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I should be getting my Japanese bluray the first week of October (just for my birthday!). If I'm lucky, it will be earlier but I doubt it! I'm happy I'm getting Take a Bow though. As for the DVD+CD, I ordered a copy from Amazon US. It seems I'll be getting it on September 28  :redface:. I haven't ordered the double CD yet  :jamming: 

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Keeping Take A Bow as a bonus only for japanese release after all this time waiting for a live recording of this song is an insult to her fans, I have watched the showtime version 100000times so obviously I dont dislike it, but she should have released a longer version of the film. Also LAP should have been in the main film, if time was an issue, than those interludes should have been cut.

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Keeping Take A Bow as a bonus only for japanese release after all this time waiting for a live recording of this song is an inusult to her fans, I have watched the showtime version 100000times so obviously I dont dislike it, but she should have released a longer version of the film. Also LAP should have been in the main film, if time was an issue, than those interludes should have been cut.

I agree. If it was REALLY a question of time, then cut a bit of Messiah, S.E.X. and Illuminati. They could have include Love Don't Live Here Anymore (which I really believe she did not have the rights to use it for a commercial use for this Live) and one more song !

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Well, Simon, I do care. Now that I've seen both (remember, I don't have the luxury to buy any physical copy of DVD nor BD here in my floppy country), I think they are perfect. In fact the two perfect choices to present TOAC1 to general public. I'd love to watch X-Static Process or Paradise (not for Me) too, to name a few, but if M's team had to shrink the original 2-hour concert in a 15-min bonus feature edition, those are the two which could never miss on it. Thank you @@thelioncourtheart_!

Lol, don't take such personal offence to it. I'm clearly joking. I guess I should have said something like 'We want to see Love Don't Live Here Anymore' for you guys to realize it.

 

And what about iTunes........🤔🤔. And you even said that it was just delayed so eventually at some point it will be up for sale.

 

I'd rather see Take A Bow even once since like Tears of A Clown I'll probably never watch it again.

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Hola a todos. ¿Alguien podría o sabría decirme dónde poder comprar el bluray de Japón a precio normal/razonable, por favor?. Muchas gracias de antemano.

 

Hello everyone. Could anyone or could you tell me where to buy the bluray from Japan at normal / reasonable price, please ?. Thank you very much in advance.

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Keeping Take A Bow as a bonus only for japanese release after all this time waiting for a live recording of this song is an insult to her fans, I have watched the showtime version 100000times so obviously I dont dislike it, but she should have released a longer version of the film. Also LAP should have been in the main film, if time was an issue, than those interludes should have been cut.

Well shucks, who would have thought that they did a background check to make sure you're Japanese before you bought it. I just thought you needed a credit card to acquire it.

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My Japan Blu-Ray copy through AMAZON JAPAN is Region A/1 (as specified).  Amazon Japan ended up being cheaper than CD JAPAN even though Cd Japan was my first option because shipping was free. 

 

EDIT: I was so excited last night that I received this and it actually played fine (as specified based on the region codes listed at Amazon Japan) that I jumped the gun and posted about receiving it.  I haven't looked for the actual codes on the Blu-Ray, nor thought to do so since it plays fine in my Blu-Ray player.  I'm away from my house for the weekend, so I can't look or upload pics until Monday.  However, I can confirm it plays for my U.S. player, so all I can assume it is A/1 Region at this moment. 

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Madonna: 'I want to reinvent pop tours'

By Mark Savage

BBC Music reporter

1 hour ago

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41269047

 

 

Twenty-seven years ago, Madonna set the template for modern pop concerts with her Blond Ambition world tour.

 

From its hydraulic stage to Jean-Paul Gaultier's iconic costumes, it raised the bar for stadium-sized spectacle.

 

Now, after seven huge world tours, the star tells the BBC she's "exploring" a smaller-scale show in the future.

 

"I've done so many shows - world tours, stadiums, sports arenas, you name it - that I feel like I have to reinvent that now too," she explains.

"I like doing intimate shows and being able to talk directly to the audience.

 

"This is something I'm exploring right now: the idea of doing a show that doesn't travel the world, but stays in one place and utilises not only humour and the music in a more intimate setting but other people's music, as well, and other entertainment.

 

"Kind of a revolving door of amazing, gifted, unique talent - dancers, musicians, singers, comedians, me, humour. I don't know! Like, I'm trying to come up with all those ideas now."

 

The concerts will presumably owe much to the vaudeville-style Tears of a Clown show that Madonna performed twice in 2016 - once as a gift to fans in Australia, and again at a fundraiser for her Raising Malawi charity.

 

The low-key gigs featured the pop icon dressed as a clown, riding a tricycle, chatting to the audience and telling jokes when not performing stripped-back renditions of some of her favourite songs.

 

Footage of the Australian concert appears on the star's new DVD, released on Friday, which documents her 2015-16 Rebel Heart Tour.

In an exclusive interview with BBC News, she talked about touring life, changing attitudes to sex, and her recent dispute with a courier company...

 

Before we start, there's one thing I need to know:

 

Did your FedEx package ever arrive?

Ha ha! Yes, it has. FedEx is blaming customs, customs is blaming FedEx and we'll never know what happened. But I have it now.

 

So, I saw the Rebel Heart tour when you were in London and the DVD does a really good job of capturing what it was like to be in the audience.

 

How do you go about that?

I was there every step of the way, every day for months and months. It's really hard to capture the true feeling of the excitement and the passion and the heat and the blood, sweat and tears. I'm pleased with the way it came out.

 

There's a particularly touching sequence during True Blue, where everybody in the audience embraces each other.

 

I know, it's a very sweet, emotional moment in the show. I didn't expect it to be, but when I look back at the DVD it almost brings a tear to my eye because everyone seems so in love.

 

How do you put a show like this together? Where do you get the ideas?

Everything's based around my song choice. So first, I go through my catalogue of songs with my band and I start working on things that excite me and inspire me in the moment. Some songs I'm sick of doing and I don't want to do them. Other songs I say, "No, I did that on the last tour, I don't want to do it again."

 

So I try to rotate things and I also try to reflect my current mood and what I've been feeling, and what's been inspiring me artistically or filmically, politically, philosophically. I try to put songs together in groups that have thematic connection, and then I try to tell a story. And then I do the visuals. It's quite a process.

 

What are the songs you don't want to do again?

Well, I tend to not want to do the songs I did on the tour before. That's what I mean. So if I did Material Girl on the tour before, or Express Yourself on the tour before, then I'll say, "OK, I did that for 88 shows. I can't do it again."

 

How do you keep a healthy balance between new songs and your back catalogue?

It's just playing in rehearsal. It's really hard for me, especially with my older songs, to do them with the original arrangement. Because 33 years later, after doing it for so long, you just have to reinvent things. Well, I do.

 

And it's fun for me to take an '80s pop song and turn it into a salsa song, or turn it into a samba, or make an uptempo song into a ballad.

 

The overarching theme of the tour was being a rebel. In the intro you say, "when fascist dictators come for you dressed as righteous men" you have to rise up and take a stand.

 

If you were doing the tour against the current political backdrop, would that message feel more relevant?

Yeah, I created that voiceover for my short film Secret Project,. I feel like it was a foreshadowing of things to come, like a prophecy.

 

You felt something in the air?

I did then - and I think people all thought I was being a little bit dramatic and extreme, but I felt like I was witnessing the beginning of it on the tour previous [to Rebel Heart]. And, of course, look what's happening in the world right now. It's pretty crazy.

 

Twenty-seven years ago, the Pope tried to get one of your shows banned. Now you have pole-dancing nuns and nobody bats an eyelid. Is that progress?

Is it progress? Well, I guess in some ways you could call that progress. When I released my Sex book, the idea of someone being scantily-clad on the street was an outrage. But look at social media today and it's nothing.

 

People get used to things, but I wouldn't call that progress. What I think of as progress is people becoming more open-minded, and people understanding the difference between art and exploitation.

 

When I was banned by the Pope, I was playing with the ideas of religion and sexuality, which are usually kept completely apart. Sex is considered a sin in the Catholic church. And I was questioning that and challenging that point of view because I don't, obviously, agree with it.

So now that no one's batting an eyelash about nuns on the stripper poles, it doesn't mean that the Vatican or the Catholic church is soul-searching or investigating whether they made the right choices. I don't think people are thinking that maybe sexuality and God don't need to be separate. That, to me, would be progress.

 

The DVD also includes the Tears of a Clown show you did in Melbourne. Was that a one-off or a trial run for a different type of Madonna concert?

I like doing intimate shows and being able to talk directly to the audience; to play with them and use humour and pathos and truth, and share my life - and also make up stories. I like the freedom of it and I like the intimacy of it, and I would like to explore doing it more in the future.

 

Maybe a residency?

Yeah, a residency. If I look back at the Rebel Heart tour, my favourite [part] was really the last section where I got to just sit on the stage and play my ukulele and sing La Vie en Rose and talk to the audience. [it was] just more intimate. More audience participation and connecting to human beings - I feel I'm craving that more and more.

 

Did it feel like there was more room for improvisation in that section?

Yeah, I have freedom and I can make mistakes. That's another thing I do in Tears of a Clown - if I start a song off wrong and I make a boo-boo, I just turn around and go "Stop! Let's start again!"

When you're doing a sports arena show, you're linked up to video, you can't stop. Once the train leaves the station, you have to keep going.

There's a certain kind of adrenalin rush to that - but there's no room for error. So I like the idea of mistakes and freestyling. Free-falling, really. It's more exciting to me right now.

 

Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour is out now on DVD, CD and Blu-Ray and via digital retailers.

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OMG!!!!  I just receive my Blu_ray from Amazon Japan tonight.  I immediately played "Take A Bow" bonus.  It's the full performance.  The Blu_Ray plays fine in my player.  It's Region A. 

 

What's interesting is that I also ordered a copy from my home country in the U.S., and it's not arriving until Tuesday of next week.  :confused:

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So, you've already received your copy? Wow, that was fast.

No more different than the copies received yesterday and a days before by other fans.  But yes, I just received the Japan version an hour ago. Meanwhile, the version I ordered through U.S Amazon isn't expected until Tuesday.  I was flabbergasted that my Japan version came first and even on the date it was released.  :) 

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I like to add on further screening, this concert looks better than I remember than the Showtime airing.  Though, I haven't watch the full Showtime show in months.  People calling this release "Lazy" are out of their minds.

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How do you put a show like this together? Where do you get the ideas?

Everything's based around my song choice. So first, I go through my catalogue of songs with my band and I start working on things that excite me and inspire me in the moment. Some songs I'm sick of doing and I don't want to do them. Other songs I say, "No, I did that on the last tour, I don't want to do it again."

 

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So I try to rotate things and I also try to reflect my current mood and what I've been feeling, and what's been inspiring me artistically or filmically, politically, philosophically. I try to put songs together in groups that have thematic connection, and then I try to tell a story. And then I do the visuals. It's quite a process.

 

What are the songs you don't want to do again?

Well, I tend to not want to do the songs I did on the tour before. That's what I mean. So if I did Material Girl on the tour before, or Express Yourself on the tour before, then I'll say, "OK, I did that for 88 shows. I can't do it again."

 

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Madonna the troll ladies and gentlemen 😂😂

 

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I see you seeing my posts.

It was a great one.  And seeing that some enjoy to complain at any ol' community, might as well share clever responses from any ol' community as well.  LOL! 

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@@SimonVenekeo i thought it was old quotes lol at least we know which song to expect on the next tour

Express Yourself probably. Like A Prayer and Holiday as a permanent fixture. 😂😂

 

But she really stuck her foot in her mouth with both Candy Shop and Vogue (kinda) being on 3 consecutive tours. And not only for 88 shows but for 255 shows.

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