Iconic ska band, Madness, captivated thousands at Edinburgh Castle last night - treating crowds to music from their recent number one album alongside a string of best-selling hits including Baggy Trousers, Our House and It Must Be Love.
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00:00Hey, you! Hey, you! Hey, you! Hey, you!
00:03No, boys! No, boys! No, no!
00:05What is this?
00:07This is the heavy, heavy monster song of America!
00:12Hey! Hey! Hey!
00:16Hey! Hey!
00:42Hey! Hey! Hey!
01:021979, when we first heard them with the Prince,
01:07they mean absolutely everything.
01:09They're absolutely brilliant, and they're our life.
01:12That's it.
01:13And then we met them in the caretall in Dundee in 1981,
01:18and we got in to see them doing their soundcheck,
01:21and then we got backstage for them and had sandwiches in the cars,
01:25and once they got changed into their pelts and everything,
01:29then we went out at the front and watched them onstage after that,
01:32so it was amazing.
01:34I'm now 16, she's 61.
01:36I was 17.
01:37Sensitive.
01:38Sensitive.
01:39Sensitive.
01:40Long time fan.
01:41Absolutely.
01:42Whole life.
01:43Brilliant.
01:44Absolutely fantastic.
01:45Loved it.
01:46Any particular highlights?
01:48Everything.
01:49Oh, it's great.
01:50Particularly the end.
01:51Man, the end was brilliant.
01:52The end was absolutely stellar.
01:55We've seen them a few times.
01:57Wow.
01:58Mr. Graham Macpherson.
02:01Keep doing it.
02:02Brilliant.
02:03Yeah, no, I loved it.
02:04Cracking atmosphere.
02:06Brilliant.
02:07Cracking music.
02:08Everything you'd expect and more.
02:10Kicking things.
02:11It's good.
02:12Magic.