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Juan sent me some pics!
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That's me in red on the left doing that stupid shit with my hand
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madonnalicious
Don't make me use the F word!
Posted: 03 July 2006
Madonna's third night at Madison Square Garden was HOT - the holiday weekend audience were wild and Madonna was in top form. Below are a few fan report highlights - to read the full versions visit the New York City Fan Reviews section.
From C-J:
When we first sat down we were pissed thinking that the seats (side stage) were horrible but once the show began there were only a small handful of times that we looked up on the big screen to see what was going on (the biggest time was during 'Live To Tell' because we were looking at the back of the Cross.)
During the interlude for 'Live To Tell' we could actually see her crawl onto the cross from the bottom and have a couple of people get her situated before it began to rise.
Another funny thing was just before 'Music/Disco Inferno' I could see everyone below the stage on their skates. When the music started Cloud was playing air guitar and stopped just before that part of the stage began to rise.
From DJ Danny Echi:
During 'Get Together' three rows up in front of me, on the left hand side of the stage, a fan threw up in the air a large amount of rainbow confetti. The timing was perfect. As Madonna sang on the catwalk, the line 'It's a illusion I don't care', the confetti was thrown up in the air falling on her. It was such a cool effect. For a second I thought it was a new part of the show. The fan not only threw it once but twice during 'Get Together'.
The second time she looked up in the air to see where it was coming from. The look on her face was a moment. She didn't like it.
From Fernando:
After Get Together and before starting JUMP, Madge told the audience, 'Please do not throw anything onto the stage as it could be dangerous, BUT the night is young and the show has just begun!'
Right after I LOVE NEW YORK (the crowd went CRAZY) she told the audience, 'You guys gotta stop making me curse, my daughter is watching the show tonight' Yes, Lola was definitely watching. But then she said, 'I TOLD YOU GUYS TO STOP THROWING SHIT ON MY STAGE, WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK THIS IS?!' That was hilarious and just awesome.
From Sammy:
Only twice did Madonna get miffed with the crowd....during Get Together someone threw confetti into the air over the stage (which looked great but was very dangerous) and when someone else threw a t-shirt at her. In true Madonna form, Madonna yelled 'Stop throwing s**t on my stage! Where do you think you are?!' My favorite moment was at the end of Let It Will Be, Madonna rolled over on her back and began singing New York, New York and giving random chorus line kicks into the air.
The crowd (including Lenny Kravitz, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lucy Lui, David Blaine, Mayor Bloomberg, Guy, Lola and Madonna's dad and step mom) loved it!
From Scotty P:
After a particularly wild Let It Will Be, she was downright giddy. She started singing Frank Sinatra's New York, New York, and she was cracking herself up....'These little town blues, are melting away, I'm gonna make a brand new start of it - in old New York, If I can make it there, I'm gonna make it anywhere, It's up to you - New York, New York.' Then she said, 'There's something about doing a show for a New York audience....the energy is so fuckin' intense, you just gotta go with it, but now I'm fucking exhuasted!'
From Steve:
A huge ball of confetti and glitter came down during 'Get Together,' and M evacuated the area, while they mopped it up. I guess a fan threw it. Then someone threw a jacket. Before 'I Love New York,' she said: 'Don't make me use the F word, because my daughter's in the audience! But DO NOT throw fucking shit on my stage. It is unsafe for the dancers.' And someone threw a bottle cap. The whole night was like that - a hot show, but an over the top crowd.
From Wellington:
Well everyone was there, I saw many of her crew, her makeup artist walking around, her hair dresser, her dresser Tony who I took a picture with and Guy Oseary who I shook hands with. Lenny Kravitz, Lucy Liu and Chris Rock were the celebrities that I could spot. Overall an amazing night!
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madonnalicious
Come on....let me hear you NYC!
Posted: 04 July 2006
Last night was Madonna's fourth and final date for now (until Tuesday 18 July and Wednesday 19 July) at Madison Square Garden. Madonna was highly talkative last night - here are a few fan highlights from the show:
To read the full length reviews visit the Fan Reviews section.
From Colin:
This was BY FAR the best show I have seen so far. There was just so much energy - it had a new tone - everybody was well rested and rocked the house!
From Fernando:
Celebrities spotted in the crowd included Chelsea Clinton, Kelly Ripa and designer, Kaballah pal Donna Karan! During 'I Love New York', the crowd went ballistic....prompting Madonna to yell 'Come on....let me hear you NYC' during the first verse! The place went nuts! After the song, she said 'I wanna see you out of your seats....you need to be appreciative', referring to her NY tribute.
From Mike:
Monday night's show was amazing. We were at the front of the floor and she gave it her all. I was amazed at her non-stop energy and intensity. It was a mind-blowing extrasensory experience. It was as if we were out at The Roxy dancing all night with Madonna. Definitely the ultimate disco dancing diva!
From Scotty P:
After Ray of Light she said, 'There are STILL some people sitting down and taking breaks. I'm NOT happy about that. My FRONT ROW BITCHES are not happy about that. You should be celebrating that you live in this motherfuckin' city by standing up! I'm sorry I'm obsessing about you people, but your energy is pulling me down. You should all be celebrating the 4th of July! Celebrating freedom! Celebrating that you can think and do what you what....within reason. I wish you all the ability to think for yourself.'
From Steve:
During 'Hung Up,' Madonna is going down the runway holding the mike getting people to sing. She has already slapped hands with several people. This one guy tried to touch her, and she jerked her hand away. She said, 'No, no touching. SINGING. I want you to SING.' She stuck the mike into his face and he could only scream. She laughed.
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http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=e...2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3
Concert review: Madonna at MSG
Thursday, June 29, 2006
By CATHERINE HOLAHAN
THE RECORD
Madonna is known for her many faces: Mother Madge. Dominatrix. Material Girl. Spiritual Leader. Sex Goddess. Virgin.
So it was fitting that she began her performance Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden by emerging from a shattered crystal disco ball. The “Confessions on a Dance Floor” tour is all about showing off Madonna’s many facets.
The Queen of Pop started the show in a black riding outfit that was Mrs. Ritchie meets Erotica’s Madonna. The costume was the first of at least half a dozen wardrobe changes Madonna would go through during the two-hour show.
The riding outfit, complete with hat and crop, was a nod to Madonna’s recent persona as an English lady as well as a celebration of the sexiness and indomitable spirit that has remained constant regardless of her style-of-the-moment.
Scenes of horses, fallen riders, and X-rays flashed across the ubiquitous video screens during the first few songs, referencing the injuries she suffered from a recent horseback riding accident, which left her with several broken bones.
Madonna showed off just how well she had recovered when, during a later dance interlude to the song “Sorry,” she put her leg seemingly behind her head.
Madonna danced throughout the show along with a large troupe of athletic male and female dancers. The dancers jumped around in cages, leaped from the stage, and even — during the “Disco Inferno” mash up with her song “Music” — performed on rollerblades.
At one point, she even donned an Elvis-style boxer’s cape with a “Dancing Queen” logo.
Madonna the dancer was another face she showed the crowd. She was also Madonna the rock star, playing guitar through songs such as “I Love New York” and “Ray of Light.”
She brazenly displayed her political side during numbers such as the “Sorry” interlude, which included video of her giving President Bush the finger among other images.
The Madonna of “Like a Prayer” was present with her controversial entrance on a mirrored cross during “Live to Tell.”
She displayed her dominatrix side, riding her male dancers during “Future Lovers” and ordering the crowd to dance, jump and sing as she saw fit.
Her theatrical side was on view in numbers such as the ’70s-inspired “Disco Inferno” mix when she wore a white suit straight out of “Saturday Night Fever.”
She even showed her New York side, telling the crowd:
“If you can’t let your hair down in New York City, where can you let it down? I’ve been [expletive] up the words and falling all over the place. I think I’m trying to hard to impress you people. But this is my home anyway. Why do I have to impress anybody?”
The crowd, for its part, didn’t seem to notice any mistakes. They jumped on command, sang at the top of their lungs, and even did the wave.
And, through it all, Madonna gyrated, shook and showed why, after more than two decades on stage, one face will always remain constant: The Queen of Pop.
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http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music...y-homepage-mezz
Madonna's a disco queen
Madonna turns up the heat at her first of 6 shows at the Garden
BY RAFER GUZMAN
Newsday Staff Writer
June 29, 2006
Madonna turned Madison Square Garden last night into a combination of Studio 54, Las Vegas and Cirque du Soleil, emerging from a giant disco ball to perform two hours' worth of thumping, bass-driven dance music accompanied by eye-popping visuals, her usual coterie of handsome male dancers and, perhaps most importantly, a DJ.
Adding to the clubby atmosphere: reduced air-conditioning to help protect Madonna's voice. As the impressively lithe and sinewy singer moved around the stage, she wasn't the only one perspiring.
In case you're wondering, Madonna did get up on her crucifix to sing "Live to Tell," from her latest album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor" (Warner Bros.). Was it tasteless? Was it offensive? One thing's for sure: It was one of the show's few dull points. Being stuck to a cross doesn't allow a physical performer like Madonna to move much.
At 47, Madonna has stopped reinventing herself in any substantial way. She continues to try on different outfits -- a cowboy hat for the 2000 album "Music," a militant beret for 2003's "American Life" -- but those are fashion accessories, not personas.
For her latest album, she has returned to a familiar role: the flamboyant disco queen. "Confessions" happens to be a disappointingly vapid album, a soulless spreadsheet of dance-pop cliches -- but Madonna has always had a knack for rising above her material. It's one of the reasons she remains so fascinating, and so undeniably entertaining.
Madonna devoted about half of the concert -- the first of six in a run at the Garden -- to the new album, performing nearly every track on it. She began with "Future Lovers," surrounded by men dressed as S&M horses. Madonna rode one, of course, then launched into a stomping version of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love." During "Like a Virgin," she mounted a saddle attached to a merry-go-round pole.
This was the "Equestrian" part of the show, and the other sections -- "Bedouin," "Never Mind the Bollocks" and "Disco" -- were equally nonsensical (and thoroughly enjoyable).
Madonna still has a knack for aesthetics, which helped some of her overly earnest new songs come to life. During "Isaac" (a song that raised a few hackles in the Jewish community), a muezzin-style singer in a robe trekked across the stage while images of the desert passed behind him.
The show steamrollered ahead with barely a split-second between songs, much like a DJ might string together his set. The inevitable climax was the show's "Disco" section, for which Madonna gamely donned a white suit, a la John Travolta.
Madonna may be stealing her own ideas these days, but she still knows how to please a crowd. By the time she unleashed the old-new combo of "Lucky Star" and "Hung Up," the crowd had long been up on its feet, dancing and sweating along with her.
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http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music...=ny-music-print
Material witnesses testify for Madge
BY TANIA PADGETT
Newsday Staff Writer
June 29, 2006
At Madison Square Garden last night, Madonna fans had a few confessions of their own.
Some came to the Material Girl's first Manhattan concert in her "Confessions on a Dance Floor" tour, not with their buds, but with their moms. Others came with empty pockets, having shelled out thousands of dollars to get tickets. And still others came with Madonna lyrics tattooed on - ouch - sensitive parts of their bodies.
Adi Bar, 31, lifted up her thin, white shirt to reveal 11 tattooed words from Madonna's song "Sky Fits Heaven" on her waist.
"This was painful," said Bar, of the Upper East Side. Bar also sports a tattoo of Madonna's mug on her right bicep and paid $2,400 to attend all six of the concerts at the Garden.
Roger Amodio, 34, of Albany, agreed. He and his mother, Marie, 63, shelled out $500 for what Marie called "nosebleed seats," but both said that Madge was worth it.
"I like the fact that she pushes boundaries," said Roger.
So is her fashion sense, said Frank Savage, 28, a teacher from Peekskill. Earlier in the day, he had his near-shoulder-length tresses colored blond. "The same blonde as hers," he said. "I'm her biggest fan," he gushed.
Omar Rodriguez might quibble with that. He ponied up $1,000 to see her Madgesty in three concerts. "I have to go more than once because you can't take in everything at just one concert, said Rodriguez, 40, of the Bronx.
But unlike most Madonna fans, he did have some criticism. "I don't approve of all the sex stuff," he said. And he doesn't regret his comments.
Fans, he said, have their confessions, too.
Roger Amodio, Jr., and his mother Marie Amodio, left, outside Madison Square Garden, where they were going to see the Madonna concert.
(Robert Mecea, Newsday Staff)
June 28, 2006
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http://www.nj.com/entertainment/ledger/ind....xml&coll=1
Madonna madness
Mixed messages abound as onetime Material Girl gets spiritual while boosting new 'Confessions' album
Friday, June 30, 2006
BY JAY LUSTIG
Star-Ledger Staff
POP/ROCK
NEW YORK -- There could be no better setting for Madonna's current tour than Madison Square Garden, where she performed Wednesday night.
Her new album "Confessions on a Dance Floor" -- which provided about half the songs for the show -- marks a re-embrace of the beat-driven dance-pop sound that made her a star in New York nightclubs in the early '80s, before the world discovered her. There is even a "Confessions" song, "I Love New York," in which she sings, sincerely but not exactly gracefully, "I don't like cities, but I like New York/Other places make me feel like a dork."
Madison Square Garden even felt like a sweaty dance club as Madonna refused, as she has on other tour stops, to let the air conditioning run full blast. (She wants to protect her vocal cords.)
Yet Madonna can't really go home again. She's 47 now, with interests in spirituality and politics, and a long tradition of controversy-sparking to live up to. There were some giddy dance numbers in the show, but also lots of half-hearted attempts to rile people up.
It wasn't a bad show. Madonna's too much of a pro for that. But it lacked the edge and the electricity of most of her past tours.
Madonna, who returns to the Garden on Sunday and Monday as well as July 18 and 19 (and also performs at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, July 16), made a disco-diva entrance. A giant mirrored ball dropped from the rafters to a mid-arena stage and opened to reveal her.
She got some sexual posturing out of the way early on "Future Lovers." Her leather-clad dancers pranced like horses and she rode one of them, brandishing a riding crop. She elaborated on the theme during "Like a Virgin," writhing on a saddle that rose and fell on a pole, as if it were part of a carousel.
She let her dancers dominate "Jump" -- their leaps and tumbles became the focus of this production number. She tried out a few moves herself, but mostly just sang.
The mood of the evening shifted abruptly from the physical to the spiritual with "Live to Tell," which was prefaced by an audio-visual presentation featuring tales of abuse, attempted suicide, and gang violence. Madonna sang while hanging on a crucifix, and ended the song with a series of video messages, including horrifying AIDS statistics, a quote from the Bible (Matthew 25:35) and plugs of the charity Web sites, www.raisingmalawi.org and www.clintonfoundation.org.
It was a brilliant example of having it both ways. Madonna pushes people's buttons with the crucifix, which has been the focus of much of the media's coverage of the tour. But, hey, don't get too worked up about it. Her intentions are good.
With its booming beat, the "Confessions" track "Sorry" became a highlight of the early portion of the show, though a reprise of the song, with a video montage mocking members of the Bush administration, was tacky. So was as an obscene line about the president added to "I Love New York."
The elegant ballad "Drowned World/Substitute for Love" was the show's most memorable breather. But the evening peaked with the buoyant dance song "Ray of Light." Dazzling cosmic explosions filled the video screens, and Madonna's rudimentary electric-guitar playing added an element of punk-rock brashness.
In the show's final segment, Madonna finally got around to a whole-hearted embrace of dance music. She donned a "Saturday Night Fever"-style white suit for a mashup of the classic disco song "Disco Inferno" and her own "Music;" cavorted with her dancers on "Erotica" and "La Isla Bonita," and ended with a medley of her early hit "Lucky Star" and lead "Confessions" single "Hung Up."
There was an odd moment during this closing number, though, when Madonna led the crowd in a singalong of the "Hung Up" line "Time goes by so slowly." Not exactly an uplifting sentiment for the show's climactic moment.
The show ended without an encore, then a message flashed on the screen: "Have you confessed?" Beyond the obvious reference to her new album, it was hard to figure out what Madonna intended by this. Then again, a lot of what she's doing these days doesn't seem thoroughly thought out.
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Yeah it's very cool how the whole crowd explodes for Sorry! It gets one of the best responses in the show!
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I recorded her Hung Up performance on video. The file is too big to upload, and most of you've seen a gazillion bootlegs already, so here's the 1st minute which is shot really cool with her humping the boombox (
) and you see JR! towards the end of the clip playing with a balloon 
It's too cute and funny! download here: http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...15BBC32371B5EB2
or here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PCCS8WA3
p.s. It's a 77MB .mov file! I think it only works with Quicktime Player! If you don't have it, Download it for free from here -link- where it says 'download the free player', and play the file in that player. I'll try to get it converted to a friendlier and smaller-sized mpeg or whatever later on.
OK, now on youtbe too:
I'll try to put up more from that performance later mr boogiewoogie
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Look who I saw on the way out
It takes fucking forever to exit out of MSG with the crowd! So the crowd was chanting "Times goes by so slowly" the whole way out
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I recorded her Hung Up performance on video. The file is too big to upload, and most of you've seen a gazillion bootlegs already, so here's the 1st minute which is shot really cool with her humping the boombox (
) and you see JR! towards the end of the clip playing with a balloon It's too cute and funny! download here: http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...15BBC32371B5EB2
or here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PCCS8WA3
p.s. It's a 77MB .mov file! I think it only works with Quicktime Player! If you don't have it, Download it for free from here -link- where it says 'download the free player', and play the file in that player. I'll try to get it converted to a friendlier and smaller-sized mpeg or whatever later on.
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When Madonna singled out some people who were sitting ("I'm obsessing about them" she said), she instructed the crowd to boo at them and we did very loudly!
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Again, SOOOOOO happy for u JR. Couldnt happen to a nicer, sweeter person( and yes CUTE). Too bad i look like crap in bedtimestorynyc's pic. I guess everyone will just have to take the 3 of yalls words!
OMG u got to touch her. I would normally be jealous( as I am of Slyguy because NO ONE should be THAT lucky
M might have looked at me....i have written, in shoe polish on my chest, "MO, WHY NO HOUSTON?" and had glow sticks flayling...she "seemed" to take a double take when she looked in my direction and several times later. So maybe she saw me( but no touching dammit)
You had so many glowsticks that night, she must've seen you! I could see you from across the floor. You were like a Christmas tree
By the way, thanks again for the glowstick you gave me! -
That's the Anthony I know and love!
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Fran Drescher from "The Nanny" (I'm sure all you FIERCELY heterosexual men have heard of that show) attended the concert! She was seated in the front row of the pod section in front of the catwalk. Same place where Lenny Kravitz, Lucy Liu, and David Blaine were the night before. She posed for pics with some fans before the show, but then security barricaded the pod section and told people to get to their seats when a mob began to gather there snapping pics. A bunch of people on the floor handed me their cameras to take pics of her.
My old buddy Anthony (posts here occasionally as COADF35 -- he's pictured in the middle) and his man took a pic with her.
Fran was having a blast through the whole show! When Madonna came out in the John Travolta suit for "Music Inferno", Fran was flipping out with excitement, especially when Madonna was performing on the ministage in front of her. Trivia: Fran Drescher's first film role (minor role) was "Connie" in the film classic "Saturday Night Fever"! So you perhaps can understand why she was especially thrilled during this segment.
click on the photos to enlarge!
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Another pic with JR!
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Another WONDERFUL show! Madonna in great form and a very good crowd again! I'll post stuff later but first let's congratulate Juan a.k.a. JR! who managed to touch Madonna's hand! The pic is a bit fuzzy (my camera was being bitchy today -- I got less good shots at this show
) but you can see she's touching his hand 
He's in some of my other pics too. I'll try to post them later on.
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I have a bunch more pics but they're going to have to wait till at least tomorrow or so! The back of David Blaine's damn shaved head needs to be cropped out of some of them
You can count the peach fuzz on Madonna's arms in some pics! 
I'm surprised I was able to zoom to the mainstage from 1/2 way down the floor and get some decent pics from that far back. My other older pocket digital camera could never do that. Anyway, here's a few pics to tie you all over till later this week:
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Oh and I forgot to mention that when Madonna introduced Isaac, she told him "Try not to be OFF KEY tonight"
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I met jamesshot at the show there too! Nice guy! Sorry we didn't get to hang out aside from the 10 minutes we chatted there! Next time you're in NY we'll try to make plans to hang out.
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click on each pic here to fully enlarge
The guy on the left is Guy Oseary and the guy on the right is David Blaine
Lenny chatting with Lucy Liu
Watching Madonna perform 'Hung Up'
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another short clip of her complianing about people throwing things on stage:
download here: http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...34A1F45768094A0
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Here's a video clip (from a poster the Icon forum) of her yelling at the audience for throwing shit during this show
download here: http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...12730664D324E73
or here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ADU72197
(it's a .mov file! Only works with Quicktime and VLC player I think)
MSG July 3!
in ARCHIVE - Madonna
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God I look so bloated and already drunk before the show
And here's Juan alone