Rock 'N' Roll Book Club At The Union + Madness : One Step Beyond

0	LONDON: The Union Club
P	Wednesday 27th March, 2019
N	7:00pm

LONDON: The Union Club

Wednesday 27th March, 2019

7:00pm

Event information

Rock 'N' Roll Book Club At The Union- Following a great run of Rock 'N' Roll Book Club events at the uber iconic Dublin Castle in Camden Town, Bugbear and Julie Hamill are very pleased to bring their literary and musical collaboration to The Union in Soho as part of The Union Sessions. What better environment for an urbane and erudite evening of author interaction, Q and A and book signing with some remarkable writers?

Published author and expertly attuned interviewer Julie Hamill will be posing the questions, plus there will be select performances and mindfully fashioned DJ sets by Tony Gleed (Soho Radio, Boogaloo Radio) .

Our second Union Sessions presentation features revered British pop institution, the legends that are Madness, and the 33 1/3rd book of 'One Step Beyond' Author Terry Edwards is the multi instrumentalist renaissance man of head spinning multiple musical machinations...starting in pithy punk funk indie peasants The Higsons back in the early 1980s thru Gallon Drunk, Tony Visconti's Holy Holy, Madness, PJ Harvey, Lydia Lunch, The Near Jazz Experience, The Scapegoats and really, really tooooo many more to mention!

"One Step Beyond" isn't the best album in the world it's not even the best album by Madness. It is, however, a great record and an exceptional debut album". Arriving fully formed despite half the band still being in their teens, it remains as exhilarating, inspiring and as much fun as when people first heard it nearly 40 years ago.

Through extensive interviews with the band, as well as producers Clive Langer & Alan Winstanley, Terry Edwards tells the inside story of how Madness rose to be the most successful singles band of the 1980s in the UK charts.

Terry faces the white hot Q and A of our resident scribe Ms Julie Hamill tonight alongside Mark 'Bedders' Bedford, bass maestro and sometime songwriter from yer actual Madness with bespoke musical illustrations care of DJ Tony Bugbear and a Madness roots, shoots and fruits set featuring a complete play through of this classic LP..let's see if we can't get a Nutty Train going all the way down Greek Street tonite...

STOP PRESS!! NUTTY NEWS!!- There will be a surprise performance element from Terry and Mark tonight too (ok less of a surprise if you're now reading this) , but we have to gird our loins as to what it is. I'm in suspenders! AND THERE'S MORE! Who are the yoot dem pretenders to the Madness throne for the 2020s (although Les Garcons Nutty will have of course keep on keeping on) ? Who? Death Of Guitar Pop that's who. Silky and Top Kat from the band will perform a couple of stripped down numbers this evening as part of this ska pop cavalcade of infotainment, education, and entertainment. Did somebody say House Of Fun?