Monday 17 April 2023

Exclusive footage of Britain colonising France (1980)

Madness - Night Boat To Cairo
(From Le Collaro Show; 1980)



Because I'm still in the 2 Tone zone after Dance Craze, here's Madness doing Night Boat To Cairo on some French TV show in 1980. It's a mimed performance, but in the best way possible. Word around town, England's 2022 World Cup semi-final loss to France was reparations for this clip. Parlez-vous Francais, mi amor, merci, oui oui, bon bons, good moaning and all apologies.

Back in 2019 I tried to solve the ever-enduring question of One Step Beyond or Night Boat To Cairo? In hindsight, the answer is clearly BOTH!

6 comments:

Devoted martorialist reader said...

"C'est des calamités ces mecs-là" ahaha Stéphane Collaro!

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

How bloody rude!

Yohan said...

I don't know a whole lot about Madness but I always have a blast listening to Night Boat to Cairo.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

One of my favourite New Year's Eves was when the bloke DJing my local pub played a buncha Madness hits in a row. A proper NYE knees up.

P. Levis said...

in France in the late 90s early 00s we had another ska revival. white rastas singing terrible lyrics on major chords ska mixed with circus music and a lot of accordeon. wandering if that plague touched england as well.
something else : do you know any american podcast with critics or else talking about rap music today (and especially regional us rap). something that is not only interviews of rappers talking about how they are great entrepreneurs.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

No idea, tbh - I don't listen to podcasts.

Thankfully I can't recall a British equivalent of that Ska revival 😆