Second London Show Ends With Rain
The second show of The Celebration Tour at The O2 Arena just ended. Madonna greeted the audience with a “thank you London, good night” right at the end of Rain seconds before the 11 PM extended curfew stroke.
The Madonna team arranged to start the show earlier tonight, with Madonna due on stage at 8.15 PM, but a technical problem with the camera at the front of the stage forced them to delay the kick off.
Reports say that to avoid paying a fine, they decided to cut the show short, cutting the final segment of the show.
Longtime fans left the arena with mixed feelings last night, when a fantastic show and a superlative performance by Madonna were wrapped up in a weird way, with the final segment being difficult to follow in the flow and not enough engaging for the casual audience. Tonight‘s end was even more abrupt than last night’s one.
Madonna first and foremost and all her fans deserve better than this.
Apart from that, the setlist was the same performed last night. FKA Twigs joined Madonna on stage during the ballroom scene instead of Lola. Madonna wore a progressive LGBTQIA+ flag as a cape at the end of Don’t Cry for Me Argentina.
- It’s a Celebration (video intro)
- Nothing Really Matters
- Everybody
- Into the (Hollywood) Groove
- Burning Up
- Open Your Heart
- Holiday (includes elements of I Want Your Love)
- In This Life (intermission)
- Live to Tell
- Like a Prayer (including elements of Girl Gone Wild, Act of Contrition, Unholy and Let’s Go Crazy)
- Blond Ambition interlude (including elements of Living for Love, Fever, Erotica and Justify My Love)
- Erotica/You Thrill Me
- Justify My Love
- Fever
- Hung Up (including elements of Fever, Hung Up on Tokischa and Gangsta)
- Bad Girl
- Ballroom interlude (includes elements of Up Down Suite, Break My Soul (Queens Remix), Walk 4 Me and Vogue)
- Vogue
- Human Nature
- Crazy for You
- The Beast Within
- Die Another Day
- Don’t Tell Me
- Mother and Father
- Little Star (a capella)
- I Will Survive
- La Isla Bonita
- Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
- I Don’t Search I Find (intermission)
- Bedtime Story
- Ray of Light
- Rain
