Hitkrant 1987

In a time without internet, we had to get our information from radio, tv or magazines, I phoned the Dutch pop magazine ‘Hitkrant’ like almost every hour for any possible tour info. Unfortunately Hitkrant couldn’t tell me when the possible ticket sale would start. After the official announcement and an instant sell-out, I sent flowers and a letter to Hitkrant with a thank you note for keeping up with my whining. This letter got published in their magazine two weeks later

Noord Hollands Dagblad 1989

After lots of negative press in the media regarding the ‘Like A Prayer’ video (Pepsi who pulled out as a sponsor etc.), I was thinking of doing something positive for Madonna in the media. I was going to sit outside all night the night before the release of the new ‘Like A Prayer’ album, and try to get into the newspapers with this action. Well I did make it into the newspaper, but not exactly how I planned it to be. I searched in the afternoon to see if I could find the new album, when I couldn’t, I sat down and spent the night in front of the shop. But the next day I found out that the new album had indeed already been on sale since 4 o’clock yesterday

Linda de Mol 1989

There was talk of tour stress in 1989. There was talk of a world tour but couldn’t get any info from the record company. Veronica (Dutch) radio station announced that Madonna would come in the summer, further no details. I wrote to Linda de Mol (Dutch celebrity) who had her own talkshow back then. I got a response from her within a week, that she had done some research regarding a Madonna tour but that she too didn’t get any info. The tour didn’t come in 1989, but a year later.

Hitkrant 1992

Madonna wasn't given a lot of slack in 1992, so I decided to defend her with every opportunity. The Dutch pop magazine asked it's readers on their opinion of Madonna, had she gone too far this time?. Of course I had to make them clear that not everyone was offended by Madonna's actions that time. I wrote them and my reaction indeed got published in their next issue. However they misspelled my name and even though my response wasn't that mature (I was only 11 years old), I still let the readers know that for me Madonna was the greatest whatever she did

Hitkrant 1993

After a year of negative press with her SEX book (according to the media it was an outrage), ‘Body Of Evidence’ (flopped) and the Erotica album (flopped as well, but my favourite album), Madonna announces she’s going on tour again and will start in London. Hitkrant published a review of her opening show in London and started with the sentence ‘Hitkrant attended and came back with the following report’. All they did with quote sentences from UK reviews that had been published in the UK newspapers!. The UK press had been very negative and gave awful reviews. Hitkrant ended their so called review with the sentence ‘If you’ve seen Madonna’s other tours, there was nothing new to report’. This sentence caused an anger explosion inside of me and I wrote them a letter. They had the balls to publish my letter with a response saying ‘Next time we will check out the show ourselves again’

Big Breakfast Club 1999

The crew entered my then Madonna attic. The interview wasn’t going too well as they made me repeat my answers a hundred times, which caused the spontaneous feel about it to completely disappear. After filming me and my room, we went on to a photographer who took some polaroids of me. These were taken to a film studio, here they put my picture together on a poster with Madonna.

The experience wasn’t the most exciting of my life, nor was it spontaneous but I had promoted Madonna and her new single, and that was my original intention

BNN Radio ‘That's Live!' 2003

To promote Madonna’s new (AMAZING!!) new album ‘American Life’ Simon and me were present in the radio studio of BNN on a Sunday afternoon. The presentation was done by Eric Corton and Eddy Zoey, Eddy Zoey recently interviewed Madonna. I was dressed a la Madonna in 2003, complete with black beret and dark hair. It was a fun afternoon and clips of Eddy’s interview with Madonna were being broadcast. Simon and me were interviewed by Eric Corton for a bit, of course spoke about our tattoos and how we became a Madonna fan. It was good promotion for the new album!

Squeeze 2004

They had a large Madonna spread due to Madonna coming to Holland with her Re-Invention Tour. They also spend some time to Madonna fans in this spread, I also had replied and my Q&A got published. The usual things: how long have you been a fan? What do you like most about Madonna etc. etc.

I'm Going To Tell You A Secret 2004

After being in touch with Caresse Henry and people of the documentary crew, I worked a bit on the doc myself. I was interviewed in London about my Madonna passion in front of Earls Court. From the on they filmed me in Paris (my tattoo) and then again twice in Lisbon (right before the show and during ‘Nothing Fails’). Unfortunately my ‘one minute of fame’ hasn’t been used in the finished product (like every single fan interview during the tour). But I was however seen for a second in the movie when Madonna departs hotel George V. You can see the back of my head (blond hair) full on screen. Also during the live performances there are little bits of me and Simon in the pit

Gay & Night 2004

A Dutch gay magazine brought us a great surprise in 2004. We saw the magazine in the shop and noticed it had a small Madonna pic on the cover. So we grabbed it and searched for the Madonna article. When we found out, to our shock we saw two pictures of us and our tattoos in the article!. We remembered that a woman had approached us in Paris asking if she could take a picture. But since we had been photographed so many times because of the tattoos, we figured she was just another fan. Well I guess we were wrong

Vassallucci 2005

I arranged a very nice contest together with the Dutch publisher of Madonna’s childrens books back in 2005, to celebrate the new release ‘Lotsa De Casha’. Through the Dutch fanclub (of which I then worked for) I had arranged to give away ten pairs of the new book and the grand prize ‘all five of the childrens books written by Madonna’. Everyone that entered got a free book in the end. Want to take this chance to thank Vassallucci once again for participating in this contest

BNN Radio 2005

Kimberly called me telling me that a show on Dutch radio station BNN were looking for Madonna fans who had attended the Who’s That Girl Tour in Rotterdam in 1987. I had just finished typing out my ‘Who’s That Girl’ report and I sent this to the radio station. The next day I received a response from them saying ‘Wow, what a story, we want you to be on the show!’. The show was that same day and I got interviewed at 6 in the evening, this was broadcasted at 8. I told my story about what goes through your body and your head when you’re face to face for the very first time with your idol.

BNN Radio 2005

On the day of the release of ‘Hung Up’ I was interviewed on Dutch radio. We talked about the new single, gossip about Madonna (which I denied) etc. The interview passed by so quickly that I hardly had the time to think about my answers. To the question whether Madonna was a strict boring housemom or whether she was just old fashioned sexy, I replied ‘to me she’s always sexy!’. But I promoted ‘Hung Up’ and that was my intention.

COADF Wereld Premiere FAME 2005

A long cherished dream became reality when I was given the OK to organize the world premiere of Madonna’s new album ‘Confessions On A Dance Floor’ in the Dutch store FAME. I had had this idea every since attending the listening session of Mariah Carey’s Emancipation of Mimi back in March. After lots and lots of writing with Warner and FAME, my dream became reality! On November 10th we had the only and official world premiere of the new album in FAME in Amsterdam! My biggest accomplishment to date and still very proud of this. It gave Madonna lots of attention and brought her promotion in Holland

Gay Krant 2005

Due to the world premiere of the new album there was a little article in this Dutch gay magazine. They published a picture of me with the rest of the fanclub team.

Avro Radio 2005

I was approached by Avro Radio asking if I wanted to say something about the world premiere of ‘Confessions’. They had contacted the FAME and FAME had given them my details. I was of course very very tired after the late night premiere the night before and hardly could utter a word. I somehow managed to say the album was fantastic and that the party had been hugely successful

Pulse 2005

At first I had arranged that me and some friends could attend the taping of Dutch tv show ‘Pulse’. I had heard that Peter v/d Vorst (the host) had gone to London to interview Madonna. I thought it would be a nice idea to just sit in the audience during the taping of this show, just to celebrate the fact that this was M’s only Dutch television interview. Just a few days before the taping of this show I was contacted by the people of ‘Pulse’. They wanted some real Madonna fans during the live show at the table with the host Peter v/d Vorst. They asked me if I knew more Madonna fans, I gave them the details and we all were called.

I was chosen to sit at the table with Peter, so the day after the world premiere of ‘Confessions’ I was sitting at the table covered in make up! It was a live broadcast on RTL 4 and I was very nervous.

Peter v/d Vorst told me that I was a stalker just because I had seen Madonna quite often. I quickly told him the difference between a stalker and a dedicated fan, and that I wasn’t a stalker, wouldn’t ever be and had no intention of having any similarities with one. I then also told him that to fans Madonna was very lovely and very friendly. The interview with Madonna was typical Madonna, but the questions asked weren’t that great. But Madonna dealt with them professionally. I thought I had done my job well, I had spoken about the ‘real’ Madonna, not the Madonna that the media makes her out to be. It was a nice experience and I got great response

Pulse 2005

Right before the taping I got make up on my face and had dinner with other Dutch celebrities. During the interview with the host Peter v/d Vorst he asked me how many Madonna cd’s I owned and I said I had 615 at the moment. ‘But she’s never released that many!’ was his answer. So I responded ‘No but I collect different pressings, one has got a different sticker, the other has a different cover etc.’. Were then also asked the question, whether or not we were jealous at the host, because he had met Madonna. I said that I wasn’t jealous, would’ve liked to be in his place, but knew that one day my time would come.

Koko Album Launch November 2005

Madonna officially launched her album on November 15th in London in the Koko Club in Camden. Of course I wanted to attend so I stood outside in the early morning in the cold. A reporter interviewed me as he thought it was interesting that a Dutch person attended. After several questions and a picture taken, I went to get my ticket and went on home. That same evening when I was in the queue again to enter Koko, another reporter approached me. He also interviewed me and filmed me at the same time

The Daily Record 2005

The result of this interview made the newspaper the following day. A little bit was dedicated to me, my name was spelled correctly but my words had been twisted around a bit, but hey it was nice to know for the readers that a girl from Amsterdam had been there. Funny, but when you did a search on google or yahoo with my name, LOADS of newsreports on KOKO came up who all copied the report from The Daily Record.

SBS6 Shownieuws 2005

While I was still in London, some people told me that they had seen me on a Dutch channel SBS6 in the news. I didn’t have a clue what they were talking about. Through a friend I managed to see it, the same images had been broadcast on an English channel as well. It was by the reporter who interviewed me right before entering Koko. It was a little bit of me talking about her ‘Confessions era’. The fun thing about the SBS6 news item was that I was the only fan shown in their report and it headlined ‘Dutch Fan’. Even though I didn’t knew nothing about it, I had promoted Madonna once again.

Noord Hollands Dagblad 2006

Because of this website we sent out a mailing to all Dutch media. The Noord Holland Dagblad contacted us as they wanted to interview us regarding our site.A photographer was sent and he took pics of us waiting in front of the postoffice to get tickets for Madonna's Dutch shows. A week later we were interviewed and more pics were taken. A couple of days later the result was published in over five Dutch newspapers!. Our picture (weren't too fond of the one used) was even printed on the cover of the newspapers

Radio Purmerend 2006

In the evening the radio called me and asked me what kind of website Madonna Underground was, and what makes it different from other websites.
My answer was plain and simple: Passion and inspiration!. But quickly they asked what kind of relationship I had with Madonna and had to explain it in just a couple of words. Just told them about my stories, but also that you can read about other artists on the site.
Then they asked how much Madonna had changed in the past 20 years, and of course about the kaballah, if I was studying it as well.

Last question, what is my favourite Madonna song? Of course it's 'Vogue'.

De Telegraaf august '06

Dutch political youth group the SGP wanted to forbid this scene from being performed during the shows in Amsterdam. We told the newspaper what we thought of the situation and that afternoon a photographer arrived to took a pic to go with the article. As Kimmy couldn’t make it, only Hans was captured on photo. The article, pictures and SGP’s opinion were then published in the newspaper.

Hannover Zeitung august '06

During the Confessions Tour in Hannover, Hans walked around without a jacket and a sleeveless shirt, then a photographer spoke to him asking if he could photograph his tattoo. Of course that wasn’t a problem with Hans. He was also asked some questions relating to the tour (where are you from, how many shows will you be seeing, why have you chosen this picture as a tattoo). The piece was published in the Hannover Zeitung the next day. 

KRO Radio august '06

During our stay in Paris for the Confessions Tour we received a Phone call regarding Madonna’s H&M tracksuits who were on sale from that day. As this was women’s clothing it was best that Kimmy answered the questions. Kimmy explained all about the tracksuits and tried to answer the questions in the best possible way (do you feel more feminine when wearing these tracksuits?). The interview went fine.