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Stateside Madness is proud to be the United States affiliate of the Madness Information Service, the band’s premier fan organization. We’re here bringing American Madness fans together as the band keeps going strong after 40+ years, with fun essays, articles and memes on Madness from our unique American perspective.
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Madness Live in Sacramento: It Rhymes with October
As far as Madness booking operations are concerned, America has somehow become the proverbial London bus stop. You wait here bloody ages for a tour, and then along come two or three at once. Remember how we had to tough it out for 12 long years without Madness between April 2012 and May 2024? Now…
Suggs Says No More Alcohol
It’s no secret that our man Suggs has been known to enjoy his drink a bit too much, from time to time. If not incessantly. The subject has been explicitly addressed in songs like “Lovestruck” and “Alcohol,” not to mention the way Suggs still manages to bungle the verses of “My Girl” after 45 years…
Madness Returns Stateside for 2025 West Coast Tour
At the time of the long-delayed 2024 Madness tour dates, a lot of us fretfully whispered it might be the last time the boys would play the USA. Well listen, Buster: They ain’t quite ready to write off the old Yankee colonies just yet! Leading up to the Cruel World festival slot announced in November,…
Madness: The Wind Beneath My Wings (of a Dove)
Editor’s Note: Stateside Madness welcome guest blogger Steve Hockensmith, New York Times bestselling author and American Madness fan! If you’re interested in writing a guest blog about your own Madness story, just drop a comment and get in touch. – D. Trull Whenever I sit down to write, Madness is looking over my shoulder. Literally. …
Suggs Gets His Kicks on Weller’s “66”
Back during the pandemic lockdown days, Chris Foreman made a few wisecracks about Suggs getting all high and mighty now that he was writing songs for Paul Weller. It would be some time before we learned the extent of this new collaboration between the two old mates. After Thommo showed up on Weller’s On Sunset…
Madness Live in New York: A Proper Miracle on 34th Street
“It’s been quite a palaver getting to America,” Suggs intoned five songs into the Madness show in the Hammerstein Ballroom at New York’s Manhattan Center, the final stop on this long-awaited U.S. tour. “We tried three times during the lockdown and kept getting blown out. But we’re here now finally, yes!” The crowd’s roaring cheers…
Double-Double Cali Style: The Madness 2012 West Coast Tour
(NOTE: The following is an edited and expanded update of a review I wrote for MIS in April 2012.) Come and listen to my story ’bout a man named D.A poor Madness fan, nary U.S. gigs to see.And then one day, freakin’ crazy dreams came true,When up from the web came the Coachella news:Madness in…
California Madness Tour Dates Confirmed
Congratulations, California Madheads! After much rumor and speculation, we finally have official confirmation of a Madness Los Angeles tour date slotted in on Sunday, May 26. Presale starts Tuesday, March 5 with code CESTLAVIE. This belated announcement comes after a second date in Oakland crept into the itinerary, which brings us Americans a total of…
Madness U.S. Tour May 2024 (This Time for Sure?)
Originally announced for 2020, then postponed, then rescheduled, postponed and rescheduled, then cancelled, the Madness U.S. Tour of nigh-Bigfoot/Loch Ness Monster status is finally, really happening this May. Probably. Fingers crossed. Joining the previously unveiled headlining appearance at Punk Rock Bowling in Las Vegas, the band has announced the following succinct slate of U.S. dates.…
SSM and MIS present Absurdlutely Mad: Une Critique Musicale (LP 2)
Being a Glorified YouTube Reaction Video Wrought as a Shambolic Three-Act Mockery of a Dramaturgical Pompfest Upon the Premiere of Theatre of the Absurd presents C’est La Vie Conceived, Written and Performed byDonald Trull and Jonathan Young SPOILER WARNING!The following review contains in-depth, track-by-track discussion of the second half of the new Madness long-playing record.…
SSM and MIS present Absurdlutely Mad: Une Critique Musicale (LP 1)
Being a Glorified YouTube Reaction Video Wrought as a Shambolic Three-Act Mockery of a Dramaturgical Pompfest Upon the Premiere of Theatre of the Absurd presents C’est La Vie Conceived, Written and Performed byDonald Trull and Jonathan Young SPOILER WARNING!The following review contains in-depth, track-by-track discussion of the first half of the new Madness long-playing record.…
Le Petit-Prevue of “Theatre of the Absurd presents C’est La Vie”
A Spoiler-Free Advance Joint Statement from Madness Information Service and Stateside Madness Ladies and gentlemen, the new Madness album is great. No, honestly: Theatre of the Absurd presents C’est La Vie is staggeringly damned masterpiece-level great. Seven years on from the last Madness long player, you can now start your final countdown. We hope you’re…
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