The Liberty Of Norton Folgate - Madness

'The Liberty of Norton Folgate' is the first album in 10 years from 80's Ska band Madness and it been well worth the wait. Madness are London boys, originally from Camden Town. In TLONF (as I will refer to it from here on in) Madness show us just how proud they are to be Londoners with this collection of stories from the city. Strange title, as Suggs says in the introduction in the sleeve of this album, it sounds like something Syd Barrett may have come up with. In fact, it's to do with a small area of London, around Spittlefields that became a Liberty - it didn't have to abide by the restrictions and laws of the rest of London. As Suggs says in this intro it ...  Read the complete review