> rare shows. Denver native Paul Andrews, 30, said he'll be flying to L.A.
> to see the April 26 show at the Universal Amphitheater, which will also
> feature ska-punkers the Dance Hall Crashers and soulful-ska bands Royal
> Crown Revue and Hepcat. "I don't [normally] do things like that," Andrews
> said. "I have no place to stay, will be on my own, have no idea how to get
> around, and I'm still going. In my opinion, Madness was the band that
> brought the sounds of ska to an American audience in the '80s."
>
>
> The group -- which had its biggest U.S. hit with the pop/ska tune "Our
> House" from 1982's Rise & Fall album -- broke up in 1986, with a handful
> of members grouping under the Madness name for sporadic live dates. The
> band, which debuted in 1979 with the upbeat collection One Step Beyond,
> has also re-grouped on occasion for annual festival shows in the U.K.
>
>
> In fact, 22-year-old U.K. fan Robert Hazelby wrote that "as a U.K. Madness
> fan it makes me chuckle when I receive mails from Stateside Maddies asking
> about Madness' recent re-formation." Hazelby reported that, in England,
> the band re-formed in 1992 at the fan-appreciation gig "Madstock" and have
> been together ever since, performing at such annual events as "Christmas
> Madness" tours and similar events such as "Man in the Madsuit," "Mad
> Dogs," and "Madstock 2 and 3." Madness are expected to be playing for the
> upcoming "Madstock 4" in June.
>
>
> "I think it's great that the lads are going Stateside after all this
> time," Hazelby wrote. "Hopefully, it will drum it into people's heads that
> the band, who have such a strong place in people's hearts this side of the
> Atlantic, wrote and released more than just 'It Must Be Love' and 'Our
> House.' Over here, Madness are almost an English institution!!!"
>
>
> Just a month ago, No Doubt guitarist Tom Dumont described Madness as the
> band with which his group is most interested in performing. "I feel like
> we've pretty much played shows with everyone we've ever wanted to," said
> Dumont, going on to cite the upcoming Hawaii show with Madness as a
> highlight of No Doubt's schedule.
>
>
> And while there are no plans for new recordings at present, Rudge said
> that more U.S. dates may be added depending on the success of the West
> Coast tour.
>
>
>
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