The Circus Tour of Australia continued to roll on as Britney performed her 2nd show in Perth at Burswood Dome.
But it’s had its fair share of controversy over the past few days. From Thursday, even before the concert had kicked off, the media in Australia had already criticised the pop star for lip-syncing. This issue had been raised after politician Virginia Judge (Minister of Fair Trading, NSW) put forward her 2 cents worth saying that the public had been mislead, and wanted fans to know exactly what they could expect from the show.
“It is Britney’s ‘prerogative’ to lip-sync, and it is my job to make sure consumers know what they are paying for up front.”
The Australian media were quick to jump onto it, and reported that the cost of the tickets was not justified for a “glorified miming act”. Paul Dainty, Director of Dainty Entertainment Consolidation had defended Britney’s show.
I did go to the show in America with a degree of cynicism, as anyone would because of (what) we’ve read and heard, but she was absolutely fantastic
Britney performed to a record crowd at Burswood Dome on Friday night – kicking off her Australian tour. Report after the concert were anything but fantastic. Media reported that “thousands of fans” left before the concert was even finished – some fans apparently leaving after even the 3rd song. But it has become apparent that these stories have been fabricated, and the truth stretched to a great degree.
Reporters Jay Hanna and Rebekah Devlin have been convering this story for News Limited. Reports have been that thousands of fans left the concert before it was over. Burswood have denied anything along these lines in a statement issued by Britney’s publicist yesterday.
Burswood Entertainment Complex is proud to host the Britney Spears ‘Circus’ concert tour in Burswood Dome.
Last night’s concert (Friday) saw record crowds turn out for her first performance in Perth and from Burswood’s perspective the event was a huge success. Early media reports that hundreds of fans left the concert early cannot be substantiated and Burswood has received no complaints about the concert.
Britney’s manager, Adam Leber made comment yesterday via Twitter over this whole media backlash.
Its unfortunate that one journalist in Perth didn’t enjoy the show last night. Fortunately the other 18,272 fans in attendance did. – Adam
Were you at the show last night? What did you think? – Adam
Fans who attended the concert last night had nothing but good things to say about the concert, and these were all posted on Britney’s official website yesterday.
But today, Jay Hanna and Rebekah Devlin (she’s the “one journalist in Perth” that Adam Leber mentioned) have continued their tirade against Britney Spears and the concert.
ANGRY fans have demanded their money back after Britney Spears’ “boring”, “stiff” and lip-synched Perth concert on Friday night.
This is news to any of the ticket outlets, and also Burswood. Dainty Consolidated Entertainment have commented by saying that they’ve had no such requests or complaints from Friday nights concert. Opinions have flooded the news site in question – and most have been positive about the concert. Andrew of Perth wrote:
I was at the same performance and it really was amazing… it was only 150m from the Britney concert and for $49 a much better investment.
Oh dear of Perth wrote:
this article is humiliating for Australia, particularly WA. I am actually really frigging annoyed and will not bother reading news here any more. Good on you Perth Now for bagging out an amazing performer when your entire article is a bunch of crap. Your journo is a loser.
The article even goes on to say…
One security guard said he had never seen so many people walk out of a concert.
But again, Burswood have flatly denied that this is the case. Their sources, such as 22 year old Amanda Hawlet from Northam who apparently drove 2 hours to Perth to see the concert was quoted as saying:
I want my money back or I want her to sing properly. The ticket cost me $200 and she lipsynched the whole thing. It’s cost me half a week’s wage and you’ve got bills to pay, but you look forward to this concert, it’s a night out and what do you get? Nothing. It was a waste of $200 – I could have got four pairs of shoes for that.
Reporting at it’s finest. Northam is only 1 hour from Perth. A quick search of social network site Facebook hasn’t found any matches for this “22 year old” – therefore we cannot contact her to verify her thoughts of the concert, or buy her some new shoes.
gimmeBRITNEY members have even alerted us to the fact that some media outlets were approaching random concert goers, including some of our members, and asking them to say inaccurate things on camera or phrasing a question to them in a way that the answer was negative. When a response was given that wasn’t to the liking of the reporter, it has been told that they’d go to someone else and ask them.
So what is the truth. Is this reporting fabricated, and a great exaggeration of what actually happened?
We do know that some people who attended the concert were disappointed at certain elements of the show. What these exactly were is not clear. But the fans who purchased tickets knew that the concert would be lip-synched (as her Tour in both North America and Europe have been) so to say that fans didn’t know what to expect is incorrect. Fans on gimmeBRITNEY and other Britney fan sites have applauded her for 2 great shows. Maybe it was the concert setup for some people? Maybe they just hate Britney? Either way, we’ll never know.
For everyone else who has tickets to the upcoming rest of the tour, you’re in for a good show. gimmeBRITNEY was there on both Friday and Saturday and we saw 2 spectacular concerts. Britney gave her all for the performance, and we really enjoyed every minute of it. That is all you really need to know.
