HBO filmed a special of The Monster Ball Tour during Gaga's February 21–22, 2011 shows at Madison Square Garden. The special, titled "Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden", aired on HBO on May 7, 2011 and Sky1 on May 21, 2011 in the United States and the United Kingdom respectively. Prime showed the special in New Zealand on June 2, 2011. The special showed the whole of the Monster Ball Tour, and some backstage footage, which was shown in black-and-white. It ended with another black-and-white backstage scene where Gaga and her backup singers perform "Born This Way" a capella.
Broadcast and recordings
The Monster Ball Tour
The Monster Ball Tour | Broadcast and recordings
Yes, it aired on HBO HBO filmed a special of The Monster Ball Tour during Gaga's February 21–22, 2011 shows, aired on HBO HBO filmed a special of The Monster Ball Tour during Gaga's February 21–22, 2011 shows at Madison Square Garden. Yes, on HBO
what is the meaning of the song alejandro
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The song bids farewell to her lovers.
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whose song is it?
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Lady Gaga
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was it a single release or part of any album?
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It was part of her third EP, "The Fame Monster".
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where was it performed live?
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Yes, she performed at The Monster Ball Tour.
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did it perform well on charts?
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It debuted at number 72 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 for the issue dated April 17, 2010; debuted on the Mainstream Top 40 chart at number 35, and the Hot Digital Songs chart at number 71.
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what is this above tour you mentioned just?
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It was the second worldwide concert tour by Lady Gaga.
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where did it take place?
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Montreal
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was it broadcasted anywhere?
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The 5.1 surround sound of the release utilized DTS-HD Master Audio and new technology to provide the viewer an optimum experience of watching the live concert. Emphasis was given on the main music and the vocals sung during the concert, while adjusting them against the screaming and the cheering of the crowd. The release was a commercial success, reaching the top of the DVD charts in the United States, France and Italy and the top-ten in other nations. It received double platinum certifications in Australia and France, while in the United Kingdom, it was certified gold.
The Monster Ball Tour | Broadcast and recordings
Emphasis was given on the main music and the vocals sung during the concert, while adjusting them against the screaming and the cheering of the crowd. The release was a commercial success, reaching the top of the music DVD charts in the United States, France and Italy and the top-ten in other nations. It received double Platinum certifications in Australia and France, while in the United Kingdom, it was certified Gold.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Introduction
Over the course of the next many months we're trying to play to as many people in as many places as possible", Fogel added. "It's an across the board home run." Demands increased and another additional six dates were added to the announced itinerary. The Monster Ball sold-out shows in Toronto, Vancouver and San Jose who were compelled to add second dates in each city. In Los Angeles, to ensure that concert goers had the best possible access to tickets, a second performance was announced prior to the onsale of the first shows, and both Staples Center concerts were completely sold out.
The Monster Ball Tour | Commercial reception
Across Europe, the DVD reached the top of the charts in France and Italy, the former region it was also certified double platinum by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP) for shipment of 30,000 copies of the release. It reached the top-ten of the charts in other nations.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Chart performance
HBO filmed a special of The Monster Ball Tour during Gaga's February 2011 shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Documenting the whole concert with intersperses of backstage footage, "", aired in May and was released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 21, 2011.
The Monster Ball Tour | Introduction
At South by Southwest in Austin, Texas the band's entire set was filmed by Blaze TV, and later broadcast on Crackle, with "Monster" being made part of the 2007 SXSW DVD.
Not Accepted Anywhere album tour | Concert broadcasts and coverage
HBO filmed a special of The Monster Ball Tour during Gaga's February 21–22, 2011 shows at Madison Square Garden. The special, titled "Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden", aired on HBO on May 7, 2011 and Sky1 on May 21, 2011 in the United States and the United Kingdom respectively. Prime showed the special in New Zealand on June 2, 2011. The special showed the whole of the Monster Ball Tour, and some backstage footage, which was shown in black-and-white. It ended with another black-and-white backstage scene where Gaga and her backup singers perform "Born This Way" a capella.
The Monster Ball Tour | Broadcast and recordings
She brought spectacle and backed it up with soul." "The Guardian" journalist Alexis Petridis reviewed the opening show of the European leg, and commented that "it takes a certain je ne sais quoi to open your show doing something that looks suspiciously like mime on a rickety metal staircase while wearing an outfit with shoulderpads the size of the deck on a small aircraft carrier."
The Monster Ball Tour | Revamped show
After its broadcast, the special received critical acclaim; critics praised Gaga's performance, but doubted her sincerity during her on-stage rambling and in pre-concert scenes. The special was nominated for five honors at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special; Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special; Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special; Outstanding Picture Editing for a Special (Single or Multi-Camera); and Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special. A video album was released for the special and includes extra footage like a capella performances and photo gallery.
The Monster Ball Tour | Broadcast and recordings
Credits adapted from "Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden" DVD booklet.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Credits and personnel
Riordan remembered that the main difficulty was trying to preserve the "craziness" of the audience and Gaga's fans, and their screaming during the concert, nevertheless make the music of the show primary. His team used Lossy which did not use compression, instead one-to-one audio mixing giving the whole sound system "much more of an impactful experience". Riordan decided to engineer the concert sound as "center-channeled" since Gaga did not use backing audio, resulting in the listener getting the whole impact of her vocals, when listened with a headphone. Other difficulty faced by team included converting the heavy production of Gaga's songs to a live format and utilizing the singer's bands.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Development
The 5.1 mix was further orchestrated by using the sound recordings from the microphones placed around the audience members in Madison Square Garden, giving a new dimension to the surround sound in the Blu-ray. It has a length of over 114 minutes and contains five subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and German. Extra features added to the release included another a cappella version of "Born This Way" which was performed on stage unlike the one in the closing credits. A photo gallery was also included as well as backstage footage showing Gaga meeting with actress Liza Minnelli. According to Jeffrey Kauffman of Blu-ray.com, the audio tracks were commendable for their crisp sound.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Development
She's a hybrid from all these other instruments." During an interview on KISS-FM with Ryan Seacrest, on his show "On Air with Ryan Seacrest", Gaga explained that the concert tour was still called Monster Ball, but it had become more of a musical and less of a concert. It had a New York theme at its core; telling a story where Gaga and her friends traveled to the Monster Ball, but got lost.
The Monster Ball Tour | Revamped concept
Semon was appreciative of the show, calling it "an out-of-this-world blast and end-of-the-world blow-out that must be seen to be believed." Rick Massimo, reviewing the concert for "The Providence Journal", wrote that as a musical theater, the Monster Ball was not that exciting, but "that leaves the music, and when you lay two hours of her songs end-to-end, it's easy to see the vision, the intelligence and a serious songwriting talent at work." Jay N. Miller from "The Enterprise" was impressed with the show, saying that the music was somewhere between industrial disco and house music with a rock edge, but "always danceable".
The Monster Ball Tour | Revamped show
He stated that "One of the best things about this concert is despite its artifice, even its artificiality, there's absolutely no question that Lady Gaga is actually singing. What a novel idea for a live concert, and one that seemed especially refreshing after having just sat through the "" concert Blu-ray, where Brit's live voice was all but buried in the pre-records."
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Development
Dokken again encountered problems with the wireless PA system, as it was broadcasting on the same frequency as Tampa International Airport's tower.
Monsters of Rock Tour 1988 | Tour
The special ends with another black-and-white backstage scene where Gaga and her backup singers perform "Born This Way" a capella.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Content
The Blu-ray edition of the video album is presented in an aspect ratio of , encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and grants a 1080i transfer. It contains two audio tracks DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0. According to Jim Belcher, Vice President for Advanced Technology and Production of Universal Music Group, the advanced technologies associated with Dolby DTS-HD would allow the audience the best experience while viewing the DVD. Brian Riordan, one of the engineers who worked on mastering the audio for the DVD described in a video interview with "Rolling Stone" how the mix was achieved. He recalled getting a call from one of the show's producers who were looking for specialized sound arrangements to acquire an authentic live concert feeling for the release.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Development
During an interview with London's 95.8 Capital FM radio station, Gaga further elaborated on the changes in the show. She said that the show was constructed like a piece of musical theater. It also incorporated a number of contemporary and old musical pieces, some of them being re-recorded specifically for the show itself. A new keytar was constructed for the show and was named Emma. The instrument was created by the Haus of Gaga and the singer said, "We have this new instrument that I brought to the Brits tonight, 'Emma', which is what I was playing on the stage.
The Monster Ball Tour | Revamped concept
After revisions, the show was divided into four sections: "City", "Subway", "Forest", "Monster Ball" and concluded with an encore. It began with a projected video onto a curtain—which contained images of Gaga smoking a cigarette—while a club remix of "Dance in the Dark" played. Surrounded by violet light, her silhouette appeared on the curtain while she performed "Dance in the Dark". Once the curtain was removed and the chorus reached, the New York cityscape and neon lights were revealed. Gaga gyrated on the set dressed in a "futuristic, angular, glitter ball suit". After descending from her fire escape, she poked around in the hood of a dilapidated green Rolls Royce while performing "Glitter and Grease".
The Monster Ball Tour | Post-revisions
They reported that the tour had grossed US$116 million from 122 shows, with an audience of 1.3 million. By the end of the year, Pollstar announced that the tour had earned a total of US$133.6 million from 138 shows, making her the only woman to be placed in their list of the Top 10 Tours of 2010.
The Monster Ball Tour | Commercial reception
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden is a 2011 concert special which documents the February 21 and 22, 2011 shows of American pop singer Lady Gaga's worldwide concert tour, The Monster Ball Tour. Filmed at Madison Square Garden in Gaga's hometown of New York City, the two-hour special was directed by the singer's choreographer Laurieann Gibson and produced by HBO. It was first broadcast on the channel on May 7, 2011, a day after Gaga's last date of The Monster Ball Tour. The special was released on November 21, 2011, on DVD and Blu-ray by Media Blasters.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Introduction
"Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden" was filmed at Madison Square Garden in Gaga's hometown of New York City, the two-hour special was directed by the singer's choreographer Laurieann Gibson and produced by HBO, with the first broadcast on the channel on May 7, 2011, a day after Gaga's last date of The Monster Ball Tour. The channel had released a trailer for the special in YouTube and a poster in their website, which showed Gaga with her characteristic pyrotechnic bra emitting sparks. According to "Billboard", the special was watched by 1.2 million viewers. The special received critical acclaim.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Release and reception
The concert of the National Auditorium of Mexico and the concert in Luna Park of Buenos Aires was broadcast by a national transmission.
Tour Anfibio | Broadcast and Recordings
The more her image gets around, the better Lady Gaga does."
The Monster Ball Tour | Original show
The show was divided into five segments with the last one being the encore. Each segment featured Gaga in a new dress and was followed by a video interlude to the next one. The tour grossed an estimated US$227.4 million from 200 reported shows attended by an audience of 2.5 million, making it the highest grossing trek by a debut headlining artist. A was filmed by HBO during Gaga's February 2011 shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The Fame Monster | The Monster Ball Tour
"Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden" was released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 21, 2011, and was also released as a digital download to iTunes Store. In addition to the content of the original HBO broadcast, it includes new, previously-unseen footage. The video is also a part of a bundled package—along with the 17-track special edition of "Born This Way" and a remix album, ""—titled "Born This Way, The Collection", which was released the same day. "Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden" was captured with a 14-camera High Definition shoot.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Development
Brazil: São Paulo - Estádio Ícaro de Castro Melo - near Ibirapuera Park – 26 September 1998 Van Halen - was supposed to be the headliner but it never became official or happened Chile: Santiago, Velódromo Estadio Nacional – 10 September 1998 Argentina: Buenos Aires, Vélez Sársfield Stadium – 12 December 1998
Monsters of Rock | 1998 South American Tour
Throughout the gig, he will run directly into the crowd, shove any and all fans in his way..."" wrote themusicslut.com of the band's performance in New York in March 2007 Critics of the band's live sets were often quick to point out that single "Monster" was best received by audiences at live shows
Not Accepted Anywhere album tour | Reception
"Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden" features concert footage as well as pre-concert and backstage content. The special received critical acclaim; critics praised Gaga's performance and the onstage theatrics while expressing doubt in Gaga's sincerity during her monologues and in pre-concert scenes. When aired, the special was watched by 1.2 million viewers and was nominated for five awards at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, winning one for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Special (Single or Multi-Camera). The video album released for the special includes extra footage like a capella performances and a photo gallery. The 5.1 surround sound of the release utilized DTS-HD Master Audio and new technology to provide the viewer an optimum experience of watching the live concert.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Introduction
The stage of the original show looked like a frame, comparable to that of a hollowed-out television set. Since "The Fame Monster" dealt with the paranoias Gaga had faced, the main theme of the original shows became human evolution, while elements of the canceled tour with West were still included in some parts. From 2010 onward, the revamped shows had a New York theme and portrayed a story set in the city, where Gaga and her friends got lost and had to find their way to "the Monster Ball". Both versions of the show were divided into five segments, with the last being the encore.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Background
The five nominations were among the 104 HBO received for 2011; it made up over one-fifth of the total nominations. The special also received a nomination at the 2012 Dorian Awards in the category of "TV Musical Program of the Year".
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Release and reception
It was taken of The Monster Ball in early 2010.
Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) | Live performances
The revamped concerts were also met with critical acclaim. Mark Savage from BBC Online reviewed the first of the revised performances in the United Kingdom. Savage described the concert as a hugely ambitious, terrifyingly loud show, "spread over four acts and held together by a flimsy 'narrative' about Gaga and her dancer friends trying to get to a party." He was also impressed that the entire spectacle was put together in just four weeks. MTV's James Montogomery reviewed the first North American performance of the tour in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He said that the tour was "packed with more wattage than an overheated power plant and more costume changes than a thousand Vegas reviews, it's the kind of show that leaves you with wide eyes, ringing ears, aching limbs and absolutely zero chance of making it to work in the morning." "New York Daily News" writer Jim Farber expected that the theatricality of the show might have obscured the songs, but instead felt that Gaga's voice was perfect and the concert actually "pushed Gaga a long way towards her obvious goal – to be the queen of this pop moment." Glenn Gamboa from "Newsday" said that Gaga "built her monster-sized fame on knowing how to create a spectacle and then having the substance to back it up.
The Monster Ball Tour | Revamped show
The stage of the original show looked like a frame, comparable to that of a hollowed-out television set. Since "The Fame Monster" dealt with the paranoias Gaga had faced, the main theme of the original shows became human evolution, while elements of the canceled tour with West were still included in some parts. From 2010 onwards, the revamped shows had a New York theme and portrayed a story set in the city, where Gaga and her friends got lost and had to find their way to "the Monster Ball". Both versions of the show were divided into five segments, with the last being the encore.
The Monster Ball Tour | Introduction
The following set list was obtained from the concert held on August 7, 2014; at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Encore
The Monster Tour (Eminem and Rihanna) | Set list
After "LoveGame", she talks a monologue about the year "3009". And says that "The kids came out of New York and shot the paparazzi." followed by saying "It was a thousand years before when the monster first entered the city, vanished for our hearts and for our brains and for our faces (referencing to the three video interludes of the tour)" and "we knew we could co-exist with this monster with our MUSIC!!! With our art and with our fashion. My name is Lady Gaga." and tells the crowd she feels "beautiful and dirty rich" and sang "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich".
The Fame Ball Tour | Concert synopsis
Recorded by Radio Trent for an on-air radio broadcast from what surviving recorded portions. The radio station folded, many station recordings were tossed into a skip, and never seen again. One reel was salvaged by an engineer and it contained the last four songs of the one hour set. Unfortunately, the main part of the concert may be gone forever but MLP and the Heavy Metal Kids have decided to make available what survives as a release, as it has a unique song selection and made it a limited downloaded release.
Major League Productions | The Heavy Metal Kids – "Live at Trent Poly"
In Australia, the DVD debuted at number two on the ARIA DVD Chart. The next week, it remained in the same position, while being certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for shipment of 15,000 copies of the DVD. "Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden" was certified double platinum in January 2012, denoting shipments of 30,000 copies. It was the fifth and eleventh best selling DVD of 2011 and 2012 in Australia, respectively. The DVD charted on the UK Music Video chart at number four, for the issue dated December 3, 2011. It was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for selling more than 25,000 copies.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Chart performance
James Montogomery from MTV reviewed the concert at San Diego and said that "[Gaga] powered through and turned the San Diego Sports Arena into a raucous, delightfully raw discotheque." Writing for the "Las Vegas Sun", Joe Brown observed that "Lady Gaga out-Cher-ed Cher, made Cirque du Soleil and Britney's 'Circus Tour' look like county fair carnivals, and made New Year's Eve in Las Vegas anticlimactic." "Los Angeles Times" writer Ann Powers avouched that the tour was "an invigoratingly ambitious show, executed with vigor by its star and her expressive dancers." Jon Pareles from "The New York Times" said that the tour always provided "something worth a snapshot: a sci-fi tableau, perhaps, or a skimpy, glittery costume.
The Monster Ball Tour | Original show
When he returned onstage, he pulled the plugs off of their instrument amplifiers and stormed offstage without performing an encore. The rest of the band left the stage afterward.
Beautiful Monsters Tour | Tour
In the U.S., NBC Universal's networks had exclusive television rights. The Giants Stadium show had a primetime slot on NBC. In Canada, CTVglobemedia also had exclusive television rights to this event. The New Jersey concert aired live and uninterrupted on Much Music and highlights appeared on CTV throughout the day.
Live Earth concert, New Jersey | Television
The revamp of the tour was planned from the arena shows in the United Kingdom from February 2010. "My team thinks I'm completely psychotic. But I don't fucking care what they think. [...] Well, just to give you an idea, the stage is about four times the size of the one we're on now and conceptually, it's completely different. One thing that has been lost over the past 10-15 years, in pop music, is the idea of showbiz. And this is definitely going to bring that back", clarified Gaga. According to James Montgomery of MTV, the show recalled the film musicals "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) and "West Side Story" (1961), the science-fiction film "Metropolis" (1927), and the television mini-series "Angels in America" (2003).
The Monster Ball Tour | Revamped concept
The Monster Ball Tour was the second worldwide concert tour by American singer Lady Gaga. Staged in support of her extended play "The Fame Monster" (2009) and comprising a set list of songs from that and her debut album "The Fame" (2008), the tour visited arenas and stadiums from 2009 through 2011. Described as "the first-ever pop electro opera" by Gaga, the tour was announced in October 2009 after with rapper Kanye West was suddenly canceled. The Monster Ball Tour commenced four days after the release of "The Fame Monster" in November 2009. A revision of the tour occurred after only a few months of performances, due to Gaga's concern that the original version was constructed within a very short span of time.
The Monster Ball Tour | Introduction
The Monster Ball Tour was the second worldwide concert tour by Lady Gaga. Staged in support of her EP "The Fame Monster" (2009) and comprising a set list of songs from the EP and her debut album "The Fame" (2008), the tour visited arenas and stadiums from 2009 through 2011. Described as "the first-ever pop electro opera" by Gaga, the tour was announced in October 2009 after an intended with hip-hop artist Kanye West was suddenly canceled. The tour commenced four days after the release of "The Fame Monster" in November 2009. A revision of the tour occurred after only a few months of performances, due to Gaga's concern that the original version was constructed within a very short span of time.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Background
in February 2011 for another run of U.S. dates. The 2011 dates for the North American Monster Ball Tour were announced as starting from February 19 in Atlantic City, with ten arena dates confirmed through April 18. Additional shows were announced, and Semi Precious Weapons collaborated with Gaga until the tour ended. Live Nation Entertainment's global touring division, headed by chairman Arthur Fogel, held the reins as promoter/producer of the Monster Ball tour. Fogel commented on Gaga's lack of experience in a tour and said that it was an opportunity for her. "As an artist with that kind of talent and vision emerges, it creates a lot of excitement, and ticket sales worldwide demonstrate that people are really excited to see the show.
The Monster Ball Tour | Commercial reception
"You also have the crowd, the house going nuts and all the reverberations at Madison Square Garden, so it was really difficult for me to figure out globally how real, how dry, how punchy can we get this thing to sound", he added. Initially Riordan had featured more of the live instrumentation and mixed the songs a number of times, however felt that they needed a dry reverb hence he pondered on the mix along with co-producer coming to a consensus regarding the sound. According to Riordan, the mixing process was approved by Gaga who watched the cuts while travelling on the tour however, she did not ask Riordan to change anything, unlike previous projects the engineer had undertaken.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Development
The concert at the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier in the Montreal's Place des Arts on 31 May 1985 was recorded and released on LP and cassette in late 1985. It was titled "Céline Dion en concert".
Céline Dion en concert (tour) | Broadcasts and recordings
The contraption was designed by Nasir Mazhar in collaboration with Gaga's own creative production company, Haus of Gaga. The tour's sponsor of the American leg was Virgin Mobile USA, who introduced the "Free I.P." program which offered free show tickets to fans who volunteered their time to homeless youth organizations.
The Monster Ball Tour | Background
In the United States, it entered "Billboard"s Top Music Video chart at the top, selling 26,000 copies of the DVD—the greatest total for a music video since Beyoncé' "I Am... World Tour" live CD/DVD sold 37,000 and 31,000 copies in its first two weeks in November and December 2010, and held this title until the release of Adele's "Live at the Royal Albert Hall". Its final appearance on the chart was for the issue dated November 30, 2013, where upon it tallied a total of 64 weeks inside the chart. "Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden" became the fourth best-selling music video of 2011 in the United States.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Chart performance
The following setlist was obtained from the concert held on November 1, 2014; at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It does not present all concerts for the duration of the tour.
UR Experience Tour | Setlist
Shows in Vina del Mar and Buenos Aires were broadcast on national televisions. Ricky Martin filmed a concert DVD at San Juan, Puerto Rico's José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum, on August 10–11, 2007. "" was released on CD, DVD, CD/DVD on November 6, 2007, and on Blu-ray Disc on November 25, 2008.
Black and White Tour | Broadcasts and recordings
The show on October 11, 2013 in Saitama, Japan was filmed and released on DVD and Blu-ray in Japan on March 28, 2014. There are also special editions including behind-the-scene footage.
In a World Like This Tour | Broadcasts and recordings
18 August 1990 The entire 1990 festival was simultaneously broadcast live on BBC Radio 1, which had previously recorded many festivals for later broadcast.
Monsters of Rock | 1990
The monster truck touring series Monster Jam used to go to the stadium every year. The last show performed there was in 2015, and in 2018 the shows moved to Marlins Park. In 2012, the show was filmed and shown on SPEED Channel.
Hard Rock Stadium | Monster Jam
The original version of the tour was acclaimed by critics. Jane Stevenson from "Toronto Sun" gave the concert four out of five stars and said that Lady Gaga came across as a "confident, colourful, and campy performer. [...] Gaga's success was evident with slick-looking videos, lights, elaborate costumes, dancers, and yes, a band, even if her stage was sometimes left dark as she left to make numerous changes." T'Cha Dunlevy for "The Gazette" noted that the performance was lacking—adding that the show never reached its peak until the end, when Gaga performed the "real rendition" of "Poker Face" and "Bad Romance." "Better late than never", Dunlevy concluded.
The Monster Ball Tour | Original show
This series was produced in Montreal during Expo '67 to feature performances from the various entertainers who visited Montreal. This was produced as separate English and French versions by the respective CBC television networks. Episodes were recorded in colour at Expo's International Broadcasting Centre and included performances of music, theatre and dance.
The World on Stage | Premise
Brazil: São Paulo, Estádio do Pacaembu – 27 August 1994 Chile: Santiago, Estación Mapocho – 1 September 1994 Argentina: Buenos Aires, River Plate Stadium – 3 September 1994
Monsters of Rock | 1994 South American Tour
Only one reel-to-reel tape machine was available to record the concert, resulting in gaps in some songs as the tape needed to be changed. However, These gaps have been filled in with bootleg recordings from the same tour. As a result, there is a drop in sound quality during these sections, but the concert is preserved almost in its entirety. Much of the featured material had not been released at the time of the recording, including "Canard Toujours", which later became "Kreega Bondola", then later changed to "Let's Move to Cleveland", which was included on "Does Humor Belong in Music?" (1986), and several tracks that would later appear on "Zoot Allures" (1976).
FZ:OZ | Overview
"Billboard" estimated that by the time the tour wraps up in 2011, it would have grossed close to US$200 million worldwide. The ticket money from the final performance at Radio City was donated for the Haiti earthquake relief. Gaga announced on the rescheduled show at Elliott Hall of Music on January 26, 2010, that about US$500,000 was collected for the relief. At the 2010 "Billboard" Touring Awards, Gaga won the Breakthrough Performer Award, as well as the Concert Marketing & Promotion Award, the latter being an acknowledgement of her partnership with Virgin Mobile. "Billboard" also placed The Monster Ball Tour at position four on their Year-end Top 25 Tours of 2010.
The Monster Ball Tour | Commercial reception
Eight-track recorders were brought to capture its shows, and used the recordings as the base elements for that album.
List of R.E.M. concert tours | Monster Tour ("Aneurysm '95 Tour")
In 2007, a newer, bigger worldwide tour began, The Seize the Night Tour, with Marion Raven, serving as a supporting act, throughout the European and American tour. Portions of the tour in February 2007 were featured in the documentary "", directed by Bruce David Klein. The film was an official selection of the Montreal World Film Festival in 2007. It opened in theaters in March 2008 and was released on DVD in May 2008.
Meat Loaf | "Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose"
Italy: Reggio Emilia, Aeroporto di Reggio Emilia – 26 August 1987 Germany: Nuremberg, Messegelände – 29 August 1987 Germany: Pforzheim, Stadion im Brötzinger Tal – 30 August 1987
Monsters of Rock | 1987 European Tour
The Monster Tour was the one of the highest-grossing tours of 2014 in North America, with a gross of $36 million in only six shows. A total of 581,276 people attended (including outside the stadiums). The two shows at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey grossed $12.4 million with 101, 941 people attending each concert. It was the sixth highest-grossing box office of the year in North America, only behind Billy Joel, George Strait, One Direction and Garth Brooks.
The Monster Tour (Eminem and Rihanna) | Commercial performance
It went on to appreciate Gaga's vocals and the fact that she did not lip-synch, as well as the hurried costume changes, while commending the "raw" nature of the show. Paul Schrodt of Slant Magazine was more critical in his review, though he gave it a 2.5 star (out of 4) rating. While he positively called Gaga's performances outrageous and "occasionally fierce", he questioned Gaga's authenticity, both on stage and in the pre-concert scenes. Ultimately, he wrote, "Unsurprisingly, HBO's "Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden" raises more questions about Stefani Germanotta (Gaga's birth name) than it answers, which is probably as it should be." Radio host Howard Stern also compared the black-and-white scenes of the special to "Madonna: Truth or Dare", adding that when he darts a glance at Lady Gaga, she is occasionally registered in his brain as Madonna.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Release and reception
A number of the festival dates performed on the tour had excerpts from the performance broadcast on television. Additionally, 45 minutes of the 2012 Hyde Park show in London was released as a bonus feature on the Springsteen & I DVD release. Coinciding with the "Born in the U.S.A." album's 30th anniversary, "", a live DVD of the full performance of the album recorded at the 2013 Hard Rock Calling festival, was released through Amazon.com as part of a deluxe edition of the "High Hopes" album. Several shows were released as part of the Bruce Springsteen Archives:
Wrecking Ball World Tour | Broadcasts and recordings
The concert footage documented in "Exit... Stage Left" was filmed March 27, 1981, at the Montreal Forum, in Montreal, Quebec.
Exit... Stage Left (video) | Filming locations
Philip Borof from Bloomberg Television reviewed the concert in New York's Madison Square Garden and found it average, calling the crowd decked in various costumes as the "most entertaining". "Toronto Star"s Ben Rayner appreciated the show, exclaiming "hot damn, that was one hell of a show Gaga brought to the Air Canada Centre Sunday night and suddenly it doesn’t seem redundant to add one more voice to the Lady Gaga choir." Mariel Concepción from "Billboard" felt that Gaga "may be best known for her gaudy outfits and over-the-top stage shows, but at her hometown headlining debut at Madison Square Garden last night, the pop phenomenon proved she's a regular girl at heart." "The Seattle Times" staff writer Marian Liu declared that as "one of the most anticipated touring acts of the year, [Gaga] stimulated the crowd's senses on Saturday night in a way few artists can.
The Monster Ball Tour | Revamped show
Sweden: Stockholm, Stockholm Globe Arena – 21 August 1990 Germany: Berlin, Waldbühne – 23 August 1990 Germany: Dortmund, Westfalenhallen – 25 August 1990
Monsters of Rock | 1990 European Tour
Each of them featured Gaga in new outfits, singing songs related to the concept of the segment, as they were followed by a video interlude. The tour received general critical acclaim, with critics praising Gaga's singing abilities, the theatricality of the show, and her sense of style and fashion. The Monster Ball was a commercial success, with sold-out shows and demand for tickets prompting organizers to add more dates to the itinerary. It ultimately grossed an estimated $227.4 million ($ million in dollars) from 200 reported shows and an audience of 2.5 million, becoming one of the highest-grossing tours of all time.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Background
The two Boston shows from October 2005 & the two tour closing shows from Trenton, New Jersey in November 2005 were filmed with talk of a DVD release, which has not materialized as of 2020. Several shows were released as part of the Bruce Springsteen Archives:
Devils &amp; Dust Tour | Broadcasts and recordings
On review aggregate website Metacritic, the special holds a rating of 81 out of 100 based on four critic reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Jed Gottlieb of the "Boston Herald" wrote, "[B]etween the orgy of visuals—stripper strobes, androgynous dancers and a very loose, X-rated 'Wizard of Oz' theme—we get some great song and dance numbers: 'Poker Face', 'Paparazzi' and 'Bad Romance'. These are amazing hits, club-thumping tracks that define joy and sadness for a generation of suburban teens and the urban disenfranchised." However, he felt that the show's non-concert content was not genuine, and found the special to be similar to Madonna's 1991 documentary "".
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Release and reception
Performances of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra were recorded at Montreal's Place des Arts for this series.
Montreal Pop Concerts | Premise
They played in Japan for the first time since 2006 in October 2013. The new stage show, first used in the European leg, involved a giant robotic spider that moved across the stage and all four members were lifted into the air. The spider shot pyro from its legs and had eyes that glowed. In the tour program for the band's final tour, Simmons reflected on the tour:
Monster World Tour (Kiss) | Introduction
[...] After [the show] at the Wang Theater, fans could justifiably walk away thinking Lady Gaga is crazy, brilliant or both." Jeremy Adams from "Rolling Stone" reviewed the performance at Wang Center in Boston and said that "Throughout the evening, Gaga [..] aimed for a kind of pop theatricality that might potentially cement her burgeoning status as performance artist." Aidin Vaziri of "San Francisco Chronicle" said that "During her 90-minute performance—not so much a live concert as a meticulously choreographed spectacle—Lady Gaga also evoked Kanye West with the futuristic set, Britney Spears in her heavy-lidded stage movements, Courtney Love with her interminable between-song monologues highlighted by four-letter squelches and—who else?—Madonna for, oh, just about everything else." Jim Harrington from "San Jose Mercury News" felt that the show would have been better technically if around thirty minutes were lessened from it.
The Monster Ball Tour | Original show
From 2000 to 2018, the tour began in January and ended in March, with the World Finals in Las Vegas every year, with shows continuing into the summer and fall months. From 2019 and beyond the tour will still begin in January but will now end in May with the World Finals at a rotating venue each year, with shows continuing until the end of the year. The tours visit many major cities in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, Central America, South Africa, and Australia. In 2015, an arena tour called "#MoreMonsterJam" debuted. This tour featured 8 drivers driving 3 different vehicles in a points series.
Monster Jam | Tours
The tour additionally received positive response from reviewers, but some criticized it for being disjointed. On November 24, 2014, the concert was streamed live from Bercy Arena in France.
ArtRave: The Artpop Ball | Introduction
The special opens with a black-and-white introduction that sees Gaga ordering a cup of coffee from a New York convenience store before being escorted by security into a black SUV, where she reminisces about the many times she had been at the arena to watch other acts perform, and realizes that she will now be performing there herself. After being escorted backstage, she removes her makeup and cries as she discusses feeling like a "loser". She then sings the opening lines of "Marry the Night" while preparing to take the stage. Full-color footage of the concert (shot on February 21 and 22, 2011) is then seen, interspersed with black-and-white backstage footage.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Content
Footage was filmed at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto on 22 and 23 March 2006, but (despite having announced a DVD release in March) they have shown the concert in Canada on Much Music. The airing date was Thursday 14 December 2006 at 9 pm and replays occurred at midnight and 3:30 pm on Friday 15 December 2006. Footage has also been shown on Spanish television and HDNet and there are plans to air it in other, non-specified countries. Due to the lack of airplay on mainstream channels in many countries, the show has been heavily shared over the Internet.
Twisted Logic Tour | Video release
The shows at the Yokohama Arena in Japan were released as a live VHS video and Laser disc in 1993. The concerts aired on local television in Japan and on the Disney channel in the United States. An edited version of the concert at the Jamsil Arena in Seoul, South Korea aired on Korean television.
Under My Spell Tour | Broadcasts and Recordings
For every coat made of Kermit the Frog dolls or headdresses that covered her face in red lace, there was a stomping disco anthem or tender piano ballad to match. That back and forth is the centerpiece of her Monster Ball Tour." Dan Aquilante from the "New York Post" was critical of the show, calling it "scripted, silly, and tired, right down to Gaga's patter." He added that the 15 costumes Gaga wore during the two-hour plus gig were "more successful helping her cement the notion of an erotic and exotic otherworld." Writing in the "Telegram & Gazette", Craig S.
The Monster Ball Tour | Revamped show
The broadcast was made possible due to the contract signed that year between the São Paulo network and Televisa, the group's original broadcaster. However, the official DVD for the concert would not be released for an entire year and 3 days after the actual show was held, on December 2, 2009.
Tournée do Adeus | Background and release
From Montreal, they went to Germany and performed at the Loreley Open-Air Theatre which was broadcast on "Rockpalast". After returning to the United States, Vaughan and Double Trouble appeared at Carnegie Hall in New York City on October 4, 1984. The show featured many special guests and was released on the CD entitled "Live at Carnegie Hall".
Couldn't Stand the Weather | Touring
At the end of 1993, "NME" ranked the album at number 22 in its list of the top 50 "Albums of the Year," whilst "Select" ranked the album at number 46 in their own list of the year's 50 best albums. On 13 November 2009, the band played the album live in its entirety alongside "1992: The Love Album" at the Kentish Town Forum, London, as part of their "The Drum Machine Years" tour, something they had never previously done. The performance included a "cheeky Take That-style costume change."
Post Historic Monsters | Critical reception and legacy
The video is of mediocre quality. A rare partial recording of the band's concert on November 16, 1998, in Detroit, Michigan, and unedited aftershow promotional interview also exist.
Mechanical Animals Tour | Broadcasts and recordings
The 1991 show at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada was filmed and aired on MusiMax. Three songs from that concert: "Délivre-moi", "Have a Heart", and "Calling You" were included later on the "Unison" home video. On 19 June 1991 Céline Dion gave a special, sold out one night "Ten Year Career Concert" at the Montreal Forum (16,000 spectators), where she was accompanied by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
Unison Tour | Broadcasts and recordings
Manson's performance, by contrast, utilized expensive pyrotechnics, elaborate props and set pieces as well as numerous costume changes. Much to Love's chagrin, the majority of concertgoers were Manson fans who were less interested in the Hole performance. The tour commenced, as scheduled, on February 28, 1999 at the Spokane Arena in Spokane, Washington. MTV reported that the inaugural show only sold 8,500 tickets, less than half of the arena's 18,000-person capacity. Monster Magnet's opening slot lasted 45 minutes and, as noted by MTV, displayed "the same energy that made them a hit on Rob Zombie's last US tour". During Hole's performance, Love joked with the audience between songs.
Beautiful Monsters Tour | Tour
United States Canada Latin America UK
Monster Math Squad | Broadcast history
Stern attempted to debunk that claim by arguing that Gaga takes potentially psychiatric problems of her audience lightly by urging her fans to "forget all of [their] insecurities" overnight. The special received five nominations at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards. It was nominated for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special; Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special; Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special; Outstanding Picture Editing for a Special (Single or Multi-Camera); and Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special. It won the picture editing award and lost all of its other bids.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Release and reception
During which, a giant silver disco ball illuminated the venue.
Golden Tour | Synopsis
On the revamped shows of The Monster Ball (2010–2011) "LoveGame" was introduced during the second act and featured a New York City subway car on stage from which Gaga and her dancers emerged. While wearing a revealing plastic dress and an exaggerated nun's habit, Gaga wielded the disco stick, which was modified to look like a torch.
LoveGame | Live performances
The tour's closing dates in South and Central America included shows in much larger venues, such as the Monsters of Rock festival in São Paulo. During the concert at Teatro Monumental in Santiago, Chile on August 29, 1996, an audience member spat at Blaze Bayley multiple times. First towards the end of the opening song "Man on the Edge" and then again in the middle of "The Trooper" at the end of the concert. This caused Bayley to fly into a verbal rage while Steve Harris and Janick Gers made threatening gestures. The band did however finish the concert as planned.
The X Factour | Introduction
As soon as the dates for the show were announced, there was high demand for tickets. As sponsor of the North American Monster Ball Tour, Virgin Mobile customers had access to presale tickets. Bob Stohrer, VP of Marketing for Virgin Mobile USA said "We are excited to take our partnership with Lady Gaga and The Monster Ball Tour to another level. [...] We'll also build on our partnership around combating youth homelessness and continue to enhance the tour experience for fans and our customers." Shows in the first leg of the tour were sold-out completely, prompting Live Nation Inc. to announce that Gaga will return to the U.S.
The Monster Ball Tour | Commercial reception
The footage was shot using eight cameras total. Two Canon Elura cameras with wide angle lenses were placed in and behind Butch Vig's drum kit, two Canon XL1 cameras set on tripods (centre and stage-right) were positioned in the balcony, two handheld Canon XL1 cameras (one operated by director LaBarre) were the pit in front of the stage, and a Canon XL1 handheld camera was run by DP Johnson on the stage-left. As of 2020, the full show has not been released though LaBarre still has all the audio and video tapes from the show archived for potential future use.
Beautiful Garbage World Tour | Broadcast and recordings
In Toronto, they did a set at Studio Q for CBC.
Taking Back the Cities Tour | North American tour
Upon checking under the vehicle's bonnet, Gaga revealed a keyboard and began to play the opening notes of "Just Dance". Gaga then performed "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" while scaling various pieces of scaffolding and subsequently "The Fame" where she rose from beneath the stage and played her keytar Emma, wearing a giant red cape. "LoveGame" saw the beginning of the "Subway" section, with Gaga wearing a translucent nun's habit, and a skeletal hand. The song was performed with the aid of a gilded subway car and a "disco stick" while her next number "Boys Boys Boys" featured muscly male dancers cavorting in spandex shorts.
The Monster Ball Tour | Post-revisions
BBC 6 Music's Steve Lamacq covered the band's opening night too their October 2006 leg of the album tour – in Exeter's Lemon Grove. Originally the entire 14 song set was broadcast with 7 songs made available on BBC Online afterwards. The BBC also covered The Automatic at Reading and Leeds Festivals with broadcasts of "Monster" and "Gold Digger" with Goldie Lookin Chain from the Radio 1/NME Tent. A year later at Glastonbury Festival 2007 BBC Three and BBC Online screened much of the band's set. MTV featured performances of the band at Oxegen 2006, including "Recover" and "Monster", whilst Channel 4 broadcast performances of "Raoul", "Recover" and "Monster" from T4 on the Beach 2006.
Not Accepted Anywhere album tour | Concert broadcasts and coverage
The 14–15 March 1997 shows at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee, were filmed and the concert aired on television. It was also released on VHS in November 1998. The DVD was supposed to be released on 27 February 2008 in Japan but it was cancelled. The Zurich concert in 1996 was recorded for a promo release as a live CD. Limited copies of this CD were made. Concerts in both Australia and Montreal were recorded and broadcast as television specials. The Australia concert special featured four songs and interviews with Dion about the new album. The Montreal special featured six songs.
Falling into You: Around the World | Broadcasts and recordings
The tour's Quebec City stops served as the final event held at Colisée Pepsi before its closure, and the first-ever concert event held at its replacement, Videotron Centre.
Lords of Summer Tour | Tour dates
The Disco Ball was a 2003 television special featuring a wide array of celebrities performing disco songs. The concert was taped on October 13, 2002 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California.
The Disco Ball | Introduction