Hiya Chris,nice meeting you at minehead by the way,had a really great time.Anyway,as Its the festive time of year and the old chris mas lol songs are about.Can you tell me why Madness were never involved with band aid or live aid come to mention it.Lots of the guys on facebook are interested in the answer
Cheers
John 🙂

Dear John
When that all happened we were in the darkest countryside rehearsing some new songs. We were only asked to take part in a photo session which didn’t seem all that important and we couldn’t make it back to London in time. The “Feed The World” song was recorded more or less straight after that. Coincidentally, about the same time, a fan came into our studio and suggested us doing a cover of The Pioneers “Starvation”. We recorded the song”

which was really good but in the massive wake of Band Aid it never received any airplay, so we got sort of sidelined.
CB