from guardian.co.uk...on greedy madge
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No, your Madgesty
You'll need to remortgage to see Madonna in August - if you can really be bothered, that is
Caroline Sullivan
Tuesday March 23, 2004
The pits: Lady Ciccone of Wootton Bassett
The best defence, as they say in American football, is a good offence. Which, in the event that you are Madonna, means that you counter the worst reviews of your career by charging the highest-ever ticket prices for your new tour.
What a thing she is. Instead of doing the decent thing and staging a free gig to apologise for last year's clunking American Life - in which she pontificated about US politics from her Wiltshire shooting estate - she's charging £50 per ticket for her just-announced show at Earls Court in London on August 18 (the only UK date on her forthcoming world tour). And that's for the cheap seats, outside by the tube station. If you actually want to see madam, it'll be closer to £90, and should you need to be close enough to smell her perfume, you won't get much change from £150. Plus booking fee.
Well, you have got to give the Madgemeister points for chutzpah. And her conscience probably won't be prodding her as she kicks off the "re-Invention Tour", as it has been coined, in Los Angeles on May 24.
On the Record invites the lady to explain how this sterling display of greed jibes with her Kabbalah faith - and don't give us any bullpoop about the "huge expense" of going on tour, or about how "spectacular" it will be. Is Madonna spiritualised, or is she a Mockney breadhead with a horrendous line in flat caps? Re-invent that, Maddy.
Of course, for those absolutely determined, tickets go on sale March 26; credit card hotline 0870 4000 880.
Madonna's (free) official site
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Hillarious..esp the last line
