E da...budite spremni i za vanredne situacije. Ako to radi u Londonu u Budvi ce vas tek jebati u mozak
London News: Madonna faces fine after turning up late and causing her show to over-run, leaving fans stranded at Wembley by Richard Moriarty. Friday, 12 September 2008
MADONNA fans were furious today after the Diva was 40 minutes late on stage at Wembley -causing them to miss their last train home.
The 50-year-old singer was scheduled on stage at 8.30pm last night for the London-leg of her Sticky and Sweet tour.
But she didn't start her first song until 9.10pm meaning her two-hour show ran past the 10.30pm curfew which is in place to ensure concert-goers can get back into central London and make rail connections.
And thousands more inside the venue walked out in disgust after speakers failed in areas of the stadium leaving them unable to hear the songs.
Fan Aidan McCann, 31, who paid £70 for his ticket, said: "I have been a Madonna fan for over 25 years and have gone to all her concerts but the one in London last night was an absolute disgrace.
"There was a lack of screens and you could not hear her. Her promoters over sold tickets for areas of the stadium where the view was really bad.
"I spoke to the customer services manager and he said they had more than 3,000 complaints within the first set and they only had five customer services people on.
"People moved into the aisles and then security were forcing people out of the stadium and into the concourse. Everyone was furious and shouting.
"After seeing Kylie Minogue recently, all I can say is that maybe it is time Madonna gave it up. Kylie charges half the price for a ticket, actually signs live, looks better and cares about the audience."
Online chatrooms were also flooded with complaints. One fan called Joe wrote: "Very, very, very bad sound! I am a huge Madonna fan and felt like it was a huge letdown.
So many people were leaving even halfway through the show.
Near me there were a foo boo's and people losing interest. Not to mention, that the stewards at one point were telling people to make the best of a bad situation and dancing to sit down!"
After the gig, thousands of people rushed to Wembley Central Tube station and police were called calm angry fans, many of whom were forced to get expensive taxis home.
The station was even closed at one point due to safety fears about overcrowding on the platform.
A TfL spokesperson said: ''Last night's Madonna concert at Wembley Stadium was scheduled to finish at 10.30pm when a high level of Tube services were scheduled to ferry concert-goers home.
"Whilst the event finished approximately 40 minutes later when Tube services were less frequent the Tube did continue to run until 1am and was heavily used. In addition 11 different bus routes were also still serving the Wembley complex.''
A spokesman for Madonna denied she was late on stage.
He said: "Stage times are only guidelines. I was at the gig and the sound was fine."
When a George Michael gig over-ran at Wembley by 13 minutes last year, the singer was fined £130, 000.
Madonna fails to impress
Wednesday, 10 September 2008 16:19
The Queen of Pop played the only London gig on her Sticky & Sweet tour at Wembley Stadium on Thursday night.
The critics gave the gig the thumbs up with the Evening Standard giving it four out of five stars.
And while many of you have texted or called Capital 95.8 saying how much you enjoyed the show - we've also been inundated with comments saying Madonna was far from her best and the sound quality left a lot to be desired.
Here are just a few of your comments after the show:
"The sound was absolutely shocking. The speakers must have blown. You couldn't even hear Madonna. I've never seen so many people complaining outside the concert" - Chloe, Maidenhead
"I was sat in the upper tier, and the sound quality was absolutely awful. Probably the worst gig I've ever been to" - Paul
"I left halfway through because the sound was disgusting and I couldn't see anything" - Vanda
"Madonna was shocking, the sound was terrible, we left early" - Adam
"Worst concert I have ever seen - outrageous. So rubbish that if I hadn't paid £65 for the ticket I would have walked out after the first 5 minutes" - Gizella
"Just left Madonna with hundreds of other people who could not see or hear her. Loads of people complaining and wanting refunds. Complete waste of time and money" - Paulo
"It was bad, the sound was like listening to screaming cats underwater!" - Julia
"It's true, the Madonna concert was rubbish. Sound was dreadful. We want our money back!" - Maureen, Essex
"I thought it was great atmosphere, loads noise, excitement, Mexican waves! "
"The concert was awesome...I was in the main pitch area and the sound was great, view great and Madonna was super."
We've contacted Madonna's people to get their side, but so far we've haven't heard anything back.
So what did you think? Scroll down to leave your comment below.
Ticket scam
Some of Madonna's fans didn't get to see her despite paying for tickets, because they were victims of another online scam similar to those which left hundreds of fans shut out of the V and Reading Festivals.
One fan, Mike Pendry from Epsom, got in touch with Capital 95.8 when the tickets he'd bought for his wife's birthday from madonnacandytour.com failed to show up.
"I wanted to get some special tickets and the website looked alright, I must admit I’d been looking around quite a lot though", he told us. "I ended up going for the tickets, it all looked okay to begin with, and the website took my money straight away.
"But once I’d checked back with the website I just thought that it didn't look right. I sent them e-mails asking if they were legit and they re-assured me that they were, they also said they could send me tickets up until the day before the concert but I felt I should know what was happening before then.
"So I just kept pestering them with e-mails and they eventually replied that they had bought the tickets from another website which has already been exposed as a fake, and they were planning to sell them on (to me)."
Capital 95.8 has contacted madonnacandytour.com who are based in Orlando, Florida for a statement, but so far we've received no response.
Mr Pendry says he was promised a full refund but has so far received no money back on his credit card.
Another fan got in touch with us to say that the firm she bought her tickets from had bought their tickets from another company which has gone bust.
"Two friends and I purchased three tickets for Madonna but have just been emailed telling us that the company has gone into liquidation, we are really upset".
It's thought this firm is linked to madonnacandytour.com - and both companies had bought their allocations from, or are linked to, a now defunct company called Sos Masterticket.
Live Nation who are promoting Madonna's tour say:
"We are very sorry to hear that once again members of the public have been misled by unauthorised ticketing outlets.
"We always encourage our customers to purchase their tickets from either Livenation.co.uk, Ticketmaster or any other authorised agents."
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