SO Can't Wait for this now, Glad I'm going when she seems to be getting back on form and actually doing some stuff live! Hope UK get a decent support act though..

Thankfully we won't get Nicole Scherzinger as she's doing US X Factor.

Billboard.com:

 

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Britney Spears Sparkles at Femme Fatale Tour's Los Angeles Stop

 

Britney Spears brought her Femme Fatale tour to Los Angeles' Staples Center last night (June 20), where the packed crowd heard a plethora of hits from the singer's decade-plus career. Among the tunes included in the evening were all five of her Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hits: "...Baby One More Time," "Womanizer," "3," "Hold It Against Me" and her Rihanna remix duet "S&M."

 

Spears opened the evening with her Hot 100 No. 1, "Hold It Against Me," and then surprisingly segued into the new "Femme Fatale" U.S. bonus track "Up n' Down."

 

All told, Spears blazed through a 22-song set (four of those were blended into two separate medleys) that was contained within distinct Femme Fatale-inspired acts. A highlight was the bright and colorful segment that kicked off with the new "Femme" album track "Big Fat Bass." Spears seemed especially engaged with the audience and her dancers, smiling and playful whilst prancing about the stage. Her giddiness was amplified for "How I Roll," when she was rolled out into the center of the audience on a tricked-out, Mini Cooper-like car.

 

Throughout the evening, the diva was aided by an armada of impossibly athletic and acrobatic dancers. During "He About to Lose Me," Spears was surrounded by four especially daring male dancers, who did their best death-defying Olympian gymnast poses from atop cage-like contraptions high in the air. Their handstands and Cirque du Soleil-esque contortions drew gasps from the impressed crowd.

 

Fans went nuts after Spears recreated much of her original choreography -- including her memorable slide to the floor and the arms-in-the-air flings -- for a sensual "I'm a Slave 4 U," which was followed by a cover of Madonna's classic 1983 single "Burning Up." The crowd also reacted positively to "Boys," but for possibly a different reason: if you stitched together the fabric that Spears and her dancers were wearing for the slinky number, it might have made a scarf.

 

"Boys" was followed by the ballad "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know," which may have been the one song of the night that Spears sang completely live. (Though it was hard to tell whether she was singing along to pre-taped "live" vocals.) Most of the show, as expected, seemed to be lip-synced. Occasionally, especially in the early portion of the night, what sounded like live ad-libs from Spears could be heard.

 

Some aspects of the show were reminiscent of previous tours by Spears' fellow mega-divas: Madonna and Kylie Minogue. Spears' Japanese anime-esque rendition of "Toxic," complete with battling dancers, brought to mind Madonna's "Sky Fits Heaven" performance from 2001's Drowned World Tour. Additionally, Spears' "(Drop Dead) Beautiful" came with pulse-racing projection imagery of beefcake models that echoed Minogue's "Red Blooded Woman" from her 2005 Showgirl trek.

 

In the final stretch of the show, the simple staging of her latest single, "I Wanna Go," brought the house down. From the floor to the rafters, the audience jumped up and down along with Spears onstage. Next up was the main-set closer "Womanizer," which seemed a bit flat after the crowd-wowing "I Wanna Go."

 

Spears' most recent Hot 100 top 10 single, the stomping "Till the World Ends," closed out the night. Nicki Minaj rose from the stage midway through the number to supply her "Femme Fatale Remix" rap before Spears herself ascended to the top of an elaborate multi-story set piece. The song came to a roaring end with an angel-winged Spears flying over the audience, while a brilliant curtain of sparking pyro rained down on the stage behind her.

 

The Femme Fatale Tour, with Nicki Minaj, Jessie and the Toy Boys and Nervo, next hits Glendale, Ariz. on June 22 and then Anaheim, Calif. on June 24.

 

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The LA Times:

 

Britney Spears at Staples Center

June 21, 2011 | 1:51 pm

 

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In the video interludes between songs on Britney Spears’ Femme Fatale tour, which landed at Staples Center on Monday night, she’s under surveillance by a creepy Bond-villain type with a curious habit. He’s constantly sucking on bright red lollipops.

 

The candy quirk was a weird and funny flashback to a more innocent time in Spears’ career, back when she wore pigtails and cardigans and dominated the teen-pop spectrum of the late ‘90s and early 2000s.

 

There was something Freudian to it as well: Pop culture had made a safari sport of Britney-hunting, and spent most of 2007 watching a beloved young female pop star’s life and family (and, as some speculated, her health) unravel in spectacularly public fashion.

 

In another twist to the video, she eventually slinks in, binds and gags the villain in a way that he might not have been wholly displeased with.

 

Monday night’s show, the third of the tour, suggested that Britney Is neither an avenging angel nor undergoing a personal redemption. It implied that she’s too slippery a character to ever really get to know, always one step ahead of dark forces pursuing her essential, ephemeral sweetness. And, strangely, it’s making for some of the best music of her career.

 

Her most recent album, “Femme Fatale,” has been widely regarded as one of the strongest of her career, and for good reason. The record’s ambitious producers took advantage of her mega-stardom to send seriously weird sonics up the charts. The album’s ostensible star is treated less as a singer than as source material for vocal-manipulation tricks, and as a way to pH-balance the record’s hard techno with a kittenish coo.

 

On her mid-breakdown 2007 album “Blackout,” this phoned-in quality felt more intriguingly accidental. With “Femme Fatale,” though, she may have invented a new kind of postmodern pop star –- the charismatic absentee.

 

But how do you make a live show out of that? Spears has access to all the choreography and costume changes and building-sized sets that a decade of going platinum can buy you. But how can she stay compelling in person when her best trick of late is to practically disappear?

 

Well over a decade into her career, Spears has a deep catalog of durable hits that hold up for their songwriting and not just Clinton-era nostalgia. But fittingly, the Femme Fatale tour gets its drama by largely erasing –- or at least tweaking -- the past.

 

The show drew heavily from her progressive newer material, singles like the dubstep-driven “Hold It Against Me” and the sonic-frequency-as-phallic-metaphor “Big Fat Bass” found her flitting over and under the stage, re-emerging in different corners surrounded by dancers that she alternately handcuffed in cages and then beckoned to join her in a pink convertible.

 

Her takes on “I’m a Slave 4 U” and her Rihanna collaboration “S&M” were PG-13 explorations of seedier sex-and-power terrain (the bondage community must be a little bummed that leather face masks are now fair game for teen-pop imagery).

 

But Spears always made sure to put herself in the “S” half of that equation.

 

Spears manipulates pop’s virgin-whore complex better than just about anyone, and her seamless sweep from lasciviously grinding on an awestruck dude from the audience to the earnest balladry of “Don’t Let Me Be the Last to Know” (accompanied by a very adept dancer on an aerial swing) felt true to the sweep of her career –- she learned that she can control the narrative by vanishing into a club’s heat or into literal thin air.

 

The set’s only weak spots were sonic revisions of catalog staples –- the Bollywood spy-flick vamp of “Toxic” remains utterly groundbreaking and didn’t need an Ibiza-inspired revision. But when her encore closed with the excellent, Ke$ha co-penned house anthem “Till the World Ends,” Spears slipped away during the crowd’s ecstatic chants in a hail of confetti. The mood was powerfully sweet, and yet once again she’d vanished.

 

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Nice pic :D I can't wait for her to announce new dates. I'm still keeping fingers crossed for a South American leg of the tour, hopefully she comes to Argentina this time and plays the River Plate Stadium.

She's added a date in Newcastle and Sheffield. Newcastle is close to me aswel. Oh well, Manchester is a better night out!

Well that's just RUDE.

Woo, 5th November, Sheffield :D Only problem would be affording £55, and finding someone who can also afford the money to come with me.

Is there any confirmation or hints as too who will support in the UK?

Got tickets for Friday 28th October @ the O2!! So excited :)

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Aww thanks love -Brit RT @Blake93: OMG!! BEST CONCERT I'VE

EVER BEEN TOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! @britneyspears

@NICKIMINAJ

LOVe YOU GIRLS SO MUCH!!!!

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I saw you dancing! -Britney RT @Carlosdays: I LOVED TODAY'S

CONCERT! it was so much fun, i was dancing and singing all night long

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Thanks girl -Brit RT @littlemisschai: Why did it have to end? That

was THE BEST night of my life ever!!!! @britneyspears you killed

it!!!!!

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So sweet xox -Britney RT @sarahshepp: If at all possible I love

@britneyspears more than ever. Best. Concert. Ever.

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Vancouver you guys ROCK -Britney RT @cmarieso: holy F! Crazy

show!!! RT if u love ur #Vancouver fans!

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Saw the tour last night in Chicago! AH-MAZ-ING... even standing in the last row of a 300 section. :lol: What an amazing time, I definitely thought I was watching the old Britney last night. Her body looked HOT! I don't know what the f*** people are talking about when they say she looks fat. Pictures don't do her justice. And her dancing was spot on. Looked great. So many highlights and I almost died while watching the Slave 4 U performance! Soooo many highlights! She had the crowd going crazy all night!

Has she stopped performing 'He About To Lose Me'? :/

^ Looks like it. Really annoyed about that :/

Yes it was a shock it was there in the first place but it's my favourite song on the album! :(

My favourite too, absolutely devastated! Really hoping she adds it back on in time for the UK!

Apparently there is problems with the bar lift that comes down to the stage which the guys dance on. Someone said her tour assistant was saying that anyways.

 

Sure has been a while though since it was last performed! I hope she adds it again. I'm sad it wasn't performed in Chicago...

According to Fe, one of the set props is broken for "He About To Lose Me".

Tickets arrived this morning :D

Shame they're only bog standard O2 tickets and not 'collectible' like Circus tickets were specially printed.

Apparently now HATLM has been officially axed from the tour. People are saying that it was just too expensive to be traveling around with the big prop for that specific number.