Mayhem Ball - Antwerp (11th Nov)

[Schwerk 7,438]

My goodness Afas Dome Antwerp, get your **** together!

That was the most unorganized, dangerous non sense crowd management I've ever seen.

 

[HIMe 2,232]

The golden circle queueing was... An experience 

 

Even tho I've seen the show 200 times already, it was still magical live. 

[Auralegends 8,741]

13 hours ago, Dutch said:

Oke, her energy and vocals seem much weaker tonight, especially with Bad Romance now, or is it just me?

I think she was vocally better than in Amsterdam? She didn't sing LoveDrug in a lower key for example

[Auralegends 8,741]

11 hours ago, Sepsami said:

Y'all it's over  

Also **** AFAS Dome for this mess of a queue 

When I arrived with the metro, they guided us to the other exit so that we had to cross the street

[Teus 592]

The organisation was terrible. We had seated places, so we weren’t affected as much but still. Getting a metro was nearly impossible from the centre, the trains were super short (like two or three cars) and already completely full. Almost impossible to get on one of them, so we walked 35 minutes instead (which was okay).

Then once we arrived at the venue, complete chaos: massive crowd from the door up to the street, pretty unclear signage where to enter (different doors for GA and seated), inside the merch stands were right at the entrances, no one could move. Exiting was the same, going down the same stairs with thousands of people… then finally arriving at the parking, we were standing copletely still for 45 minutes, not one single car could leave. After that it started to move slowly and we could leave in about 15 minutes. 
 

And from what I’ve heard en read, the organisation for the GA and GC (+GC EE) was even WORSE.

absolutely embarrassing for the venue!!

That said: Gaga was amazing, she sounded super in my opinion and I didn’t notice less energy than in Amsterdam. Totally loved the show, which is her best or close to her best at least to date! 
 

PS: I just got a survey email from the venue, I strongly encourage everyone to fill it out so hopefully it will be better in the future

Edited November 12, 2025 by Teus

[NewUsername 11,740]

14 hours ago, Dutch said:

Oke, her energy and vocals seem much weaker tonight, especially with Bad Romance now, or is it just me?

 

14 hours ago, Ivy said:

I didn't notice lower energy, but 2 people fainted maybe it's very hot and it affected her stamina?

She sounded great in general, but skipped some parts/sang softer during BR indeed. I also think (been thinking about maybe making a topic about it, since seeing the tour 2 weeks ago and yesterday) that she "goes all out" less this tour, seeing it's a long one and that she has also found a healthy way to perform.

14 hours ago, darkgaga said:

 

The Sportpaleis, or AFAS DOME nowadays doesnt have airconditioning. I was there in October for K3, and everyone was wet of the sweat after the show. Even before the show started ot was hot already

I felt some airconditioning during some moments, or at least something that was cool air flow, but during BR it was indeed very hot.

[NewUsername 11,740]

13 hours ago, Sepsami said:

Y'all it's over  

Also **** AFAS Dome for this mess of a queue 

 

17 hours ago, Ophelia said:

i have SO many complaints tbh after trying to queue here since the day before.

i’ll try to post them later since im at the show now, but the receipt is LONG and embarrassing to AFAS

 

12 hours ago, Schwerk said:

My goodness Afas Dome Antwerp, get your **** together!

That was the most unorganized, dangerous non sense crowd management I've ever seen.

 

 

11 hours ago, HIMe said:

The golden circle queueing was... An experience 

 

Even tho I've seen the show 200 times already, it was still magical live. 

 

1 hour ago, Teus said:

The organisation was terrible. We had seated places, so we weren’t affected as much but still. Getting a metro was nearly impossible from the centre, the trains were super short (like two or three cars) and already completely full. Almost impossible to get on one of them, so we walked 35 minutes instead (which was okay).

Then once we arrived at the venue, complete chaos: massive crowd from the door up to the street, pretty unclear signage where to enter (different doors for GA and seated), inside the merch stands were right at the entrances, no one could move. Exiting was the same, going down the same stairs with thousands of people… then finally arriving at the parking, we were standing copletely still for 45 minutes, not one single car could leave. After that it started to move slowly and we could leave in about 15 minutes. 
 

And from what I’ve heard en read, the organisation for the GA and GC (+GC EE) was even WORSE.

absolutely embarrassing for the venue!!

That said: Gaga was amazing, she sounded super in my opinion and I didn’t notice less energy than in Amsterdam. Totally loved the show, which is her best or close to her best at least to date! 
 

PS: I just got a survey email from the venue, I strongly encourage everyone to fill it out so hopefully it will be better in the future

I usually give Sportpaleis/Afas Dome the benefit of the doubt or are usually in some magical way not too affected by their mishaps, but yesterday was indeed just bad organization. You would think they would have their **** together after all these years.

- the whole GC EE Left/right fiasco (*)
- letting us in the lobby a whole hour later than first announced
- no bathrooms
- staff still throwing out huge cardboard boxes and cleaning the lobby until the very end before entering
- barely any announcements, and if there were, there were yelled at two places in the queue and that's it (do they know something like a megaphone exists?)
- no way a larger person could have passed through under the diagonal pillars where they had us GC EE enter the building
- hardly any open exit doors once the show was over
- the thing that maybe annoys me the most: security check was a laugh, it was done way before we were let in, while we were still queueing in an open zone, where you could easily walk in and out. How the hell is this a genuine check on what you have on you before entering?



(*) I've been thinking about an explanation that would still be shitty, but less bad: were there actually any GC EE RIGHT at all? The other people around me in the ONE queue all had GC EE LEFT. Maybe when tickets went on sale, all GC Early Entries were automatically LEFT?
If this was the case (case 1), then GC RIGHT didn't really get Early Entry without having paid for it.
In this case, did they also just sell half of the amount of EE's? Probably not, meaning your EE was immediately less worth it, if 75% of the GC is immediately filled by EE.

If this was not the case (case 2), then both EE left and EE right got duped: EE right originally knew they were not going to get the VIY side, but still had the possibility/wish to have barricade, but where thrown in with Left ones who were also gunning for (their) barricade. And some Left ones hoping to get barricade might have lost their (barricade) spot to Right ones. 
And in this same case GC non-EE basically got Early Entry for FREE and a free shot at barricade 

Even if it was case 1, then we should have been informed by this in March, or at least earlier.

Edited November 12, 2025 by NewUsername

[darkgaga 7,049]

2 hours ago, Auralegends said:

I think she was vocally better than in Amsterdam? She didn't sing LoveDrug in a lower key for example

She didnt sing Lovedrug in a different key right? Never during the whole tour I mean. I can usually hear it immediately if something is not the original key due to working in a karaoke bar for years 

[Auralegends 8,741]

4 hours ago, darkgaga said:

She didnt sing Lovedrug in a different key right? Never during the whole tour I mean. I can usually hear it immediately if something is not the original key due to working in a karaoke bar for years 

I saw a video from someone in Amsterdam and she sang along with the track but you could hear that in the second chorus she was not doing the high " shouts" , but rather take the underlying lower vocal

[darkgaga 7,049]

9 minutes ago, Auralegends said:

I saw a video from someone in Amsterdam and she sang along with the track but you could hear that in the second chorus she was not doing the high " shouts" , but rather take the underlying lower vocal

Just checked some vids from other dates and she apparently sings Lovedrug in a different way every time. Sometimes the lead, sometimes the harmonies. It is just that when I watched the livestream yesterday it was noticable during BR and HBDUWM that she had way less energy and less impressive vocal lines