Not sure how I ended up at the ACC last Wednesday to take in the Madonna concert, but I was there none the less. I probably told a lot of little fibs on how I had ended up there, stating most often that I had been roped into it. Which was far from the truth, in the end I was trying to cover up for being the only straight guy going to see a pop icon. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

The thing I liked best about the concert, other than the fairly elaborate stage show consisting of various performers from trapeze artists to a skateboarder on a half pipe silhouetted in front of the largest LCD panel I have ever seen it mine life, it was the remixing of all her songs. It was great to hear updated versions of old classics, some I liked some I didn't. I wasn't impressed with a slower version of 'like a prayer', but intrigued by a rendition of 'get into the groove' with a sampling of the verve's 'bittersweet symphony' that totally threw me off guard as it opened with bag pipes and irish drummers.