So does anyone else have any stories...I will recount my (somewhat similar
to Carl's) meeting with Chris and Lee from '91when I get the time to type it
up. Although I will say as a taster that I did get a tape interview and it
came out (!) and included Lee and Chris saying that they would both be up
for a Madness reunion but that it relied on The Lord Suggs and Mikey boy
being up for it, all the others didn't have a problem!
Oh and yes Lee did have a Volvo estate, although I don't remember it being
beaten up.....but I do remember that he played 'The Madness' album as we
drove to Sainsbury's!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: Carl Humphreys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 9:44 AM
Subject: [total-madness] THE DAYS I MET EL THOMO & CHRISSY BOY.
> Well Maddies....going onto the Day(s) I met Lee & Chrissy Boy.
>
> Sometime in 1991.We went to see the Nutty Boys at a gig at the Powerhouse
in
> London, and being a student with a project on SKA to compile, I tool along
a
> tape recorder (reel to reel job). When me and my mate Erin arrived at the
> venue, we found Lee and Chris in the Bar at the end of their sound check.
I
> asked them if I could have a few minutes of their time for an interview.
> Chris said it was really to loud for an interview at the venue, Lee
> suggested he take us to a different pub. So we went outside, and the four
of
> us clambered into Lee's Volvo Estate (old beaten up version - Lee " sorry
> about the I love pony stickkers, they're my daughters" Chris "Yeah Right,
he
> doesn't even have a daughter").
>
> We got to the pub (can't remeber the name) and spent half an hour chatting
> to them both, they bought us drinks, we offered to buy them drinks back,
but
> they refused. The interview went really well, or so I thought, and
included
> Chrissy Boy saying there was more chance of a beatles reformation than
> Madness ever playing again. And Lee saying he thought Utter Madness (the
> Album) was crap, as he had wanted to release a double sided album, that
had
> b-sides and extra bits on it, to offer the fans somthing new/different,
and
> they wer both happy about the "it's madness" compilations. Both guys were
> top blokes, and very funny, chatty and seemed geniunly interested. We told
> them we were in a ska band (the Skanxters) that did a couple of madness
> covers. They said we were the first band they had met that included a
> version of Dissapear in our set!
>
> We left for the gig, and continued chatting on the way back. When we got
to
> the venue, they said "see you later"
>
> We went somewhere quietish, and tried to listen to the interview, but it
> hadn't come out properly ( whoever had used the tape last had wound it on
> the wrong way, so everything was a silent muffle. I was gutted. I went to
> find Lee and chris. Lee laughed when we told him, and said" well, you had
> the bite of the cherry, but spat it out!"
>
> Chrissy bought us another drink to quell our dissapointment.
>
> January 1992 .It must have been about 8 months later, when The Skanxters
> supported the Nutty Boys at the After Dark Club in Reading. We turned up
to
> the sound check. Lee saw us, and said " I know you don't I" I told them we
> had seen them before, but was dead embarrased due to the Interview cock up
> thing, so I didn't mention it.
>
> Again in the dressing room, they were very chatty, and just before we went
> on stage, Lee shouted " I remember now, you're the prat who cocked up the
> interview!" Very red and embarrased, I admitted it was me, and crawled
onto
> stage.
>
> Great Gig though, great evening had by all with Lee swinging on the
lighting
> rig, and the venue manager having to ask him to come down!
>
> The last time I saw Lee and Chris, was in 1994 they came to watch us when
we
> played Gossips in Soho. Lots of people had been their that night,
including
> Shane Macgowen of the Pouges, Jerry Dammers Brother. By this time we were
> doing all originals, and were selling our 12" single. After the Gig a very
> Drunk Chris told us we were great, and could he have a frisbee. We gave
> Chris and Lee each a copy of the 12", and True to his word, Chris used it
as
> a frisbee as he staggered along the road throwing the record and picking
it
> up again. Lee said he would be playing his properly when he got home!
>
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