new tour 2011??

On the road again in 2011?
Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour drummer Brian Frasier-Moore was recently interviewed at the NAMM 2010 conference. He was asked what his he had been up to lately, his reply:
I just finished Madonna's tour, I was out with her for a year and six months. Starting up with Christina (Aguilera) in February and then back to Madonna again at the top of 2011.

Yeah,it looks like the 2011 tour is already being planned The plan is for the new album to be released in the fall of this year,and the tour will kick off in spring 2011.

There's also a rumor about a 10-date Australian tour being planned for this summer,but I think it's fake...

Madonna Australian Tour imminent

by Paul Cashmere - March 3 2010

Madonna looks about ready to announce an Australian tour.

A touring company insider has alerted Undercover to the soon-to-be announced Madonna ‘The Celebration Tour’ for July.

This will be the first time Madonna has been to Australian since 1993 and it will be her second ever Australian tour.

In total, 10 shows are planned with three shows for Sydney and Melbourne, two for Brisbane and one each for Adelaide and Perth penciled in.

The ticket price is said to be the highest price ever for a pop concert ticket in Australia with the cheap seats expected to go for $249, next level at $499, Gold at $999 and then an Ultimate ticket at $2000.

For $1000 more, Ultimate ticket holders can also upgrade to the Penultimate ticket for $3000 which will include a meet and greet, photo op and personally signed program from the tour.

The show is expected to be marketed as “a gift to Australia” for the years of touring cold shoulders.

The Australian shows will be indoor arena shows as opposed to the outdoor stadium shows she did in other parts of the world last year, hence the expensive ticket price.

The Melbourne show at Rod Laver Arena is also expected to be filmed for a live DVD.

All shall be revealed soon.

http://auspop.blogsp...na-to-tour.html

Madonna's drummer Brian Frasier-Moore has let the cat out of the bag, confirming (in the video interview below) that the Queen of Pop will hit the road for a new tour early in the new year.
But it's an anonymous email that arrived in our inbox today claiming to be from a "touring industry insider", that's most peaked our interest.
In it they make a series of claims, including that Madonna will announce a ten date tour of Australia later this month.


They also suggest that:

* "The Celebration Tour" will be an intimate arena tour, visiting Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.
* The tour will be marketed as a special "gift" for her Australian fans, who've waited almost 17 years to see her.
* 250 tickets will be given away to charity at each show.
* Ticket prices will be the highest ever seen in Australia (starting at $249).
* The tour will continue to overseas destinations, but on a larger scale (they name London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin).
* One of the Melbourne dates will be filmed for a future DVD release.

We cannot confirm that any of the details contained in the email are true, and we're not suggesting they are, but it certainly makes for interesting and exciting reading, particularly for local fans of the Material Girl, who've waited almost 17 long years to see her back on Australian shores. Could it be that in 2010, their wish finally come true?


I feel really bad for the Australian fans.I hope they don't get too excited about this article because I'm sure it's fake.Madonna will be busy this summer preparing her new album for release and doing some promotion.

Madonna s $3000 gift to fans

Madonna fans with a spare $3000 can buy a personal audience with the 51-year-old queen of pop when she tours Australia in July, music website Undercover has reported.

While the shows are yet to be confirmed, ticket prices for the Material Girl's first visit since 1993 are expected to be the highest in Australian touring history, ranging from $249 for so-called cheap seats up to $2000 for Ultimate tickets.

For an extra $1000, Ultimate ticket holders will get to meet and have their photo taken with Madonna and receive a signed tour program.

A touring company insider said the 10-date tour, including one Perth concert, will be marketed as "a gift to Australia" after nearly two decades without performing here.

The astronomical price tag is due to the fact Madonna will play indoor arena shows rather than bigger outdoor stadiums, the source said.

The Vogue singer hardly needs any monetary gifts from her Australian fans after earning $US47.2 million ($52m) last year from touring, royalties and merchandise, according to US Billboard magazine.

Only fellow 80s icons U2 and Bruce Springsteen earned more in 2009.

Official details of the Madonna tour will be unveiled soon.


It's a shame that the media has picked up this fake story

Yes, it is fake:

http://www.heraldsun.com....5836688418

Guy Oseary on Twitter also denied any tour plans, but of course they would not break the news about a 2011 tour just yet. Most likely she will be on the road in 2011 anyway.

LiveToTell86 said:

i've read that they are saying that the posts of it being fake are fake.

SoulAlive said:

from what i'm told, word of it is leaking in Australia...? if this gets to big and turns out not to be true there will be riots.

fake when they said Rod Laver arena.

thats what gaga or pink would play.

not a madonna venue.

David Guetta confirms that Madonna's new single will be released soon

Internet rumours have him working with everyone from Madonna to Rihanna – and most of it is correct.
Madonna?
“That’s done, the single will be out very soon and it’s amazing, I’m very happy,” he said.


Could she really be that far ahead with the recording of this album? I assumed the album would be out in the fall,but if a new single is due "soon",it'll probably be a spring or summer release.

Hoax tour email disappoints Australian fans

Australian fans of pop star Madonna were in a frenzy after an e-mail sporting details of an extensive Australian tour started circulating.
The e-mail said that the Material Girl would be performing in ten Australian concerts, with three planned for Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena. It said that the tour was a 'gift' to the country and offered a chance to meet Madonna for AU$3,000 (S$3,783), with the cheapest tickets going for AU$249.
However, Australian media reported that no local promoter had been linked to the tour and those contacted on Thursday said the e-mail was fake.
'The last I heard - which was only a few weeks ago - was there was no Australian tour planned,' well-known promoter Paul Dainty said. 'Stranger things have happened, but it's not very likely.'
Industry insiders were also reported as saying that it would be 'near impossible' to organise a major touring show without tickets having been on sale earlier.
Madonna has only toured Australia once, in 1993. Although her manager, Guy Oseary, had previously promised her Australian fans that she would visit the country, he admitted that she had 'betrayed her Australian fans'. 'Madonna really needs to go to Australia,' he said last year. 'We are long overdue for a trip Down Under and apologise for that, it will happen.'
From The Straits Times

I am looking forward to seeing this DVD. I did not make it to this tour. She is always so darn expensive.

I was at that Re-Invention show! She played three shows at the HP Pavilion Arena in San Jose,and I went to all three.

CHIC0 said:

Yeah, that's what I posted earlier, it's was just a hoax. I guess Australians are tired of what Britney and Whitney caused there and want a REAL show.

Seriously,Madonna should play Australia on her next tour.No more excuses,no more delays.She owes it to her Australian fans.

Sticky & Sweet Tour CD/DVD delayed in the US
Fans in the US who have pre-ordered the Sticky & Sweet Tour CD/DVD have been informed that the release date has been pushed back one week from Tuesday 30 March to Tuesday 06 April.
At the moment the UK release date is still scheduled for Monday 29 March.

Cinnie said:

and the guy kind of looks like Tony Ward.

seeing clips of reinvention makes me sad. it just reminds me of how great she used to be and, to know fault of her own and just due to age i'm sure, most recent show was just so lackluster. reinvention was surely one of her best staged shows, with the tweaks on old songs being just subtle enough to be considered reinventions and still appreciate them for the hits they were.

confessions was fun though dull at moments, and sticky and sweet was just not entertaining to me. it started out great and then just fizzled out. maybe she's touring too frequently and not spending enough time on the concept? maybe she just needs time in between to be inspired? maybe she's just too old? whichever it is, i was super disappointed with the sticky tour and, though entertained, not WOWED with confessions. her voice was much better with reinvention...she sounds TERRIBLE on sticky and sweet, really deep and gravelly. i mean, its supposed to be madonna and not courtney love!

anyhow, for the fans of this tour, i'm glad you'll finally get the dvd. i'm just speaking for myself...after the show i was disappointed and when i watched it again on epix i was reminded why.

^But it's Re-Invention that never had a concept, she didn't even plan to tour, it was a last minute decision unlike CT and S&ST where she's been planning it for a while. On RIT the "reinventions" are basically watered down album versions, Madonna slipping back in old costumes/concepts (VMA 1990...) and the stage was just as empty. The only relevance of the tour is that for the first time Madonna could use the backdrop screens heavily, which has been a staple since then.

I agree she sounded much better on RIT, but on RIT she lipsynched several songs (including ITG and PDP on this leaked show), for many of the songs she just stood there, way too many ballads etc, rehashing the last 2 songs from DWT... I love this version of "Deeper And Deeper" and "Express Yourself" rocks plus at least we get to hear AL tracks live, but otherwise it's forgettable and stuff like LAP, ITG, Vogue were outdone on S&ST with much better reinventions.

I think Confessions is Madonna's second best tour (after The Girlie Show).RIT was a great tour,but I found Confessions to be alot more fun.

I'm not saying anyone needs to agree with me. I just did not enjoy the Sticky tour. I thought the version of vogue was horrendous...using the same music as 4 minutes when we would be hearing that song later in the evening was just lazy & uncreative. There were definitely great moments during Sticky; i LOVED the entire first segment and last segment but i just didn't feel very entertained during most of everything in between (minus a piece here and there).

If her voice sounds this bad without lip syncing, maybe she should lip sync? or at least use a clip track for the vocals that are difficult for her. I saw reinvention in chicago twice, once in the pit inside the stage and once with a full stage view from the 2nd level. i thought the staging was great, i thought the setlist was great, her energy level was non stop at both shows i saw...just very entertaining. At Sticky, she jumped rope at one point. Seriously? That's not high energy to me, lol, that's a bad idea. Which makes me wonder, is she using a different choreographer for these past two shows? i was not impressed with the art direction and choreography for Sticky, and not terribly impressed with Confessions'. For instance, the gymnastics bit for Jump was such a bad idea, far too literal and not exciting at all.

She's been using Jamie King as her choreographer for the last four tours.I like him,but I think she should work with someone else on the next tour.To shake things up a bit,y'know.I'd like for the next tour to be something entirely different in every way.

Bkeeper said:

though i liked that version (Vogue / 4 Minutes), i kind of agree.

SoulAlive said:

That's actually not correct. The majority of the choreography is done by different people and for Sticky & Sweet she enlisted a lot of new people, including the Chicago Footworkingz and the Hamutsun Serve. For example "Heartbeat" was done by the Turkish dancer. Just check out the tourbook and you'll see. The last tour where Jamie choreographed a lot was DWT, but still half of that show was choreographed by Alex Magno, who did most of the Girlie Show. Jamie is basically responsible for her videos and the numbers that look identical to the video (i.e. "Don't Tell Me" on DWT, "Sorry" on CT).

I'm not sure how a Madonna tour can be entirely different in every way, there's only so much she can do, and her shows are still the most varied tours out there. Artists don't even bother with reinventions and they keep doing the same stuff over and over. A lot of people think the 4 segment thing Madonna does is boring, but frankly, she's not able to change that. She can't change costumes more often because it would mean less stage time and a lot of disjointed numbers, and she can't have LESS segments because it would get boring. She can't drop the guitar versions either, she needs them to rest between dance numbers...

I don't see why that "Vogue" mix was lazy, I think it would have been lazy again to do the TIC version like on RIT, it's also not exactly just singing over 4M because the mixing is different. She also did this with "Lucky Star" on CT, where it was sung over "Hung Up", yet that was a different musical director. There's only so much ways to reinvent a song and wishing for completely new remixes without samples and mashups for her tours every other year is a bit too much.

Her voice sounds worse on S&ST because it's clear the whole show is focused on Madonna learning different choreographies and not allowing the dancers to do their thing alone. If you compare the 4 tours of the 2000s, you'll see it's S&ST where she moves the most, and focuses on vocals less.

CHIC0 said:

I like the "Vogue/4 Minutes" mash-up I think it was clever and I'm sure that Timbaland was proud,lol.

SoulAlive said:

that doesnt surprise me, now that I think about it. I didn't like the choreography on DWT, Confessions, or S&S. I guess Reinvention was just an anomaly, lol.

LiveToTell86 said:

we're allowed to have different yet valid opinions on madonna concerts, lol. i promise i'm not trying to change your mind. I simply wasn't that impressed with confessions and not at all impressed with sticky and sweet (and not impressed with DWT, either). I don't have a real desire to see her again now that 3 out of 4 shows haven't wowed me. I'm glad you enjoy the show, though!

just an fyi...i am not wishing for reinvented songs or choreography. i'm only wishing to be entertained and i happen to think her executions on the last couple tours didnt hold my attention. the guitar stuff is lame to me (i'll leave that to prince, lindsey, billy, etc), madonna's not a musician she's a pop star. in a nutshell, i enjoyed her live performances more when she knew she was a pop star.

SoulAlive said:

i didn't say i didn't like it. i just think instead of using "4 Minutes" as the backing track she could've have just done a harder 'house beat'. instead of using a 'new' song that was coming up in the show anyway. or she could've lead into "4 minutes" after "Vogue". it worked. no doubt. i think it would've been clever for the next tour though.

David Guetta: Madonna's new single is done

The DJ reveals that Madonna's brand new single which is worked on by him will be released very soon.
David Guetta recently addressed rumors suggesting he enters studio with Madonna, Lady GaGa, Britney Spears and Rihanna. 'That's done, the single will be out very soon and it's amazing, I'm very happy,' he told Nine MSN about the song he works for the 'Material Girl' singer.
While he confirmed his involvement in Madonna's new studio project, the disc jokey said otherwise concerning GaGa report. Though so, the 'When Love Takes Over' hitmaker admitted he once met the dance queen and would love to make beautiful music together.
On working with Spears meanwhile, he stated, 'We both want to do it I think, we just need the song.' He then continued addressing Rihanna rumor, 'Same. I just need to find the right song for them. I think it's going to happen.'

From www.aceshowbiz.com

CHIC0 said:

I wonder if he's talking about a *new* upcoming single or the "Revolver" remix that he produced?