MADNESS - Bed & Breakfast Man + Night Boat To Cairo (OGWT) Old Grey Whistle Test 11th December 1979

[@Toffeezigger]

And almost overnight kids at school picked up on Two Tone- it gave us a fantastic couple of years of music. This is Madness at their early best.

[@richardstocks9139]

Night boat to Cairo was IMHO their best ever song

[@seanmcshane3139]

Between that and Baggy Trousers for me

[@jasonedwards6870]

Yes. Michael Caine no.2.

[@jethrobradley7850]

That and My Girl. Oh and maybe their version of Swan Lake

[@hanktheblesseddeejay]

It must be love?

[@butnooneshome]

Grey Day ...

[@michaelMix-fl9ic]

I'm 69 this December...I'm still trying to PERFECT this dance movement

[@DermotMacNeill]

Me to 😂

[@dianamiino7391]

I'm 62 just today. Me too...

[@zolfodor4835]

55 me too mate 😂

[@billkingston4402]

New hips?

[@spiritov69]

💥💥💥💥🙏 Older men today are different

[@davidcoleman757]

Just about the most likeable band of the late 70s / early 80s. Their early stuff was such a breath of fresh air.

[@daviddowdall6000]

Superb

[@QuicknStraight]

Bed & Breakfast Man. Brilliant! Such happy days: teenager, great fresh music, carefree! Oh, and Chas Smash was cool 😎

[@herbert9241]

The genius of 2Tone was that it was so accessible to kids: school uniforms were easily adapted to suit the style; 2Tone took their road show to small-ish provincial towns so kids could feasibly go and see them on a school night and make it back home; the music was danceable. And Madness were a class act for demonstrating dance moves to their young audience. I was into rockabilly and psychobilly and - while some of the younger, upcoming bands played exciting, balls-out music - there was a lot of friction on the cusp of those styles where actual dancing was usurped by essentially rucking on the dance floor. I don't know for certain because I wasn't at those gigs but it seems to me 2Tone allowed everyone to do their thing on the dance floor, which is most admirable. Correct me if I'm wrong, anyone.

[@OlafProt]

Annie Nightingale. OGWT. Madness. It doesn't get much better. We all had Two-Tone or Madness Nutty Boy logo badges. Or all over our school books. Or drawn on our arms. Or all three. And I was only 8. Great days. Imagine these guys on the tiny stage at the Hope & Anchor 😂 😂

[@peternicholls6532]

Great memories from an iconic ground breaking group... still sounds so fresh today!

[@michaeljohnson5061]

First record I ever bought was driving in my car by Madness in Littlewoods in Liverpool (12 inch version) Over to you Anne. ❤🎷

[@AJP-kf7wq]

Love the OGWT, so much great stuff on there. cried when i couldnt go to see madness with my dad when i was 8. got to finally see them a couple of years ago. i could've cried again when the siren on night boat to Cairo sounded

[@badllama8090]

Brilliant, what a blast from the past! 👏👏🍻🍻

[@shaun30-3-mg9zs]

I went to see Madness Live back in July in Llangollen, Brilliant !!!! from a Mad fan from Wrexham

[@user-zx8cw2eb6e]

This is class. Great quality video and the band are so full of energy. Oh to have been to see them in some London pub at this time.

[@neilt7145]

Always loved Madness, saw them live at the Ovo in Glasgow last year, magnificent 👍

[@garryreed6410]

What a brilliant album. I was 14 years old. I loved the Two Tone scene.

[@alamocannon3791]

Saw them at the Top Rank in Brighton, Must of been 78/79 when One step beyond was in the charts.

[@torsten1767]

I saw the Boys live in Berlin 2022! Great Performance, but without the best Dancer Chas!! T., East Germany! I"m born in 1962 , and Punk& Ska& New Wave were my MUSIC! T.

[@briandoyle6188]

The madness logo should be an artistic icon,just brilliant 😁🤗I loved the second one but of course baggy trousers everyone in school was singing it well all the lads👍junior school

[@JD-cf3mv]

I was a huge 2 tone fan. And I remember watching Madness’ first performance on Top of the Pops and I remember my dad walking into the room to announce ‘what is this rubbish, call this music’. And I so wanted to tell him to f**k off and tell him he knows nothing about music. So now as someone with 3 kids I constantly have to bite my lip as i walk in on my kids listening today’s music as I’m always so close to saying ‘what is this crap, call this music!!’ Oh the irony!

[@lildookie8783]

As someone who was also a huge two-tone fan, let me tell you that your dad was wrong and you are very right! 😁

[@adz68]

Seen em live twice and never fail to deliver

[@simonpage5870]

Two excellent tunes

[@KarlJon-z2q]

Wow this was the music of my youth

[@andrewperkins8532]

Nobody did it like chas smash.

[@keithrobson593]

He was absolutely class. Cool as fuck

[@manwithnoname6580]

He IS the Ska dance. No one else comes close

[@ratscabies8458]

Chas was the original Bez !

[@erniescullion8452]

He was certainly talented good point I rem Cathal Smyth was his real name. aka Carl Smash. He fell out apparently. He wasnt Original member. DANIEL WOODGATE (WOODY),GRAHAM MCPHERSON (SUGGS),MICHAEL OR MIKE BEDFORD (BEDDERS),CHRISTOPHER KNOW AS CHRIS FOREMAN,LEE THOMPSON .Known as Lee Kicks THOMPSON, MICHAEL BARSON. Mike Barson or Barso. I saw this in MADDNESS Item in magazines.

[@kerrylester8437]

Great show, great group

[@richardjackson4128]

Brilliant band absolutely fantastic live

[@LdevArt]

saw them at cnd rally in 1983 at Brockwell Park. my first visit to London as an 'independent teenager'.. great day. they stole the show. superb.

[@shieldaigbencher]

Lovely to see early Madness.

[@MAC5REPORT]

Madness 1st album, One Step Beyond is so great

[@pdjhh]

So much work for saxophonists from 78 til 83 ish

[@MrJameswingham]

Astonishing, immortal music; the older I get, the more ridiculously young they all look

[@rogercantwell3622]

Woody almost looks 30 these days.

[@torsten1767]

MADNESS, THE BEST SKA EVER! I LOVE THE BOYS very much! Torsten, EAST GERMANY! ❤❤❤!

[@manwithnoname6580]

Chaz Smash dancing…. how to completely own the stage without singing a word.

[@alanmorris3601]

They just make you smile

[@baggy1067]

NBTC. 1979. I feel very old today

[@adrian1963]

Timeless,good old days gone.

[@SomewhereInside]

Just in case anyone’s wondering what madness were like live in concert…saw them in 198 something at Coogee Bay Hotel (Selina’s) there were so few people you could get a drink at the bar quickly, but it was an absolutely amazing show. They could play and perform 10/10.

[@kennymilne4134]

love it

[@davedennison7386]

My favourite nutty boy tune...b&b man....Suggs looks like a 14yr old kid

[@nellylight7025]

I loved them when I was 9.

[@jammybadger6514]

Saxophone player has some cool shades on.

[@ToreKleist]

And he's a great musician

[@SimonMiles-m8l]

What a band... every song is excellent... plus some more...

[@brianquinn6014]

45 years ago! How did this happen?

[@robert-trading-as-Bob69]

I thought I knew every song of Madness, but 'Bed & Breakfast Man' seems to have slipped under the radar for some reason. I know the words to most of their songs, especially 'The Return of the Las Palmas 7', abd at two different music quizz nights where Madness was the featured band, I've got 100%... but 'Bread & Breakfast Man'... there's nothing. As for 'Night Boat to Cairo', the saxophone still floors me today, nearly 40 years after hearing it for the first time.

[@GiT5UM]

B&B Man was on their 1st album 'One Step Beyond', you obviously have not listened to that one and it is a must for their legacy sound. Chocked full of goodies bro.

[@arshk3612]

@@GiT5UM loved that track - agree 100pc

[@Dazob66]

Waiter......

[@scott_leech]

thanks for posting

[@chemagallego]

Awesome

[@elizabethsamy9658]

2 tone ska rules ok

[@SirTed-c7g]

A 19 year old Suggs!

[@johnauld4071]

18! He was 19 the month after.

[@lewisgreen1633]

Mike Barson is a very talented musician..

[@stevenr2463]

brilliant!

[@TomBarrets]

Chas Smash for the win

[@Stube36]

Cool, they'll be something someday. Don't give up😉😂😂

[@benitolazio8193]

2024 = "night bus to Southall".

[@TheMOV13]

My final couple of years at school....

[@tyronerodgers]

Suggs is 18 here. Nuts!

[@noestahechalamielparatuboca]

geniales

[@ianmorley1312]

chas smash legend

[@ceedef3091]

Thommo and Chas dynamite here, tbf all the band were ✊

[@danielwatson30]

I found 4 identical original posters from 1970s i think 🤔

[@johnvine3985]

As the late great terry hall said, two tone was just a different version of punk.

[@Toxic2142]

💜

[@mitch2620]

Woody keeping the groove!

[@LdevArt]

great movement- both on stage and socially- inclusivity and multiculturalism at its finest.

[@ZZagu]

❤️❤️❤️🐈

[@tommymaguire2839]

SO much greatness here, but can someone tell me what the point of the guy "dancing" to Suggs' right is? What did that guy contribute? Did his Dad finance the band or something? I just don't get it.

[@ianedwards5826]

Chas Smash. Did the intro to One step beyond, singer, dancer and was original follower of the band.

[@tommymaguire2839]

@@ianedwards5826 thanks! I was truly perplexed.

[@markbrett2969]

​@@ianedwards5826 And what a dancer....!

[@proudman6598]

​@@ianedwards5826and so many people thinking it was Suggs

[@ianedwards5826]

Had a hand in writing the lyrics.

[@udeychowdhury2529]

💚💚💚💚

[@stevegrimes21]

Mad stock 92 Finsbury Park

[@rolandoflores7626]

0:54 cuando llego al restaurante de tacos 🌮😅

[@neilmurrell281]

Chas Smash 💪

[@hughdraper6335]

If only Coltrane done some of that.

[@teddybear9029]

Dr.martens, loafers, crombies, those were the days!

[@calebrush3833]

I wonder what ever happened to him .

[@ianedwards5826]

Lives in Ibiza.

[@garryherd3042]

Song about the late, Ian Stuart Donaldson

[@arshk3612]

no it was about Jon Hasler their manager who would end up staying over at their homes ..

[@garryherd3042]

@arshk3612 wrong it was about Ian they were best of friends , Fact, revenge-of-riff-raff.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-secret-history-of-suggs-from-madness.html?m=1

[@charliecroker6445]

Oh Annie Annie

[@pleidiolwyfimwlad2104]

Sounds like lord suggs has a bit of a cold

[@jonnyblamey]

When ordinary people still lived in Camden.

[@Sundae_Times]

Stop whining, snowflake

[@hamburgerhelperflick]

this lady's hair is exactly how girls are wearing their hair now!

[@chrisjackson9626]

Annie Nightingale, the first female presenter of the OGWT.

[@PeteEvans-ls7is]

Chas the original Bes😂

[@wokeybrokey8006]

Forgot how great they were..happy times

[@andrewthomas587]

Go on suggs rude boy razz

[@ianedwards5826]

They weren't a skinhead band exactly but skins liked them. Bad Manners were more of a skinhead band.

[@thetruthk5138]

Lip up fatty ;-)

[@LaPtiteAnglaise]

The positive side of adhd

[@coventrypunx1014]

😂😂

[@themelted4614]

Shit band madness. Obnoxious suggs & basically a prince buster caberat band.

[@kenrehill8775]

Barse showing some cool moves.

[@kenrehill8775]

Woody looks about 12