THINGS have got a bit surreal since Madness frontman Suggs was a 12 year old on the tough streets of North London.

He'll be telling his story, asking how he has "managed to get away with it so long", to a love one man show, stopping in Essex at the Palace Theatre in February and then just north of the border at the Ipswich Corn Exchange in March.

The show, titled 'Suggs: What a King Cnut' comes due to huge popular demand, after his first tour-de-force smash hit, one man show, My Life Story.

If the first show was about how on earth he got there, ‘Suggs: What a King Cnut’ is about the surprises that awaited him when he did, such as vertigo on the roof of Buckingham Palace; nearly blowing the closing ceremony of the Olympics and watching his underpants fall to earth on Bowie’s driveway...

Constantly expecting that inevitable tap on the shoulder to hear the words‘what are you doing here, Sunshine?’ Suggs is only too aware hoe, in this business you can be washed up at any minute.

Fame is a tightrope and he has fallen off many times. But for all the near death experiences he says he "takes great solace in the words of the Greek philosopher, Blondie: The tide is high, but I’m holding on…"

Suggs: What a King Cnut comes to the Palace Theatre, London Road, Westcliff on Tuesday February 6 at 7:30pm.

Tickets are £32 available from southendtheatres.org.uk