- You played on Regent Street last weekend so how did you get involved with that?
The Regent Street shop owners and Absolute Radio have got a festival going on and it's the first time that a band has ever blocked off Regent Street, we played in Piccadilly Circus, so what an end to a great year. It's amazing playing Piccadilly Circus in our home town.
- You are also going on tour this Christmas so how excited are you about getting back on the road?
We are always excited about that, we are very excitable people, and, like I tried to explain earlier (laughs), we are friends and our music is like our friendship it’s really great, it’s really hard to explain. Life has its ups and downs, and believe me my life has had some ups and downs, but being in Madness is a relief from the rest of the crap that goes on in your life.
So I’m very very fortunate to be amongst my friends and making music and this tour is going to be and so this tour is going to be the most extraordinary thing anyone has ever clapped eyes on.
- What makes you want to carry on, thirty years is a long time to be with the same bunch of people?
Yes it is. Friendship and a moral compass, you have got to be decent to people and they will be decent to you. The show business bit is a load of old crap what we have always done is said what we feel and acted responsibly, really we try.
- Finally what’s next for you?
I’m going to blow up in great big puff of euphoria
Total Madness is out now.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw