Yearly Archives: 2020

Learning to love Madonna

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 Tour London 30/01/20 – Live Report by Marc

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…

The Madame X factor: First night report from Madonna’s spectacular London Palladium residency

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…

MADONNA REVIEW, LONDON PALLADIUM: ‘MADAME X SHOW IS INTIMATE AND THRILLING’

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 review, London Palladium: An eyeball-twisting audiovisual assault with more action than a Marvel movie ****

  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…

Madonna in London review: Madame X is tireless, imaginative and powerfully intimate ****

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…

Madonna review – London residency short on hits but big on British banter 4 out of 5 stars

 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 remains on top of her game as her Madame X Tour takes over The London Palladium

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…

Pop review: Madonna, London Palladium, W1 ****

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…

She looked sore and stiff at times, but at 61, the Queen of pop’s still got it (London Palladium Review)

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…