Madonna has dismissed reports that her late arrival on stage at Wembley last week could hit her pocket.
Having begun her Wembley set forty minutes late, at 9.10pm, she went past the 10.30pm curfew set by the venue. Wembley wants shows to be done by 10.30pm so the local public transport system has time to cope with the exodus of gig goers, and often makes the completion of the gig by that time a condition of contract with artists who perform there.
Promoters of a George Michael gig were fined £130,000 when he went 13 minutes over the curfew, leading to speculation Madonna's people would now face a similar fine. But her people told the London Paper last week the curfew rules were not binding, so no fine would be forthcoming. They told the paper: "Stage times are only guidelines".
The spokesman also denied there were sound problems on the night after a number of fans (and CMU's representative at the party) said they couldn't hear half the songs, and it was only because fans in front were singing along they could work out what song was being performed. But Madge's rep says there were no technical problems, adding: "I was at the gig and the sound was fine". So that's fine then.