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BBC4 announce Madness night
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 30 September 2009
This Friday night BBC4 will dedicate its programming entirely to Madness, showing films and previously unseen footage of the band all evening.
‘The Liberty Of Norton Folgate’, a film made in conjunction with the band’s latest album by director Julien Temple – which includes live footage filmed at Hackney Empire intercut with a narrative thread that unearths the tales of London town that inspired the album – will get its first showing on UK TV, and the band’s set at this year’s Glastonbury and a documentary covering their early career through to the turn of the century, ‘Young Guns Go For It’ will also air.
However, the thing I urge you watch/Sky+/tape/get someone to record with a camcorder is ‘Take It Or Leave It’, the early eighties film charting the formation of Madness and the recording of their first album, all acted out (badly) by Madness themselves. It’s a work of pure brilliance.
