Madness will return to the stage in summer 2024 for a run of massive outdoor shows.
The group will play across the UK in celebration of their new album, ‘Theatre Of The Absurd Presents C’est La Vie’, which arrived earlier this month.
Consisting of 19 dates, the band will launch the series in in Margate on June 14, before playing shows in Newcastle, Lincoln, Edinburgh and more through July, and wrapping up the final leg in August.
Tickets go on sale Friday (December 1) and are available here. The full list of dates is below.
JUNE 2024
14 – Summer Series, Margate
15 – Summer Sessions, Plymouth
16 – Summer Sessions, Southampton
28 – Racecourse, Newcastle
29 – Lincoln Castle
JULY 2024
5 – Edinburgh Castle
6 – Lytham Festival
12 – Open Air Theatre, Scarborough
13 – International Musical Eisteddfod, Llangollen
14 – Summer Sessions, Derby
18 – Cardiff Castle
19 – Englefield Estate
26 – Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds
27 – Ludlow Castle
28 – Uptown Festival, Blackheath
31 – Sandown Park Racecourse, Esher
AUGUST 2024
2 – Audley End, Essex
9 – Custom House Square, Belfast
10 – Galway Airport, Ireland
Madness’ new LP is their 13th overall and gave the band their first UK chart-topping studio album.
Reacting to the news, the band said in a statement: “Would you Adam and Eve it?! It only took us 40 years to get there but we’ve just gone and ruddy scored our first no 1 album with ‘Theatre Of The Absurd Presents C’est La Vie’ and we thought, what better way to celebrate than to announce a summer tour.
“There are still a few tickets left for some of the Christmas leg if you can’t wait until then though.”
In a review of the album, RETROPOP called ‘Theatre Of The Absurd Presents C’est La Vie’ one of the band’s “most varied and diverse” albums and “without question the band’s most pop-oriented in years”.
