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Thursday, May 01, 2025

MADNESS Dominio Theatre London UK 1983 - Voodoo Wagon (a draftervoi special)

 Madness, Dominion Theatre, London, England March 2, 1982 Penthouse Omni College Concert 1007 


Madness
Penthouse Omni College Concert 1007
Broadcast Week of October 30, 1983

Dominion Theatre,
London, England
March 2, 1983

01 Pete Larkin, Richard Skinner - Penthouse Omni College Concert 1007 Intro
02 Madness - House of Fun
03 Madness - Disappear
04 Madness - Close Escape
05 Madness - Bed And Breakfast Man
06 Madness - The Sun And The Rain
07 Madness - Blue Skinned Beast
08 Madness - Embarrassment
09 Pete Larkin - Penthouse Omni College Concert 1007 Break
10 Madness - Rise And Fall
11 Madness - Sunday Morning
12 Madness - Razor Blade Alley
13 Madness - Tomorrow's (Just Another Day)
14 Madness - Grey Day
15 Madness - Baggy Trousers
16 Madness - Our House
17 Pete Larkin - Penthouse Omni College Concert 1007 Outro



This was also broadcast as BBC Rock Hour #422 on May 29, 1983 (versions A and B).

A longer version was issued twice, as BBC Transcription Services In Concert 301 
and a CD version as Classic In Concert 6.  Both of these add "My Girl," "Madness,” 
and "Tomorrow's Dream."

In America, three songs made it into the Billboard Hot 100: "Cardiac Arrest" at #33, 
the big hit "Our House" #7, with "The Sun And The Rain" sputtering out their
 two years 
on the chart. In America, it's all "Our House.” 
That's the only one that you remember, 
and it still gets airplay.  But that's it, they're effectively 
a one-hit wonder here. 

In the United Kingdom, "from 1980 to 1986...when the band's songs spent a total of 
214 weeks 
on the UK Singles Chart, holding the record along with English reggae group UB40
 for most 
weeks spent by a group in the UK singles chart during the 1980s.  
Thirty-six charting singles 
over a career that saw them with a #1 album in 2023.

2 comments:

Kostas said...

I love Madness!!!

Andy Swapp said...

They are doing what will probably be a last mini-tour here . . . Suggs has been on media spreading the word. He is a true star and actually really interesting in his own right. He did a podcast/TV show about travelling the old track along the River Thames through ‘old’ London which was indispensable really knows his stuff. [A life long friend of course of the ‘Guvnor’ Mr Ian Dury] Thanks for your comments Kostas always appreciated