The official FRIARS Aylesbury compendium
Maxwell Hall, Civic Centre, Market
Square, Aylesbury
Madness
Monday November 9th 1981
see also Saturday September 8th 1979 Saturday December 29th 1979
Graham 'Suggs' McPherson Cathal 'Chas
Smash' Smythe Chris Foreman Mike Barson Lee Thompson
Mark Bedford Dan Woodgate
The Belle Stars
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After Mike Barson left in 1985, there was a decline in Madness' fortunes even though they were still charting. Musical differences drove them apart in 1986. Later in the 1980s most of the band regrouped as The Madness but this didn't work out. Suggs went on to have solo success. The Madness revival started with a couple of reunion concerts (all seven of the band) which ended up in two huge concerts in London's Finsbury Park. Since then Madness have played the UK's biggest arenas on practically an annual basis and still are in 2008. Suggs has also been a TV presenter for a Saturday night karaoke show on Channel 5.
In the intervening years, Dan Woodgate was a member of Voice of The Beehive.
Sights and sounds - Madness- Baggy Trousers Live (1981)
Sights and sounds - Belle Stars - Sign of The Times (around 1982)
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