It's showtime!

According to a backstage journalist at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Madonna will start her very first Sticky & Sweet show at 8.15 GMT, which is in a couple of minutes! During the show, I will not start a new topic for every new tidbit or picture, but instead update this particular post every time something new comes in, so please hit your refresh button every once in a while. Enjoy your tour report evening, as I'm sure I will!

Update 1:
The show hasn't started yet, but television crews and press have just been let into the stadium, indicating the kick-off is near! Guy Ritchie is also in, but so far no other celebrities. Rumour has it they will be attending the show at London's Wembley Stadium on September 11th.

Update 2:
It's showtime! Madonna's first Sticky & Sweet show has just begun!
There was a little confusion earlier. My sources told me the show had begun, except it didn't. This time, the show has REALLY started!

Update 3:
After the dancers entered the stage, with a loud TICK TOCK TICK TOCK TICK TOCK in the background, Madonna has just entered the stage on a throne! After that, she stepped on the runway. According to a journalist in the stadium, she is definitely singing live!
There are about 15 dancers behind her!


Update 4:
There is a pimp car on stage, now riding down the runway. Madonna was just gyrating on a dancer, dressed in all white. Pharrel was on the videoscreens.

Update 5:
Madonna is singing Human Nature. She is on the guitar. Britney is on the screen in an elevator in a hooded top pressing the buttons. It's representing how she is trapped by the showbiz bubble. Britney is mouthing the words of the song. She keeps running around the lift. Madonna isn't dancing - just standing still at the end of the catwalk and singing the song whilst playing the guitar. Britney's film is being projected onto a circular screen above Madonna - the whole stadium can see it.
The version of Human Nature sounds quite similar to the original with a Ska edge to it. Britney is running around the elevator like a mad woman, lying on the floor in tears and tearing of her clothes. Britney just said "It's Britney Bitch". Human Nature has just finished. The crowd have gone wild. Now they are tick tocking. Vogue is next.

Update 6:
She is singing vogue now at the end of the catwalk, standing on a podium surrounded by four dancers who are wearing very little. One the screen are close ups of madonna wearing frilly lingerie. She's vogueing. The base line of 4 minutes is being played over the top of Vogue. She's doing Vogue live for the first time ever (she's performed it many times before, but never live)
Sorry for not having pictures yet, they just aren't available yet.
I got a call from the satdium a couple of minutes ago so I've listened to the show live through a phone, it was fucking awesome!

Update 7:
Die Another Day Remix is on the screens - she's no singing it in person. There's a boxer on stage and he's making his way to a boxing ring at the end of the cat walk. He's now fighting with another boxer. It's mock fighting. On the screen Madonna is dancing in a boxing ring - very similar to the dancing in the Die Another DAy video.




Update 8:
I'm sorry, due to my computer breaking down I've missed some updates, I'll pick up live, so there are a couple of songs missing.
She's Not Me next. There's a montage of all her classic videos going on in the background. She's donned a pair of white plastic sunglasses. It's just her on stage, by herself, with the mic, dancing across the stage. She's just walked to the end of the catwalk where there are four Madonna look-alikes, wearing outfits from her Material girl video, Frozen video, Erotica video and Like a Virgin video. they are impersonating her as if they were statues.

Update 9:
This is what you've been missing during my computer breakdown:
The remix has finished with Madonna collapsing on the screen. On the sage the boxing ring has disappeared and a DJ has appeared. Madonna has come onto the stage with a skipping rope! She is skipping across the stage.

A pole has appeared from the stage and she is pole dancing by the side of the DJ. The remix is very playful, and there are a lot of cartoon images on the screen. The dancers are dressed in very bright, primary colours. Madonna is swinging around on the pole. Now she has moved onto the stage and she's dancing by each of the individual dancers.

She is singing Into The Groove
Madonna says to the crowd: "Let me hear you make some noise!"

She is now jumping over a massive skipping rope in what looks like a mock game of hop scotch

She is now walking down the catwalk talking to the audience. She is getting one of her dancers to give a the mic to the audience to sing Get into the groove whilst she dances on the skipping rope really quickly.

She is now lying down on the stage and has crawled across it before she jumped up to sing Heartbeat. She's now standing on a conveyor belt on the catwalk she is moving her towards the end. She keeps getting picked up by her dancers before she carries on slidding to the end. The crowd are jumping up and down. Five male dancers are taking in turn to break-dance around her.

Her dancing is quite sexual, but she's having fun, the crowd are, and she's having a lot of banter with the dancers.

She's picked up a guitar in preparation for Borderline. She's standing by a mic and singing the song for the first time in about 20 years. (It's just her, a guitar and the mic, and the song. Very rock and roll.
She's at the top of the catwalk - and it's just her and the guitar. She's got red hot pants on. Her arms look very musclely - she's been on the yoga mat. The sound quality is excellent, you can hear every word of what she's saying. The crowd at the front of the stage are rocking out.

Update 10:
Back to realtime!
At the back of the stage a subway train just rolled on to the stage and the doors opened. Madonna and her entourage of dancers emerged and ran onto the stage. She's performing Music now. About 15 dancers are around her. It's the original remix. The image on the back of the screen is of the subway system in New York. It's very colourful and psychodellic. THe crowd are going wild for it.
It's amazing - it's like a street dance out of the 80s. Madonna and her entourage are all dancing in sync. Crazy dancing. She's got so much energy, and she's just got the crowd eating out of her hands. She's gone back into the subway train and the doors have closed.

Rain remix sees a man dressed in ancient Japanese dress dancing on the stage doing yoga moves and methodical dancing.

Update 11:
Pictures are coming in as we speak!


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