The last two North American dates are announced on Madonna.com with sales dates: October 16th Boston & November 18th Detroit.

where's the controversy?

heartbeatocean said:

She's going through the motions these days.....she dont do controversy anymore - not unless she has some oh so worthy point to make. just kiddin of course. She'll probably pretend to have some giant scissor slapping session at the end of You Must Love Me just to prove she's still down with the gays!

CrozzaUK said:

Madonna's use of gay fans is dispicable

Matronik said:

I know. As if we dont have enough to contend with in life without Madonna exploiting us at every turn.

CrozzaUK said:

well it wasn't that long ago that she strapped herself onto a cross

heartbeatocean said:

Madonna sucks big time...

Madonna and her team are rehearsing right now (15.00 pm) at the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff. Our correspondent Paul, who works near the stadium can distinctly hear "Candy Shop" and "Beat Goes On" thundering from inside!

In the show setlist exclusively premiered online by MadonnaTribe News those are the first and second songs in the show.

As reported by our friends of Madonna Online Brazil, the Queen Of Pop arrived today in Cardiff with all the band and tour dancers, plus her manager Guy Oseary, Arthur Fogel (from Live Nation), and "I Am Because We Are" director Nathan Rissman (a new documentary on the way?).

Thanks to M-Tribe correspondent in Cardiff Paul and Madonna Online Brazil

LiveToTell86 said:

It's countdown time! It's time to put your hands up....it's time to get your body moving!

i've decided to wait and buy tickets from desperate scalpers on the day of the show the way i've done in the past.

i was going to see if my job would have any "surplus" (i work at mtv and we often get tickets comped) but madge's peeps are apparently not giving any comps out, even to industry people. this means i'd have to pay full price for seats and, honestly, i'm spoiled now and i just can't do it. i mean, i saw goerge michael in amazing seats for free - not even the beers cost us anything. i can't justify 350 for a ticket now.

but i will be there and i will be dancing and screaming with the rest of you!

I'm seeing the show on a Saturday and Sunday.I'm trying to decide if I should take the Monday off from work.....I may not have any energy left!

SoulAlive said:

would those happen to be the toronto shows which are also on Sat and Sun? I'm going to one of them and luckily have no work for it!

alphastreet said:

No,I will be at the two Oakland shows which take place on November 1 and 2...a Saturday and Sunday.This promises to be a long,wild weekend....Halloween is on the Friday night

Madonna,the band and dancers are at Cardiff,rehearsing for opening night.They've already done a few complete dress rehearsals and will continue doing so all weekend.A security employee has revealed details of the stage:

***There are 3 screens on or above the stage.One is a circular screen in the center,and the side screens are HUGE.

***There are two platforms/catwalks on each side of the stage.

***There is also a main catwalk in the middle of the stage,but apparently it's not as large as the Confessions tour catwalk.

***The security guy said that this is "the biggest production" he has ever seen at this stadium.

Here are some blurry pics that he took...they don't show much,but still it's getting me excited



Here are a few rough sketches of the stage design:

sassybritches said:

Wow,you work for MTV and can't get free tickets? You would think that Madonna would be inviting you to come backstage,lol

SoulAlive said:

forget me, i'm nobody there. for the confessions tour, the senior vice president had to pay to see her, lol. and this is the organization that helped make her career! she's bold!

sassybritches said:

she's been anticelebrity and industry comps since the Drowned World Tour and has even said on the last tour if the pope wants to see my show he can pay like everyone else.

anyway have your health insurence there? i've heard viacom doesn't cover that for a year or so.

what they're chatting about on the ICON messageboards...


Me and my partner went up to the stadium today and heard a few songs being rehearsed.Unsure if Madonna was there.Here is the order of the rehearsals that we heard.Devil Wouldn't Recognize You with vocal...Candy Shop intro and then straight into Beat Goes On,Die Another Day,Gypsy Folk Song sung with a male vocal,4 Minutes with Justin's vocals,guitar chords rehearsed a few times for Ray Of Light and surprisingly Material Girl and the guitar chords for Music going into the beat of Fedde Le Grande.We hung around for 1 hour and 20 mins but decided to call it a day.The gates had been covered with Tarpoling but we managed to put a hole through it and spy into the stadium.Alot of people walking around,equipment on the floor but the stage was covered with a big black curtain and alot of people behind it.

Could "Material Girl" be the surprise song that has just been added to the setlist?

ehuffnsd said:

did she really say that? lol

ehuffnsd said:

no, their benefits are great and they start on the first day of hire. and thank god their's tuition reimbursement!!

sassybritches said:

what was the strike about tahn"?

ehuffnsd said:

that must have happened before i got here, i have no idea about any strike. i only started the week of july 4th.

sassybritches said:

Employees at Viacom's MTV Networks (which includes, in part, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Logo, and Spike) are threatening a walkout on Monday, apparently in protest at a new plan from management that would roll back benefits to the networks' legions of freelance workers.

http://www.huffingtonpost...75725.html

ehuffnsd said:

Nobody here knows anything about this. However, i don't work with any freelance employees so...

but, yeah, this is total news to me and everyone in my dept.

there was apparently something back in december regarding the same thing (i think) but nobody's heard about anything recently.
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THIS SET LIST SUCKS ASS.

She's a fucking idiot for playing: Human Nature, La Isla Bonita, You Must Love Me and a super idiot for thinking that Spanish Lesson is a good song. She has fucked up big time. Obviously she doesn't give a shit. She made her money. What I find perplexing is how she can look at her pool of songs and come out with such a BORING, UNINSPIRING and STUPID set list. Ray of Light has been played into the ground and to be quite honest with you the song is tired. It's not that good and it was so commercial I could vomit. This thought is shared by many. The only good thing about this tour is that we will all have plenty of songs to go pee during or get nachos or smoke or get a blow job in the bathroom, etc. Maybe even sleep.

mschirmer said:

No offense but if you really feel this way,why are you going to the show? There really is no such thing as a "perfect setlist".No matter what songs Madonna chooses to perform or not perform,there are always gonna be fans who would rather hear something else.She can't please everybody.

SoulAlive said:

as long as she does la isla bonita, like a prayer, and vogue on every tour for the rest of her career, i'll always go.

seriously, lol. la isla bonita is my favorite live madonna song. i can't tell you why, i don't even know. i just love watching it live.

mschirmer said:

So basically since Madonna plays songs YOU don't like, she's boring, uninspired, stupid and only does it for the money? If she "didn't give a shit", wouldn't she just sing the whole Immaculate Collection or something like that? Not to mention that Madonna surely looks into her pool of songs and she probably hates most of them, and understandably. I don't get why fans think Madonna should love to sing stuff like "Dress You Up", "Who's That Girl" or "Cherish" or and obscure album track. We're lucky she's resurrecting "Borderline" finally.

I agree with SoulAlive, if the tour consists you of "bathroom breaks" for most of the time, then what's the point of going?

sassybritches said:

heartbeatocean said:

I like watching it live too.She always does something interesting with it.The performance of this song on the Confessions tour was alot of fun.