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Madonna furious as London Palladium ‘censors’ her by dropping curtain and shutting off sound before end of live show

Singer posts video of herself shouting ‘motherf***ing censorship’ as venue tries to stop her concert

Ellie Harrison
Thursday 06 February 2020 08:18 EST
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Madonna shouts 'motherf***ing censorship' as London Palladium shut down her show early

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Madonna has reacted with fury after London Palladium dropped the curtain and shut the sound off before the end of her live show on Wednesday night (5 February).

The singer posted a video of the show on her Instagram page, in which she can be heard shouting, “Censorship. Motherf***ing censorship. Artists are here to disturb the peace. F*** you,” as the curtain falls.

Alongside the video, Madonna wrote: “It was 5 minutes past our 11:00 curfew – we had one more song to do and The Palladium decided to censor us by pulling down the metal fire curtain that weighs 9 tons."

She added: "Fortunately they stopped it half way and no one was hurt.............. Many Thanks to the entire Audience who did not move and never left us. Power to The People!! #Irise #ongod #madamextheatre #thelondonpalladium.”

Fans who were at the gig have tweeted about the show, saying Palladium staff turned the lights off and shut off the sound, leaving Madonna to argue with them before returning to the stage to sing “I Rise” with an unplugged microphone.

Madonna has cancelled numerous dates in her sold-out Madame X tour, with the star suffering from an unspecified injury that she said has been causing her “overwhelming pain”.

Her first show at the Palladium was awarded four stars by The Independent’s critic Kate Hutchinson, who called the concert an “eyeball-twisting audiovisual assault”.

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