{"id":973978,"date":"2019-12-10T15:02:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T22:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=925085"},"modified":"2019-12-10T15:02:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T22:02:14","slug":"madness-announce-40th-anniversary-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/madness-announce-40th-anniversary-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Madness Announce 40th Anniversary Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Madness.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>British rock band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/madness\/\">Madness<\/a> are hitting the road again in 2020. More than 40 years after the release of their debut album, 1979\u2019s ska-punk-y <em>One Step Beyond\u2026<\/em>, Madness will be performing a slew of tour dates, including their first U.S. shows in eight years.<\/p>\n<p>The tour will feature most of the band\u2019s core lineup as well: frontman Graham \u201cSuggs\u201d McPherson, keyboard\/pianist Mike Barson, bassist Mark Bedford, drummer Dan \u201cWoody\u201d Woodgate, saxophonist Lee Thompson and guitarist Chris Foreman.<\/p>\n<p>The British hitmakers will be playing four shows on this side of the pond, including a headlining set at Punk Rock Bowling &amp; Music Festival in Las Vegas. They\u2019ll also perform at the House of Blues in Boston, Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City and the Fox Theater in Oakland, California.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets to their North American shows \u2014 as well as ones in Europe, the U.K. and Dubai \u2014 go on sale this Friday, December 13th.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Madness 2020 North American Tour Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May 21 \u2014 Boston, MA @ House of Blues<br \/>May 22 \u2014 New York, NY @ Hammerstein<br \/>May 25 \u2014 Las Vegas, NV @ Punk Rock Bowling &amp; Music Festival<br \/>May 27 \u2014 Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/madness-40th-anniversary-tour-925085\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British rock band Madness are hitting the road again in 2020. More than 40 years after the release of their debut album, 1979\u2019s ska-punk-y One Step Beyond\u2026, Madness will be performing a slew of tour dates, including their first U.S. shows in eight years. The tour will feature most of the band\u2019s core lineup as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 16:09:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}