Three years ago MadonnaTribe was the first site to report about Madonna's plans to hit the road again in 2008, and later on broke the news about the Sticky & Sweet Tourcoming back with a new European leg in year 2009.
This is the site where the fans were kept up-to-date with all the latest news and reliable info, exclusive preview and reports about the themes, the videos, the choreography of the show, and now with fresh reports about the new songs in the 2009 setlist and the amazing final concerts that have just been announced for September 1st and September 2nd in Tel Aviv.
Exclusive Reports: Latest Tour Exclusives From M-Tribe - MJ Tribute and more!
We're almost there!! The Sticky and Sweet Tour 2009 is just a day away and to build up
excitement MadonnaTribe would like to share some more exclusive news we have heard buzzing around.
During these weeks apparently nothing has changed in the new rock version of Dress You Up that replaces Heartbeat. The My Sharona inspired arrangement is still there and it's really good.
On the Holiday front instead there are some changes. As previously reported exclusively here the song already contained vocal lines and music samples of Everybody (Dance and Sing Get Up And Do Your Thing) and the new track Celebrate but now as a homage to the late Michael Jackson, Madonna has been rehearsing the song with a whole middle part of MJ music in it.
There's the famous "Billie Jean" drum beat and the "Wanna Be Starting Something" hook (the "Mama-se, mama-sa, ma-ma-coo-sa" stuff).
Totally a dance number perfect for the 80's part of the show!! Fans will love it!
Speaking about the latest new entry, Frozen, that replaces Hung Up, we are told is a upbeat number with the hook of the Calvin Harris' song "I'm Not Alone" in the middle.
But the great surprise is that the new Frozen also contains parts of another great Madonna classic from the 80's, "Open Your Heart", a song that was rehearsed for the first part of this tour but that didn't make the final setlist replaced by Doli Doli.
The song now gets its revenge!
As for the video backdrop for Frozen they are using video outtakes from the original video by Chris Cunningham from 1998, re edited in a great new way!
The show will also have some other great surprises, we wish everyone who attends the first show in London tomorrow night a great fun and don't forget to check MadonnaTribe, home of Madonna fans, for the first after show reports!
In The Media: Marilyn Minter and Madonna, a bit ahead of the zeitgeist
Fans attending Madonna's July 4 concert in London will be confronted by the surreal sight of a giant tongue licking and spitting out neon-colored icing.
"It's not the most appetizing imagery; it's saliva being spit out with bakery products," says its creator, artist Marilyn Minter.
Her film, Green Pink Caviar, serves as a backdrop to Madonna's opening number, "Candy Shop."
Says Minter, "we had to make it as absolutely beautiful as possible so you overlook that."
The artist, who's previously collaborated with Tom Ford, tells us that she's felt solidarity with Madonna since the early Nineties. "She did her Sex book at the same time that I made a hardcore porn series of paintings," she says. "She got excoriated by the press and so did I, as traitors of feminism in a way. We were both pro-sex feminists at the wrong time, in the middle of early political correctness. We tapped into the way feminism was going a little bit ahead of the zeitgeist."
She is now headed off to London now for the concert. The two, she says, have not yet met (although Madonna owns two of Minter's works). Madonna sent her tickets, flowers and a note.
From an article by Haven Thompson, wmagazine.com. Thanks to BabyGeorge.
A nice picture of Madonna's arrival at Heathrow airport last month is one of the various images, gossip stories and more serious reports about the Queen of Pop that can be found in the recent weekly and daily press from Germany.
Click on any image below to enlarge the clipping shared by M-Tribe friend and contributor Susanne.
"Buenos Aires Battle" - the new clip from Madonna's dancer's Antboogie Sticky & Sweet Tour Diary is now online.
In this new video Madonna dancers Yamin, Yuki, Norman and AntBoogie have a battle vs the judges of the bboy comp for a friendly back and forth.
Madonna's new clothing collection is for "seven-year-olds to 77-year-olds".
The 50-year-old popstar is teaming up with French fashion designer Christian Audigier - who has an eponymous label and is also behind the Von Dutch and Ed Hardy labels - on a new range, and is determined to make it suitable for all age groups.
Christian told Bang Showbiz: "Madonna and I are working on a new project called The Material Girl Project and I'm going to be a partner with her on it.
"It's going to come out, in September, when it's back to school time. So we are working on different designs and samples right now, so we're going to have most of that done at the end of the summer.
It's going to be for everyone, all ages. We're going for everyone, from seven-year-olds to 77-year-olds. We're not excluding anybody."
Christian - who is currently in London to launch his new range of champagne and wines - has been thrilled with the way the singer has thrown herself into the collaboration, saying she is full of ideas and has a clear vision for the line.
He explained: "Madonna is a good choice because she comes into it a total pro. If I need to listen to music, then I go and see Madonna because she is the best, so this is the same thing.
"Does she have loads of ideas? Oh, of course. I had a meeting a month ago with her and she is really all about the detail. She knows exactly what she likes and is always proposing ideas to us. After that she decides whether she wants to add shoes or other things. She's like me, when it's a, 'Yes,' it's a big, 'Yes.' When it's a, 'No,' it's a definite, 'No!' I like people like that, a lot of people are really critical but never give a solution. She is not like that."
Radio Times reviews the Sticky an Sweet Tour broadcast
Here's a short review of the upcoming Sticky & Sweet Tour broadcast on Sky1 from Radio Times:
Here's how to put on a show - Madonna in action last year on the Buenos Aires leg of the biggest-grossing tour ever. It's an extraordinary spectacle - the staging and production are state of the art, the dancing superb, the costumes impressive, and Madonna is its constant animated and sexy heart.
And there's music, too. Some of it feels like a bland, machine-made accompaniment, but there are some perfectly realised sequences - watch Maddy skip to Into the Groove. It's pop music transformed into shiny, entertainment-product.
Just 3 days away from the opening night of Madonna's 2009 Sticky & Sweet Tour, the Material Girl and her whole band are busy rehearsing for the show, which will be played 29 times in 25 different cities all over Europe from July 4th to August 2nd.
The 2009 leg of the tour is to feature some changes, including a couple of songs that were not performed last year, so get ready for what promises to be another amazing experience! While we all can't wait for the tour to begin, Madonna.com are happy to share the two photos below taken during the rehearsals in New York City. See you at the show!
Madonna fans heading to the latest leg of her Sticky & Sweet tour, which kicks back off in London on Saturday, are in for a surprise. The opening song, "Candy Shop," will be performed under a pair of giant luscious, pink lips licking and sucking on sparkly gold, orange, silver and green goo.
The nine-minute video, titled "Green Pink Caviar", is a new addition to the tour courtesy of artist Marilyn Minter, whose photographic work is in Madonna’s personal collection.
"When I heard Madonna might be interested [in the video], I said, 'Wow, how much does she want me to pay her?'" laughs Minter, who was initially told it was too late to insert anything into the tour. Apparently it was too good to resist and became part of the show.
"Then [Madonna] actually paid me a bunch of money and sent tickets," said Minter, who is on her way to the U.K. for her first-ever Madonna concert to see her video in action.
Minter-watchers will recognize the short as a movie "trailer" that played at the Sunshine Cinemas and on a Times Square screen earlier this year. It will also feature on two large screens in Los Angeles when Minter’s next show opens at Regen Projects on Oct. 24.
In The Press: ''I want the Madonna bag, the Madonna shoes''
Marc Jacobs was so pleased with this spring’s Louis Vuitton campaign featuring Madonna that he was eager to do an encore. "But very quickly Marc said, 'I want something completely different,'" Antoine Arnault, Vuitton's communication director, is quoted by WWD as saying.
The new ingredients included a dash of Tamara de Lempicka and a soupçon of Man Ray for color-drenched images by Steven Meisel with a surreal edge, thanks to generous use of solarization, a technique of overexposure first perfected by Ray.
"It gives something very graphic, more edgy" than the first Madonna campaign, also by Meisel, Arnault said. Asked about the impact of the first Madonna campaign, he also reveals that "everything she was wearing in the first campaign was sold within a few months. People came into the store saying, 'I want the Madonna bag, the Madonna shoes."
From an article by WWD.com. Backstage photos courtesy of Louis Vuitton.
Nicki Richards is the real deal - a world class singer, songwriter, producer, arranger and performer who brings the sizzle and the thrill back to that rarified realm known as "music beyond category."
With powerful turns by the likes of longtime collaborators Tony Moran, Eric Kupper and Matthias Heilbronn, Nicki again delivers all the punch, power and energy you've come to expect on the "Why You Wanna Hurt Me So Bad" remixes.
Nicki Richards has worked with the best in the business and now takes her sass and diva swagger out for a spin on her own more-than-capable two feet. And of course, she's ready to hit the stage singing with Madonna in London this coming Sunday.
Check out her "Why You Wanna Hurt Me So Bad" remixes at CD Baby now.
You heard it first on the pages of MadonnaTribe last week, and now that the images have been officially released it's time to also have a look at the new brilliant campaign that photographer Steven Meisel shot under the artistic direction of Marc Jacobs for the Louis Vuitton's Fall/Winter collection.
"After the fun we had with the Spring/Summer campaign, and the amazing reaction to it, all of us - Madonna, Steven and myself - were eager to get back together for Fall/Winter," Marc Jacobs comments in the press release. "While the two campaigns look very different, there is also a unity about them, so it now feels like we have completed both parts of the story."
"This is another superb campaign, reflecting not only the close relationship between Madonna, Marc Jacobs and Steven Meisel, but also their immense creative talent and their consistent desire to challenge and innovate," Antoine Arnault, Head of Communications for Louis Vuitton, says.
The Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2009-2010 advertising campaign features Madonna as the model, photographed by Steven Meisel, styled by Marie-Amélie Sauve, with hair by Guido and makeup by Pat McGrath, and will break in the August 2009 issues of magazines worldwide.
Photo credit: Steven Meisel. Courtesy of Louis Vuitton.
Madonna grace the cover of the July/August issue of Italian magazine "Psychologies" with a classic shot by Dah Len. Not thrilling and certainly not new but still looking great in the newsstands' shelves, the magazine is available in a standard and a pocket sized formats.
Click on the image below to enlarge the scan.
DJ Ryan is having a Madonna night in Mynt bar in Belfast on Thursday 2nd July to celebrate the launch of Sticky & Sweet 2.0.
It is free in, with £2 drinks from 8 PM until midnight, and runs from 9 PM to 2 AM. Loads of Madonna is of course going to be played. Check out the flyer below for more info.
More heavily discounted tickets are now being offered from Ticketnet.fr for the Sticky & Sweet Tour concert in Bercy.
From June 29 to July 7 only, Catégorie 1 tickets are offered at 97.00 € (instead of the original 192.50), and Catégorie 2 seats are available at 85.50 € (instead of 170.50 €).
That's a 50% markdown from the original price.
A new promotional printed picture of Madonna has seen the light of day. Following a tradition dating back in the various Madonna eras, that often saw black and white prints (but also a few colour images), this new shot comes from a recent photoshoot - namely the "Get Stupid" session by Steven Klein that ended up on the covers of "Vogue Brazil" and "Icon" magazine.
What makes this photo a little more special is the fact that it has been released under the new Live Nation deal - while the older ones where sporting the Sire logo first, and the one of Warners later on.
Of course, this image is even more special because Madonna herself signed it for our friend and Community member Mark aka CicconeUK.
The first Sticky And Sweet 2009 show is just a week away and our Tribe forum members and collabortators from the UK Tonybecks, Andifeel and Wannabe are busy promoting their Gambler campaign.
Basically they (and a lot of other fans) want Madonna to sing even a tiny bit of her 1985 Vision Quest song Gambler in the request section of the show. And if it happens in London next week it may even be better!
Get ready to request in loud voice Gambler next Saturday and Sunday in London because ... YES WE CAN!
Fans travelling to The O2 for the first two concerts of Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour 2009 leg next weekend should be aware that the Jubilee line will be closed for upgrade works on Saturday, July 4 and Sunday, July 5 between the Green Park and Stratford stations of the London Underground, meaning that there are no services to North Greenwich where The O2 is.
This is a recurring situation that has happened for most of the week-ends so far, including those where concerts where taking place at The O2, so there is nothing to worry about but fans would probably check for alternative routes and solutions in advance.
There is a dedicated topic at the MadonnaTribe Forum you can check by clicking here, the online website of Transport for London can help with their Journey Planner service, and also the official site for the O2 Arena has released some useful information that you can read by clicking here.
Sat, June 27
Nicki Richards is the real deal - a world class singer, songwriter, producer, arranger and performer who brings the sizzle and the thrill back to that rarified realm known as "music beyond category."
The first Sticky And Sweet 2009 show is just a week away and our Tribe forum members and collabortators from the UK Tonybecks, Andifeel and Wannabe are busy promoting their Gambler campaign.
