S5E7: Suggs
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This week on Rockonteurs, Guy and Gary welcome Suggs to the show. Madness are one of the UK’s finest and best selling bands. Their new album ‘Theatre of the Absurd presents C’est Le Vie’ is out NOW.
Suggs talks openly about his childhood, joining the band, the huge hits of the 80s and their legendary ‘Madstock’ live shows that even caused an earthquake to register! Don’t miss their upcoming December tour – www.madness.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Gary. Hello guy. So it's a North London Derby today. |
| 0:05.0 | You're not going to be intimidated by the fact that there's the Camden and Islington boys. |
| 0:10.0 | Me, no, I'll be just feeling very smart. Where were you from? What part of London? Where did you grow up? |
| 0:16.2 | Waterloo? Waterloo, of course. Waterloo, I'm saff! |
| 0:20.7 | Saf! Well there's two ways of looking at it with because Waterloo is such a funny |
| 0:24.2 | where a place is that either I'm either from South London or I grew up in the shadow of |
| 0:29.2 | the National. Yeah I think that's more you, isn't it, really? |
| 0:34.4 | I was born, but I was born in a flat between the old and young Vix. |
| 0:39.2 | Ah, so surprisingly, I never really knew much about Suggugs. I never kind of bumped into him at all. |
| 0:46.7 | I mean in the 80s I don't remember sort of meeting up with madness or doing a top of the pops with them but but Chrissy boy. I did know because he was he's three years above me at the same school |
| 0:59.0 | He was rather mean to the young violinist. It was quite the school yours wasn't it? It's got quite the |
| 1:04.5 | alumni. He was he was rather mean to the young violinist Neil Barnes that was in my |
| 1:09.9 | class. He was the only kid who played violin and used to bring the violin into school and obviously that kind of riled Chris Foreman. |
| 1:17.0 | This kid, how dare he play a violin and I think he picked on him a bit? |
| 1:21.0 | It turns out that Neil Barnes ends up becoming also |
| 1:26.2 | successful in music in a band called Left Field. |
| 1:29.3 | Oh, right. |
| 1:30.3 | Oh, there you go. |
| 1:32.1 | Not playing the violin though. |
| 1:34.0 | Playing synthesizers and stuff. |
| 1:36.0 | And debt. |
| 1:37.0 | So yeah, no, so there's going to be some cockney jives and japes and... |
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