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• Song played from tape Virgin Mary (with Kalakan ) ( with snippets of "Psalm 91" and "Birjina Gaztetto bat Zegoen" ) Play Video
• Girl Gone Wild ( with samples from "Material Girl" and "Give It 2 Me" ) Play Video
• Revolver Play Video
• Gang Bang Play Video
• Papa Don't Preach Play Video
• Hung Up ( with samples from "Girl Gone Wild" ) Play Video
• I Don't Give A Play Video
• Song played from tape Best Friend ( video interlude; with samples from "Heartbeat" ) Play Video
• Express Yourself ( with snippets of "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga and "She's Not Me" ) Play Video
• Give Me All Your Luvin' Play Video
• Song played from tape Radio Dial Static ( video interlude; with samples from several Madonna songs ) Play Video
• Turn Up the Radio Play Video
• Open Your Heart (with Kalakan ) ( with snippet of "Sagarra jo!" by Kalakan ) Play Video
• Masterpiece (with Kalakan ) Play Video
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• Song played from tape Justify My Love ( video interlude ) Play Video
• Vogue Play Video
• Candy Shop ( with samples from "Ashamed of Myself" by Kelley Polar and snippets of "Erotica" ) Play Video
• Human Nature Play Video
• Like a Virgin ( with snippets of "Evgeni's Waltz" by Abel Korzeniowski ) Play Video
• Song played from tape Nobody Knows Me ( video interlude ) Play Video
• I'm Addicted Play Video
• I'm a Sinner (with Kalakan ) ( with snippets of "Cyber-Raga" ) Play Video
• Like a Prayer ( with snippets of "De treville-n azken hitzak" by Kalakan ) Play Video
• Celebration ( with samples from "Girl Gone Wild" ) Play Video

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Madonna   ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ July 17, 2012 Hyde Park, London ………………………………………………………………………………………….

Not known for subtlety, Madonna rolled into London on the jetstream of controversy trailing from her previous MDNA live shows: namely her excessive firearm use, flesh-flashing in Italy and superimposing a swastika over Marine Le Pen’s face in a video montage in Paris. Anyone thinking that Madonna is past her best should parallel the current controversies with the Blonde Ambition era, where she was nearly arrested in Toronto for merely simulating masturbation.

In a beautiful and theatrical opening sequence, a huge incense lantern swings from the ceiling and red-cloaked monks ring a church bell against a backdrop of a huge crucifix adorned with the letters MDNA. As the crucifix opens, a confessional box appears on the stage and we hear the lady of the hour give her ‘Act Of Contrition’. In a breathtaking entrance and set-piece, Madonna appears to smash the glass with a rifle whilst wearing a catsuit and thigh high boots any Tarantino heroine would kill for. She takes to the floor with the now disrobed clergymen, and a banging rendition of the Benassi produced stomper ‘Girl Gone Wild’ electrifies the stage. Using the underrated ‘Revolver’ to segue into the pitch-dark, dubstep number ‘Gang Bang’, the gun-toting badass takes a swig from a bottle of bourbon in a sleazy motel room, about to embark on a murder spree involving some visceral imagery and fantastically choreographed moves.

As the iconic strings of ‘Papa Don’t Preach’ reverberate around Hyde Park, the crowd goes into hysteria, the musical chameleon writhing around the stage for her rendition of the ‘80s track. As some henchmen appear and cast her in chains, she is then carried off and we hear the riffs of ‘Hung Up’ underpinned by dramatic church bells with vocoder vocals against a stripped down, abridged version of the dancefloor anthem. Madonna then wows the crowd with an impressive, albeit assisted, walk on the slacklines with her captors, before bursting into an aggressive rendition of ‘I Don’t Give A ****’, the crowd going wild when Nicki Minaj appears on the video screen to deliver her fantastic middle-eight rap.

As our vixen disappears through the floor, the tone has formidably been set for a cathartic, ambiguous, sexually-charged, tongue-in-cheek, preachy, vibrant, emotional evening, all of which typify a Madonna concert.

The mood lightens with the fantastic ‘Express Yourself’, with a sly dig at Lady Gaga where she incorporates lyrics from ‘Born This Way’, but the joke backfires when Madonna all too seriously sings ‘She’s Not Me’. We get that Gaga was inspired by this song, but the point is beaten to a bitter death and one must not forget how Madonna has been “influenced” by other artists over the past three decades. I was left longing for the days where the Queen of Pop once supported her junglings by draping their names across her T-shirts.

Another low point of the show is a risible, bawdy performance of album filler ‘Candy Shop’. These blips, however, are rebalanced by a wondrous folky Basque version of ‘Open Your Heart’, featuring Basque trio Kalakan. ‘Vogue’ is executed beautifully with a stunning self-referencing Gaultier outfit bringing that conical bra smack bang into the noughties.

‘Like A Prayer’ is as superlative as ever, with a huge choir adding to the song’s emotional punch. The ethereal ‘I’m A Sinner’ features some outstanding choreography and the latest album’s stand-out track ‘I’m Addicted’ has Madonna belting out the lyrics with some truly inspired Japanese dance compositions.

One of the show’s two highlights is a formidable performance of ‘Celebration’ with some sensational, vibrant visuals. Madonna truly lets go and dances around like a woman 30 years her junior on a plinth, more than keeping up with her backing dancers, in a fantastic closer to the show. The show’s stopper, though, is a thoroughly genuine and passionate reinterpretation of ‘Like A Virgin’, although the dramatic and loaded impact suffers at the hands of the Westminster’s noise abatement legislation. I must admit the show would be far better suited to a more intimate, indoor venue.

People will inevitably criticise Madonna for not kow-towing to the tiresome nostalgics amongst us and not doing a Greatest Hits tour-by-numbers. Those pining for usual stompers ‘Music’, ‘Holiday’ and ‘Ray Of Light’ should leave their longing at the gates. The setlist is a 50/50 split of MDNA tracks and reworked classics with a welcome smattering of more obscure tracks like ‘Cyberraga’.

Much like the self-referential MDNA , the show has elements of past personas and the darker, edgier vixens present in some of the MDNA tracks. A very cathartic journey, MDNA is a brilliantly executed show with some overly preachy moments rebuffed by some sheer, visceral wonder and some stomping renditions. Madonna continues to show the pretenders how it’s done and has just set the bar even higher.

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Madonna brings ‘MDNA’ tour to London

Monks, machine guns and her 11-year-old son feature in the star's Hyde Park spectacular

Madonna brought her MDNA Tour to the UK last night (July 17) with a spectacular show at London’s Hyde Park.

The pop megastar brought machine guns, a marching band, monks and her son Rocco to the stage for the first UK date on her current world tour. She was watched by stars including Kylie Minogue , George Michael and Stella McCartney.

After support from Avicii and LMFAO, Madonna arrived onstage after an elaborate opening sequence involving chanting monks and a giant golden swinging urn. Arriving tooled up with a machine gun, she powered into recent single ‘Girl Gone Wild’.

The show continued in high energy fashion, with an elaborate setpiece for ‘Gang Bang’ involving a hotel room and more firearms, before performing ‘Hung Up’ in a gymnastic sequence while bound up in chains.

A costume change saw the show take on a majorette theme for ‘Give Me All Your Luvin”, which saw a floating marching band descend, hanging from wires. Before that, ‘Express Yourself’ was mixed with Lady Gaga ‘s ‘Born This Way’, in a sly dig to the latter song’s similarity to the 1989 classic.

After ‘Turn Up The Radio’, Madonna’s army of dancers was joined by her 11-year-old son Rocco Ritchie.

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She urged the crowd not to “take anybody’s shit” based on their religion or sexual preference, saying, “the next time somebody tries to stop you from doing what you believe in, from being who you are or from being what you are, just say to them, ‘Sagara Jo motherfucker!'”

A triumphant ‘Vogue’ saw the show approach its final act with a medley of ‘Erotica’ and ‘Candy Store’ and a waltz version of ‘Like A Virgin’. Then followed the infamous, politically charged video mash-up that attracted the ire of right-wing French leader Marine Le Pen. It mixed up references to Guantanamo Bay and the recent spate of gay teen suicides in the US.

After a euphoric ‘Like A Prayer’, the show closed with a raved-up version of ‘Celebration’.

Madonna played:

‘Girl Gone Wild’ ‘Revolver’ ‘Gang Bang’ ‘Papa Don’t Preach’ ‘Hung Up’ ‘I Don’t Give A’ ‘Express Yourself’ ‘Give Me All Your Luvin” ‘Turn Up The Radio’ ‘Open Your Heart’ ‘Sagara Jo’ ‘Masterpiece’ ‘Vogue’ ‘The Erotic Candy Shop’ ‘Human Nature’ ‘Like A Virgin Waltz’ ‘I’m Addicted’ ‘I’m A Sinner’ ‘Like A Prayer’ ‘Celebration’

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18 July 2012, 09:15 | Updated: 18 July 2012, 10:28

The 'Masterpiece' singer began her UK tour with a spectacular show in Hyde Park this week.

Madonna kicked off the UK leg of her 'MDNA' world tour last night in London's Hyde Park with a powerful show themed around violence, sex and religion.

The 53 year-old singer took to the stage on Tuesday evening (17th July) around half past eight to begin her highly anticipated UK show with a rousing performance of recent single 'Girl Gone Wild' , and dove straight in to a stripped back concert that saw her lead the crowd through a set mostly based around new album 'MDNA' alongside a few classics from her extensive back catalogue.

Madonna showed off her inner action hero during performances of 'Revolver' and 'Gang Bang' by mock shooting down several assailants while blood spatters were splashed across the stage big screens, before keeping the audience keen with older hits like 'Papa Don't Preach' and 'Hung Up', all of which were reworked to have more of an 'MDNA' feel.

View a picture of Madonna brandishing a prop gun on stage in Hyde Park below (Credit: Getty):

Celebrity guests at the much hyped Hyde Park show included supermodel Kate Moss, singer Kylie Minogue, George Michael and Madonna's regular collaborator William Orbit, who tweeted ahead of the concert: "Really looking forward to seeing Madonna in Hyde Park tonight!! I'll be singing along with everybody else!"

Standout moments from the extensive two-hour live set included Madonna's mash-up of her single 'Express Yourself' with Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way', which draw huge cheers from the crowd and boasted a regiment of drummers suspended above the stage, as well as an emotional piano-led performance of her 1984 hit 'Like A Virgin'.

The 'Give Me All Your Luvin' singer interacted with the crowd regularly throughout the show, making jokes about the inevitable rain downpour and taking time to introduce her son Rocco on stage who then preceded to join the star's backing dancers for the remainder of the concert.

Madonna wrapped her Hyde Park performance with a rousing gospel choir led performance of 'Like A Prayer', before ending with a remix of 'Celebration' to round off the show. 

Madonna's 'MDNA' UK tour continues with two further performances tomorrow (19th July) at Birmingham's NIA and on Saturday (21st July) at the Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh.

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So last night I managed to get some last minute tickets to see her Madgesty on her one London gig of the MDNA tour. Hyde Park was the wood-chip covered venue and Madge was charging anything from £77+ a ticket.

Thankfully I got mine for a lot less due to friends being unable to make it because had I paid full price – I’d be writing a very different, slightly harsher review.

Don’t get me wrong – Madonna is undoubtably a legend and fully deserves the crown of ‘Queen of Pop’ however I left Hyde Park last night thinking she has lost it a little bit. I last saw Madonna during her Re-Invention tour and was so excited about seeing her again.

Madonna has always been known as a risk taker, a rule breaker and someone who plays her own game but last night I felt it was all a bit ‘meh’ and at parts unnecessary. Flashing her (fantastically toned) arse to the crowd was a bit pathetic and dare I say it, desperate for a headline.

Madonna also seems to be the one with an issue with Lady GaGa. Yes it is clearly obvious that ‘Born This Way’ sounds pretty damn similar to ‘Express Yourself’ but was there any need other than pettiness to do a mash up of the two followed by ‘She’s Not Me’? Lady GaGa has a bloody long way to go before she is even close to being you Madonna, anyone with a brain knows this so there really is no need appear so, well… kinda threatened by her.

I like the MDNA album, it’s not great but I like it and was happy to stand there barely hearing any of it due to the shocking sound system in Hyde Park and the fact I could hear every single conversation around me (but more on that later). However, as much as I like MDNA – it is obvious that myself and 98% of the crowd was there for the oldies.

I fully appreciate that the tour is based on the new album but has Madonna literally lost touch with what her fans want or does she just not care anymore? Plenty of artists tour new albums AND throw in plenty of the hits that the majority of the fans have paid for so, why cant Madonna?

The show was visually amazing, she does looking bloody fantastic for 53 and she still dances better than most popstars around today but this just wasn’t a great gig. This was also down to the complete and utter lack of atmosphere. Hyde Park is an awful venue for this kind of gig (although I can’t help but wonder if it would be better if it was a greatest hits tour) and the sound system was pitiful.

So to sum up, dull atmosphere, rubbish sound system, uninspiring setlist and just a bit ‘meh’.

I think Madonna isn’t as relevant as she was and the best thing she could do is finish this tour and have a few years off before embarking on a Greatest Hits tour that quite frankly, we all want anyway.

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