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  Heckle yourself: Madness’s solution to an audience-free gig

  Playing a concert without an audience? That would be madness, surely? Please excuse the terrible pun, but it’s been a very long year. Since the pandemic shut down venues back in March 2020, music fans have had to rely on so called “livestreams” to provide a facsimile of the concert experience: shows filmed in socially distanced settings and broadcast over the internet. There have been spectacular examples but even the best have suffered from an absence of human interaction, the crucial compact o

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  Madness on gigs in the 1970s: ‘A load of Sieg Heil-ing, like something out of Nuremberg’

  In this era of the musical livestream, it was always clear that Madness were going to do things differently. The doughty ska-pop survivors, a six-strong north London gang of one-time street toughs, are back on stage at the London Palladium tomorrow night with The Get Up! It’s part-concert, part-scripted origin story, tracing the band’s movements from 1977 to 1979. There’s a whiff of Ealing comedy, too, with a script from The Fast Show’s Charlie Higson, who also appears, as well as two “very spec

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