A Madness Wedding...

We haven't been playing at that many weddings recently. For a few years, it seemed like almost every Saturday we'd be setting up the band in some marquee or country house, hoping that we'd be given something decent to eat, rather than dry sandwiches, which for some reason people seem to think are musicians' favourites. Of late, calls from someone who wants a band for a wedding have been sufficiently spread apart that each one seems like a great excuse to get some of my favourite musicians together to do a gig where we have some fun. There's one coming up this Saturday which looks like being exactly that, as it's an excuse to get the great Mitch Hiller to come and sing with us, for the first time on a proper gig. While musing on this, while attached to the dialysis machine, the mobile rang (so far having it on in the hospital doesn't seem to have caused anyone's life support machine to tune to Radio 3, or any other such catastrophe). A vaguely familar voice said "Is that the Big Buzzard band? You might remember me, it's Suggs here" - and it was indeed that Camden ska singer who kept us all going through the 80s with some of the best pop songs ever. We did some gigs with him a few years ago at the Soho Ball organised by his mum! Well it looks like we might get to meet some more of the family, as he'd remembered us, and wondered whether we might be up for playing at his sister's wedding! I think we might...