Still crazy

It’s been a busy, and surreal, year for Madness, topped with a new album. Ed Power spoke to frontman Suggs

MADNESS frontman Graham ‘Suggs’ McPherson stands in a laneway in central London, grinning self-consciously. A paparazzi photographer has just popped out of nowhere and, true to his status as British National Treasure, Suggs is doing the decent thing and giving his best pop-star pose.

“They’re all over Soho nowadays,” he says, resuming his stroll through the fashionable district off Oxford Street. “What bothers me is that the pictures never get fucking used. I am snapped all the time. And they never bloody appear anywhere.”