Hi Chris,
Just listening to the excellent CRUNCH! album, & was wondering , would these songs have been destined for the next Madness album,(had you not split up), or were they always written with the intention of being a side project?
Thanks Andy

Dear andy
The “Magic Carpet” tune was actually also written by Suggs in the last throes of THE Madness. We were writing some new songs and it all just fell apart. Otherwise Thommo and I wrote that album really quickly. It wasn’t anything to do with Madness. Looking back now, I should have rustled up the rest of the band and made it a Madness album but at the time it wasn’t really possible.
thanks CB