<p><strong>“Madness have made the album of their career.” - <em>Mojo</em></strong></p>

<p>Iconic UK ska band Madness is at it again - after over a decade of silence, they've released <em>The Liberty of Norton Folgate</em>, a sweeping love letter to their native city of London, and its very chequered history.</p>

<p>Coinciding with the album's release comes this film from Julien Temple (<em>Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten</em>, MIFF 07; <em>The Filth and the Fury</em>), which takes the humble ‘concert film' into new territory. Melding raucous concert footage from the historic Hackney Empire theatre with theatrical tableaus scattered around old London town, <em>The Liberty of Norton Folgate</em> resurrects the ghosts of London's past to tell the tale of a city born in blood, mud and immigrant dreams.</p>

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