Madonna!

Tour rescheduled to start in London on 14th October (I’ll be in Vegas seeing U2 at that time or I might have looked at getting tickets)

Good to see the UK dates going ahead as planned and happy 65th to Madge today.

Hope we get a few reviews on here and everyone who goes to see the show has a great time.

Glad to liked it and the investment of going was worth it. I was a huge Madge fan from when she first started and well in 2000's. I haven't heard so much of her later stuff although a friend who is a superfan and has done most tours keeps me up to date with what tracks to listen too. I think this tour might have been about playing hits she hadn't played for a while as much as the "staples" which every superstar will always have in their set list and never get dropped. 

But when you've had as many hits as her the set list will always be subjective as you can only fit a finite number in unless you just do bits of songs which I'm not personally a fan of. 

Lots of Twitter comments saying she mimed throughout. Surely not? I’ve seen her a few times- including the palladium run and she didn’t mime during any of those concerts..

Thanks to social media commentary on the show and video clips are online seconds after the performance that you can currently see the whole show online already. (Which is useful for the second night crowd as it was cut short at 11pm due late starting and several songs not played) .
Seems like the die hard fans loved the show but seeing the set list and the clips so far am happy that I didn't book and will live with memories of previous shows with a band, fully live and far less interludes between songs, as well as saving several hundred pounds on tickets, travel, hotel and merchandise. The strapped leg is concerning but hope they are doing all they can to get her through the tour, so many fans have lost money already with the initial cancellation and many of us lost money with the cancellation of so many madame X shows European shows.
There is no doubt in the clips she sounds superb, there are live vocals but if there are no live backing singers behind her then something is being played to make that strong a sound.
Main fans seem happy first night and early reviews at positive and presume the tour is pretty much sold out so its a hit as long as it completes but where madonna has led the field for so long this tour is not going to steal thunder from Taylor, Beyonce, Ed and Coldplay tours which are ongoing or run over the coming months at the same time.
From the Queen of pop who's tours have been so groundbreaking in production and ambition this one celebrating an extraordinary 40 year run of music seems rather muted.

Hmm. Went tonight and it was… OK.

It just felt like she was trying to cram too much into the show and it ended up a bit of a mishmash.

Started half an hour late, so we had to leave early and miss the final two ‘acts’, which isn’t great when you’ve shelled out.

She looked and sounded great. The show just felt flat, with very little momentum. As soon as the buzz began, another interlude or bad remix killed the mood.

I’m glad I’ve seen her, I’m pleased I’ve heard some of those songs performed live. But these mega gigs are very rarely enjoyable experiences anymore.

I think it’s a technical problem. I’ve seen clips of her performing Bad Girl lying on a box that has clearly elevated above the audience. This didn’t happen last night.

When it became clear this was an issue, who cares? Just ditch the song or perform it without the effect, as she did in the end.

Also once it got to 9.20pm, don’t go ahead with some drag queen getting 10 minutes of self indulgence before introducing the main act.

Maybe it is diva behaviour, I don’t know, but the show more generally felt bloated and muddled so perhaps it’s down to her creative team.