Madness To Compete Against X Factor
Published Saturday, 29th August, 2009 at 12:58 PM
Madness are planning to go head-to-head with the winner of this year's X Factor for the Christmas number one this December.
"We are definitely going to do a Christmas tour and have talked about a single." Says Suggs. "Madness and Christmas go together like a horse and cart, but we've never done a Christmas single."
"Most bands are too scared to be cheesy now - we could give it some wham, bam." He added to the Daily Star.
Madness are currently celebrating their 30th anniversary and will be performing a special gig at the end of next month - when they play live in Regent Street in London as part of Absolute Radio's Birthday Party on September 27th.
"We live in a world full of clipboards and folk who don't want people to have fun but we've burnt the clipboards and got permission to close off the street."
"It's the first time a band will have done it." Suggs added.
