Lady Gaga's
Monster Ball tour rocks the Brisbane Entertainment Centre
The Lady Gaga machine must have been drawing power from the entire northern suburbs as her epic castle set opened to reveal the stage for a night of unbridled hedonism.
Gaga's music had the crowd leaping and the lady herself conducted them like her own private orchestra.
"paws up" she would yell and her fans would dutifully do so.
"Stand up over there" she would command and an entire section of the arena was on their feet.
The Monster Ball tour is aptly named as it does feel like you may have been invited to a ball inside Gaga's mind.
The set itself makes the scenery in Game of Thrones look cheap and the many and varied costume changes were spectacular.
The line up of songs was carefully thought out to not only provide a journey through her two smash hit albums but through the wacky mind that dreamed up this bizarre and fabulous spectacle.
Her huge hits like Bad Romance, Just Dance and Telephone drew the biggest response but it was her anthemic Born This Way that really touched the audience.
The gay anthem was particularly poignant for the huge contingent of same-sex attracted fans still reeling from Campbell Newman's civil union announcement yesterday sang back the lyrics like they meant it.
Big shows like Lady Gaga aren't rare in Brisbane but shows as big, spectacular, bizarre, theatrical and fabulous are.
If you can get a ticket, make sure you do.
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