Madness roll out Hits Parade show to Sheffield with special guests Squeeze

The Hits Parade tour will arrive at the Utilita Arena on December 4, 2025, where special guests Squeeze will be opening the show.

Madness said: “We are going to be parading through your town soon...bearing glittering hits of all shapes and sizes, everyone welcome.”

Fans can expect to hear Our House, It Must Be Love, Baggy Trousers, House Of Fun, One Step Beyond and many more Madness classics in a high energy, raucous set of ska/pop bangers.

Madness achieved their first ever UK Number 1 studio album in 2023, with the release of their latest record Theatre Of The Absurd Presents C’est La Vie. Throughout their career, the band have racked up 11 UK top ten albums, 15 top ten singles and have won a multitude of awards including a prestigious Ivor Novello. They’ve performed on the top of Buckingham Palace as part of the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations and set the record for the biggest ever audience for the BBC’s Live New Year’s Eve Broadcast - the most watched TV music event of 2018.

To celebrate Record Store Day UK this year, Madness are releasing a compilation of unique covers they’ve recorded through the years which have been carefully curated by the band. The record is available on an exclusive translucent red vinyl from April 12.

One of rock’s vital institutions, Squeeze will join Madness following their huge sold-out 50th Anniversary UK tour last year. Formed by Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford in the Seventies, the band’s classic hits include Up The Junction, Cool For Cats and Pulling Muscles From A Shell. Squeeze delivered exquisitely crafted albums including Play, Some Fantastic Place, Ridiculous and Domino through the 1990s. Reuniting in 2007 after solo careers, the ensuing decades have found Squeeze continuing to build their formidable body of work, with the release of the vigorous comeback albums Cradle to the Grave, The Knowledge as well as Food for Thought charity EP. Over the last year Squeeze have been working on two new records. Trixies will feature a collection of unreleased songs that Glenn and Chris wrote together back in 1974. The second album will be new material, both are set for release over the next two years.

Tickets for the Hits Parade show are now on sale at Sheffield Utilita Arena, priced from £45.50. Go to www.utilitaarenasheffield.co.uk