Last year’s Madness compilation Total Madness which is entirely produced by both Clive & Alan has now officially achieved gold status in the UK. See below for a picture of Clive accepting his award along with members of the band in music week.
Clive is currently working with Eugene McGuinness on his forthcoming album dor Domino Records (Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Robert Wyatt etc). at the Briggs Warehouse with Charlie Andrew.
Clive Langer’s seminal solo album Splash has been released with a heap of bonus tracks On Lemon Records (part of the Cherry Red Group). You can by the album from here and all good record stores.
Another of Clives recently reformed bands Deaf School are performing a couple of very special shows on the 17th of April in tribute of former singer Eric Shark (aka Sam Davis) who very sadly passed away on the 7th of January this year, the show is at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. Joining Deaf School will be Suggs, Kevin Rowland, Ian Broudie, Lee Thompson and Pete Wylie plus an extra special appearance by Deaf School original band member Paul Pilnick and, best of all, the lovely and talented Tina Sparkle! You can purchase tickets here
Following their sell out show at London infamous Jazz Cafe Man Like Me have hit the studio to work on the follow up to their self titled debut album with Clive Langer and, fellow Hannah Management producer , Charlie Andrew at the helm.
The album is due to drop later this year and will feature songs such as The Ex, Run Over and Why Bother. The band are headlining London’s Garage you can buy tickets here.
Dust Devil produced by Clive and Alan for Madness’ most recent studio album has been nominated for song of the year on BBC 6 Music you can vote for the track here.
Both Total Madness and The Liberty Of Norton Folgate have now been certified gold to cap a great year for Clive, Alan and Madness.
Madness’ new greatest hits package Total Madness featuring 23 Langer/Winstanley produced tracks and 22 music videos hit the charts at number 11 this week. It could be the boys second Gold record of the year!
In other news - HannaH Management’s new website has now been launched featuring a section dedicated to Clive and Alan which you can view here.
Madness fan site - Madness Central interviewed Alan a few months back and have now uploaded the interview to their website you can read the transcript and listen to it here.
Clive has now finished recording the album demos with Rob Skipper and the Musical differences. The band features ex members of the Holloways, The Paddingtons and The More Assured and these sessions also feature Ronnie Wood on guitar!
A couple of the demo’s are up on the bands myspace now expect big things.
Langer Winstanley produced Madness album The Liberty of Norton Folgate continues to go from strength to strength achieving silver status in less then 3 weeks with sales of over 70,000 in the UK alone. The album is expected to achieve gold status very soon.
Great news for both Clive & Alan and Madness this week they have not one but two albums in the UK top 40.
After its rapturous critical acclaim new album ‘The Liberty Norton Folgate’ has entered the chart at number 5, the highest position for a Madness studio album since 1981’s ‘7′ album. The bands first best of ‘Complete Madness’ originally released in 1982 has re-entered the charts again at number 38 too.
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