RICARDO GOMES Madonna performing at the London Palladium in January 2020 The last time I saw Madonna, she fell down the stairs. Although, more to the point, she got straight up again and performed a dance routine. I myself recently fell down a flight of stairs, and as I lay at the bottom, curled up in…
MADAME X IS A RAY OF LIGHT LONDON JANUARY 30 2020 London, Thursday January 30th. A night to remember, that’s for sure. And a night that went a bit faster than expected… After weeks of fearing that this show might be cancelled too – the fear seriously remained until two hours before the start…
Thank you @Madonna with all my heart for giving me your Polaroid tonight! Meeting you and telling you how much you’ve inspired me and taught me over 35 years was an honour and dream come true. I love you ❤️#MadameXTour @LondonPalladium pic.twitter.com/yMbiWUu53b
— Carolyn Preston (@carolynMfan) January 31, 2020
Madonna started the show later today and therefore cut the first couple of songs now opening with ‘Vogue’ instead of ‘God Control’. Everything else was the same, even though she was visibly in more pain than the previous ‘opening’ night.
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…
