Cathal Joseph "Carl" Smyth (born 14 January 1959), also known as Chas Smash, is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the secondary vocalist, trumpet player and dancer for the English band Madness from their inception in the late 1970s until 2014.

May 12, 2015 · During the 1980s Chas Smash found fame as the backing singer, trumpet player and dancer in the band Madness. 30 years later, Cathal Smyth has ditched the name, the porkpie hat and the baggy...

The Madness was a line-up of Madness without bassist Mark Bedford, drummer Daniel Woodgate and keyboardist Mike Barson, active between 1988 and 1989. Formed by Suggs, Chas Smash, Lee Thompson and Chris Foreman in 1988, they distinguished this line-up from the previous Madness line-up only by adding the word "The" to the band's name.

Cathal Joseph "Carl" Smyth (born 14 January 1959), also known as Chas Smash, is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His career spans more than 40 years. Smash came to prominence in the late 1970s as backing vocalist, trumpet player and …

Carl Smyth, also known as Chas Smash (born Cathal Joseph Patrick Smyth, January 14, 1959, in Middlesex Hospital, London, England), is an English born musician of Irish immigrant parents, best known as a backing singer and dancer in the 2 Tone ska/pop band Madness.

Jan 14, 2025 · Exploring the British surveillance practice of recruiting ‘supergrasses’ within the IRA and other Republican paramilitaries, the song’s anxious protagonist jumps at every phone call or moving shadow, afraid his clandestine informant activities will be discovered.

Jun 5, 2015 · Cathal Smyth - aka Madness trumpet player Chas Smash - talks to Cordelia Lynch about his new solo album, which charts the break-up and fall out from his 28-y...

May 8, 2015 · CATHAL SMYTH, better known as Chas Smash of British Ska band Madness, releases his first solo album this week. A Comfortable Man is a 12-track album and the product of a testing time in the musician’s life going back to 2005 and the break-up of his 28-year marriage, when sorrow turned to song while the artist was recovering in an Arizona ...

Cathal Joseph "Carl" Smyth (born 14 January 1959), also known as Chas Smash, is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the secondary vocalist, trumpet player and dancer for the English band Madness from their inception in the late 1970s until 2014.

Sep 27, 2024 · In a career spanning more than 30 years, Smash came to prominence in the late 1970s as the backing vocalist, trumpet player, harmonica player and dancer for the English ska band Madness. Contents. Chas Smashwith The Blockheads What a Waste; Madness trumpet player chas smash on new album a comfortable man; Early years; Music career; Personal life