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Madonna took a tumble at a recent live show, while performing her 1986 hit ‘Open Your Heart’.
The moment took place during a recent stop as part of her ongoing ‘Celebration’ tour, which kicked off in the UK last year and is currently on its US leg of dates.
Held at the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, the 65-year-old had a minor fall mid-way through her set as she sang the track.
In the set, the queen of pop was seated in a chair performing the choreography for the song – inspired by its music video. However, after commencing, one of the dancers made a mishap while pulling her seat across the stage in stiletto heels.
During the routine, the dancer grabbed her seat, while she was still sitting in it singing, and proceeded to run with it across the stage, before losing their footing – resulting in both of them falling on the floor.
Impressively enough, despite falling backwards, Madonna didn’t miss a beat during the song and simply rolled off the chair.
She also let out a laugh after the tumble, standing up with the help of her cameraman and resuming the choreography as if it never happened. The dancer is also seen hugging her shortly after. Check out the moment above.
This isn’t the first time that the pop icon has taken a fall while on stage, back in 2015, she famously fell down a set of stairs during her performance at the BRIT Awards, suffering a wardrobe malfunction while singing ‘Living for Love’.
Her ongoing live shows are the latest as part of her ‘Celebration’ world tour, which kicked off in October after being postponed. Originally the dates were set to commence earlier in 2023 and open with the US leg, however, this was rescheduled following the singer surviving a bacterial infection that reportedly led to her spending several days in ICU and left her relatives “preparing for the worst”.
NME caught Madonna’s opening show for the tour last year and gave it a five-star review: “The whole thing is a thrilling reminder that Madonna isn’t just a pop star, but also a cultural force who genuinely changed the world by chafing against what society expects from women in the public eye.
“That’s something worth celebrating in the dazzling, dynamic and at times slightly discombobulating way she presents it here. Really, you wouldn’t have her any other way.”
Since then, she has made headlines with the live shows by giving ‘Frozen’ its live debut on tour, performing ‘This Used To Be My Playground’ live for the first time and announcing extra shows due to high demand.
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Steve Albini‘s bands Shellac and Big Black now have their catalogues available for listening on Spotify.
Albini passed away aged 61 earlier this month due to a heart attack. He was well known for being the producer of major albums such as Nirvana’s ‘In Utero‘, Pixies’ ‘Surfer Rosa’, PJ Harvey’s ‘Rid of Me’, Manic Street Preachers‘ ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’ and more.
Back in 2022, the late producer took his music off the streaming platform. He had previously criticised the company for platforming anti-vaxxers such as Joe Rogan, and tweeted later that they were a “terrible company”, adding: “I don’t want to be part of their business”.
He later told Attack Magazine that Spotify was “one of the few places outside of record stores where recorded music can earn anything at all, and for bands [with] more generous, honest relationships with independent labels not part of the ownership trust, then the payments from Spotify, though meager per-play, can add up to a viable income stream. Nobody’s getting rich, but it could pay for the groceries.”
Now, it appears that Albini’s work with his bands Shellac and Big Black are now available to stream on Spotify. This include’s Shellac’s final album ‘To All Trains’, which was announced shortly before Albini’s death and was released last Friday (May 17).
Tributes have poured in for the legendary producer since the announcement of his death. Our NME obituary hailed him as “a lone voice of anti-industry punk scene ethics, even as he worked with major labels on some of the biggest names in alternative rock.”
Meanwhile, Foo Fighters dedicated a rendition of ‘My Hero’ to the late producer in Charlotte, North Carolina last week.
“Tonight I’d like to dedicate this song to a friend that we lost the other day, who I’ve known a long, long time,” Foos frontman Dave Grohl told the crowd. “He left us much too soon. He’s touched all of your lives, I’m sure. I’m talking about Steve Albini. For those of you who know, you know. For those of you who don’t know, just remember that name: Steve Albini. Let’s sing this one for him.”
PJ Harvey also said he “changed the course of my life” during sessions for her 1993 LP ‘Rid Of Me’., and Joanna Newsom dedicated a version of her song ‘Cosmia’ to him, who engineered her 2006 album ‘Ys’. See further tributes here.
Elsewhere, Yourcodenameis:milo spoke to NME about how the 20th anniversary of their LP ‘All Roads To Fault’ was made all the more profound by the passing of Albini, who engineered the album.
Remembering their time with the punk and production legend, Lockey said: “We paid attention, saw everything he did, asked questions that he would gladly spend ages answering”.
“He once stopped the session and proceeded to give us a lecture on how the peanut built America. He schooled us in billiards, then showed us his favourite cooking shows that he’d recorded. It was all so natural and encouraging, we could do what the fuck we wanted and he’d capture it. That’s the deal, and we fucking loved it.”
