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Seen the show? Share your review and pictures with us! Toronto - 19 October - Early start Just got home from the Oct. 19 show. She started already @ 8.39 and was in a great mood and keep shout out to Toronto. Dress You Up was the song she sang during the acapella session. The crowd went wild during You Must Love Me and Like A Prayer. Borderline was better than expected and so was Ray Of Light. I was 2 of the Confessions shows in London and Ray Of Light was horrible there - or at least the venue was crappy (Wembly Area). Her voice was little shaky during Vogue and Heartbeat. ~ Boli Athens - 27 September - Best f***ing show ever (if only there were no guitars) I went to Madonna's concert on Saturday 27th September and I have to admit I was awestruck! Nothing like this has ever taken place here in Greece and it was the ultimate blast!!! At 9:20 pm the lights turned off! You could hear a whole stadium screaming like crazy! The intro video started and the crowd would not stop screaming! It was time for the Madonna show! Candy Shop was a really good opening! It was pretty colourful, as was the whole show! I think a lot of the excitement that the audience gets while watching the show is, except for the Queen, the excellent work the lightening people and the video makers have done!!! Then it was time for Beat Goes On which was fun! Really fun! But just that (at least until the car turned up)! I think that was the concept anyway! Then it was time for "It's Britney Bitch"! Human Nature was all about Britney! Nobody really paid any attention to Madonna's guitar thing! The Vogue came with the excellent mash-up with 4 Minutes! Anyway, the highlights of the show were: Vogue, Into the Groove (it was reaaal fun the crowd went mad), Music (it definitely made the people come together), Devil Wouldn't Recognize You (one of the most perfect moments of the show, excellent performance! I thought it was genius!!!), La Isla Bonita (that was a blast!!!!!) and above all Like A Prayer (this song played in just the right time!!! it was PERFECT! you could see about 76000 people jumping singing along it still gives me chills!), Ray Of Light and then Give It 2 Me! Luckily enough, no technical errors occurred! Madonna was flawless! 5 minutes before the show it was drizzling! When the lights went down, it stopped! It was Madonna time! She was really funny! Remembarable quotes were: "The Queen will topple the King", "Is this the best f***ing show you 've ever seen?", "F*** your boyfriend, suck your boyfriend, f*** your boyfriend, suck your boyfriend", "Let's try this one more time motherf***ers" It is a pity I couldn't find tickets for the Arena! I would have had much more fun! Generally it really was great! Though I do acknowledge that it cannot be compared by any means to her two previous tours. Especially the Confessions tour! The Greek crowd went mad and was thrilled because most of us Greeks have never had the opportunity to attend a Madonna show before! Not any real show actually! But Confessions was .....! I think it's a show nothing ever will manage to top! I think one of the biggest disadvantages of the Sticky and Sweet Tour was the whole guitar thing! What is it with the guitars? She played the guitar at least 5 times! The whole playing-the-guitar-with-Madonna was funny at first but it has gotten a bit old! She is a POP artist! She has nothing to do with rock! I mean what was that shitty Hung Up rock version?! I think that song was the most sold single of her whole career and now everybody hates it! If Madonna were to do another tour, she should just drop the guitar thing! That she cannot do well! It's not her!!! Anyway, i had a great time! And Madonna really IS the Queen of Pop!!! ~ Alex Lisbon - 14 September - Lose the guitar Hi there - went to the lisbon show (the one where she fell on her arse!) - my third Madonna Tour to date, and unfortunately, my least favourite. Not only did we get the obligatory late start (why ? Has she absolutely no respect for her fans?), but a lot of the show seemed to be either rehashed (4 Minutes / Candy Shop / Ray Of Light) or hastily cobbled together. Hung Up was shorn of anything that made it a hit - a massively wasted song! It certainly had it's moments - Like A Prayer was stunning and The 80s section had an enormous sense of fun ,missing form most of the rest of the show. La Isla Bonita (although a virtual repeat of a previous performance) was nicely & appropriately updated and You Must Love Me proved she can actually sing when not grinding up against an amp .But overall - to quote herself " I've seen it all before" PS - It comes to something when one of the highlights in a Madonna show is a pre-recorded Britney Spears PPS - Lose the guitar. It isn't you. Remember Pop? ~ James Lisbon - 14 September - Kill the guitars Hello! I just come back from the Lisbon Show and I have to tell you that our friend Axel from Berlin is absolutely right: We do not like her Hard Rock versions neither the new Give It 2 Me sound! So, I pray to God, kill all the guitars she plays, cause she killed too our delicious good feelings, especially Hung Up! For me, those screens are really amazing technology (we will never forget that subway!!!) but the only Great Moments of the show are Devil Wouldn't Recognize You (Brilliant idea, great vocals, Gorgeous!!!!), Beat Goes On (party time), She's Not Me (Funny Idea), Miles Away and You Must Love Me (Both intimate and touching)!!! La Isla Bonita and Like A Prayer are Deja vu (sound) as Candy Shop choreographies. Axel's right: Confessions was the best 4ever in the world, and no time to prepare give us one show not bad, not good, but coming from MADONNA that's not a good sign!!! We deserve better than that, cause the most of us are with her since 'Like A Virgin' Era, right? But I loved the show, and I'll love to watch it over and over, if I could, lol ~ Jace Frankfurt - 09 September - The show is like a workout program Hi everyone!! I saw Madonna on Tuesday night the 9th in my hometown Frankfurt/M., and it was just amazing and a great experience! I was lucky to stand in the 2nd Row, and to see Madonna soooooo close was just awesome for me. Well I saw her with the Re-Invention Tour in Paris, and 2 years ago in Hannover with her Confessions Tour, always had a Seat Ticket. And this time to be in the thick of it, gosh I will never forget. I'm still "Out of Order" so to say, cause the Show is so exhausting, also for viewers!! It took me the whole day - the day after - to come down really. Madonna is full of Energy, no standstill 2 hours long, her Show is like a Workout program, every 3 Minutes another scenery, very impressive. Her quiet moments are very less, but lovely. My voice was very croaky the rest of the week and eeeeeeverybody at work asked me "Are you sick" and my answer for days was: Nooooooo I was at the Madonna Concert . Okay, to everyone who is going to see the Sticky & Sweet Show have fun and just enjoy ! Bye bye for now..... ~ Patricia Berlin - 28 August - She knows she can do it better! Hello guys, since you want fans to share their experiences, here is mine from Berlin. It's a little heartbreaking for me to write this review because I am a HUGE Madonna Fan- I have been into her and her music since the Bedtime Stories Era - and for the first time, I am disappointed. I have seen her live in Arnhem 2004 for the Re-Invention Tour and in Dusseldorf and Hannover 2006 for her Confessions Tour. All 3 concerts were amazing, Re-Invention was a lot of fun with many highlights and Confessions Tour, to me, is the best thing she has ever done as for stage shows. I remember seeing the Confessions shows and how thrilled I was by everything, the beautiful videos, the great song arrangements, the meaningful and profound ideas... I loved it and I still get a faster heartbeat thinking about it :-) To me, she really was on top of her game with that tour. Music Inferno was so much fun and infectious, You Thrill Me was so beautiful and intimate, Like A Virgin was sheer joy, the same is true for Lucky Star and Hung Up, Live To Tell was very moving and Future Lovers was just ecstatic... you get the picture, I loved Confessions. I didn't expect Madonna to do something just as good, but hey, she has set a standard. And Sticky & Sweet just can't live up to it. Not even close. When I read that she signed a contract for 4 tours in 10 years, I knew, there was trouble ahead. How is anyone supposed to be creative enough to live up to that? And sadly, that proved true with the Sticky & Sweet Tour. The whole show felt like it was put together in a rush, and you could tell it in so many places. Where we used to get lovely videos with actors (or M herself) in it, now we got many computed animated videos that were not very original. As for the songs.... I WANT STUART PRICE BACK!! That man was a genius, he helped Madonna reinvent her songs so that I loved them even more. That new guy, in my opinion, just fucked the songs up. Into The Groove, Music were boring, you heard nothing but the same lame baseline, I was shocked!! Throughout the whole show, with the sole exception of the beautiful You Must Love Me, there was a baseline that was a) way too loud and b) way too similar. How could she let that happen? Then, as if that wasn't bad enough, she picked up that fucking guitar for like every 3rd song. Sorry, Madonna, but it's not cool, it only ruins the classics!! Borderline and Hung Up were horrible, I pray to God she is over that silly guitar thing or I won't return to her future shows. Doesn't anyone else feel the same way!?!? Where the Confessions Tour was light and flowed, Sticky & Sweet was noisy and had very little flow, especially the last part was very anti-climatic. Okay, I will admit that I was very up-close (8th row from the satellite stage, without a hot ticket, yay!), maybe the music sounded better further in the back. But overall, musically the show was really disappointing. Then, there weren't too many intimate or profound moments, things felt too superficial for my taste. It was as if Madonna had to put a tour together quickly and let other people make too many decisions, the show didn't feel personal or like "Madonna". Throughout, my huge enthusiasm became less and less and I didn't know what was happening to me. But let's take a look at the bright side: the Die Another Day video was fantastic, She's Not Me was very original, La Isla Bonita was a lot of fun and You Must Love Me, live for the 1st time, gave me goosebumps. So, of course it wasn't all bad, but Madonna can do so much better and she knows it! Let's hope that she'll take more time for her next tour, that she'll put more thought and love into it and that she leaves the mainstream a little more behind. Please no more Timbaland and hiphop! Sorry if this review is not too structured, but I've had a long day and I needed to get this off my chest. :-) Still love her, though! :-) ~ Axel