Madness to play new LP at Hackney Empire

Rex Features

Madness will play new album The Liberty Of Norton Folgate in full at the Hackney Empire next month.

The album is the band's first collection of original material in ten years. The two-hour show takes place on June 24.

The band said the concert would be: "A bright shining virus of joy, therapy for the masses, a belter of a good night out."

The new album will apparently tell the story of "a city born in blood, mud and immigrant, which grew through adventure, betrayal and treason; fought to breathe the dirt, muck and scum of survival; raged through the pains of passion".

Tickets go on sale today.