DOWNLOAD: New Madness Track

Following their performance in last night's Olympics pomp, Suggs and co have a free download from their new, tenth album for you; festival and winter tour dates below

You probably watched them perform at the Olympics closing ceremony last night, alongside other legends of British music including The Who, Pet Shop Boys and, ahem, Kaiser Chiefs. Well, Madness have a new, as-yet-unnamed album on the way, and they’re offering a taster of it in the form of a free download from their website in exchange for an e-mail address here.

Rather than an everyone-together-now ‘Our House’, which seems to have become the unofficial anthem of Britishness of late, ‘Death Of A Rude Boy’, is a rather more sinister skank, with a little hint of The Specials lingering in that ‘Ghost Town’-esque organ line.

The single’s also been remixed by Andrew Weatherall, which you can download from iTunes.

While there’s no release date for the album yet, the band are setting out on a tour to support it, following a few festival dates:

AUGUST

Fri 17 – Belsonic Festival, Belfast

Sat 18 – V Festival, Weston Park, Staffordshire

Sun 19 – V Festival, Hylands Park, Chelmsford

NOVEMBER

Fri 23 – Mon 26 – House Of Fun Weekender, Butlins Minehead

Fri 30 – Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff

DECEMBER

Sat 1 – Brighton Centre, Brighton

Mon 3 – BIC, Bournemouth

Tue 4 – Plymouth Pavilions, Plymouth

Thu 6 – Capital FM Arena, Nottingham

Fri 7 – Echo Arena, Liverpool

Sat 8 – Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle

Mon 10 – SECC, Glasgow

Tue 11 – Motorpoint Arena, Sheffield

Thu 13 – LG Arena, Birmingham

Fri 14 – O2 Arena, London

Sat 22 – O2 Arena, London

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