by Madness Discography | May 4, 2024
by Madness Discography | May 4, 2024
by Madness Discography | May 4, 2024
by Madness Discography | May 4, 2024
by Madness Discography | May 4, 2024
Mike: ‘Never Knew Your Name’ was an old song that’d been kicking around for ages. After the band broke up in the 80s, I was working with Suggs on a project together. We did quite a lot of recording over a few years, and then he got talked into giving...
by Madness Discography | May 4, 2024
Woody: ‘Kitchen Floor’ was the first of a bunch of songs I wrote with my brother Nick. He absolutely cannot stop writing songs. He makes things quite simplistic, and his songs can be monotone – he doesn’t resolve melodic lines. But that’s...
by Madness Discography | May 4, 2024
Chris: ‘Misery’ was Cathal again. I said, “Oh, we should get a barbershop quartet on this”. And so we got this barbershop quartet to sing on the choruses, and they were really good. They recently got in touch with me, because one of them died,...
by Madness Discography | May 4, 2024
Mike: My wife loved ‘So Alive’ very much as a demo. I like that song, it’s heartfelt. Even though we were having some difficulties, at the same time, creatively, Cathal was in a good place and was writing some really good stuff.