Theatre Of The Absurd Presents C’est La Vie
BMG
8/10
WHEN Madness were growing up in north London, Camden Palace was a somewhat forlorn reminder of London’s once grand music halls, those proletariat venues that combined music, social commentary, satire and broad comedy. By the 1970s, Camden Palace was a live music venue – Suggs and Lee Thompson used to see shows by breaking in through the dome at the top of the building – but that original spirit of London music hall has always been present in the carnivalesque, slapstick, oversized songs of Madness, a debt madeFittingly, will receive its live premiere at the Camden Palace – now known as Koko.
