1. Just a mail to tell you how great you guys / gals are!! Before I fell in love with 7 louts from Camden (Ha!), my first great love was The Beatles whom I still love. Anyway, last night I went to a pub to join Beatles Ireland, the fan club. There were about 15 or so people there. I went over to three of them and said "Is this Beatles Ireland". Two of them ignored me, the other said "It could be". "Is Pete here?" I then asked "Dunno, haven't seen him", both remarks having been passed in a rather unfriendly pretentious manner. Anyway, it just brought home to me the theory I have that the personality of fans reflects the band's personality. Madness fans are down to earth because the band are. The Beatles were distant drugged up arrogant bastards like those fans I met last night. I did not wait around and shant be going back. I met about forty fans at the two recent gigs and I can honestly say that, apart from ole GT, everybody was very nice, sincere and friendly to everybody and I can't wait for Crunchctock! The Suggs lyrics "If you don't fit in, you'll fit in here" seem very appropriate. 2. I notice Melody Maker and NME didn't cover the Brixton gig. Let's cover the gig of a crap new band and write an article on sad gits Oasis . The paltry coverage of Ian's death in NME was a disgrace too. 3. Favourite possessions: a). Carl's suit from the first gig of the comeback in Notre Dame - July 1992. b). Carl's platinum disc for Complete Madness. Won't even tell you how much it cost me. c). A two page handwritten letter from Chris from 1994 where he enclosed all 7 photographs on the one page. Nice one! (great name for an album......) d). 7" of Grey Day, my favourite single e). Some amazing bootleg video cassettes containing mad rare stuff. f). Bootleg of Madstock III, my favourite ever gig. 4. Sceptical Madness e - mail addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike@f****dupversionofDFF.cockup [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vince Carden Madness Unsugged.......loooks great in the bin! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ - ______________________________________________________________ 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
