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It's 25 years since Madness last played in Leeds a ' and how this city had missed them.

This is where utter madness lives. Forget the V8 Supercars and their attempts for the rather placid "Car of the Future", the Group B Rally Cars had in some cases over 700bhp coming out of just 1.6L. They were turbocharged to the eyeballs and threatened to explode at any given moment.

Fans of the Specials and Madness can go one step beyond at Kingsmeadow Live next Saturday night as Ska Wars play a special Christmas show at the home Kingstonian FC.

IF there was one thing I could have wished for at last night's Madness gig at the Oasis, it would have been to be handed a pair of stilts on the way in.

MADNESS fans were not disappointed when the nutty boys took to the Plymouth Pavilions stage on Friday night for a long-awaited packed concert.

WESTLIFE have given up caring about No 1 singles, and their boss Simon Cowell agrees.

Let's just say that if it weren't for the outlandish '80s hair-metal rockers of Poison - and more specifically, guitarist C.C. Deville and his dangerously flamboyant licks, leads and neon-lime painted axes-legendary Orange County ska-rockers Reel Big Fish probably wouldn't have ever existed.

THE hardest boy at my junior school was called David Cardwell. The sole credential for this dubious crown was that the braces holding up his trousers had the word a Madnessa TM on them.

If things had worked out differently, Tim Firtha TMs first play might have been a musical version of Macbeth done in the style of Marillion, the portentous 1980s nouveau-prog band fronted by larger than life frontman, Fish.

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News Shopper has three pairs of fantastic albums from Madness to give away. The first album is Total Madness which brings together 30 years of classic singles from North Londona s Nutty Boys.

Just what is "2-Tone"? Otherwise known as the Second Wave of ska - the first being the reggae-tinged '60s Jamaican scene that produced the Wailers, the third the rock-tinged form that ruled the mid-'90s - this late-'70s strain originated from an English label whose roster included the Specials, Madness and Bad Manners.

Camden Town pop/ska legends Madness have announced an extra date at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall on Thursday 17th December .

Active: 90's, 2000's Formed: 1987 Influences Similar Artists Followers Biography With the return of the punks in the mid-'90s came a resurgence of their slightly more commercial rivals, new wave bands.

The Pet Shop Boys are set to release a Christmas EP featuring a Coldplay cover , they have announced.

Pet Shop Boys have just confirmed that there will be a five-track Christmas EP this year - it's called 'Christmas', title fans, and it's released on December 14.

BURNHAM ska favourites The Communicators make their triumphant return to the Railway Hotel on November 14.

DRAMA students at Scalby school are celebrating after becoming the first in the country to perform a top West End musical show.

Paper Cranes are a husband-wife duo hailing from Stateside - British Columbia, to be precise.

Gerry Brooke looks back on performances by Madness and The Cult and reflects on the showbiz life of Phil Silvers The stars to see this autumn week in 1985 had to be Madness, a two tone, ska influenced, band still going strong today.