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Madonna\'s Wembley Gig Crucified By Fans

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We love her, but - by many accounts - Madonna failed miserably to impress her non-A-list fans at her London concert on Thursday.

In fact, a number of reports like this one and this one called the show a disaster!

We also received quite a few emails from disgruntled fans in attendance at Wembley.

Perezcious reader, John, tells us :
"Was a disaster.

Noone could see the stage, or the video screens.

She came on 1 hour late, and couldnt be arsed. Mimed 98% of the gig and due to her being late, left 40,000 people stranded with no transport links in west london. Dont know about anyone else, but it took me 6 hours, 3 cabs, 6 buses and £100 to get home…."

Another Perezcious reader, James, also expressed his displeasure with Madge:

"…I wasnt prepared for the awful sound quality. When the show started everyone around me was shocked for the poor sound quality in the stadium. All we could hear was a buzzing noise. I couldnt understand what she was saying and it took me about a minute into each song to actually understant what song she was singing. Also watching her singing in the screens i realised that the sound was coming to us with 1-2 seconds delay. It was just a big awful mess. I dont know how the sound was in the arena area but on the upper stands of the stadium the sound was appauling. And we aint talking about a few hundreds of people being affected. Around 30.000 people must have been sitting on the upper stands. Also the atmospehere because of that and because of the stage being so far was really cold amongst the fans. You know the feeling when you are passing outside a concert and you can just here the songs with that buzzing noise? It felt like that and it didnt feel like we were inside a concert event. People around me started leaving just after 45 minutes (of a 2 hour show) and just after the hour they were leaving in masses, You could see the dissapointment. For such a bad sound and visual quality you would expect tickets on the upper stands to go for $20-30 just to fill the space. But instead tickets were going for $150 to $300. Seems that Madonna knowing that her fans would kill for a ticket and sell out the venues, replaced the quality of "smaller" arenas of 25.000 people with the quantity of 80.000 stadiums. I also left before the show ended. I read that she was really angry when their were problems with her giant screens in her concert in Nice as she is a perfectionist. I would forgive it if the screens werent working in London. But to not be able to hear the music in a music concert is really unforgivable."

James also went on to say that the UK's Times review was on point when it wrote:

"Madonna was least convincing when she grabbed a guitar for a rock remake of Borderline and a dreadful Ray of Light marred by shrill, brittle vocals that surfaced sporadically throughout the 90-minute set. She even spoilt Hung Out with faux metal guitarist antics that set women in rock back about eight years."

In its review of the Madge gig, The Daily Mail also makes mention of the transportation problems fans faced due to her late start.

It really sucks to be a regular Joe.

Hope Madge has a long think about things and won't screw the little guy over in her upcoming shows!

Source - Perez

She's way past her sell by date.

my friend went to this and said although it was a reasonably good show (and a lifelong wish to see her) she said it wasnt that great and she hardly sang any oldies and her costumes were vile to say the least (my friend said that one of her leotards almost split her in half:shocked::joker: )

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Originally posted by pinkmichk
my friend went to this and said although it was a reasonably good show (and a lifelong wish to see her) she said it wasnt that great and she hardly sang any oldies and her costumes were vile to say the least (my friend said that one of her leotards almost split her in half:shocked::joker: )

LOL!
Aw, well at least she got to see her.
I wonder when Madonna will realize that she can't go on forever.
She'll probably find a way..

Well when I see her it was brilliant. You just can't please some people.

She'll end up doing her concerts on a zimmerframe still dressed in a leotard.

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Originally posted by Scampi
She'll end up doing her concerts on a zimmerframe still dressed in a leotard.

:yuk::yuk: she is the same age as my mum thankfully my mum doesnt walk round in a leotard:joker:

Some people just don't know whats good

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My friend went to see it too.. he is a real dieheard Madonna fan and sad he was obviously dissapointed she came on late and when she was performing he said the sound quality wasn't great but he enjoyed it and just the fact it was Madonna.

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Originally posted by Darenn

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LOL!
Aw, well at least she got to see her.
I wonder when Madonna will realize that she can't go on forever.
She'll probably find a way..

Omg, I so disagree her time is done!

If fans say she was rubbish then they were probably telling the truth. Fans are the most bias people ever.

Doesn't surprise me either, people this famous don't give to flying figs about their fans!

I seen her on the first date of the Sticky & Sweet Tour in Cardiff. It was brilliant!!

I hate the wembly stadium for gigs people I know have always said it's not a great venu for gigs, she will be good at the o2 cause that's a great arena

Such a shame I cant go/didnt go! Buying the DVD defo!