{"id":1749,"date":"2006-12-21T10:58:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T10:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/12\/madness\/"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:58:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T10:58:44","slug":"madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/328955704\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/138\/328955704_57a70af11c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Madness at Wembley Arena\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBaggy Trousers was one of the first pop songs that really made an impact on me back in 1980 or so. I learnt all the words from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smash_Hits\">Smash Hits<\/a> (or maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Top_Of_The_Pops#Top_of_the_Pops_magazine\">Number One<\/a>). But I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madness_(band)\">Madness<\/a> live before&#8230; until last night. Wembley Arena was a heaving throng (far fewer seats than at Springsteen a few weeks ago), with lots of moshing up front.<br \/>\nI managed to smuggle my camera in &#8211; well actually it was spotted in my bag and I was told to deposit it with reception. I seemed to get lost on the way. I also inadvertantly brought in a hip flask (dropped into the lining of my coat at the last moment), and the worst thing you can take to a gig &#8211; the single thing that all concert venues ban. Yes &#8211; a bottle of water brazenly sitting there on display on the side of my bag. I think the security guard was more worried about the camera.<br \/>\nAnyway, more samizdat photos on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/sets\/72157594431240011\/\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baggy Trousers was one of the first pop songs that really made an impact on me back in 1980 or so. I learnt all the words from Smash Hits (or maybe Number One). But I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen Madness live before&#8230; until last night. Wembley Arena was a heaving throng (far fewer seats than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}