Hello Tribers!

Here I am once again after another Uk Madonna concert. This is my fifth re-Invention concert, and the first one at Wembley Arena. The public today was quite different from the previous uk shows as there were a lot of older people.

Some of the merchandise is more expencive than on previous Uk shows and the tour programme with the “old picture” of Madonna with her leg on the black sofa is still available mixed with the one with the “new” picture. So if collectors want to buy this new version they should check their copy of the programme carefully the moment they get it. The new tourbook is indeed printed in the Uk.

And now, here the usual report on the show’s speeches. At the beginning of “Material Girl” tonight she said “I swore I’d never do this song again and here I am about to do it” and then asked the public to sing along. Near the end of the song, after she sang the line “and I am a Material girl” she added “That was long ago”.

During “Don’t tell me” she asked again the public to sing along, while introducing “Like a prayer” she said like the previous nights that “we’re getting this party started“. That was again the “no sitting down song” and Madonna asked the audience on her right side of the arena to get up like everybody else.

At the beginning of “Mother and Father“, she commented on tonight’s “new” venue, saying: “Earl’s Court is a bit bigger than this place, but who says that size does matter”.

Talking about “Imagine” she said she wished she wrote the song because the beautiful words imply that we have the power to make things change.

The funniest part of the whole night arrived at the end of “Papa don’t preach” while wearing the “Brits do it better” t-shirt. Madonna asked the audience if Brits are actually doing it better. “They do Tea better and what about the rest?” she asked to the adoring crowd. She then said she messed all the words of the end of “Papa don’t preach” when she reprise the “Do I have to change my name” bit from “American Life”.
She said, she should have done it from the start but she didn’t want to. Then while singing it again she laughed a lot. After she said “Do I have to change my name” she told someone in the audience: “Don’t call me Esther!!!“. She then dropped down on stage, lying there for a while laughing.

Then she went on singing “Crazy for you” with the usual “Thick and thin” dedication, and at the end she throw her “Brits do it better” t-shirt to the audience. All I was able to see from the arena screens was a “Twins do it better” t-shirt moving and something tiny jumping underneath… Then I knew for sure what happened. Congratulations to our friend Clare from fellow fansite Madonnalicious for getting the shirt! You rock!

This was actually one of the shows I enjoyed the most, I’m always surprised to see the reaction of the people when they first hear the notes of Papa don’t preach or when they see Lorne, the bagpiper, entering the stage. They start shouting like taken by surprise at every show I attended.

And tonight – at the end of “Holiday” – also the female dancers took their white shirt off revealing white bras – this is first time they did so in the Uk – we had only barechested male dancers a couple of times so far.

I’ll be back tomorrow night with a report from the second Wembley show.

xxx
The Immaculate