Is Madonna planning a tour stop in Australia?

 

Is the groundwork being laid for an Australian tour next year by the queen of pop, Madonna?.

According to sources, preliminary work has started on a potential tour and confidential feelers have been put out regarding accommodation and venue availability.

But approached about the possibility of Madonna heading Down Under, promoter Live Nation yesterday offered a polite but firm 'no comment'.

The singer has a massive global deal with Live Nation, which looks after all her tours.

Plans for Madonna to undertake an Australian tour in January 2009 were scrapped because of the global financial crisis. She last visited in 1993, and has bypassed Australia with each subsequent world tour.

 

news.com.au

 

Boy George FINALLY says something good about Madonna

In an interview with British paper The Daily Mail singer Boy George says:

 

“I wish I’d done all this 20 years ago. I wish I’d gone running with Madonna when she asked me 20 years ago. I used to say, ‘I only run when people chase me.’ But I get it now. I wanted to give up all the self-medicating things I was doing. I remember saying, ‘I won’t be like this at 40.’ But I was. In fact, it got worse.”

 

Source: Daily Mail

'Your voices must be heard''

 

"New Yorkers your voices must be heard. Tell your state Congressmen to support same sex marriage bill. All you need is love"

 

Madonna, via Guy Oseary's Twitter

"Madonna" appears in Weird Al "Perform This Way" Music Video

 

In Weird Al's music video "Perform This Way," which lampoons "Born This Way," there are references to "Express Yourself" a Madonna impersonator even pops up in the video. The video premiered today.

 

Here's Pics from the video:

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Gaultier talks Madonna

 

HL: You continue to work with some of the most exciting musicians in the industry, from Madonna to Kylie Minogue to Lady Gaga. Are there any other contemporary pop stars you have your eye on?

JPG: I have had the privilege to have worked with those that I admire, whether it be Madonna [in music] or Pedro Almodóvar in the cinema. I don’t know, there are interesting people out there, but they have to want to work with me.

 

HL: Tell us about your working relationship with Madonna in the 80s and 90s. Where did the idea for that infamous cone bra come from?

JPG: The first time I saw Madonna was on Top of the Pops. She was singing “Holiday,” and she had a fabulous look. (I actually thought that she was English because she was so stylish.) She was into the same things that I was doing at the time, like crosses, oversized jewelry, and fishnets. The second time I saw her live was at the first MTV awards in New York at Radio City Music Hall. It must have been 1984. She sang “Like A Virgin” in a wedding dress and was simulating “self contentment” or “self satisfaction,” to put it euphemistically. The audience was mostly business people, who were horrified. There were just a few young fans–and me, who absolutely loved it. That is when I realized that she couldn’t care less what others thought of her, and I also saw how powerful she was. I was a real fan of Madonna – I loved her music as well as her “personage”. I loved her being the director of her own appearance.

When I saw her first concert in Paris (Who's That Girl Tour), I said to myself that she should have asked me to do the costumes. I thought that I would have done them better. So, two years later, when my PR told me just before a prêt-a-porter show that I had to call Madonna, I thought that someone was playing a joke on me. But three days later, I asked if it was true and, to check, I called the number I was given. And it was her in person. She answered, “Hi, Gaultier.” Blonde Ambition tour was a real collaboration, friendship, and complicity. She was frightened of nothing, and our vision was in complete harmony and symbiosis.

 

source: openingceremony.us

An add is featured in Billboard magazine, a special Madonna Typography

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Darren Hayes , singer-songwriter known for Australian group Savage Garden and has 3 solo albums under his belt is releasing a new single "Talk Talk Talk " accompanied by a B-side cover of the title "Angel" by Madonna.

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Darren has also covered Dress You Up & Ray Of Light.

Anne Rice ''most certainly a huge Madonna Fan''

 

Celebrated author Anne Rice took part in a meeting via Barnes and Noble page on Facebook on Tuesday and when someone asked her if she was a Madonna fan her words were...

 

"Joe Marett, yes, I am most certainly a huge Madonna Fan. I've always thought she was exquisitely talented. Her great performance in Evita was underrated. She did a terrific job. I've found her rock videos deliciously disturbing and entertaining. She is a brave and interesting woman. Also she's a Catholic artist, and Catholic themes run through her work. I like that".

From RollingStone.com

Madonna voted The Queen Of Pop at RollingStone.com

 

Rolling Stone’s Readers Poll: The Queen of Pop

 

Last week we did some serious number crunching and created the Rolling Stone Queen Of Pop Index – a ranking of the current top 16 female pop recording artists. To be as up-to-date as possible, we only examined data from the last two years – which excluded all artists that hadn’t work in that time period. Needless to say, this pissed off some fan communities. Madonna fans were particularly enraged, even though her last album was released in early 2008 and she’s been off the road since the summer of 2009. One particularly nutty critic even accused of taking bribes from Lady Gaga. Well, I’m still waiting for my check. (Hey Gaga, make it out to “cash” this time. We can’t have a paper trail.)

With all the fan feedback, we decided to poll our readers so they could name their own queen of pop. Here are the results.

 

1. Madonna

To say that Madonna won this poll in a landslide would be like saying that she was a kind of popular pop singer in the 1980s. It wouldn’t even begin to explain the scope of the situation. She received five times as many votes as Lady Gaga, who landed in second place by a very comfortable margin. The only persistent criticism that Gaga has dealt with in recent years is that she’s too much like Madonna. It’s a hard shadow to escape. Madonna is a musical icon without peer. Her run of hits over the past 30 years is simply astounding, and when she hits the road, tickets sell like it’s a Led Zeppelin reunion tour. Sure, her last few albums didn’t match up to the classics. Nobody cares. She’s Madonna. Lady Gaga has accomplished more in recent years than any artist of her era, but she’s still got a long climb until she reaches Madonna level. It’s very likely that no other artist will ever reach it though. Her manager Guy Oseary recently tweeted that she’s started recording her 13th studio album, so clearly she has no intention of slowing down anytime soon.

 

2. Lady Gaga

3. Britney Spears

4. Tina Turner

5. Beyoncé

6. Aretha Franklin

7. Katy Perry

8. Cher

9. Elton John

10. Mariah Carey

Madonna's long time backing singer from 1987-2007 Donna Delory is kicking off her european tour this friday night!

The dates are:

London, England

Friday, July 15th, 2011 7:00 PM - Jivamukti Yoga Centre London

 

Antwerp, Belgium

Saturday, July 16th, 2011 8:00 PM - Antwerp Yoga

 

Berlin, Germany

Sunday, July 17th, 2011 7:00 PM - Jivamukti Yoga Berlin

 

Berlin, Germany

Monday, July 18th, 2011 7:00 PM - Jivamukti Yoga Berlin

 

Graz, Austria

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 8:00 PM - Yuna Yoga

 

Munich, Germany

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 7:00 PM - Yogalounge

 

Freiburg, Germany

Thursday, July 21st, 2011 7:00 PM - Yoga Lounge

 

Geneva, Switzerland

Friday, July 22nd, 2011 1:00 PM - Aom Yoga

 

Sezzadio, Italy

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011 8:00 PM - Bliss Beat Yoga & Music Festival

 

Venice, Italy

Sunday, July 24th, 2011 7:00 PM - Shanti Daan

Morrissey talks Madonna and Gaga

 

What is your take on what’s happening in the music world today? There are dramatic figures like Lady Gaga reigning in pop music, but do you think it’s anything new or different from what you’ve seen throughout your tenure in this world?

 

I say without bitterness that it is nothing new. I like the idea of women who are in full control, but I am tired of seeing singers who cannot deliver a song without the aide of seven hundred and fifty frenzied dancers assuming the erotic. It is actually fraudulent, and the exact opposite of erotic. Edith Piaf was seven inches high, always wore a modest black dress, and sang without stage sets or lights, and her voice roared above the wind, with the most incredible powers of communication. I’d like to see McDonna [Madonna] attempt that.

 

Billboard

Christopher Ciccone says he can make Lady Gaga a star....

Guy Oseary and his wife are expecting their third child.

Rihanna: 'Madonna is my biggest inspiration

Rihanna has named Madonna as the pop icon who has inspired her the most.

 

The ‘California King Bed’ star praised the 52-year-old singer for being able to continually reinvent herself successfully after three decades in the industry.

 

When asked about her inspirations, Rihanna told We Love Pop: “I think that Madonna was a great inspiration for me, especially on my earlier work.”

 

She added: “If I had to examine her evolution through time, I think she reinvented her clothing style and music with success every single time.

 

“And at the same time remained a real force in entertainment in the whole world.”

 

Digital Spy

Amy Winehouse on Madonna, Madonna on Amy Winehouse

Let's see what the two divas had to say about each other...

 

"At age 11, I used to listen Madonna's The Immaculate Collection every day", said Amy Winehouse, before she discovered black and pop-jazz music.

 

And Madonna stated, in her 2008 interview for ELLE magazine: "I think Amy Winehouse is amazing. She is dealing with many demons, but is young and has an incredible talent. I hope she can make it to the top."

Madonna’s Express Yourself on Time’s 30 All-Time Best Music Videos list

 

Madonna has always been a keen student of pop-culture history, and her creative powers were probably at their peak in the late 1980s on the album Like a Prayer. But while the title track generated the most controversy, the multimillion-dollar video for “Express Yourself” generated the most praise. Shamelessly ripping off the 1920s Fritz Lang classic Metropolis (the epigraph of the clip — “Without the heart, there can be no understanding between the hand and the mind” — paraphrases a recurring mantra of the movie), a young director by the name of David Fincher expressed himself by harnessing all of Madge’s signature leitmotifs (the blond hair! her outfits! naked men! a running metaphor to do with a cat!). The video is as powerful to watch as the star herself.

 

Time.com

Madonna fan denies energy drink theft

 

A Madonna fan has denied breaking into her house and stealing energy drinks.

 

Grzegorz Matlok, 30, pleaded not guilty to three counts of burglary for allegedly breaking into the ‘Holiday’ singer’s £10 million 10-bedroom mansion in Marylebone, London, and taking a can of Red Bull energy drink.

 

A court heard yesterday (03.08.11) how Matlok allegedly used a rope to climb to the balcony of the Georgian townhouse, broke in through a window, then entered the two next-door properties owned by the singer, who was in the US at the time of the incident.

 

Matlok was arrested on March 12, after being wrestled to the ground by bodyguards at the 52-year-old star’s home after being found clutching several of her possessions.

 

A senior police source said at the time: “Something dreadful has happened here. The security around the world’s most famous pop star should be impregnable.”

 

Grzegorz was subsequently declared unfit for trial and sent for mental evaluation. Yesterday a judge remanded him in custody and fixed a trial date for September 12.

 

At the time of the break-in, Madonna – who has four children, Lourdes, 14, Rocco, 10, Mercy, six, and five-year-old David – was in Bay City, Michigan, paying her respects to her late 99-year-old grandmother, Elsie Mae Fortin, who had helped raise the singer and her five siblings after their mother died of breast cancer

Wasn't too sure where to post this, but if this is the thread where you post random Madonna stuff, this seems like a good thread.

 

Has anyone seen this video? It's amazing!! :o :w00t:

 

 

it is amazing i reckon M would love this!!