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News Media Feed stream, includes LAV & GT snips - 5 minutes - Reuters
you can save an mpeg of it also also: rapidshare
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Madonna "crucified" in Rome, Vatican protests
By Rachel Sanderson
ROME (Reuters) - Madonna staged a mock-crucifixion in the Italian capital on Sunday, ignoring a storm of protest and accusations of blasphemy from the Roman Catholic Church.
In a sold-out stadium just a mile from Vatican City, the lapsed-Catholic diva wore a fake crown of thorns as she was raised on a glittery cross during the Rome stop of her worldwide "Confessions Tour".
The Vatican had accused her of blasphemy and provocation for even considering staging the sham crucifixion on its doorstep, anger Madonna further enflamed prior to the show by inviting Pope Benedict to come and watch.
The self-styled "Queen of Pop" went on to pepper her two-and-a-half hour show with more controversial imagery, at one point showing photographs of the pope after those of former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
"Did you know two miracles have taken place in Rome?," the star, dressed in skin-skimming black, later joked with the crowd. "Italy won the World Cup and the rain stopped before my show."
The 70,000 fans, crammed into the Olympic Stadium, shrugged off the scandal, by dancing, singing and jumping as she performed songs from her latest album "Confessions on a Dance Floor" and classics, such as "Like a Virgin".
Yet, the cheering lulled when she was raised on the cross and some fans from predominantly Roman Catholic Italy confessed their disappointment.
"The crucifixion was unnecessary and provocative. Because this is Rome, I wish she'd cut it out. But it's Madonna, she's an icon, and that balances out her need to provoke," said 39-year old Roman, Tonia Valerio.
It is not the first time Madonna, whose father is a Catholic Italian American, has caused religious anger for her controversial religious and sexual imagery.
Catholic leaders condemned as blasphemous her 1989 video for hit song "Like a Prayer", featuring burning crosses, statues crying blood and Madonna seducing a black Jesus.
In 2004, a Vatican group warned that her latest religious belief "Kabbalah", a mystical from of Judaism, was a potential threat to the Roman Catholic faithful.
And she looks likely to face another storm when the tour reaches Moscow in September, where the Russian Orthodox Church has advised its followers to boycott the show because of the crucifixion stunt, agency Interfax reported on Saturday.
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During FL did the two guys always have those Jewish and Muslim symbols painted on them?
No it's something new added to the show @ a London Wembley show last week.
Here's a RAI UNO news report from Italy (this news report aired early Sunday before the show took place, that LAV concert footage in the report is from Wembley!):
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Thanks! :agnetha:
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Pedro Almodovar and Lenny Kravitz (at least the 4th time seeing the show!
) attended the show.
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Fans outside her hotel yesterday
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Associated Press
Rome In Frenzy Over Madonna
POSTED: 2:20 pm EDT August 6, 2006
UPDATED: 2:37 pm EDT August 6, 2006
ROME -- Madonna has Rome in a frenzy.
Hundreds of fans have gathered in front of the singer's hotel, and a rumor that she was shopping on one of Rome's most chic streets sent fans rushing there in hopes of getting a glimpse.
Madonna's was to perform in Rome on Sunday night -- her only Italian tour date. Some 70,000 people were expected at the show.
The concert has drawn criticism in Roman Catholic Italy -- especially for Madonna's plans to appear crucified on a mirrored cross while wearing a crown of thorns.
Madonna's spokeswoman said the show "is not negative nor disrespectful toward the church."
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Well this explains it all to me
Peter Grumbine is the PR wizard for Rick Santorum's '06 campaign.
For those who don't know him, Rick Santorum is a VILE conservative Republigican senator in Pennsylvania. He's often trashing gays and saying many other incredibly ugly and idiotic things. 
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:manson: :manson:Desperate for Attention, Madonna Pisses on Religion…Again
Madonna once again compares herself to Jesus in her final stunt before menopause.
Not at all surprisingly, Madonna has reached into her bag of hack stunts to try to grab a little more attention. On her “Confessions” tour, Madonna is suspending herself from a glittery cross as she wears a crown of thorns—you know, like that Jesus guy. Oh yeah, and she’s planning to do it like 20 yards away from the Vatican.
Understandably this has the Catholic Church upset, but that’s not all. Leaders from both the Jewish and Muslim communities in Rome have come together with the Catholics in opposition to Madonna’s metaphorical masturbation on stage. That’s right, Muslims, Catholics, and Jews have all come together… against Madonna. These are people who can’t even agree whether bacon is a good thing, and they in no way disagree that Madonna is a jackass.
Father Manfredo Leone of Rome added, “Being raised on a cross with a crown of thorns like a modern Christ is absurd. Doing it in the cradle of Christianity comes close to blasphemy.” Comes close to blasphemy? The only thing that could make this more blasphemous is if a pig dressed as the prophet Mohammed went down on Madonna while she writhed on the cross.
(As bad as it may seem, this stunt does remain slightly less offensive then that time Madonna tried to play guitar. Yes, Madonna, I can play an A chord too, but I don’t take up five minutes on Letterman to announce it to the world.)
Madonna’s fans and supporters plead that we should look at the message and hidden meaning that she is trying to convey. That would be a lot easier if Madonna would just shit herself on stage and punch a child in the back of the head. That way she could just get to the point with out any bullshit symbolism. And what is her point? “I’ll shit myself and punch a child for attention. PS: I’m a whore.”
While no one’s arguing against Madonna’s right to be three-week-old colonic water, most seem to agree that Madonna is going a bit far for an unprovoked stunt. It’s not like priests are hanging outside her house re-enacting scenes from Who’s That Girl? and Body of Evidence.
Just when it seems no good can come from her stunt, there’s a small ray of hope: Madonna’s latest creative flatulence could actually help a certain troubled soul. Maybe, just maybe, Mel Gibson could redeem himself by redirecting the brutal beating of Jesus from the Passion of the Christ on Madonna. But do us a favor Mel, don’t wait till the end of the show this time—beat her early and often, and make sure she’s not getting off on it.
It’s time for someone to take a stand and tell Madonna, just because you’re 47 and still fuckable does not make you an authority on liturgical matters. But if you must do this, please understand that the beauty is in the details. Don’t blueball us again—get some real thorns and few rusty spikes. Let’s do this right.
Unfortunately, Madonna doesn’t go so far as to actually bleed from stigmata—that would be too satisfying for us—but at least she knows her fans in the front rows came for a pop concert, not a hepatitis-infused Gallagher show. But on the bright side, by the time she’s 60, Madonna’s show may be the best live action version of The Aristocrats ever. (The only thing that could validate this stunt would be if she started her first song with the line, “Hey, I can see my house from here.”)
To try to quell her Italian detractors, Madonna recently licked Italy’s taint by telling the Italian edition of Vanity Fair that she credited her “good Italian genes” for keeping her so fuckable from behind, but unfortunately those genes are also responsible for that gapped-tooth, imploding black hole of a suck bucket she calls a mouth.
Believe it or not, sometimes I too wish that Madonna was Jesus. That way we’d at least get three days of peace before she tries to make another comeback.
Peter Grumbine is a Los Angeles-based standup comic, writer, and the PR wizard for Rick Santorum’s ’06 campaign. While he owns petergrumbine.com, he’s too lazy to create it and just uses his myspace page.
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Fab stuff Brad! :altaf: Tks for posting!
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rumours are that there will be ~ 35000 tickets on sale
And that 24,000 of those 35,000 tickets are standing general admission (1500 rubles price level, about $55 in American dollars).
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Mysterious girl
Thursday August 3rd 2006
She may have titled her latest tour Confessions, but Madonna's enduring popularity is down to the fact that we'll never really know her. YVONNE ROBERTS reports on this enigmatic chameleon
Her Madge-sty has done it again. Madonna, Queen of Pop for 22 years, in her worldwide Confessions tour, is receiving the best reviews of her career - albeit delivered in a tone of half embarrassment, as if grown-up reviewers can't quite believe that they are giving her such an unequivocal endorsement.
Of her first British performance at the Cardiff Millennium Centre last weekend, the critics raved, "Ultra-slick and fantastically fake", "pure and unadulterated escapism on a colossal scale", "a bravura multimedia stew" and "better than any other entertainer in her league".
The key, perhaps, is in the word "entertainer", and her chameleon-like ability to defy gravity, ageing and all the other ailments that beset the average (unpampered) 47-year-old. Madonna can thus emerge - after shedding, snake-like, yet another persona - ever more wrinkle-free and energetic.
In the 1980s, in videos for Holiday and Like a Virgin, we had the nicely rounded, heavily made-up, thrift-store Madonna, wearing the contents of several cutlery drawers and not a few crucifixes around her neck. Several years later came the conical bra, simulated masturbation on stage and muscles to which every female gym-freak unashamedly aspired.
In 1991, she stripped off her coat at the Cannes Film Festival to reveal a frighteningly lethal bra and corset: underwear as cocktail gear. Thus she confirmed her status as icon-in-the-making, not so much because of how she performed, or what she sang or wrote or said, but because of the many, many questions she provoked, both then and now.
Robbie Williams can also hold an audience in the palm of his hand, but has only two public personae: alcoholic stud boy-band member and recovering alcoholic stud solo act. No matter how talented, his presence provokes only a couple of queries. Will he find love? And can he stay dry?
But Madonna, with her great skill for marketing herself, plays a game of enigma variations. Attending a premiere in her underwear, is she old-fashioned cheesecake, a porn toy for men? Or is she revealing the power of the female to turn male lewdness against itself? Is she saying, "f**k me" or "f**k you"?
The contradictions and conundrums have continued into middle age. The canny girl who arrived from Michigan in New York with only $35 in her pocket, and who is now a sophisticated superstar, still has a juvenile desire to shock on stage. During her Cardiff performance, she suddenly yelled of Blair: "You can go to Texas and suck Bush's d**k!"
At the same time, in private, when not wrapped from head to toe in a towelling burqa on the beach, she dresses like an advert for the post-war Scottish tweed industry and rears her two children as if they were living in a time capsule in the 1950s. Able to take her pick of men, she marries Guy Ritchie, a man who displays not even a fraction of the maturity of the latest Big Brother reject. So, what's it all about Madge? It's the pick 'n' mix variety of her personal life and the questions that keep us hooked.
Perhaps, too, there's another bond between Madonna and her fans: her deification of excess. Tickets for the Confessions tour range from €117 to €219.
Madonna has issued a fact-sheet explaining why a little entertainment costs so much: glitterball, laser lights, 350 roadies, a crown of thorns (what else?), 22 dancers and video footage of famished Africans. (Madge has never been strong on irony. The thoughts of Quentin Bell come to mind about the billions of dollars that might be spent making the thin fatter, and are instead devoted to making the fat thinner.)
The price tag has also paid for 4,000 Swarovski crystals embedded in Madonna's belt. Is it really necessary? "Because you're worth it," the star seems to be telling her fans, exploiting the advertising theology that turns excess into a virtue.
For some, Madge is the woman who has it all. By which they mean, 47-year-old hands excepted, she is in a Groundhog Day of her own making - forever young. But how does she do it? An exhibitionist with a huge talent, she is prepared to sacrifice many of the pleasures of life for a punishing regime of denial: Madonna, the work in constant progress.
Can she keep going? Disco star, prophet of plastic pop, punk princess - what will Madonna do next? Or might she, like Cher and Tina Turner before her, icons in their own way, eventually find that the effort of holding back the clock to be worshipped by strangers no longer has appeal?
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http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/440666p-371120c.html
Liz Rosenberg, mouthpiece for the ecumenical hate object, tells us: "I think the Pope would enjoy the show and would applaud her performance. He has an open invitation to see for himself the eloquence and beauty that Madonna expresses for humanity while performing her poignant song 'Live to Tell.'"
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Associated Press
In an e-mail to The Associated Press on Thursday, the singer's New York-based spokeswoman, Liz Rosenberg, said: "Madonna does not think Jesus would be mad at her, as his teaching of loving thy neighbor and tolerance is Madonna's message as well. The context of Madonna's performance on the crucifix is not negative nor disrespectful toward the church."
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03/08/06 - Showbiz section
'Excommunicate Madonna'
By Nick Pisa, Evening Standard
The Vatican accused Madonna of blasphemy and profanity today over her controversial stage act.
Senior figures in Rome, where she is to appear in front of 75,000 fans on Sunday, called for her to be excommunicated.
They launched a scathing attack over the star wearing a crown of thorns while hanging from a huge cross as she sings Live To Tell during her Confessions Tour.
Cardinal Ersilio Tonino, speaking with the approval of Pope Benedict XVI, said: "This time the limits have really been pushed too far.
"This (concert) is a blasphemous challenge to the faith and a profanation of the cross. She should be excommunicated."
He added: "To crucify herself during the concert in the city of Popes and martyrs is an act of open hostility. It is nothing short of a scandal and an attempt to generate publicity.
"What is really offensive is the exaggeration of it all; it is clearly anti-Church, poor taste and most of all, an insult to Christ.
"The time will come when this woman will realise that Christ died on the cross for her as well, that he spilt his blood for her. I feel pity for her.
"I just want to tell her that she must really have reached rock bottom if she feels that to attract the attention of the media she has to enact Christ's suffering and death on the cross."
Another Vatican official, Bishop Velasio De Paolis, said: " Wizards and satanists use religious objects for black masses and she is simply following them.
"How this woman can take the name of the mother of Christ I don't know. Her show represents the rotten fruit of secularism and the absurdity of evil. What adds to the offence is that she is doing this in the city which is the cradle of the Roman Catholic faith.
"A few months ago there was fury at the cartoons of Mohammed. Here we have a blatant profanity of the cross and no one bats an eyelid."
Madonna, 47, who was brought up a Catholic, said in an interview with the Italian edition of Vanity Fair that her horse riding accident last year brought her closer to God.
She said: "That was the first serious accident of my life, which is strange when you think how long I have been dancing. I was immobile in bed for more than a month. I was covered in bruises and in agony.
"I couldn't use my left arm, my shoulders and the upper part of my body. It made me look at life in a new way. It was as if I had been reborn.
"While I was lying there still, I looked up at the ceiling and promised God, 'I am never going to complain, moan or grumble or be ungrateful again'. " Madonna has insisted that her back-stage dressing room at Rome's Olympic Stadium is decorated completely in white, with white roses and soya snacks.
She has insisted on a new lavatory which must be removed when the concert is over and destroyed so that it does not end up on an internet auction site.
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Description Price*
Platinum Seats 1 category 25 000 r.
Platinum Seats 2 category 20 000 r.
Golden Seats 1 category 10 000 r.
Golden Seats 2 category 8 000 r.
Siver Seats 4 500 r.
Bronze Seats 3 000 r.
Front Of Stage 1 500 r.
General Admission 1 500 r.
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DM
Some more from Moscow.
More details of Madonna's concert in Moscow is coming out. The stage will be built open-air close to the main building of the Moscow University. Click here to see the venue map. They will built tribunes for about 10.000 or 15.000 people. Tickets will go on sale on Monday, August 7th. Madonna Confession Tour is produced and promoted by The Next Adventure (A Live Nation Company) in association with CEE, NCA and the biggest Russian mobile operator BeeLine GSM.
Special thanks to VSHAT from Moscow.
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Moscow tickets onsale tomorrow
Posted: 03 August 2006
Tickets for Madonna's first show in Moscow on Monday 11 September go onsale tomorrow via www.ticketpro.ru and on 648-6161.
A second date of Tuesday 12 September is also due, but it is unsure whether it will go onsale tomorrow when the first date sells out, or will be sold at a later date.
This second date of Tuesday 12 September is listed on the tour lanyards for sale at the London shows - see picture below:
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http://www.ticketpro.ru/index_eng.php
MADONNA`S CONFESSIONS TOUR PLAYS MOSCOW
SEPTEMBER 11TH – VOROBIEVY GORY
TICKETS ON SALE - FRIDAY, AUGUST 4TH
New York City... For immediate release: Madonna's Confessions Tour which has already been seen by well over half a million US fans and received critical raves around the world is headed to Russia's Vorobievy Gory in Moscow on September 11th. A long time dream come true for one of the most successful artists and cultural innovators of our time, this appearance marks The Material GIrl's concert debut in Russia.
The September 11th performance follows the opening of the European leg of her tour in Cardiff on July 30th, eight sold out shows in London's Wembley Arena and additional stops in Germany, Denmark, France, Holland and the Czech Republic.
"A spectacle of epic proportions. The best Madonna tour since Blonde Ambition" raved the UK's Attitude Magazine after seeing Madonna's most recent spectacle. "Still at her controversial best. Yes, Madonna IS the queen of pop" echoed London's The Sun newspaper.
The multi-Grammy award winning artist has made musical history many times over. In the UK alone, Madonna is the most successful female artist in UK Chart history with a staggering 60 Top Ten singles and 9 Number 1 albums. A video visionary and children's book author, Madonna has an unrivaled reputation for astonishing stage spectacles. Her current CD "Confessions on a Dance Floor" debuted at No. 1 in 29 countries and she has sold over 200 million albums.
The Moscow performance is sponsored by H&M and Beeline. Alexander Izosimov, CEO of VImpelCom (Beeline Trademark) commented, "This show is the beginning of Beeline's long-term music projects with further details to be announced shortly. The vision of our company is to provide our clients with the best. Madonna is the brightest light in the music world. We admire her work, her many talents and her ability to continue to create new and exciting music. She is No. 1 on the world stage. We are happy that the dream of Russians to see the star live on stage is coming true."
The Confessions Tour, directed by Jamie King, features long time Madonna collaborator and coproducer Stuart Price as Musical Director. The show's costumes are created by fashion icon Jean Paul Gaultier and Arianne Phillips. The unique stage which includes three runways that stretch out into the audience for Madonna and her troupe of stunning dancers also includes state of the art sound and video screens and a moving turntable stage.
Madonna tickets for the September 11th performance at Vorobievy Gory will go on sale Friday, August 4th at TicketPro, www.ticketpro.ru and 648-6161.
Madonna Confession Tour is produced and promoted by The Next Adventure (A Live Nation Company) in association with CEE and NCA.
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It's good to be home!
Posted: 02 August 2006
Madonna played the first of eight shows in London's Wembley Arena last night and it was HOT....both the show and the arena!
Madonna stated that it was good to be home, and she missed the countryside, her home and her horse! She was very chatty and the audience were on their feet for most of the show....even those in the tiered side blocks!
Stella McCartney had a prime spot infront of the middle catwalk and was seen dancing all night and reaching out her hand to get Madonna to touch it!
And to whoever allowed small personal cameras into the venue for once....thank you! We all love to take home our own little momento of the show!
Here are some selected highlights from the show as reported by madonnalicious visitors - to read their full reports visit the London Fan Reviews section:
From Anders:
After experiencing her live for the first time, there's no doubt in my mind that Madonna can sing and dance better than anyone despite her age and despite what people say. She totally rocks and the show was worth all £160!
From Chris:
The tracks that stood out for me were Ray Of Light, Sorry, Live To Tell and Hung Up. During Ray Of Light Madonna got the whole arena to put their hands in the air and jump up and down, it was truly amazing.
From Dave:
I don't think I have ever heard her interact with the audience as much as she did last night either, telling us she missed London even the congestion charge, then muttering 'I am going to have to do something about that! And joking with us that for the first time she asked for the aircon to be turned only to be told that the arena doesn't have it! 'Life's funny that way!'
She truly had the audience eating out of the palm of her hand and she loved it, she looked relaxed and very happy and the at the top of her game.
From Giorgio:
I went to see Madonna last night in London and I was so happy with the show. The opening number was incredible. I would say it is at the same level as Express Yourself from the Blond Ambition tour. She is so fit and beautiful. Her body is built like a rock.
From Lee:
I went to see madonna last night at Wembley, from start to finish I was amazed with her performance, the crowd was buzzing and dancing. I've been to all of her tours in the past but I have to say that the Confessions Tour is the best by far.
From Neil:
The best part was when she berated Wembley Security. For those of us who were near victims of the Wembley Camera Nazis during Reinvention, such sweet justice. The security guard in the front row was pushing people back from the catwalk. M saw him, berated him and told him to leave people alone and let them enjoy themselves!
From Neil L:
Just after Let It Will be, she had a little chat with the audience, saying how much she's missed London. 'It's good to be home! I missed my house, I missed the ountryside. I even missed the Congestion Charge! No, that was a joke. We're gonna have to do something about that.' - really funny and all the Londoners around me were screaming in agreement!
She told the stewards to stop being nasty to her fans as well! 'You in the orange shirt,' she said, 'I hope you're not being horrible to my fans - look how loved up they are - and love is a two way street, baby!'.
From PaulieV:
At one point in Let It Will Be as she walked down the catwalk she took some guys cowboy hat, wore it, danced for a bit then tossed into the other part of the crowd. I could see all the people round him saying that she’d just chucked his hat, but you could tell he was simply resigned....Madonna took it, whatareyougonnado?!
From Scott:
Madonna's first night at Wembley was amazing! The show is slick, sexy and loads of fun. Jump was my highlight, along with Isaac, which gave the show a surreal feeling. The political statements were hard hitting, and dark, but also necessary. 'We live in a world full of people who walk the walk, but who actually talks the talk?' she asked. Madonna obviously believes passionately that she is making a difference, it is up to the audience to decide if she does or not. What can you do today?
From Stephen:
I had the pleasure of attending the first night at Wembley. Having seen every tour that Madonna has done since 1987, the thing that struck me on entering the venue was the intimacy of the gig.
Rome In Frenzy Over Madonna
in ARCHIVE - Madonna
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It was planned for the Italy show. There was even a website made for it. http://www.semplicementegeri.it/madonna/index_en.htm I heard that they tried to do it at the show but they weren't organized and loud enough to make a notice there.