Madonna scraps 2013 Oz tour

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Sad news for local Madge fans. The promoters of the Australian leg of Madonna’s MDNA tour have now confirmed she won’t be joining us for what would’ve been her first appearance Down Under in 20 years.

News.com.au now reports that Madonna’s manager Guy Oseary broke the news to the local concert tour’s promoter Live Nation overnight. Stadiums had already been booked in Sydney and Melbourne for shows early in 2013.

Madonna was last seen here with her Girlie Show in 1993.

Her latest concert tour, which is currently traveling around Europe, is raking in the cash, taking in $50 million in the first three weeks, and is on track to become one of the biggest-earning music tours ever.

The tour coincides with the release of Madonna’s 12th studio album MDNA, and the latest video from the disc, Turn Up The Radio, was released this week – See it here, and hear her MDNA album below.

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Breko

Breko said on the 18th Jul, 2012

TheOldie

TheOldie said on the 18th Jul, 2012

she was crap when I saw her 20 years ago.

so nobody buy any of her music............get it from those torrent thingy places so no Sales come out of Australia.

Travis de Jonk

Travis de Jonk said on the 18th Jul, 2012

Well I am disappointed. It looks like a pretty good show. The Girlie Show 20 years ago, was the best concert I've ever seen. Oh well, f**k her, we've got Gaga. Her tired old cooch probabily can't handle long flights anymore.

Papilio said on the 18th Jul, 2012

There is a god.

dracon388

dracon388 said on the 18th Jul, 2012

Shows who cares about the fans.

Breko

Breko said on the 18th Jul, 2012

just goes to show there are too many hydrangeas in Australia.

Phazz

Phazz said on the 18th Jul, 2012

Britney toured, despite being cra cra.
Whitney toured, despite being on crack.
Lady GaGa toured twice.
Rihanna toured twice, despite miming.
Kylie toured after having cancer and multiple times.
Pink toured twice.
All of the above toured while the Aussie Dollar was high. She would have charged $300 a ticket to mime anyway, so she probably did people a favour.

TheOldie

TheOldie said on the 18th Jul, 2012

and I wonder which tit we would have got a look at ? the right or the left ?

Asherbella

Asherbella said on the 18th Jul, 2012

Every time Madonna cancels a show to Australia....
....why is this news?
If Madonna doesn't want to tour here she doesn't have to but why make arrangements and then reneg? I don't get it.
Her heart or her health may not be up to it. Or both.
I hope Madonna has a happy retirement when she does finally bow out gracefully.
Perhaps gracefully isn't her style.

Marko

Marko said on the 18th Jul, 2012

Hahahaha thats the funniest reaction ever! :D

Brad_Woodford

Brad_Woodford said on the 18th Jul, 2012

Maybe its time Madonna gave it away, bought a chalet in the English countryside and faded away from public life. Lets face facts. Her latest album is a stinker, she now wears very seductive looking black gloves to cover up her nana hands, and the world has Gaga now. Im happy I got to see Prince this year. My life is complete. :P

DavoJimbo said on the 18th Jul, 2012

who is madonner ? Is she a lady gaga impersonator?

DavoJimbo said on the 18th Jul, 2012

torrent thingy places? :-)

crazzymikey

crazzymikey said on the 18th Jul, 2012

madonna stopped being interesting over a decade ago - I was once a huge obsessed fan growing up. I had no intention on going t see her she is def past her use by date. arrogant old tart

Dsquare

Dsquare said on the 18th Jul, 2012

Gosh, this news is as surprising as finding out that Tom and Katie's marriage didn't last longer than 5 mins.

Note to Madge, the announcing and then cancelling a tour to Australia got old a long long time ago - bit like you really.

MrAsh said on the 18th Jul, 2012

Now, now people, think laterally and consider these two things:

- Madonna only tours now in the northern hemisphere summer months, since it's less disruptive to her children and their schooling. Australia in early 2013 would not be a suitable time.

- There were two legs for the Sticky and Sweet tour. The second time around the show was considerably revamped and toured in places which she did not cover in the first leg. Both legs were held in the northern hemisphere summer.

Therefore Madonna might be considering bringing her MDNA tour to the southern hemisphere in late 2013 and tour both Australia and Japan, maybe even South Africa and New Zealand. You never know!

twoten85

twoten85 said on the 18th Jul, 2012

After 17 years... Madonna is dead to me!

madmatty76

madmatty76 said on the 18th Jul, 2012

BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Virgindirk

Virgindirk said on the 18th Jul, 2012

She didn't cancel anything becuase most likely there was nothing planned, she probably didn't not have any intention of travelling to Australia at all.

After 15 years of being a loyal fan which included buying her cd's, dvds, downloading her music LEGALLY, this is how she shows her apprecation????

My patience has run out , go f**k yourseld Mads!

local_warming

local_warming said on the 18th Jul, 2012

The woman is worth $800 million - im surprised she even gets out of bed, let alone tours internationally

MyHorseLikesYou

MyHorseLikesYou said on the 19th Jul, 2012

Hahahaha. I agree with Oldie she was'nt that special 20 years ago. The most interesting thing for me was the intermission with the dancers on a rope mesh thing to the Beast Within Mix of Justify My Love, which apparently was ripped off from Ingrid Chavez so it wasn't really her song anyway.

Dsquare

Dsquare said on the 19th Jul, 2012

What pisses me off is that we can't even get our revenge by illegally downloading her music - it's not worth having any more even if it is free.

jamestohl

jamestohl said on the 19th Jul, 2012

sucks to be gay today :(

Phazz

Phazz said on the 19th Jul, 2012

From what i've seen on Twitter and Facebook, a lot of Sydney dj's are considering banning Madonna songs, at least for a while.

TheOldie

TheOldie said on the 19th Jul, 2012

Flashing her bum, putting a gun to her head, and grabbing her 25-year-old boyfriend's crotch on stage — Madonna tried everything she could to entertain a crowd of 50,000 at her London show, but many were not impressed.

Hundreds of fans walked out of her open-air MDNA concert at Hyde Park, some calling it the "worst gig ever" due to poor sound quality, bad weather, and not enough hits, the Daily Mail reports.

shireboy

shireboy said on the 19th Jul, 2012

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175666/Sorry-Madge-youre-just-tawdry-embarrassment-Shes-fan-But-sitting-53-year-olds-lewd-expletive-ridden-new-Jane-Fryer-happy.html

iammyexperiment

iammyexperiment said on the 19th Jul, 2012

Whoa! Impressive reactions guys! Reading through these forums if we ever had a doubt consider it proven for evermore that:

"Hell Hath No Fury Like Gay Boys Scorned By Madonna" :)

(although we have had plenty of opportunity for rehearsal. Disappointed? ...maybe. Relieved? ...perhaps; personally I wasn't looking forward to all the hype that would engulf her visit. But were we surprised that Madge cancelled? Never!)

tazzz69 said on the 19th Jul, 2012

wow what a shock yet again she cancelled all i can say is told you so i lost my respect for her about 10 years ago im so over her...

Brad_Woodford

Brad_Woodford said on the 19th Jul, 2012

Whoa! Impressive reactions guys! Reading through these forums if we ever had a doubt consider it proven for evermore that:

"Hell Hath No Fury Like Gay Boys Scorned By Madonna" :)

(although we have had plenty of opportunity for rehearsal. Disappointed? ...maybe. Relieved? ...perhaps; personally I wasn't looking forward to all the hype that would engulf her visit. But were we surprised that Madge cancelled? Never!)

There is just two golden rules that entertainers should always follow.

1. Never announce your retirement from show business. If you really have had enough, why not just dissapear from public life and stop working, and therefore leaving the door slightly ajar incase you do one day feel rejuvinated. Case in point...John Farnham and his infamous "Last Time" tour all those years ago. How many times has he toured since?

2. Never announce your tour or shows until you are 100% committed to doing them. Madonna is a repeat offender, but many other acts over the years have cancelled shows due to "scheduling conflicts". Which is either a load of bullshit or....a good excuse to terminate your managers employment. :p

yogi

yogi said on the 20th Jul, 2012

Till now I have stayed away form this site, as I know so many people would be bagging out M, painting her as such a bitch. I still will not read the comments. I would like to clear things up a little. I had a feeling that something was not right about her canceling the tour.

For those that are interested.
It seems the media have mislead us AGAIN. The M tour was never confirmed in the first place. Which is what I thought. You can not cancel something that was never confirmed. M & team do not have to give us a statement as she has done nothing wrong. Hear is a response from live Nation regarding her tour.

Live Nation Australia & New Zealand: Kyle when a Live Nation tour is confirmed in Australia or New Zealand we make an announcement however we have been unable to confirm Australia or New Zealand's inclusion, despite a great deal of mis-informed media speculation (as well as a number of hoaxes). Unfortunately we're unable to offer anything further other than Australia and NZ are not included on the MDNA routing. I hope al the negative stuff about M can start to cool down a little. Regards

iammyexperiment

iammyexperiment said on the 20th Jul, 2012

There is just two golden rules that entertainers should always follow.

1. Never announce your retirement from show business...
2. Never announce your tour or shows until you are 100% committed to doing them...

I don't think we can ever expect compliance with your first golden rule Brad since such announcements are typically used as marketing ploys and are typically successful sucking in the punters who think that this might be their last chance to see the act (case in point Cher's last tour of Australia which was meant to signal her retirement but as we all know now she went on to become an installation in Vegas).

And John Farnham is not the only Aussie who has been successful in milking the farewell concert formula. Aussies have particular form in this area. Think of 'The Seekers' and Dame Nellie Melba who basically invented the genre giving rise to the term 'Doing a Melba'.

Your second golden rule is usually adhered to because it also makes good business sense and it is a little difficult to understand why Madonna sees it as smart to do otherwise. While there is small possibility that the current show will be revived in a second leg that will include Australia (as someone has pointed out the 'Sticky & Sweet' tour was broken into 2 stagings, but even that didn't include Oz), it occurs to me that her marketing people might think that it is the initial publicity of a truly global tour that helps to ignite album sales.

Whatever the case, perhaps Madge should have had the foresight to promote her 1993 'Girlie Show' in Oz as her farewell performance down-under ;)

yogi

yogi said on the 20th Jul, 2012

Live nation should have made a statement when the media were confirming M coming hear.

Brad_Woodford

Brad_Woodford said on the 20th Jul, 2012

The only flaw with your statement is the fact that it has already been confirmed by numerous sources that venues in several cities in Australia had tentative bookings made for "Madonna shows" which have now been cancelled. That would indicate to me that as far as Madonnas people were concerned, and Live Nation, there was at least some intention of possibly including Australia on the tour.

iammyexperiment

iammyexperiment said on the 20th Jul, 2012

Exactly. They were happy enough to accept the momentum that the conjecture created at the time. Completely disingenuous now to claim that the dates were never formally announced & so lay off Madge.

yogi

yogi said on the 20th Jul, 2012

People are missing the point, & hear what they want to hear.

See previous statement. Despite a great deal of mis-informed media speculation (as well as a number of hoaxes) Its pretty clear to me!

People will believe what they want, so even when the truth comes out, people still dont believe it. M can not control everything that her team or media does & I am sure the intention was there, you can not blame M for that.

iammyexperiment

iammyexperiment said on the 20th Jul, 2012

People are missing the point, & hear what they want to hear.

See previous statement. Despite a great deal of mis-informed media speculation (as well as a number of hoaxes) Its pretty clear to me!

People will believe what they want, so even when the truth comes out, people still dont believe it. M can not control everything that her team or media does & I am sure the intention was there, you can not blame M for that.

You are a very forgiving, if naive, soul Yogi. While it is true that Australian MDNA tour dates was never confirmed her management definitely encouraged fans in Australia to believe that it would happen; in fact the news was included in the second paragraph of the initial announcement of the MDNA tour on the Beeb.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16924257

If Madonna never had the intention of coming here there was plenty of opportunity for her, or her management, to counter the announcement at the time.

Instead they were happy to soak up the buzz that the news of a truly global tour created and the push that this would have given to album sales. As someone else has said already here she is a serial offender on this issue and therefore deserves all the flack that she is receiving.

yogi

yogi said on the 20th Jul, 2012

You are a very forgiving, if naive, soul? My response is, you do not know me.

What I am is, a compassionate positive person, that does not see things so black & white. I am also not narrow minded enough to believe all the crap the media spills out. I see the good in people. I also do not take it personally.

M is not perfect, guess what, none of us are. People need to be more forgiving, less judgmental & full of hate, spite.

Brad_Woodford

Brad_Woodford said on the 20th Jul, 2012

You are a very forgiving, if naive, soul? My response is, you do not know me.

What I am is, a compassionate positive person, that does not see things so black & white. I am also not narrow minded enough to believe all the crap the media spills out. I see the good in people. I also do not take it personally.

M is not perfect, guess what, none of us are. People need to be more forgiving, less judgmental & full of hate, spite.

I refer back to my earlier point that numerous sources have confirmed tentative bookings were made for several Australian venues for a proposed Madonna Tour in early 2013. Those bookings have now been formally cancelled.

Seems to be more than just "medial speculation" if you ask me. Madonna just piked out on her earlier intentions. Plain and simple. And I bet the fact that her "MDNA" album has virtually tanked on the Australian charts, has something to do with her change of heart.

yogi

yogi said on the 20th Jul, 2012

I knew I would be wasting my time in this forum, its always the same. Its the target market I guess. No further comments from me.

Correz

Correz said on the 20th Jul, 2012

It's always going to be the same (or should that be the same.same? :)) if you are going onto a community forum and are not willing to allow your opinion to be influenced by the discussion.

Brad_Woodford

Brad_Woodford said on the 20th Jul, 2012

I dont think you are wasting your time. However, you are putting forward a point that the media announced a tour by Madonna before Madonna herself had apparently agreed to do it.

Im simply stating its been widely documented that venues had tentative bookings made for early 2013 for a Madonna tour, and those bookings have now been cancelled. Im just pointing out it was obviously more than just mere media speculation if the promoter of the event had already booked venues.

RB28 said on the 18th Dec, 2012

Madonna rings Cher for advice about longevity in the industry!!!!! &
(Cher says Knock Knock?)

(Madonna, says Who's there?)
(Cher says Madonna!!!!)
(Madonna says Madonna who?)
(Cher, That's show business honey...Click)

Brad_Woodford

Brad_Woodford said on the 19th Dec, 2012

Madonna rings Cher for advice about longevity in the industry!!!!! &
(Cher says Knock Knock?)

(Madonna, says Who's there?)
(Cher says Madonna!!!!)
(Madonna says Madonna who?)
(Cher, That's show business honey...Click)

LOL

Tigerland

Tigerland said on the 19th Dec, 2012

Madonna stopped being relevant a looooong time ago.

yogi

yogi said on the 19th Dec, 2012

Its clear you don't know what your talking about. For some of you who think M is not relevant, maybe these articles can clear things up for you. People are entitled to opinons, however know your facts first. M is an easy target for haters, but the facts tell a very different story, weather you like M or not, she should be respected for what she has achieved, how hard she has worked & the role model she has been for so many people, including what she has done for the gay community

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-womack/golden-material-girl_b_1699762.html

http://www.buzzfeed.com/hunterschwarz/how-madonna-proved-she-was-still-a-legend-in-2012?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=buzzfeed

http://www.madonnatribe.com/news/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7906

http://www.billboard.com/column/year-in-music-2012/madonna-rules-billboard-com-s-readers-poll-1008054552.story#/column/year-in-music-2012/madonna-rules-billboard-com-s-readers-poll-1008054552.story

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2249891/Madonna-wears-shirt-date-night-MDNA-highest-grossing-tour-2012.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

http://www.madonnarama.com/posts-en/2012/12/19/madonna-rules-billboard-coms-readers-poll-2012/

On top of all this, MDNA album went gold in the U.S & is the 3rd bigest selling album in Japan this year, not to mention what it has done in other countries.

Tigerland

Tigerland said on the 19th Dec, 2012

Its clear you don't know what your talking about. For some of you who think M is not relevant, maybe these articles can clear things up for you. People are entitled to opinons, however know your facts first. M is an easy target for haters, but the facts tell a very different story, weather you like M or not, she should be respected for what she has achieved, how hard she has worked & the role model she has been for so many people, including what she has done for the gay community

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-womack/golden-material-girl_b_1699762.html

http://www.buzzfeed.com/hunterschwarz/how-madonna-proved-she-was-still-a-legend-in-2012?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=buzzfeed

http://www.madonnatribe.com/news/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7906

http://www.billboard.com/column/year-in-music-2012/madonna-rules-billboard-com-s-readers-poll-1008054552.story#/column/year-in-music-2012/madonna-rules-billboard-com-s-readers-poll-1008054552.story

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2249891/Madonna-wears-shirt-date-night-MDNA-highest-grossing-tour-2012.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

http://www.madonnarama.com/posts-en/2012/12/19/madonna-rules-billboard-coms-readers-poll-2012/

Post all the links you like, I couldn't care less. I still think her heyday is well and truly over in the music world. You're entitled to your opinion. She's about as relevant today to the music scene as Video Cassette Recorders are to Home entertainment systems.

yogi

yogi said on the 19th Dec, 2012

As the phrase goes, ignorance is bliss.

Brad_Woodford

Brad_Woodford said on the 19th Dec, 2012

With all due respect Yogi, the mere fact that your avatar is of Madonna, would suggest that you are a Madonna fanatic. Fanatic tend to only see one side of the story.

I am a member of the Prince fan club myself, and it always makes me laugh when the fanatics refuse to believe that even Prince has struggled for hits in recent years. They often use the line "but his last album was a number 1 hit." The reality is.....his last album sold a dismal 150,000 copies worldwide, and didn't even enter the Top 100 on the charts.

Similarly with Madonna, here last two albums have been commercial failures, especially MDNA, so one would have to agree at the very least, her career is in a significant lull right now.

yogi

yogi said on the 19th Dec, 2012

With all due respect Yogi, the mere fact that your avatar is of Madonna, would suggest that you are a Madonna fanatic. Fanatic tend to only see one side of the story.

I am a member of the Prince fan club myself, and it always makes me laugh when the fanatics refuse to believe that even Prince has struggled for hits in recent years. They often use the line "but his last album was a number 1 hit." The reality is.....his last album sold a dismal 150,000 copies worldwide, and didn't even enter the Top 100 on the charts.

Similarly with Madonna, here last two albums have been commercial failures, especially MDNA, so one would have to agree at the very least, her career is in a significant lull right now.

Just because of my avatar, does not make me a fanatic, & its not a comment you can fairly make without knowing me. Yes I am a fan, however, I am very objective about M & a lot of things, it's not healthy to only few things one way (which is what a lot of you are doing) what I am about is knowing the facts, some people like to bag people out, that's fine if it makes you feel better about your self, however, know what you are talking about, & know your facts. I dont ever make claims that I have not researched, which is what you are all doing.

The Hard candy album sold 4,000,000 copies, MDNA, is getting close to the same amount,(full end of year sales are not in yet) both albums went No. 1 in 20 something countries, hardly a failure by any means, yes she is not selling the same amount of albums she did in the 80's, name an artist that is still around who is? The MDNA album got quiet good reviews across the board.

Madonna has sold over 300 million albums, has the two biggest selling tours by a female artist in history, both done in the last 5 years, one this year. How can any of this be considered a failure is beyond me, no matter what artist it is. There is no other artist out there selling this many albums that have been around for 30 years or more. Selling albums has changed a great deal in the last few years, it's a lot harder, all the money is in the tours, M is very smart, she is putting more time & effort into marketing the tours then the albums, hence why she did no promo tour with this album.

Credit should be given were credit is due, instead of always trying to cut people down. To say that someone like Madonna is not relevant or never has been is just pure ignorance & untrue. It's the same as saying prince was never relavent, of course he was, & he still is, he is an incredibly talented man, who has done some fantastic music, who is anyone to say that someone is relavent or not, the whole phrase is so disrespectful & mean spirited.