Barcelona, Spain [Tue Nov 24 / Wed Nov 25 2015]

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https://twitter.com/hausofdavid48/status/667711883814793217

MADONNA BARCELONA IS WAITING FOR YOU

 

https://twitter.com/KydraBoh/status/668022649206022146

My cat is Rebel Heart too! What a shame can't take her to your concert in Barcelona. I love you, queen. @Madonna

[madbella 596]

en route to Barcelona in 10 minutes!!

[Gargamel 8,775]

Madonna arrived in Spain this morning 

[groovyguy 63,862]

The writer clearly doesn't realize that Like a Prayer is not 'set' in the set list but rather it is one of the possible songs in the 'Switch It Up' section. 

Interesting that 40% of the list are Rebel Heart songs while Deeper & Deeper and Music are excluded

 

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Original article @ http://www.abc.es/cultura/musica/abci-diez-canciones-madonna-sonaran-barcelona-201511231346_noticia.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Madonna ten songs that will be performed in Barcelona

In total there will be 21 songs in the repertoire, but this is the Top 10 of the songs that Ciconne will performat the Palau Sant Jordi

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1. "Iconic"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXTqukamPFo

This song from her new album "Rebel Heart", in which the ex-boxer Mike Tyson participated, will officially open the show

 

2 "Bitch I'm Madonna"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=105&v=Rr8_Eyetb5c

After the initial impact, the blonde ambition leave you well clarito who rules the stage with another hit from her new album, which involved the rapper Nicki Minaj, all with a very oriental air.

 

3 "Body Shop"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSaQgwB0FuY

With this "Rebel Heart" continues the thematic choreography, this time around a 1965 Ford Falcon and several dancers doing mechanical.

 

4 "True Blue"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiN0NuLEHSk

One of the two acoustic moments of the show (the other is "Whos that girl" , unless you have a third party by holding a tribute to Paris with "La vie en rose" towards the end of the concert), with Madonna playing the ukulele .

 

5 "Like a Virgin"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1dkjnVJrmE

In its second half, the classic start to drop slowly. The first will be this unforgettable 1984 hit song, sounding minimalist.

 

6 "La Isla Bonita

"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ3AYXY3Sac

Another indisputable classic Madonna song which you cannot miss on their visits to Spain for obvious reasons.

 

7 "Like a Prayer"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD7-HqKFlKg

After "La Isla Bonita" Madonna link with the same bullfighter costume this song self-titled album released in 1989.

 

8 "Material Girl"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlEaWlpBwBo

The great super mega hit of Madonna for many, the "Material Girl" part time occupy 18th place in the concert repertoire of Barcelona, ​​and in the final section.

 

9 "Unapologetic Bitch"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXieWWx-iTw

Closing Madonna's concert at Palau Sant Jordi with reggae beat, with another song from latest album "Rebel Heart".

 

10 "Holiday

"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTtoosCvst8

But there will, of course, encore with this homage to its beginnings, as it is one of the songs from her 1983 debut.

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Original article @ http://www.lavanguardia.com/musica/20151123/30339368335/madonna-barcelona-rebel-heart-tour.html

 

Madonna prepares to seduce Barcelona

The 'Queen of Pop returns to Spain to present the songs of his "Rebel Heart Tour'

 

For many it is the 'Queen of Pop', a crown that looks for many years already. The Magazine Billboard considers Madonna as the most successful female solo artist in music history, a singer who returns to Spain after three years without coming to the country, professionally speaking.Madonna offers the 24th and November 25th two concerts at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona within your Rebel Heart Tour which started last September in the Canadian city of Montreal.

 

The first single from Madonna, who was motherless at age five, was Everybody that by the next single, Burning Up , became hits on American radio. But the strongest triumph succeeded internationally with the songHoliday , the starting point of a legend that still continues life. In 1984 he published one of his most successful albums, Like a Virgin , very recognized later hits as Like a player , La Isla Bonita , Ray of Light , or the appearance of your album Erotica . That's four decades in the limelight during which he has released 13 studio albums, six compilation albums, over 80 singles and 10 world tours in his 35 year career.

 

Speaking of Madonna is undoubtedly appoint one of the icons of contemporary pop culture, but is much more than an artist. The singer is a true fashion icon, a diva who has become a gay icon and a standard bearer of reinvention and concert as spectacle.

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madonna Going Bananas in Barcelona! â¤ï¸ this!! â¤ï¸#rebelhearttour

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3330758/Madonna-hits-streets-Barcelona-bike.html

Having a wheel-y good time! Madonna wraps up in stripy scarf and padded jacket as she hits the streets of Barcelona by bike
 

She's used to jetting all over the world, but Madonna likes to make the most of every country she travels to.

 

The down-to-earth Queen of Pop was spotted squeezing in a sight-seeing session with her entourage ahead of her latest Rebel Heart Tour concert in Barcelona, Spain on Monday.

 

The 57-year-old star was fitting in a quick pre-show workout while taking in the local landmarks as she cycled along the waterfront.

 

Going for a spin! Madonna was spotted enjoying a leisurely cycling session in Barcelona, Spain on Monday alongside her entourage 

 

Madonna was wrapped up warm against the winter chill in a black padded jacket, a striped statement scarf and a furry hat.

 

Wrapping up warm: The Queen of Pop covered up in a padded coat, striped scarf and fluffy hat 

 

 

Going incognito: Madonna was down-to-earth as ever in her sportswear ensemble, making the most of her free afternoon to enjoy the sights of Barcelona 

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Lola Rodriguez

Barcelona (Spain)

@ at Sagrada Familia

 

[madgefan 10,166]

Qué la pasen de maravilla españoles! 

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MadonnaVerified account â€@Madonna  2h2 hours ago

Barcelona R U ready? So excited to be here! #rebelhearttour

[florian 79]

oh se ve que van estar muy chulos los conciertos de españa

[danMfan 1,379]

I took a picture with Aya and Bambi yesterday at La Sagrada Familia

[edwinmorrison 943]

I can't wait for the spanish shows, already the spanish audience usually go nuts at M shows, but having such a big latin themed section in the middle I'm sure will make these dates some of the most memorable. :smile:

[Gargamel 8,775]

I can't wait for the spanish shows, already the spanish audience usually go nuts at M shows, but having such a big latin themed section in the middle I'm sure will make these dates some of the most memorable. :smile:

 

Hopefully the gypsy medley won't be cut off in Barcelona! That would be a sacrilege 

[edwinmorrison 943]

Hopefully the gypsy medley won't be cut off in Barcelona! That would be a sacrilege 

hahaha...i was thinking that! She can't...not in spain... :lol:

[groovyguy 63,862]

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http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/ocio-y-cultura/madonna-barcelona-sant-jordi-medidas-seguridad-4697348

Special security measures for concerts by Madonna

The organizers ask viewers who come well in advance and avoid carrying backpacks

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2015 - 13:52 CET

 

The precedent of the tragic terrorist attacks of 13 November in Paris has conditioned the safety device that will surround the two performances that Madonna star in the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona , which will have special measures of control and surveillance. The coincidence with the match of Champions League played FC Barcelona at the Camp Nou has also added complexity to the operation designed by the Catalan police .

 

Organizers of Madonna's concerts have advised almost 30,000 people who have already purchased tickets for the two passes that come to Sant Jordi well in advance , because "access controls will slow the entry". They have also recommended that viewers avoid if possible carrying backpacks and bags , to streamline the entrance to the enclosure.

 

Unlike other American artists, Madonna decided not to cancel its European tour in Paris after the attacks, the bloodiest of which occurred precisely in a concert hall, Bataclan , during the performance of the group Eagles of Death Metal. Since that day, in all 'shows' the diva has referred to the tragedy and has a memory for the victims . "People are crying about the loss of their loved ones' said sobbing on November 14 during a concert in Stockholm-. But what these people want is silence us. And we will not let them. "

[groovyguy 63,862]

Rebel Heart Tour Barcelona : 24th & 25th of November.

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Original @ http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2015/11/24/catalunya/1448354907_370264.html

 

Madonna returns to Sant Jordi

The star will perform this Tuesday and Wednesday appealing to their present rather than memories

 

Three years after her last visit to Barcelona and fourteen after The Drowned Tour in the Palau Sant Jordi offered the best show ever seen the star, Madonna returns tonight and tomorrow at the same venue.

 

On this occasion to present the spectacle orchestrated around her latest album Rebel Heart, which according to the chronicles advance is one of the most ambitious and sophisticated made ​​by the Italian-American singer. If concert Tuesday (at 21 am) there are no more tickets for the morning still remain on sale, at prices ranging between 75 and 320 euros.

 

Madonna will offer the spectacle tonight and tomorrow where are his only appearances in Spain, is shot enough not to expect surprises. The world tour began in Montreal in September and will end in March in Australia after traveling four continents in what is a world tour like those of yesteryear. In Europe it has enjoyed in cities like Cologne, Prague, Berlin, Stockholm and Milan. In fact, the numbers endorse it because it is raising even above doing the tour group U2, the other big behemoth of the road. To satisfy their followers, Madonna pulls a spectacle to substantiate its hook part of its proximity to the public, since much of the action happens in a huge provocative bisecting the track starting from the stage. There's countless costume changes nods to Japan, rockabilly, Joan of Arc and so on, at that time part of it made by a company in Zaragoza, and the endless resources of light and videos rounded a show that has a delicate hand, Madonna attends as bullfighting and your wardrobe to give the racial emphasis than ever is often lacking in their assemblies. And given that that Barcelona is a city that has been declared contrary to the bullfights and in favor of animal rights does not seem an infallible resource.

 

Recent repertoire

But Madonna has many other resources, including more remarkable as his repertoire. Pulling present and not accommodating a success story -HA placed 24 songs in the Top 10- the star on this tour is offering a repertoire that includes ten songs from her latest album, from the initial Iconic and Bitch I ' m Madonna, the three-piece group plays in the final section of the concert, made ​​up Ghosttown,Rebel Heart and Illuminati and ending Unapilogetic Bitch, last before the final piece, one that has been bis Holyday. The rest of the issues not overly memory strip, which interprets Madonna greatest hits as La Isla Bonita, Material Girl and Music , among others. In the versions section, ventures into a diva La Vie En Rose in playing the ukulele. Is thus a Madonna claiming her present more than ever.

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Hola BARCELONA !!! ESTAS LISTA PARA LA REINA ?? â€ª#‎RebelHeartTour‬‪#‎Barcelona‬

 

Hello Barcelona!!! Are you ready for the queen?? # rebelhearttour‪#‎Barcelona‬

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super_hero_tony Good Morning Rebel ♥'s Barcelona‼Soldiers of Love gather at the Venueâ£Valeree Young (and her hat box) rides our bus to Barcelona. Our costumes are almost ready, R yours? "you've got style that's what all the girls say..Amor♥

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Nobody's handing out hot coffee?! 

 

Ingrid van der Put 

Palau Sant Jordi with 5 others

Ohhh no.... so cold!

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Spain welcomes matador Madonna as popstar vows 'show must go on'

http://www.thelocal.es/20151124/barcelona-welcomes-matador-madonna-rebel-heart-tour

Madonna will play the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona on Tuesday and Wednesday evening, after adamantly refusing to cancel dates on her world tour following the Paris terror attacks.

 

"Why should I cancel? There is no one in the world who has the right to stop us from doing what we love," she said on Saturday before her concert in Stockholm, during which she sang an emotional rendition of the Edith Piaf song, La Vie en Rose.

 

The pop icon will play the French capital on December 9th and 10th.

 

Madonna was spotted cycling around Barcelona on Monday. 

Part of the Barcelona show will feature bullfighting themed outfits, including dancers dressed as bulls, which has caused animal rights campaigners to accuse the star of "glamourizing gore". 

 

"Madonna has clearly lost her footing with outfit choices for her tour," Mimi Bekhechi, director of Peta UK, told The Local.

 

"If Madonna wants to ingratiate herself to audiences she might consider choreography that reflects something less offensive than imitating a bloody spectacle where an exhausted animal is speared stabbed and weakened until finally, its spine is severed with a dagger," Bekhechi said. 

 

Madonna hit headlines when, in February 2015, she took a tumble at the Brit Awards after tripping on her Spanish bullfighter’s cape, designed especially for the star by Armani.

 

But the singer has not let her famous fall faze her and will perform her hit 'Living for Love' wearing a bullfighter’s 'suit of lights' and cape emblazoned with a giant M.

 

She will simulate a bullfight with her backing dancers, who will be wearing bull's horns and silver glittery masks.

 

Madonna performing the bullfighting-themed 'Living for Love' during the first night of her world tour. 

 

Bullfighting is banned in Catalonia, so the singer is unlikely to find many fans of the practice in Barcelona.

 

Madonna ordered authentic bullfighting jackets from Spain especially for her Rebel Heart tour back in April. 

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Barcelona on high terrorism alert ahead of Madonna gig and Barça game

Over 700 security officers stationed at stadium and concert hall to prevent a jihadist attack

http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/11/24/inenglish/1448369521_791116.html

Authorities were stepping up security in Barcelona on Tuesday due to fears of a jihadist attack.

 

The Catalan capital is hosting two major events on the same day – a Champions League soccer match and a concert by Madonna, who will perform a second concert on Wednesday.

 

Catalan law enforcement agencies are deploying more than 700 officers to the Camp Nou stadium and the Palau Sant Jordi concert hall to ensure the safety of soccer fans and concertgoers.

 

The Catalan chief of internal affairs, Jordi Jané, has asked people for “patienceâ€

 

The extraordinary safety measures come on the back of the Paris attacks, in which 130 people died. Several soccer games and music concerts have since been canceled elsewhere in Europe out of fear of new attacks, including the Spain-Belgium friendly match that was scheduled for last Tuesday.

 

The bands U2, Foo Fighters and Motorhead, as well as Prince, all canceled some or all of their European tour dates following the Paris attacks.

 

More than 600 agents will be stationed in and near Camp Nou, which is opening its doors three hours before the Barça-Rome game to have enough time for security checks. Only ticketholders bearing valid ID documents will be allowed inside, while backpacks, belt packs and other types of bags are banned. Trained dogs are being brought in to sniff personal belongings, and parking near the stadium has been prohibited since early this morning.

 

Meanwhile, 120 regional police officers and 175 private security agents will watch over the Palau, where nearly 30,000 people will see Madonna perform on Tuesday and Wednesday. Security checks will be very similar to those on display at the stadium.

 

The Catalan chief of internal affairs, Jordi Jané, has asked people for “patience†and reminded them to be at the venues with enough time to go through the checks.

 

Spain remains on a level 4 terrorist threat alert out of 5. The country is a target of Islamist terror and has arrested more jihadists this year than any other European country.

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Four visits four Madonnas

A look at the previous stops of world tours by the artist in Barcelona, ​​on the eve of his double performance at the Sant Jordi

 

Something special ties to Madonna to Barcelona . The artist ignored the city on his first tour of Europe, associated with the soundtrack of the unsuccessful film 'Who is that girl?' (1987), but after debuting in the Montjuïc Olympic Stadium with its iconic'Blond Ambition Tour' It has gone through the Catalan capital regularly, sometimes to offer 'shows' twice: happened to the'Drowned World Tour 2001, which also started in Barcelona and more than a decade later, with ' The MDNA Tour ' .

 

Those of today and tomorrow at the Palau Sant Jordi will be the only direct his new tour, "Rebel Heart Tour ' in Spain. It may not be the best time to see Madonna, but perhaps merely to see an icon with the disk it is already attractive.

 

Some artists release new albums to have an excuse to go on tour and play in the end always the same issues. No Madonna: she believes in the music he does now and that music will be the star of the show, although it may be as limp as 'Living for love' perhaps his worst 'single' return to the date-, 'Heartbreak City' or'Holywater' , which almost looks like one of the many imitations of herself that have scampered by pop in recent decades.

 

Madonna followed, in 2015, at 57 years, little interested in nostalgia and meets their 'hits' like old school house medleys that 'Dress You Up', 'Into the groove', 'Everybody' and ' Lucky Star, four songs and four cathedrals pop- new or renewed forms: apparently,'Like a virgin' sound entirely electro-pop, 'True Blue' fall in acoustic version and there will be an appropriation with ukulele 'The vie en rose ' .

 

Beyond the value of the repertoire presented -of 'Rebel heart' have not gone 'singles' with sufficient authority to stand up to their 'hits' of all of life, the show promises all the usual exuberance .Desmadradas ideas, for better or worse. Abrupt changes in aesthetics and insane assault on the senses. Search soft porn 'shock', sometimes both at once: there is interest in the striptease bar shaped crucifix.

 

Madonna is built in the 'Blond Ambition' tour, only suitably refreshed and recycled. Remember that above and other seminal tour that passed through Barcelona is to review the recent artistic developments icon that refuses to stop dancing, throwing only ballads and change the tour by the world s residences in casinos.

 

'BLOND AMBITION TOUR' 
(Montjuic Olympic Stadium, August 1, 1990)

The mother of all great pop concerts of the past quarter century.Explained or choreographer Vincent Paterson to People magazine at the time: "The greatest thing we tried to do was change the way concerts Instead of just presenting songs, we wanted to combine.fashion, Broadway, and art rock 'performance ' ".

 

The assembly whose Barcelona stop was recorded by RAI and was broadcast in Europe, Australia and Canada was a great show divided into sections under the influence of 'Metropolis' by Fritz Lang,religion, Dick Tracy That same year, Madonna he starred as Breathless Mahoney in the film adaptation of (and with) Warren Beatty- and movement of the 'Art Deco' .

Not only songs, no, but clothing as iconic as that cone bra designed by Jean Paul Gaultier and sold at record prices at Christie's three years ago. Or daring as simulating masturbation during 'Like a virgin' . The show was described by 'L'Osservatore Romano', the Vatican newspaper, as "sinful".

Only the show and would open mouths, but that also came with splendid Madonna album under his arm: 'Like a Prayer' , that mysteriously pop masterpiece made ​​entirely in just two weeks.

 

Interestingly, it is not the tour Madonna has amassed more money: some worse considered as 'Sticky & Sweet', 'MDNA' and 'The Girlie Show' -the latter, of the time 'Erotica', unseen in Barcelona run Ian best.

 

 

    'Drowned World Tour' 
(Palau Sant Jordi, 9 and June 10, 2001)

The success of 'Ray of light' (1998), excellent 'cyberdélico' disco in alliance with the English producer William Orbit , Madonna invited to think that soon would undertake a major tour after five years off. And were supposed to do in 1999, but the 'tour' ended up being delayed two years by a film ('The Next Best Thing',something less memorable than 'Ray of light'), pregnancy and subsequent child (Rocco), its wedding to Guy Ritchie ... When I finally decided to get down to work, the tour is already associated with two albums, 'Ray of light' and its first album of the century,'Music' .

This 'tour' is special in memory of Barcelona fan because it was here that Madonna wanted to premiere with two 'shows' row in June 2001. The artist faced the new century without nostalgia, the opposite, and even decided to skip in the script a classic like 'Like a virgin'; not the infectious 'Holiday' .

In his column for the newspaper, Jordi Bianciotto spoke of "mutant concept stage and an uncommon boldness in a show of large audiences. "In fact, this show is remembered among critics as one of the peaks of Madonna : a true visionary outburst not so dependent on finding the controversy (especially concerning religion) as upstream and downstream projects.

 

Mixing aesthetic 'anime', country & western and hip hop in one 'show', the Ciccone made ​​clear its intention to settle down zeropast 40.

 

 

 

        'STICKY & SWEET TOUR' (Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys, July 21, 2009)

 

In the series of clones 'Orphan Black', the central character Sarah Manning (Tatiana Maslany) may be displayed with four other versions of herself. Similar challenge, an infinite play of Madonnas , our heroine was raised in a tour that could see it as a dancer 'breakdance' boxer, gypsy princess, diva disco and some other personalities.

 

Again, according to the structure marked by the 'Blond Ambition Tour', the assembly was divided into acts, this time quite whimsical: a first part of sadomasochistic themes, another based on themes from old school to support art ofKeith Haring ( the artist died of AIDS in 1990 after seeing his pop art become precious material), another with inspiration in Romanian folklore and last yielded to spirit 'rave'. "Show business [...] the brink of excess dispersion" wrote Jordi Bianciotto in this newspaper.

 

The repertoire was not the best imaginable: Hard Candy (2008), somewhat late to the sounds 'urban' gummy Timbaland and The Neptunes approach, it is not considered among his best albums; in fact, it is seen as the disk announcing the latest Madonna, one thatstill shocks rather than cause them . On the other hand, some revisions of older material were questioned by some critics, such as'La Isla Bonita' Gypsy violins under the influence of Gogol Bordello, one 'Like a Prayer' with extra hype and 'Frozen ' less majestic than bloody.

 

 

    'The MDNA Tour' (Palau Sant Jordi, 20 and 21 June 2012)

 

Also, it seems, on the tour arrives in Barcelona today, the Madonna of three years ago was less visionary than revisionist . Those attending the show met all what can be expected of a 'show' his (sexual references, some violence, religious details) and bit of surprise desirable. Although it is questionable whether in the era of recorded on the mobile to be posted on YouTube is still some room for surprise concerts.

 

The self-citation extended to clothing, which appeared again corset with conical bra, although, in the words of Gaultier himself to 'WWD', "reinterpreted in 3-D, with patent leather on the outside and metal skin inside. It all has to do with the masculine and the feminine, classic Madonna and Jean Paul Gaultier reinterpreted for 2012 ... ".

 

Nods to black cinema, challenges Lady Gaga (through a 'mashup' of their own 'Express yourself' and the average replica of Gaga 'Born This Way') or the appearance of the French Basque trio of voices and percussion Kalakan (for ' Open your heart ') they encouraged a performance that was considered burdened by the large presence of the repertoire of' MDNA ', not his best album, but a bit unnecessary, or an inspired flirtation with the shrillness of the EDM.

 

Now it remains to know how far Madonna pays tribute to the past instead of back to the future with his new tour. Goers: forget YouTube and go over there 'Like a Virgin'.

 

 

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eduard_hommeWe are ready! â“‚ï¸
We are rebel hearts! â¤ï¸
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Ingrid van der Put

Bitches W R in!

 

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morganpopnews@madonna im heeeere with my rebel heeeeaaart!!!#RebelHeartTour #Barcelona