Madness
Penthouse Omni College Concert 1007
Broadcast Week of October 30, 1983
Broadcast Week of October 30, 1983
Recorded at:
Dominion Theatre,
London, England
March 2, 1983
Dominion Theatre,
London, England
March 2, 1983
01 Pete Larkin, Richard Skinner - Penthouse Omni College Concert 1007 Intro
02 Madness - House of Fun
03 Madness - Disappear
04 Madness - Close Escape
05 Madness - Bed And Breakfast Man
06 Madness - The Sun And The Rain
07 Madness - Blue Skinned Beast
08 Madness - Embarrassment
09 Pete Larkin - Penthouse Omni College Concert 1007 Break
10 Madness - Rise And Fall
11 Madness - Sunday Morning
12 Madness - Razor Blade Alley
13 Madness - Tomorrow's (Just Another Day)
14 Madness - Grey Day
15 Madness - Baggy Trousers
16 Madness - Our House
17 Pete Larkin - Penthouse Omni College Concert 1007 Outro
02 Madness - House of Fun
03 Madness - Disappear
04 Madness - Close Escape
05 Madness - Bed And Breakfast Man
06 Madness - The Sun And The Rain
07 Madness - Blue Skinned Beast
08 Madness - Embarrassment
09 Pete Larkin - Penthouse Omni College Concert 1007 Break
10 Madness - Rise And Fall
11 Madness - Sunday Morning
12 Madness - Razor Blade Alley
13 Madness - Tomorrow's (Just Another Day)
14 Madness - Grey Day
15 Madness - Baggy Trousers
16 Madness - Our House
17 Pete Larkin - Penthouse Omni College Concert 1007 Outro
Runout grooves:
College Concert #1007-A
College Concert #1007-B
College Concert #1007-A
College Concert #1007-B
This was also broadcast as BBC Rock Hour #422 on May 29, 1983 (versions A and B).
A longer version was issued twice, as BBC Transcription Services In Concert 301 and a CD version as Classic In Concert 6. Both of these add "My Girl," "Madness," and "Tomorrow's Dream."
In America, three songs made it into the Billboard Hot 100: "Cardiac Arrest" at #33, the big hit "Our House" #7, with "The Sun And The Rain" sputtering out their two years on the chart. In America, it's all "Our House." That's the only one that you remember, and it still gets airplay. But that's it, they're effectively a one-hit wonder here.
In the United Kingdom, "from 1980 to 1986...when the band's songs spent a total of 214 weeks on the UK Singles Chart, holding the record along with English reggae group UB40 for most weeks spent by a group in the UK singles chart during the 1980s." Thirty-six charting singles over a career that saw them with a #1 album in 2023.
