> I dream for a day when Madness are once again called 'trendy' but fads come > and go but Madness will be around forever and the likes of you and me will > still get shivers down our spine when listern to the songs that have shaped > a generation. The strange thing is that other bands and performers of the same era have been coming out to Australia more often more recently due to the huge interest in "Retro". 2 weeks ago Village People and Culture Club were on the same bill. There was also a legends of rock kind of spectacular with Alice Cooper and Roger Daltrey amongst others. Both were sellouts. and ZZ Top are on their way to Sydney sometime this year! 80's bands are trendy here, yet in the midst of this resurgence, we are sorely lacking one of the big drawcards, the band who trashed the Hordern Pavilion on their first tour here (I believe it was 81 or 82). Australia was a huge market for the Maddies. Only the faithful Aussies who listen to JJJ (Government-owned National Youth Network) know about Wonderful. The silly thing is, despite the lack of knowledge of Suggs' solo career, when he was here at the end of '98 he made appearances of Recovery, The Midday Show, and Hey Hey it's Saturday (Coincidentally now all defunct). He even had an interview in the January 99 Australian issue of Rolling Stone. Heck if they can do this for a CD I never heard other than on JJJ, why not now? At least Warner(?) gave it a damn good go of it. Not so with Virgin/EMI. So if scheduling and the lack of airplay explains what happened in England, does this explain what happened down here? Leese - ______________________________________________________________ Visit the Total Madness Mailing List website for: latest news, madmeet info, list charter, games, and more ... http://members.xoom.com/totalmadmail/ Contact the TMML Moderators at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the message body put: unsubscribe total-madness
