Seems like 2009 in the Ska flavored reunion and touring department is not all about The Specials as Madness comes out with a (did I read well) concept album 'The Liberty of Norton Folgate' released on May 18.
It was preceded by the single and video "Dust Devil' and they git the buzz going with a World Tour of Camden (video below, not the New Jersey one, mind you)/
They might have gone to rehab or adopted Buddhism but their new project is London Calling, all London all the time.
Simon Garfield gives us an inside look in Nutty boys? Well, yes, but with a new concept album about the capital, Madness have morphed into 'the working-class Pink Floyd (Guardian, May 17).
Bonne Chance, Lads!