Lady Gaga review less shock and awe, more motivational pop

NIA, Birmingham

Lady Gaga is more like a life coach than the pop juggernaut of old, but she still delivers solid entertainment

Heralded by pounding techno, Lady Gaga emerges from a trapdoor wearing a white wig and furry brown wings. One blue pustular jewel adorns her leotard, like a mono-breast filled with a dubious cocktail. The first song of the UK leg of her artRAVE Ball is an energetic version of Artpop, the title track of her last album. The white-and-neon colour scheme of the space-cave set suggests that the designers have been downing a fair few blue drinks themselves.

She is reassuringly strange, Gaga, with her splendid wings that recall Jim Henson, as though held over from her Muppets special, aired last year in the US. Later, for Paparazzi, she will appear as a hybrid of a dalmatian and a squid.

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