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Video: Suggs' Brilliant Britain
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In the My Brilliant Britain stars celebrate what they consider are the most British things about the nation.
Goldie has a passion for the full English breakfast and Kelvin Mackenzie explorations what makes the British sense of humour so distinctive, but Suggs talks to us about what floats his boat.
Wet, windy and wild, there's nothing like a British beach out of season.
Suggs tells us why he thinks Britain's beaches are the best.
What made you want to take part in the series?
I loved the idea of Brilliant Britain because we've battering ourselves about what a crap country this is. It was a great concept to do something celebrating this country because it is a great place and it's full of fantastic things.
Why did you want to look at British beaches?
It started off as a conversation about beach huts - I really like beach huts. I think most British men have a thing about small wooden sheds, be it a garage or a garden shed and the beach hut fits right in there, and then it just expanded from there. I think there'll be a renaissance for the British beach this year with the credit crunch. We've got an amazingly diverse coastline that has everything you could want.
What was your favourite place to visit?
Cornwall's got a lot of great beaches, as has South West Wales. We went to Skegness - oh my goodness that's a funny place out of season! We played a bit of bingo with the OAPs and did a bit of karaoke. Then we went to Mablethorpe which is spooky out of season. There's a feeling that you shouldn't be there, I kind of like it.
You've turned your hand to many things - singing, acting, presenting - what is it that you most love to do?
I can honestly say I like them all - I have a limited attention span. Music is my first love, but after a few months I'm very happy to do something else. The fact that I've been able to juggle these different things has been a great luxury and joy for me.
Madness' 30th anniversary is coming up this year, how are you planning to celebrate?
We're doing our own festival, Madstock, in July which is going to be great. We're playing at Glastonbury, we'll be on Jools Holland next week. A lot of things are happening.
Fans have been calling for the band to be more recognised by the industry - do you feel you've been ignored?
In the last few years we haven't been doing it full time so I suppose it's easy for the powers that be to hope that we'll go away. I can't complain, maybe we could have been given a bit more serious press but I think this year will change things, we've made a really good album.
What else have you got coming up?
I've just finished writing a book actually. It's called Suggs And The City: Journeys Through Disappearing London and it's just about my time in London and people and places that are disappearing unfortunately - things that I'm interested in basically.
Find out when Suggs' Brilliant Britain is on TV.
Goldie has a passion for the full English breakfast and Kelvin Mackenzie explorations what makes the British sense of humour so distinctive, but Suggs talks to us about what floats his boat.
Wet, windy and wild, there's nothing like a British beach out of season.
Suggs tells us why he thinks Britain's beaches are the best.
What made you want to take part in the series?
I loved the idea of Brilliant Britain because we've battering ourselves about what a crap country this is. It was a great concept to do something celebrating this country because it is a great place and it's full of fantastic things.
Why did you want to look at British beaches?
It started off as a conversation about beach huts - I really like beach huts. I think most British men have a thing about small wooden sheds, be it a garage or a garden shed and the beach hut fits right in there, and then it just expanded from there. I think there'll be a renaissance for the British beach this year with the credit crunch. We've got an amazingly diverse coastline that has everything you could want.
What was your favourite place to visit?
Cornwall's got a lot of great beaches, as has South West Wales. We went to Skegness - oh my goodness that's a funny place out of season! We played a bit of bingo with the OAPs and did a bit of karaoke. Then we went to Mablethorpe which is spooky out of season. There's a feeling that you shouldn't be there, I kind of like it.
You've turned your hand to many things - singing, acting, presenting - what is it that you most love to do?
I can honestly say I like them all - I have a limited attention span. Music is my first love, but after a few months I'm very happy to do something else. The fact that I've been able to juggle these different things has been a great luxury and joy for me.
Madness' 30th anniversary is coming up this year, how are you planning to celebrate?
We're doing our own festival, Madstock, in July which is going to be great. We're playing at Glastonbury, we'll be on Jools Holland next week. A lot of things are happening.
Fans have been calling for the band to be more recognised by the industry - do you feel you've been ignored?
In the last few years we haven't been doing it full time so I suppose it's easy for the powers that be to hope that we'll go away. I can't complain, maybe we could have been given a bit more serious press but I think this year will change things, we've made a really good album.
What else have you got coming up?
I've just finished writing a book actually. It's called Suggs And The City: Journeys Through Disappearing London and it's just about my time in London and people and places that are disappearing unfortunately - things that I'm interested in basically.
Find out when Suggs' Brilliant Britain is on TV.
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