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4 night stint at the O2
Burning Up from her latest Rebel Heart album
Roman Soilders? Err no Japanese Samaurii
Terrible journalism
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Daily Mirror liked the show
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/madonna-returns-scene-horrific-stage-6937246
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For me that is her best gig since the CT.
Absolutely. She's very relaxed and funny and her interaction with audience is great. I really think the fact that the show is packed with hits makes a huge difference.
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Just on the train on the way home from the show.
She was utterly amazing, much better than MDNA. The crowd was great and we got WTG and LAP. She did a big speech about World AIDS day. Highlights for me were Deeper and Deeper, Body Shop, LDLHA, Living for Love, WTG. Like A Prayer was incredible and moving everyone up and singing. This is her best show since Confessions by a long way. I want to go tomorrow night if I can get a good seat.
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Apparently the 02 has a strict curfew of 11pm
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Any news from the sound check?
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Praying she sings Whos That Girl tonight
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mI'm hoping for a 9pm start.
I think 9.30 would be more realistic
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I hope she comes onstage before 10pm otherwise I fear there could be a backlash. The press will have a field day tomorrow if she's late. Instead of focussing on how great the show is all they will discuss is why did she keep her fans waiting.
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The heart seats have gone. I think there was only a few of them. Probably packages that haven't sold.
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Which website?
Axs
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single floor seats by the cross are available for tomorrow now!
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Looks like a lot of tickets have been sold today.
I just had a look and there only a few blocks where you can get 6 seats together. The price reductions have definitely helped
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Jamsey, I agree with everything you say. No matter how good the show is the late starts leave the public with a nasty aftertaste. If your lasting memory of the show is missing the last part and rushing to catch the last train that's not good. People think twice about shelling out top dollar for the next tour which is why she's struggling in some markets this time round. Unless there is a major technical problem she really needs to make
sure she is onstage at a reasonable time.
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If they'd kept the ticket prices reasonable in the first place they wouldn't have to reduced them last minute.
£110 + fees for level 4 is beyond ridiculous.
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When she was riding high with ROL/Music/ COADF she could get away with the high prices. She hasn't had a hit song here in 6 years and the last 2 albums have fallen off the chart quickly. They need to be a lot more realistic with the pricing for the next tour.
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It's AXS fault that the tickets are available. For months they had listed the first show was sold out completely. On the tube they had posters saying madonna live in London O2 SOLD OUT. So could you imagine the people that just never even bothered to get tickets thinking they were all gone. They left it too late to put the tickets from other sites back onto ticketmaster as well. The show is on Tuesday and most people think it's too late.
I agree Chelle, why have they left it so late to release the tickets that clearly weren't selling on secondary sites? Also why weren't a lot of these seats available in the initial Icon pre sale and general sale? I think a lot of casual fans and general public looked when the general sale started, saw the availability and prices and didn't bother. They completely lost peoples interest, slashing the prices this late in the day isn't helping to shift them.
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Blocks 103 and 113 now have seats reduced from £175 to £85 on AXS. I am shocked at the amount of seats still available for the 2nd show even with the prices being reduced. They defintely need to look at the pricing structure for the next tour.
The screen shots below show the seats the are available for second show
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Lots of tickets just released for both London shows. The second show has availability almost everywhere expect the floor. I just tried for 6 tickets serval times and was able to get them easily. These tickets have definitely come from secondary sites that can't shift them
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This announcement is intended to reach Iconers who are attending the 29 November Rebel Heart Tour concert in Mannheim at SAP Arena. If you are not attending this show but know of friends who are, we appreciate your help in sharing this important update.
Please be aware that, due to the production challenges of moving Madonna's Rebel Heart tour from Saturday night's performance in Antwerp to the concert in Mannheim, the Rebel Heart tour will have a delayed start time on Sunday, 29 November at SAP Arena. The rescheduled show time will now be as follows:
Doors, previously scheduled to open at 6:30 pm will now open at 7:30 pm including all boxes and lounges.
Special Guest Lunice will appear at 9:15 with Madonna's performance scheduled for approximately 10:15 pm.
While the show will be loaded in as quickly as possible, we apologize for any inconvenience.The Icon Team
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Just gone on AXS and they have some "VIP Mix" tickets for £175. Mark, Kim do you have any idea what these are? Never seen that option before
I have never seen VIP mix tickets before, they have now sold out.
I think the other tickets that have just been released are from secondary sites. They aren't shifting them so they have put them back in the general sale.
London - December 1
in ARCHIVE - Madonna
Posted
5 stars in The Times
(I have posted the link but it's subscription only)
A reinvigorated Madonna created hysteria in a show that exuded confidence
Ian West/PA
A reinvigorated Madonna created hysteria in a show that exuded confidence Ian West/PA
Will Hodgkinson Chief rock critic
Last updated at 12:01AM, December 2 2015
Rated to 5 stars
Madonna goes in and out of fashion but one constant remains: her tenacity. Less than a year after being almost decapitated during the Brit awards when dancers yanked her cape and sent her flying backwards, Madonna returned to the O2 for a concert that proved that theres nothing like a near-death experience to reinvigorate the Queen of Pop.
Three years ago, Madonna played a less than impressive concert at Hyde Park. What a difference a terrifying accident makes.
Dancers dressed as Crusaders marched on to the stage before a golden cage descended from the rafters containing Madonna. The crusading hordes made way for Japanese Samurai as the woman of the moment ran through Bitch , Im Madonna before a monk handed her a guitar for Burning Up. (Madonnas religious references had distinctly medieval overtones this time round).
Whatever next? A parade of naughty nuns, of course, pole dancing around crosses wearing wimples and frilly knickers. It would have been shocking were it not so impressive.
Madonnas great skill has always been to hold a grand vision that depends on the talents of others, and so it was here.
There was a section for which she vacated the stage entirely to make space for a dancer who did remarkable things with a strip of cloth and others who performed a car mechanic routine that appeared to be based less on taking the car in for its MoT and more on memories of playing Danny Zuko in a school production of Grease. Its so good to be back right here where I belong! she said, before performing a version of True Blue on a ukulele while surrounded by the worlds least scary team of car mechanics.
Her accident at the Brits clearly hadnt spooked Madonna either. She writhed on a spiral staircase for a cover of Love Dont Live Here Anymore, zipped about on a skateboard for Body Shop, and generally gave her health and safety experts a hernia.
Nobody f***s with the queen! she said, creating mass hysteria, before singing Like A Virgin while doing some non-virginal singing on an hydraulic platform.
Everything about this concert exuded confidence, from a samba medley of Into the Groove and Dress You Up to a remarkable set piece during Illuminati in which dancers flew about atop poles.
A Thirties Cabaret-style routine against an art deco set during Music and Material Girl gave way to a defiant re-creation of the cape-removing matador sequence that almost polished her off at the Brits. She even gave a confessional, admitting that she sucked at marriage, before singing La Vie En Rose. I have to admit, even I have outdone myself, she gasped. And when she sang Like A Prayer, surely the best irreligious gospel song ever written, it was impossible not to agree with her.
Even Graham Norton agreed; bizarrely, he joined Madonna on stage for Unapologetic Bitch. On a good night, nobody can touch Madonna and this was one of her best.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/music/livereviews/article4630009.ece