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So-Cal Kid Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 21

Just got back from the madness gig near bristol things I don't get the support band was dog shit really bad with all the talent on the psycho/rockin scene why does it keep getting overlooked I just don't get ?

Wanker Joined: 23 Jan 2012 Posts: 192

a combination of the fact that there are so many bands that its hard to give everyone a shot and idiot bookers who don't listen to every band they book or understand genres

The ska band?

So-Cal Kid Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 21

They played all the favourites nite boat house of fun etc just wish some promoter would have the balls and use a psycho/rockin band there's so much talent on the scene who would have been mint to get the crowd going the meteors guana batz restless long tall texans instead you get shit off the x factor the bottom line is the meteors are having there 30th where will the x factor be in 30 years? Says it all really !

Wanker Joined: 23 Jan 2012 Posts: 192

So-Cal Kid Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 21

The 80s London ska band from Camden town mate

So-Cal Kid Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 21

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So-Cal Kid Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 21

That's a good comment didn't think about it that way but your right 80% of the crowd are on a 80s trip! I wonder if ppf played with them when madness first started? They both started in 1978 think that's when the raw deal was playing round London ?

Wanker Joined: 14 Jan 2009 Posts: 196

It partly gets overlooked because of all the lame dog shit on the psycho/rockin scene.

Morrissey, who has supported Madness, is the biggest name I can think of that has on occasion used rockabilly bands as support.

Mark Robertson's excellent Myspace has a pretty comprehensive list of early Meteors gigs

why would you expect a psychobilly band to support madness, i do not get your logic Laughing

So-Cal Kid Joined: 03 Mar 2012 Posts: 21

There's a lot of talent on the sceen getting overlooked mate shame really a lot of the bands could go a long way but I don't think nothing will change !

IF any 'billy type bands were to support a band such as Madness it should be someone such as The Long Tall Texans or maybe The Peacocks imo ,both bands who have Ska influences in many of their songs....but sadly,many of the people at the gig will have been there on a nostalgia trip, they may have liked Madness back in the day...but not been interested in any of the other Ska bands around at the same time, (Madness did become more pop than Ska in the end) never mind any of the 'billy bands from that period.