Madness - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: In Concert, New Broadcasting House, London, Britain, 12-11-2025

Here's a concert from a mere week ago (as I post this in mid-December 2025). It's the British band Madness performing a concert for the BBC. 

True, they're getting pretty long in the tooth by this time, and I wasn't sure at first if I wanted to post this or not. But they've done pretty well in their later years, both commercially and critically. In fact, their most recent album, "Theatre of the Absurd Presents C'est la Vie," released in 2023, actually reached Number One in the British album charts. Surprisingly, that was their first number one album (though it should be noted that doesn't mean nearly as much as it used to, since album sales have plummeted in general). 

Most importantly, I listened to the album and though it was a strong performance, so I decided to post it. This could easily be mistaken for a recording from decades earlier. That's true of the song list as well. They were promoting a new greatest hits album, released the month before, so they concentrated on their best known songs and didn't play anything from their latest album. The only surprise is they finished with the cover song "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday," a hit for Wizzard in 1973, to mark the Christmas season.

I found a high-quality video file of this concert at a bootleg site. I converted it into audio format and chopped it into mp3s. The music here is unreleased, but the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 12 minutes long.

01 talk by Jo Whiley (Madness)
02 One Step Beyond (Madness)
03 Embarrassment (Madness)
04 talk (Madness)
05 The Prince (Madness)
06 talk (Madness)
07 NW5 (Madness)
08 talk (Madness)
09 My Girl (Madness)
10 talk (Madness)
11 The Sun and the Rain (Madness)
12 talk (Madness)
13 Return of the Los Palmas 7 [Instrumental] (Madness)
14 talk (Madness)
15 Wings of a Dove (Madness)
16 talk (Madness)
17 Lovestruck (Madness)
18 talk (Madness)
19 Bed and Breakfast Man (Madness)
20 talk (Madness)
21 Shut Up (Madness)
22 talk (Madness)
23 Mr. Apples (Madness)
24 talk (Madness)
25 House of Fun (Madness)
26 talk (Madness)
27 Baggy Trousers (Madness)
28 Our House (Madness)
29 talk (Madness)
30 It Must Be Love (Madness)
31 talk (Madness)
32 Madness (Madness)
33 Night Boat to Cairo (Madness)
34 talk (Madness)
35 I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (Madness) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/oEs7aFLZ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/5kL2wdH1y2g9QUH/file

The cover image of the band's lead singer Suggs is a screenshot I took of a video of this exact concert.