Gig: Beyoncé @ Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London

Long live Queen Bey

Jun 22, 2025

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A view from my seat: The sun begins to set over the open air stadium with thousands of fans gathering on the pitch. The stage awaits Beyonce and a large altered American flag adorns the 50foot screen. Walkways spider out from the stage into the crowd standing on the pitch. A golden hue hits the stands.

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
782 High Rd, London N17 0BX, United Kingdom
tottenhamhotspurstadium.com

I write this post on jailbreak from the National Rehabilitation Hospital, where I’ll be spending a few weeks, so the fact that I managed to see both Beyoncé in London and Nine Inch Nails in Dublin the weekend before I was due to be admitted is a major personal coup. Both wildly different gigs, but both spectacular in their own way; Beyoncé delivered the quality I expected, Nine Inch Nails went above and far, far beyond anything I could ever have anticipated.

But this review ain't Texas (woo), it ain't no hold 'em (hey) and it ain’t about NIN. It’s Queen Bey for days, weeks, months, years, and as she mentioned a couple of times during one of the six sold out Cowboy Carter Tour shows in London, she has grown up with us just as much as we have grown up with her. She has been in my life for 26 years, ever since I bought a copy of Destiny’s Child’s 1999 album The Writing’s On the Wall when I was 11 years of age.

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