Madonna’s London Palladium residency finally got under way last night with a quote from writer James Baldwin: “Artists are here to disturb the peace”. And the ensuing show was certainly a riot, romping through a dizzying array of genres, set pieces and themes. We’ve come to expect that from Madonna, of course, but the difference…
The Queen of Pop overcame injury to deliver one of her most memorable shows yet in London. It was a smart move on Madonna’s part to ban the use of mobile phones for her Madame X tour. More than four months since its New York premiere, the show arrived in London to great excitement; its…
Madonna performs live during her Madame X tour ( Ricardo Gomes ) Madonna wants us to wake up. Actually, she wants us to do a lot of things. Come with her to the future. Protect her from her critics. Know that she agrees that America is in turmoil and the finger is pointed at the “psychopath…
Such drama before Madonna could even take to the stage for her first theatre tour since 1985! Would she arrive drastically late? Would she cancel at the last minute? Tenterhooks all round. Monday was supposed to be the first of a planned 15 nights at the Palladium, cancelled on doctor’s orders. It was the 10th dropped concert of the…
An ungovernable force of insurrection … Madonna. Photograph: Ricardo Gomes Acurious mix of anticipation and trepidation hangs in the air of the London Palladium as the audience dutifully stash their mobile phones in locked pouches and await the arrival of the biggest-selling female recording artist of all time. The Madame X tour arrives in Britain trailing a…
Madonna made a triumphant return to the stage last night as her Madame X Tour finally arrived in London. For a while, it was touch and go if she’d even make it to curtain up, after an injury to her knee sustained on the road last year lead her to axe her planned first date…
The show had an intimacy not usually associated with a star of Madonna’s calibre ★★★★☆ “I never quit!” Madonna told her fans in a statement in late December. Unfortunately, she had done just that — on doctor’s orders. Madonna’s Madame X tour features the reigning queen of pop playing a gruelling six-month schedule of smaller venues, in…
Rating: To be honest, I was nervous I wouldn’t be able to write a review of Madonna‘s long-awaited Madame X show last night. Not because she cancelled – again (this has happened ten times so far, due to an unspecified injury, said to be a dodgy knee and hip) – but because the Queen of Pop…
Image copyright RICARDO GOMESImage captionMadonna has cancelled 10 of the 93 shows on her world tour due to injury Madonna has resumed her Madame X world tour in London, after cancelling dates in Portugal and the UK due to injury. The star took to the stage wearing knee supports but otherwise refused to make concessions…
The signing superstar — who at 61 has faced a string of health battles — made her debut at the London Palladium, albeit two days later than planned. But she was on immaculate form ahead of 13 further dates over the next three weeks. Whether it be as a singer, a comedian or an actress, she…
photo: Ricardo Gomes I‘m not sure who was having more fun at the opening of Madonna‘s London residency, the audience or the star. She sang, she danced, she joked and she beamed with almost childlike glee at the crowd’s adoring response. “How happy I am to have made it this far,” she declared, calling London “my…
Despite all her late starts at previous shows, M actually started quite on time at a little before 9pm! The show was finished around the clock of 11pm, M did keep saying throughout the show that she was meant to stop on time. She did not perform either Sodade or Crave this time and did…
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