M-Tribe Community member Greg-007 shared more than 60 cool pictures from the Madonna concert at the Izvor Park in Bucharest at the Tribe Forum. His pictures have now been also added to our Tour Galleries- click on the preview images below to check them all.


In the image below you see the Madonna dancers waving the French flag that Greg handed to Norman at the end of "Give It 2 Me" - Greg would love to see more images of the dancers holding his flag so if by any chance you shot some, please share them on our Forum or send them in to our email address. Thanks!

Thanks to Greg-007. Please keep sharing your tour pictures and reports: email them to share@madonnatribe.com and we'll post them here for everyone to see. Thank you!

M-Tribe Community member Patlagik was at the Sticky & Sweet Tour concert in Bucharest last night and here are his images and his review of the show.

"I arrived at Parc Izvor at 3 PM. There were three entrance points and I chose the one closest to the stage. There were approx. 30 fans already waiting on the grass. Even though barriers were set up, they didn't allowed us to queue until 4 PM. Even though they said they will let us in the venue at 5:30 PM, and eventually we got in at 6:30 PM, right after Madonna finished her sound check."

"Paul Oakenfold was on at approx. 8:15 PM. His set was fun and the people from the front started jumping and singing. He also played his remix of Celebration. At a moment I was... let's say surprised: one of the dancers started running on the stage wrapped in plastic bubbles.A fter Oakenfold finished we waited another hour for the queen to arrive. She was very late: the show started at 9:50 PM. Sweet Machine was on and I couldn't hear nothing because everybody was screaming so loud... it was incredible!!!"

"She looks so fresh and young. I heard that the people that were on Pitch A, Pitch B and VIP were like dead people. As for the Golden Circle - everybody was singing, screaming and jumping."

"Madonna was very chatty: she said "Hello Romania" during Beat Ges On and said "Romania" and "Bucuresti" many times. It was funny to hear her saying "Bucuresti" (Romanian) instead of "Bucharest" (English)!"

"At the beginning of "You Must Love Me" she talked about how racism is very spread in Eastern Europe and that the people should have equal rights. After that (or before - don't remember because of the excitement) many people from Gold Circle raised a A4 paper sheets with "Romania loves you" written on it. She replied with "I love you too" and then everybody started screaming! Just before the ending of "You Must Love Me", me and a girl started to scream "We love you" and in the next second everybody started screaming the same thing! At the end of "Give It 2 Me" she jumped off the stage - everybody was singing and jumping!"

"In conclusion it was an incredible show - a show that can only be surpassed by a new Madonna show!"

Thanks to Patlagik. Check out the full size version of his images and the complete set of 26 files at our Tour Galleries, click on the preview pics above to get there now.

Some concertgoers made their displeasure known with Madonna yesterday night in Bucharest after she spoke out against the discrimination of Gypsies in eastern Europe during her Sticky & Sweet concert in Park Izvor.

Madonna paused in the two-hour concert in Bucharest to say that Gypsies, also known as Roma, were discriminated against in eastern Europe. She said that made her "sad" and nobody should be discriminated against.

"It's been brought to my attention that there's a lot of discrimination against Romani and Gypsies in general in eastern Europe, and that makes me very sad," she told the crowd of 60,000. As she spoke, a vocal minority began booing her words. She did not acknowledge the jeers.

When she proclaimed, "We believe in freedom and equal rights for everyone!", you can actually here people yelling "No!", however the cheers of approving fans eventually drowned out the grumbling.

Roma musicians and a Roma dancer were featured in her show, held just yards from the giant palace of ex-communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Their performances were applauded by the crowd.

There are officially some 500,000 Roma in Romania, but the real number could be around 2 million. They face prejudice and discrimination in Romania and other east European nations.


From articles by the Associated Press and PopEater.
Video from perrymod's channel on YouTube.

Madonna was again in great shape yesterday night when she performed a fabulous concert at Park Izvor in Bucharest, Romania. Our longtime friend and contributor Catalin had a great time, enjoyed the show, although he reckons that the Romanian audience were not as responsive as they should have been...
And of course Catalin shares some pics he took at the show, that are now available at our Sticky & Sweet Tour Galleries. Click on the preview images below to check them all now.

Thanks to Catalin. Please keep sharing your tour pictures and reports: email them to share@madonnatribe.com and we'll post them here for everyone to see. Thank you!

Madonna arrived in Romania on Tuesday evening, landing at Banease airport at around 7pm. She will perform tonight at Izvor Park for one of the latest dated of her Sticky & Sweet Tour.

Several trucks and coaches, carrying Madonna's stuff and equipment entered Romania on Tuesday morning, according to Romanian press agency Mediafax.

Madonna's concert in figures
Madonna's concert production team count 1,200 people.
The stage is made up of two parts, weights one hundred tones and covers the size of a stadium.
Backstage, there will be approximately 500 chairs and tables and 30 couches, as well as five industrial cooking machines.
Madonna's personal staff is made up by 34 persons: fitness trainers, a therapist, an interior designer, a cook...
Over 1,000 gendarmes from the Bucharest Gendarmerie will secure public order.
70,000 people are expected to turn up for the concert.

Access to concert
The fans will be able to get a seat starting 5:30 pm. They must be ticket holders, hold an invitation and the press representatives must have accreditation.

Starting with 11:30 pm, the Autonomous Transport Authority from Bucharest will make available three special transport lines. Buses will leave from Piata Unirii towards Vatra Luminoasa, from George Cosbuc Square towards Soseaua Giurgiului and from Operei Square towards Drumul Taberei and Damaroaia.

Plus, the public transport in Bucharest will run for longer for several routes. The last tube will be at 1pm. But the road traffic in Bucharest will be closed on August 26, between 5pm and 1am, on several roads serving Izvor Park area.

Source: HotNews.ro.

After finalizing the setup for the location of Madonna's August 26 Sticky & Sweet Tour concert in Parc Izvor, organizers have released a 1,500 supplementary Pitch A tickets.

These extra tickets can be bought from www.myticket.ro, starting today.

Thanks to Patlagik.

M-Tribe Community member Patlagik shares these images of some of the Madonna mega-posters that are invading Bucharest and advertising the August 26th Sticky & Sweet Tour concert at Parc Izvor.
Click to zoom.



Thanks to Patlagik.

M-Tribe reader Lucas is a huge Madonna Fan from Romania who wants to share a picture he took of a Sticky & Sweet Tour advertising in Timisoara, the 4th largest city in the country.
"Everybody here is waiting for the Queen of pop to come to our country in August!, " Lucas says.

Thanks to Lucas.

"I have seen lately a lot of billboards promoting the Sticky & Sweet Tour appearing in my city, Cluj-Napoca - M-Tribe community member avenger13 writes.
"Just yesterday, while riding my bike I have seen at least six of them. I took this picture of the billboard on Bucuresti Road with my cellphone. 117 days and counting :))"

Thanks to Mihai aka avenger13.

After the first pre-sale day for the August 26 concert in Bucharest the allocated tickets for the Pitch A area completely sold-out. The management approved then an extra allotment of tickets to be made available on pre-sale for the same area, which was available on myticket.ro on February 24. Another dedicated pre-sale for Vodafone Romania customers end yesterday and today, March 3, the general public will finally be able to purchase tickets from myticket.ro and in Diverta stores.

Myticket.ro programs to serve up to 25 000 visitors per hour this morning, with special arrangements to prevent server crashes similar to those that happened to the websites selling tickets for the Wechter and Sofia a few days ago. In only 12 hours the other day, more that 70 000 unique users have accessed myticket.ro to get information or to buy tickets to the Madonna show.

Thanks to Alex and Andu.

The Sticky & Sweet Tour stop in Romania will take place in Bucharest on August 26.
The venue has been finally set and Madonna will perform at Parc Izvor, madonna.com has announced.

Tickets for the show will go on public sale on March 3 at 10 AM local time while a dedicated Fan club pre sale starts on Monday, February 23.

Please check madonna.com for more info.