It has been announced on Janet’s fanclub website that all the dates postponed as a result of Janet’s illness will not be rescheduled “due to conflicts with the singer’s schedule”.
The dates affected are as follows:
Mon Sep 29 Montreal, QC Centre Bell
Wed Oct 01 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden
Thu Oct 02 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Center
Sat Oct 04 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum
Tue Oct 07 Fort Lauderdale, FL BankAtlantic Center
Sat Oct 11 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
Mon Oct 13 Verona, NY Turning Stone
All tickets may be refunded at the point of purchase and those purchased through the fanclub will be refunded automatically.
Janet attended an after party in New York City on Saturday night following her concert at Madison Square Garden. Accompanied by boyfriend Jermaine Dupri, Janet and her dancers partied until the small hours at Club Citrine in Manhattan.
Janet’s brother, Jermaine Jackson, has said in an interview with Australian Associated Press that the entire Jackson 5 will reunite next year for a new album and a tour. He has further stated that Janet will be the opening act – something that Janet has spoken about in previous interviews.
“It is just the timing, so what we’ve been doing is working on the music and all the logistics. It is going to be more like a family affair, Janet’s going to open and, of course, the original Jackson 5 … Michael, Randy and the whole family. … We’re in the studio, we’re planning on being out there next year,” Jermaine said.
It is not yet known whether the show will actually go ahead as it has been spoken about for several months or what impact it will have on Janet’s possible plans to take her Rock Witchu Tour across the globe.
Janet cut a segment of her show in Detroit last night due to Michigan state law. The law, which prohibits simulated sex acts in a performance space, saw Janet remove the songs Funny How Time Flies (When You’re Having Fun), Any Time, Any Place and Discipline.
A photo of Janet performing Pleasure Principle at last night’s show can be seen below.
JD posted a new video from backstage on the Rock Witchu Tour in Houston last night. In it, Janet tells fans she’s feeling much better and Jermaine and Janet dismiss rumours they have broken up.
After a string of cancellations due to illness, Janet performed tonight in Washington D.C. to a crowd of thousands. The show went without a hitch and Janet told the crowd: “It feels so good to be back after being down just a little bit”.
You can now view over 200 photos from Janet´s Los Angeles show in the Janet Love Gallery. The photos show all of Janet´s costume changes plus the moment when Janet picks a member of the audience to bring up on stage during her song Discipline.
Also, if you have any photos of any of Janet´s tour dates don´t forget you can add them on Janet Fans now – the rapidly growing online social networking community for Janet fans worldwide.
The digital agency involved in designing the virtual reality graphics and video interludes for the tour has given a behind the scenes look at the creation process as well as sharing some short videos used during the show.
When onedotzero calls and asks you if you want to make some video to play back during a concert performance, and that performance will be done by one of the biggest pop stars of all time, and you get to pretty much do what you want…how the hell do you turn that down?
You don’t. This was one of those projects that just showed up out of the blue and we had to take it.
The timeline was short (nearly 2 weeks). The technical constraints were different than we were used to (a grid of 56 different LED screens making a 30 foot wide and 16 foot tall wall of video), and we would be working blind for a portion coming up with whatever we wanted…which is weird coming from a client regardless of who they are.
After a last minute (meaning we found out the day before) trip to LA to shoot Janet Jackson on greenscreen, we huddled up for a couple days coming up with our plan and began rounding up assets. Once we received the footage from the shoot, we went into a production hole that we would only be able to emerge from once we were done. Many, many late nights later we had a solid round of content to present to Janet for approval.
Here’s where some project explanation needs to happen. The whole show, which you should try to see if it comes near you, is based on a futuristic blade runner-like scenario, and there are forces battling for Janet’s very soul. Our job was to turn Janet into good and evil versions of herself showing the struggle, but also be very techno-apocalyptic in style for both the good and evil characters…which according to Janet we nailed.
Some hefty sound design support was provided by the superstar Guy Baker over at Digital One.
Below are some screen grabs and a couple clips showing off the final look for the good and evil characters:
