madonna

I shall live in this little chair in front of the computer. I shall become a permanent fixture in this hotel. I tried not blogging, but it takes just as long. I am not even writing about the photos at this point. I thought I will just do that once I have my notes in front of me. Thankfully, the wedding is playing a great mixture of music. Anyways, I thought of this Madonna story I wanted to share with you.

Every year (except for the last two years) the Slane castle hosts a rock concert. The owner experienced a fire in the eighties and he thought it would be great way to raise funds to restore his place. The concerts have been going on for the past twenty years. Eminem was suppose to play last year, but cancelled and there has been no mention of a concert this year. The last performer was Madonna in 2004.

Madonna is really into Kabalah and therefore she demanded the castle to break its tradition of holding concerts on Saturday and place her concert on Sunday, because she doesn't work on Saturday's. Now Slane is a small town of maily four Georgian houses and a couple of stores so the local residents were scared they would not be able to attend church with 80 000 people coming to watch Madonna play. Despite the controversy, Madonna walked onto stage and greeted the crowd with warm "Good Evening Dublin!" The residents were not happy that she couldn't even remember she was in Slane.

Now in order to defend Madonna slightly, Slane is 50 km away from Dublin...which is super huge in Ireland's terms but relatively small in American/ Canadian terms. It would be similar to a star saying "Hello Toronto" instead of "Hello Barrie". I feel like the photos are uploading faster, because I have been able to do 6 in the last 3-6 mins? hmmm.....