Madness

Madness are a British pop/ska band from Camden Town, London, that formed in
1976. The band continue to perform with their most recognised line-up of seven
members, although their line-up has varied slightly over the years. They were
one of the most prominent bands of the late-1970s 2 Tone ska revival. Madness
achieved most of their success in the early to mid 1980s. Both ... read more

Watch: Christmas Session

Christmas Session video

Suggs and Mike from Madness play an incredible, intimate set for the Absolute Radio Christmas Sessions at St Barnabas...
→ Posted 21 December 2011 1.33pm — Comment on this

Watch: Interview

Interview video

Suggs and Mike from Madness sit down for a chat with their mate Pete Mitchell, backstage at the Absolute Radio...
→ Posted 15 December 2011 5.44pm — Comment on this

Listen: Woody calls Who's Calling Christian Big in the 80s

Woody calls Who's Calling Christian Big in the 80s audio

Woody from Madness told Christian the 80s was all about fun. He called us on behalf of Cancer Research UK
→ Posted 6 October 2011 2.00pm — Comment on this

Watch: Interview

Interview video

Suggs of Madness speaks us about the recording of this year's anti-X Factor single, recreating composer John Cage's...
→ Posted 6 December 2010 5.22pm — Comment on this

Watch: Interview at the Q Awards 2010

Interview at the Q Awards 2010 video

Suggs and some of the other Madness boys tell us what it's like to win a Q Award, just after they came off stage at the...
→ Posted 25 October 2010 6.26pm — Comment on this

Listen: Interview

Interview audio

Ben Jones is joined by Suggs at Absolute Radio to discuss his past at the station and the plans for Madness' tour...
→ Posted 21 October 2010 4.04pm — Comment on this

Watch: Regent Street interview

Regent Street interview video

Absolute Radio's Geoff Lloyd chats to Woody and Suggs on a Regent Street rooftop ahead of their headline gig on one of...
→ Posted 27 September 2009 10.43pm — Comment on this

Watch: Suggs speaks to The OC

Suggs speaks to The OC video

Christian O'Connell speaks to Madness frontman Suggs about his history at One Golden Square, what the band are up to at...
→ Posted 24 September 2009 5.39pm — Comment on this

Watch: Suggs and Geoff in the Studio

Suggs and Geoff in the Studio video

Suggs from Madness settles down with Geoff in the Absolute Radio studio for a natter, a cup of tea and some talk about...
→ Posted 27 August 2009 11.15am — Comment on this

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Top songs

The 5 most played Madness songs in the past year.

Played on

Absolute Radio stations playing songs by Madness over the past year.

  1. Absolute 80s 1510 plays
  2. Absolute Radio 520 plays
  3. Absolute Radio 70s 62 plays
  4. Absolute Radio 90s 53 plays
  5. Absolute Classic Rock 53 plays
  6. Absolute Radio 00s 48 plays

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