Madness Suggs interview 2007 - INTERVIEWS (original) (raw)
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Suggs chats to I Like Music
Fun-loving British pop legends Madness and hip-hop hero Sway unite for the first time on collaborative new single Sorry, an exuberant and joyous song devoted to the hardest word to say. Madness' own chart-topping, gig-rocking antics stretch back to a time before Sway or Baby Blue (who also features on the track) were even born, and the band's ongoing presence is still very much all around us. The spirit of Madness was viral back when spam arrived in a tin rather than an email, and now their music not only lives on but flourishes with more vigour than ever before.
Although an incongruous and unlikely musical match at first glance, Madness and Sway all share a strong sense of humour, an unmistakable cheeky chappie sensibility and a love of their hometown London. Plus there's history to this pairing�
I Like Music caught up with Madness frontman, the lovely Suggs, to talk about the story behind the Sway collaboration, London, Lily Allen and the Liberty of Norton Folgate.
"I like music because� it's given me a tremendous career, it's a very joyful way to make a living, and it's the soundtrack to all of our lives." SUGGS, MADNESS
ILM: You and Sway unite for the first time on collaborative new single Sorry, an exuberant and joyous song devoted to the hardest word to say. Can you describe the track and its whole vibe, how it came together etc?
SUGGS: Last year Madness, we went and did a lot of small gigs under another name, we called ourselves the Dangermen and we did a lot of old ska and reggae covers because that's the kind of music we started out playing, whenever that was� 1923 [laughs] and it's music that we love. And it was just to get us back in the mood really, because we haven't been doing a lot the past five or six years. And it really did. Then we thought we'd write another album of our own stuff, because we're back in there, we're in the groove, doing it again, and that was about January last year, but the trouble with Madness is there's seven of us, so it takes about a year to get everyone in the same room, never mind actually doing something together and the album was just dragging on and we got a new manager, and he said, 'Suggs, look you've just got to put a record out, even if you haven't got your album ready, just get on with something.
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