Cathal Smyth
Praise for Before We Was We
A rollicking oral history of Madness’s early years ... a goldmine of quirky anecdotes
Q Magazine
[One of] the best books to buy music fans for Christmas
The Telegraph
Brilliantly assembled by journalist Tom Doyle as an oral history featuring the voices of all the members … tells you more about how a band becomes a band than any number of anecdotes about life in the studio
Financial Times
A rollicking oral history of Madness’s early years ... a goldmine of quirky anecdotes
Q Magazine
[One of] the best books to buy music fans for Christmas
The Telegraph
Brilliantly assembled by journalist Tom Doyle as an oral history featuring the voices of all the members … tells you more about how a band becomes a band than any number of anecdotes about life in the studio
Financial Times
A rollicking oral history of Madness’s early years ... a goldmine of quirky anecdotes
Q Magazine
[One of] the best books to buy music fans for Christmas
The Telegraph
Brilliantly assembled by journalist Tom Doyle as an oral history featuring the voices of all the members … tells you more about how a band becomes a band than any number of anecdotes about life in the studio
Financial Times