OH, what a perfect day. Saturday, August 8 1992. Eric Cantona, so briefly the Gallic godhead at Leeds United, had scored an impossibly wonderful hat-trick in a 4-3 win over Liverpool in the Charity Shield at Wembley before yours truly joined another vast crowd, all 72,000 of it, across North London at Finsbury Park, where Madness would reign again.
Not for six years had the Nutty Boys of Camden played, but ska replaced scars once more, and so Suggs and Co reconvened for a one-off one day festival, where the noise registered 4.5 on the Richter scale.
Madstock! turned out to be the first in an on-going chain of Madness reunion gigs that have since brought them to York Racecourse and Headingley cricket ground. That night, however, felt like one step beyond all expectations.
Disappointingly Salvo's CD and DVD package doesn't match the occasion. The running order is jettisoned on the CD, with four numbers consigned to bin ends, while the DVD needed to be more of a documentary.
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