I really like that :o Amazing work.

Really ?, I didn't like it.

Yeah, its different, but still Madonna-esque.

James D’Arcy danced for Madonna

 

James D’Arcy has told how he learnt to dance for Madonna as he found her such an inspiring director.

 

The young actor plays Edward VIII in the singer’s directorial debut WE, about the king’s abdication over his relationship with Wallis Simpson.

 

James said: “There was a dance sequence that when I first saw it was like something out of Dancing With The Stars it was amazing – and I can’t dance.”

 

He added: “It was this extraordinary beautiful dance with lifts and twirls and I can’t do that, but you do because she somehow makes the impossible possible and it gives you amazing self esteem when you do these things.

 

“There’s nothing quite as good – to get a pat on the head for dancing from Madonna – that’s a pretty good feeling.”

 

The dance scene never made the final cut of the film, co-starring Andrea Riseborough, but he learned plenty of other skills for Madonna.

 

James said: “She challenged me to learn to play the bagpipes in six weeks, which is next to impossible I was told, but I did manage to do it because you feel like there’s no other way, you’ve just got to do it.

 

“I can ride horses already but I was in pretty good physical shape for that film and that was again at her request.

 

“I know that obviously her fame comes through a slightly different art form but she was more prepared than any director I have ever worked with, possibly with the exception of Peter Weir, but I mention her in the same sentence, that’s how prepared she was, she was extraordinary.”

 

AP

Sounds like Madonna is a good director :o Some of the Guy magic rub off on her? :kink:

Lindsey Wixson Once Played Musical Chairs With Madonna

 

Lindsey Wixson may be one of the modeling world’s biggest faces, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t get star struck. In an interview with Vogue UK, the 17-year-old rising star spills the beans about the most memorable experience of her career, why she fell so many times on the Fashion for Relief runway, and how her high school friends are, honestly, kind of a bunch of jerks.

Wixson sounds like she spent her high school years (like most of us, really) starring in her own personal version of Mean Girls.

'I was actually always really self-conscious about my gap (in her front teeth). In middle school, this group of girls were always trying to beat me up – they called my gap a parking lot. It was a really awkward time. I remember first mentioning to the girls I used to sit next to at lunch that I was looking for a model agent, and then the next week they came in with a list of things they didn’t like about me. I felt skinny and tall – it was the worst time of my life. But I don’t feel like that anymore. Modelling has really helped build my confidence.'

See, the good thing about being a supermodel is that when girls make fun of your teeth, you can airily tell them about the time you played musical chairs with Madonna.

'When I was shooting the Miu Miu campaign, Madonna turned up. She was supposed to be having dinner with the photographers Mert and Marcus, but they were busy shooting us, so she just had to wait. We started making the accompanying video and then Madonna stood up and said to us ‘I want to see if you girls can dance’. So we started playing Musical Chairs, with her counting the beats. She said, ‘It doesn’t matter if you’re out of time, just stay in character’. It was a brief meeting but pretty special.'

And as for the series of tumbles she took last week, Wixson told the British glossy, 'I’m over it all already. It was a mixture of the dress being too long and me walking too fast. I think I hadn’t had enough water, I was maybe a bit dehydrated.'

 

From Styleite

:lol: I'd love to play musical chairs with Madonna.

 

Thats a sentence I never thought I'd say :heehee:

I could never image her playing that game.

I could, I bet she is amazing at it :lol:

The Confessions Tour Drum Kit Charity Auction

 

The DW Custom Series 8 piece Drum Set (Electronic/Acoustic) used on Madonna's Confession Tour is now up for grabs on EBay.

 

Madonna's tour drummer Steve Sidelnyk himself is offering up this well documented DW Kit that has literally been around the world and played in front of some of the largest audiences of all time.

Steve is selling this kit to raise money for a Easter Seals Charity fundraiser. "These guys need your urgent support and publicity" - Steve says - "so bidders 100% of your money will go to a uniquely worthy cause.

 

Easter Seals Southern Californias mission is to provide exceptional services to ensure that all people with disabilities and other special needs and their families have equal opportunities to live, learn, work and play in their communities.

 

http://www.madonnatribe.com/i_32/dw_500.jpg

Madonna : Take A Bow

“MADONNA HAS SO MUCH INFLUENCE in every sphere. I think she could kill people just by looking at them.”

 

We walked by the paparazzi step-and-repeat and down a blue carpet in MoMA’s sculpture garden, passing male models who held umbrellas for guests in case of rain.

 

She has a lot of restraint, I suggested.

 

“She’s the only person that would make me pass out if I met them.”

 

Then: “Madonna, I’d like you to meet Ryan Trecartin! He’s a fabulous artist.”

 

Ryan Trecartin did not in fact pass out when Klaus Biesenbach introduced him to Madonna, though neither of us was able to muster any words for the occasion. She didn’t have much to say either. She just looked up at us dubiously (murderously?), her weapon eyes framed by black hipster glasses as she chewed on a piece of bread. (LOOKING GOOD! Perez Hilton e-scrawled on the shot-from-the-hip photo he posted the next day.)

 

Madonna sat next to James Franco, who sat next to Marina Abramovi?, who sat next to Terence Koh, who sat next to Lizzie Fitch at a small table that also included Trecartin, Spike Jonze, Guy Oseary, Daphne Guinness, Martha Wainwright, and professional crier Laurel Nakadate.

 

I sat at the next table, squeezed between MoMA PS1 curator Peter Eleey and Humberto Leon, dapper proprietor of Opening Ceremony. “The art world is the big tent,” a friend observed. “These kinds of meetings couldn’t be orchestrated anywhere else—or certainly not at this speed. People come into our world, but we don’t really send people out. Except maybe Kathryn Bigelow.”

 

The reason for Monday’s small gala dinner, announced only days before and coming less than two weeks after MoMA’s Party in the Garden, was ostensibly to celebrate a partnership between MoMA and Volkswagen (which is sponsoring some education programs, the current Francis Alÿs exhibition, and another show down the line). But why Madonna? “She’s here to see Hahn-Bin,” someone shrugged.

 

Hahn-Bin is the twenty-two-year-old Itzhak Perlman protégé currently in the custody of Biesenbach and surrogate of cool Brian Phillips. Wearing leather wedge-heeled boots, leopard-print tights, and a sleeveless black kaftan and white turban, Hahn-Bin did a spellbinding, virtuosic rendition of Ravel’s Tzigane, climbing atop the grand piano in the center of the atrium and swinging his bow into the air. The world’s number one Heather stood up from her seat and watched intently, arms folded, occasionally smiling and nodding her head to the ostinatti. After Hahn-Bin finished, Biesenbach swooped in, grabbed a chair, and sat him next to her. They enjoyed a public/private tête-à-tête, then hugged. She left almost immediately after.

 

“She was so nice!” Hahn-Bin said. “She said she’d call me. We have a lot in common. We’re both Leos.”

 

“There are two people in the art world who really mediate the worlds of art and celebrity: Jeffrey Deitch and Klaus,” suggested another guest. “The difference is that Klaus is actually one of them—he’s a celebrity.” A stranger in a strange land, he descends from Hollywood to spread the happy truth of fame.

 

Abramovi? and Koh climbed a podium on one side of the room and commenced a brief history of the use of Volkswagens in art. Works flashed on the atrium’s walls: Alÿs’s Rehearsal, Pipilotti Rist’s Ever Is Over All, Damián Ortega’s Cosmic Thing. Abramovi? played the straight man, announcing titles and such, while Koh spoke in gibberish, parroting/parodying his own performance, Art History, a Lecture: 1642–2009. When a photo from Chris Burden’s Trans-Fixed appeared, with the artist nailed, Christlike, to his vintage VW Beetle, the executives and artists and sundry icons of culture laughed and clapped in winking unison. All at once art and the market, the marketing of art, swirled in a transfixing, stupefying mix.

 

— David Velasco

Madonna appears on Lifestyle Woman magazine in Sweden.

Madonna's 2005 Elle photo shoot picture is on the cover.

http://www.madonnatribe.com/i_press_32/lifestlewoman_502.jpg

http://www.madonnatribe.com/i_press_32/lifestlewoman_503.jpg

http://www.madonnatribe.com/i_press_32/lifestlewoman_504.jpg

http://www.madonnatribe.com/i_press_32/lifestlewoman_505.jpg

Lady Gaga was interviewed by Stephen Fry for FT Weekend and was asked about being compared to Madonna:

 

'I genuinely love her so much. I think she is so amazing. She could never be replicated and, yes, I’m Italian, I’m from New York, and not for nothing, it’s not my fault that I kind of look like her, right? So, look, if anything, it’s more annoying to me that people would insinuate that I don’t like to be compared to her....She’s wonderful and inspiring and liberating, and she’s certainly inspired my album, as did David Bowie, as did Prince, as did Michael Jackson, as did Grace Jones, and I would never take that away.'

Dolly Parton wants Madonna Duet

 

The country legend has always wanted to work with the ‘Like a Prayer’ singer, and thinks their styles would be a good match.

 

She told The Sunday Times newspaper: “I’d love to do a duet, I always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.”

 

She added that either Madonna or Lady Gaga would be: “The perfect fit. I’m as outrageous as they are. I was gaudy before they were gaudy.”

 

contactmusic

Steve Sidelynk talks about Madonna

http://www.madonnadenmark.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/IMGP5269.jpg

Here's a few bits from his latest interview.

How do you approach the Madonna gig?

 

With Madonna you play what’s required and that is very technology-based. I think the first tour I did with her, The Drowned World Tour, she didn’t even want any cymbals. It was really difficult, trying to follow in the footsteps of Jonathan Moffett and Omar Hakim, who is one of my favourite drummers. They were two big drummers to follow, but her music had progressed in a different way. At that point I was doing what she wanted.

 

Did you find the jump from the gig you did before to Madonna was quite a big jump for you?

 

Yeah, it was huge.

 

Were there any issues with that, for you personally?

 

Personally, yeah, because I’m from Bradford. I went and watched the Weather Report at Hammersmith Odeon and watching the rapport with Victor Bailey and Omar I can honestly say it was probably one of the greatest shows I’ve ever seen in my life. His technique, his vibe, he was a monster – and that was a life-changing gig for me. Watching that, and then having to fill those shoes on any level, can feel a bit mind-boggling. I was practising lots. I think I made myself ill, I was over-compensating. I tried to cover all my bases but it just seemed to all work out, because what she wanted was what was on the record and the promo tour we were doing was music from that Music album and that was pretty mad because I sampled all the sounds into my Akai and then put them into the D-Drum which I was using, and have used on every Madonna tour since then, and I was playing all the stabs and all the rhythms. I was playing the record. That’s what she wanted. It was like I was going back to using what I’d learnt filling in as a percussionist. I was like a painter painting with a different pallet, but trying to colour it all so it all made sense and just play it in time. And I have been doing that gig for eight years.

 

What do you think you bring to the situation?

 

I play what’s on the record, what’s required, but not robotically. Everything changes in live scenarios. You’ve got a lot of input, a lot of freedom, but you’ve got it within certain parameters, so it requires a lot of discipline. You’ve got to play it solidly. You can’t play it rough and you can’t do grace notes, you can on some tracks, but you’ve got to be able to know what’s the right thing for each song and artist.

 

?

 

How involved is Madonna?

 

We rehearse for three months for a tour and she’s there. Not only that but she plays drums. She started off as a drummer in a band. So the whole rhythm is important to her – the dance, the lights. Everything’s cued from the drums, so you better play the arrangement as is.

 

There was one tune we were doing, called Hanky Panky, it’s a bit of a big band number, Jeff Porcaro played on the record. We were playing it and I did a couple of fills that were different. The next day in sound check she goes ‘you were getting a bit creative last night weren’t you?’ and I swear she was dancing, she was being thrown in the air, but she still noticed what was going on in the drums and that’s how much discipline you’ve got to have.

 

Someone like Madonna, she’s at the top of her tree, she’s been around a long time. She could pack up tomorrow and it wouldn’t bother her, but she’s still out there pushing the boundaries. Do she help you progress to another level?

 

I would say you have to, as far as her music progresses, you’ve got to progress with it. She wants an answer straight away or you’ve got to give her a solution. So even if you can’t physically come up with it playing wise or sound-wise, if you say ”OK I’ll do it for you later or it’ll be ready tomorrow, I just need to prepare that”, it”s good. She just needs answers. It’s a totally different way of working to someone like Richard Ashcroft where it’s really organic and you go in and it can change. Her thing’s all about discipline.

Hard Candy make's Gig wises sexiest album covers of all time.

#50 http://allaboutmadonna.com/images/news/11-06-03-madonna-hard-candy-sexiest-album-covers-list.jpg

The Hard Candy cover art is MANY things, but it is as sexy as an wrinkled baboon's arse.

Shanghai Surprise will finally be released on dvd in Italy on July 20th.

http://www.madonnatribe.com/i_32/shanghai_001.jpg

 

''Be yourself no matter what other people say''

 

"I love Madonna. I often call her my "mother" because she is such an inspiration for me when it comes to my music, lyrics and image. She taught me to be ballsy, brave and most of all - be myself no matter what other people say."

 

Polish rising singer Madox, explaining how he's been inspired by Madonna, Lady Gaga and Mylene Farmer while creating his first video released last month.

 

"I would love to meet her someday and thank for everything she did for young artist around the world, including me. As for now all I can do is to pay her a homage and I actually did that in my video for High On You single where you can see a couple of references to some of my favourites videos from her like Human Nature or Justify My Love. Hopefully momma Madonna would be proud seeing that!"

June 2011 - Vogue (Indian Edition)

http://www.madonnalicious.com/images/extra/2011/vogue_0511_india.jpg