TICKETS for a show starring Suggs at Worcester's Huntingdon Hall have already sold out, so no one can say, "you're an embarrassment" to the Madness front man, who wants to talk about his life.

All seats are taken for the show on April 29, from 8pm; and to think it all started with a dead cat.

Suggs said: "I've turned 50, the kids have left home, and my cat just died."

In "Suggs: My Life Story" the Madness frontman takes to the stage in "an amusing, yet moving, one man tour de force that has garnered rave reviews".

A spokesman said: "The death of Suggs' beloved cat on his fiftieth birthday triggers a personal quest to discover what happened to the father he never knew.

"Stunned by what he learns, Suggs is taken back to his childhood on the tough streets of 1970s Soho and his first appearance on Top Of The Pops at the age of eighteen."

The spokesman added: "Is it a play? Is it stand up comedy? Is it Music Hall? Whatever it is, hold on to your seats as Suggs goes on to stumble and plummet through the trap door of failure, then trampoline back up to catch the passing trapeze of show business success."

The show features "musical accompaniment and uncalled for interjection from Deano, his loyal manservant-come-pianist".