No support act in Cologne and Amsterdam for Rebel Heart
There will be no support act in Cologne prior to Madonna’s show, Live Nation expects this to be the case for the Amsterdam shows as well.
Thanks to: Live Nation
There will be no support act in Cologne prior to Madonna’s show, Live Nation expects this to be the case for the Amsterdam shows as well.
Thanks to: Live Nation
Madonna was spotted in the back of a car arriving at the Lanxess arena this afternoon, wearing a hat due to the cold.
A total of 40 trucks are needed to get this show on the road
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Hectic times on Monday at the Lanxess arena where 40 trucks were ready to be unloaded.
Madonna is in Cologne for the premiere of her European Rebel Heart Tour.
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Some It-girls of the ’80s may regret that their youthful glory predated social media, but Interview magazine’s former associate publisher Paige Powell doesn’t have to. Powell arrived in New York in 1980 from the Pacific Northwest, looking like a granola version of Edie Sedgwick and armed with the work ethic of Mary Tyler Moore. She was soon swept up in Interview’s bid to be a more serious publication — “At first it was more for friends, like, Fran Lebowitz drove the delivery truck to drop off issues at different newsstands,” she remembers — and Andy Warhol’s select social whirlwind of downtown clubbing, midtown shopping and uptown lunches. “Andy always said, ‘Work is fun and fun is work,’” Powell says. “It was just the way I thought New York City was, all the time, for everyone — exuberant.”
Powell often carried the latest camera or camcorder from Japan with her and used them often to capture intimate snapshots of her coterie: including Warhol, Madonna, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, who was her boyfriend from 1982 through 1984. For nearly 40 years, she’s been sitting on (“literally; they were stashed in boxes under the bed,” she says) a treasure trove that’s remained largely unexamined. Powell returned to Portland in the ’90s to focus on animal rights advocacy work, and it’s there that her images will be showcased for the first time, in two interactive multimedia installations, “The Ride” and “Beulah Land,” opening this week at the Portland Art Museum. Still in possession of plenty of influential friends, Powell asked David LaChapelle to mix a musical soundtrack for the show and Kenny Scharf to create a signature “Cosmic Cavern” to accompany it. “Half of the photos in the new installation will be from the ’80s, and half will be photos moving forward to the present,” Powell says, noting that the installation is meant to be “interactive,” just like the one she created at the art bar also called Beulah Land in the ‘80s (see slide 7) — visitors can add notes to the walls. “So we’re having a cocktail party for the guards at PAM, to prepare them,” she notes, “because we don’t want them to be alarmed.”
Here, Paige Powell, former Interview magazine associate publisher and ex-girlfriend of Jean-Michel Basquiat, shares photos from her personal archive. “Fresh 14 was a short-lived club with great energy and a horrible sound system, which might account for the expression on Madonna’s face,” Powell says of this photo. “Unfortunately, two kids shot each other there and it closed. When I was in New York recently, I noticed that space is now a Forever 21.”
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How much controversy can you cram into five minutes? If you’re Madonna, enough to make your new single a hit. On Nov. 6, 1990 – 25 years ago this week – Madonna released the first single from The Immaculate Collection, “Justify My Love.” In the month that followed, Madonna filmed a video for the song, submitted it to MTV (which promptly rejected it), and then rode the resulting controversy all the way to the bank. The video was ultimately sold as a “video single,” and it sold well.
Today, the incident is remembered as one of the biggest controversies in Madonna’s career, which is saying a lot. In case you didn’t shell out for the VHS tape back in the day, watch the video below. (And yes, it and other videos in this post may be NSFW. Obviously.)
In celebration of the song’s 25th anniversary, we’ve compiled a list of factoids you may not know about the tune, the video, and the associated fallout.
1. The video is actually pretty tame by today’s standards
Given all the controversy about Madonna using the video to promote sex, sadomasochism, cross-dressomg and whatever else critics perceived in it, it just doesn’t seem quite so racy 25 years later. It’s all about sex, sure, and it’s very sexy, but the most scandalous thing in it is a woman who’s topless except for a pair of suspenders that (mostly) cover her nipples. Of course, the female nipple is still a controversial body part today, but give the video a spin now and decide for yourself if you should be offended – and if changing sexual mores are a good thing or a bad thing.
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After Madonna’s show at the Lanxess arena, there’s an afterparty in Exile with a live DJ and free shots. DJCK will play Madonna’s greatest hits on November 4 and DJ Tunar will continue the celebration on November 5.
Address: Schaafenstr. 61a, Cologne
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This event is not hosted by Madonna
New Pride cover (Italian magazine / November issue)
Thanks to Alessandro Gatti for this 1st look!
As watchful a superstar as pop has ever known, Madonna paused not long into her concert at the Forum to appraise the recent renovation of the venerable arena, which has housed so many of her performances over the decades that “I feel like this is one of my homes,” she said.
“I see the ceiling is getting lower and lower,” she went on. “Or is that my ego getting bigger and bigger?”
Surely, one needn’t eliminate the possibility of the other.
Part of her world tour behind this year’s “Rebel Heart” album, this week’s show spared no opportunity to remind the capacity crowd of the singer’s incalculable influence on modern music. (The evening’s second song was the 2015 single “Bitch I’m Madonna.”)
But if her legacy is secure, Madonna at 57 no longer holds down pop’s center. Taylor Swift sells more records and concert tickets. Beyonce is a more coveted interview. Katy Perry, who turned up onstage at the Forum to pay her respects with a slyly backhanded compliment, has more followers on social media.
So, as much as she was celebrating her own importance, Madonna seemed to be looking for ways to demonstrate that she still mattered. What was remarkable was that she succeeded by taking advantage of her experience, not by running from it.
The show’s most immediate thrills came in an old form: the mingling of religious and sexual iconography that has been Madonna’s specialty since the late 1980s. Here, though, she went further than ever – and almost certainly further than her young successors are willing to – singing her song “Holy Water” as several women dressed in nuns’ wimples pole-danced on a number of metal crosses.
For her next song, “Devil Pray,” the singer simulated oral sex atop a long table decorated to evoke the Last Supper. Was there a clear message in the scene? Nah. But in this age of careful “corporate branding,” as Madonna’s voice-over described it in one video sequence, pop needs committed taboo-busters even more than it did in the “Like a Prayer” days.
There were other provocations, including the sight of a proudly topless backup dancer in “Candy Shop,” Madonna’s own writhing with various muscled men in the new album’s “Body Shop” and her typically blithe appropriation of musical and cultural traditions from Japan, Spain and elsewhere.
For a veteran entertainer with dozens of hits, her decision to spend a good half of her 21/2-hour set on material from “Rebel Heart” felt like a challenge as well. Ditto her radical reworkings of the old songs: “Dress You Up” rode a fluttering flamenco groove; “Music” started out as a sultry supper-club ballad; “Material Girl” had staticky dubstep squelches. She was insisting on evolution, refusing to be boxed in by any earlier version of herself.
Yet this concert also showcased how charmingly relaxed Madonna could be onstage – how all those years of performing had given her a confidence that’s a pleasure to behold.
During “Like a Virgin,” she practically skipped down a long runway that jutted out onto the venue’s floor, her body language as free as it was all night. “True Blue” had a cozy campfire-sing-along vibe, as did “Like a Prayer,” which she claimed she’d thrown into the show without rehearsal.
She even offered a bit of stand-up comedy after “Material Girl,” asking a fan in the front row if he knew about the “three rings of marriage”: “the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffering.”
“I haven’t been successful at that marriage thing yet,” she added, and that was the lead-in to her appealingly daffy rendition of the French standard “La Vie en Rose,” for which she accompanied herself on ukulele. (Ask yourself how many other entertainers in Madonna’s class will have that sentence written about them this year.) After “La Vie en Rose,” she brought Perry out for a duet – and a bit of light spanking – in “Unapologetic Bitch.”
“I love you, Mom!” Perry crowed when the song was over, and it wasn’t hard to imagine her holding a sign reading “young and current!” over her head.
But here’s the thing about youth and currency: They always wither. And that no longer seems to frighten Madonna.
Madonna has always had an eye on Detroit as a place she wanted to give back, said Sarah Ezzy, senior adviser at Global Philanthropy Group in Los Angeles, which has been managing the pop star’s philanthropy for about five years.
“It was just finding the right way to do that” and the right time, she said.
Detroit’s move through the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history in a bid to start fresh certainly drew Madonna’s eye, Ezzy said.
Her availability to pay a visit last year was another consideration. “For her, being there is very important, going and meeting folks”.
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Just a few more days and Madonna will finally premiere her Rebel Heart Tour in Europe!
Cologne is the first stop of the European tour on November 4 and 5 in the Lanxess arena. The same arena where she played during her 2012 MDNA World Tour.
Fans with early access were let in early during soundcheck and got to hear Madonna rehearsing a bit of Je t’aime (moi non plus) for the first time. A song especially rehearsed for the specially added MDNA ‘club’ show in Olympia later on.
Those who have seen the Rebel Heart show say it’s very different to MDNA; more fun, uplifting and lots of oldies but goodies. But that of course depends on your own preference, do you prefer dark M with a message and theater or do you prefer M having fun on stage and being spontaneous?
We can’t wait to be reporting live from all over Europe for the tour and bring you tons of exclusives, pictures, videos and press/memorabilia scans.
Let’s take a look at our video of the MDNA Cologne rehearsal from 2012 and count the days…..
Belgian press reports on Katy Perry being the Unapologetic Bitch in LA, in a month M will perform in Antwerp
Thanks to Jochen Vanhoudt for the article
One has to hand it to Madonna. She is, perhaps, the only performer alive who can make people snarl in disappointment when showing up on stage 50 minutes late and make the same people walk out of the show in awe over what they just witnessed. The Rebel Heart Tour’s Monday evening stop at the Forum in Los Angeles was one of the best concerts Madonna has given in her 32-year career.
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