Can't Touch Us Now

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	75/100[6]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[7]
Financial Times	[8]
The Guardian	[4]
The Independent	[9]

The first single from the album, "Mr. Apples", was released in September 2016 and A-listed on BBC Radio 2.[10] For the first time since Sugar And Spice in 2009 a scripted video was released. The song "Herbert" was released as a teaser on 14 October 2016, two weeks prior to the album.[11] It was accompanied by an animated lyric video in the style of the album's artwork. On Friday 18 November, at the start of the 2016 "House of Fun Weekender" at Butlin's, the band announced title track "Can't Touch Us Now" as the second single from the album, accompanied by a brand new video which contained a performance by the band and footage from the album's ad.

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[12]

Madness

• Graham "Suggs" McPherson – lead and backing vocals, tambourine, brass arrangements
• Mike Barson – upright piano, organ, harpsichord, electric piano, glockenspiel, celesta, Mellotron, guitar, saw, backing vocals, string and brass arrangements
• Chris Foreman – guitar, Mellotron, Roland Juno-60, brass arrangements
• Mark Bedford – bass, double bass, tuba
• Lee Thompson – saxophone, lead vocals on track 9, backing vocals, Jew's harp, brass arrangements
• Daniel Woodgate – drums, programming, brass arrangements

Additional personnel

• Mike Kearsey – trombone, brass arrangements
• Steve Hamilton – baritone saxophone, brass arrangements
• Joe Auckland – trumpet, banjo, brass arrangements
• Mez Clough – percussion
• Ade Omotayo – backing vocals
• Spider J. – backing vocals
• London Community Gospel Choir – backing vocals
• Elise De Villaine – backing vocals
• Jo Archard – violin
• Kirsty Mangan – violin, string arrangements
• Amy May – viola
• Sarah Chapman – viola
• Rachael Lander – cello
• Clive Langer – production
• Liam Watson – production
• Charlie Andrew – production, mixing, electric piano
• Madness – production, string arrangements
• Katie Earl – assistant mixing engineer
• Paul Agar – design, layout
• Perou – photography

The Greatest Show on Earth - disc 2

• Madness – vocals (1)
• Ade Omotayo – backing vocals (1)
• Lee Thompson – vocals (3, 9, 10, 12, 13), production (3, 9, 13), mixing (3, 9, 13)
• Nick Woodgate – vocals (4, 6)
• Mike Barson – vocals (5), all instruments (9), production (5, 8, 9, 11-14), mixing (5, 8, 11-14)
• Mark Bedford – bass (6)
• Graham "Suggs" McPherson – vocals (8, 11, 14)
• Clive Langer – production, mixing (1)
• Liam Watson – production, mixing (1)
• Chris Foreman – production, mixing (2, 7, 10)
• Keith Finch – production (3)
• Daniel Woodgate – production, mixing (4, 6)

• Can't Touch Us Now at Discogs (list of releases)