Britney Spears Brings A Little Bit Of Las Vegas To The Apple Music Festival 10 Stage

Last night a little sliver of Las Vegas landed at London's Roundhouse as Britney Spears' Apple Music Festival 10 show kicked off to a packed out audience. 

After a little warmup from the Sink The Pink DJs, Britney erupted onto the stage in a cloud of glitter and pyrotechnics and from the moment her patent thigh boots entered the room, she lit up the ecstatic crowd with hit after hit, reminding us all why she really is the original Queen of Pop. 

While it might've been a long and cold five years since the 'Glory' singer last performed on this side of the pond, it's definitely been worth the wait and what followed was an intimate and stripped back version of the Vegas set she and her troupe of dancers have down to utter pop perfection. 

Kicking things off as she meant to go on, Work B*tch got us all fired up, quickly followed by a fierce rendition of Womanizer - where she casually climbed up a staircase made of lithe, shirtless men - before dropping seamlessly into 'Break The Ice' and 'Piece of Me'. 

Taking us on a 90 minute journey that spanned nine albums and eight outfit changes, there was then a visit to the 'angelic' period of Britney, featuring the 'Baby One More Time' and 'Oops! I Did It Again' mashup we'd all come for, before she threw us right back to the mid-noughties with 'Me Against The Music' and 'Gimme More'.

The standout portion of the show has got to be the 'sexy' act, which saw Britney and her squad wrapping themselves around a pole during 'I'm A Slave 4 U' and pulling out all the moves in a cloud of smoke for 'Make Me'. Then, bringing up a heroic member of the crowd (hi David), who frankly seemed like he was born to have Britney lead him around the stage on a lead during 'Freakshow', she paused only occasionally to pretend to whip him.  

It didn't seem possible to get any bigger or any better after a trip to the 'Circus', but Britney pulled out all the stops for the big finale, a jungle fever-inspired, posion paradise that included crowd faves 'Toxic', 'Stronger' and, of course, '(You Drive Me) Crazy'.

Having hardly paused to catch her breath during the entire show, it was all over and as Britney took a bow with her dancers, acknowledging the crowd with a simple but impassioned, "Thank you London!," she was gone in a cloud of the gold confetti that rained through the air.  

Oops, she definitely did it again.

Britney's full Apple Music Festival set list

Act 1 - Britney B*tch

1. Work B*tch

2. Womanizer

3. Break The Ice

4. Piece of Me

Act 2 - Angelic

5. Baby One More Time

6. Oops! I Did It Again

Act 3 - Throwback

7. Me Against The Music

8. Gimme More

Act 4 - Rave

9. Boys

10. Do You Wanna Come Over?

Act 5 - Sexy

11. I'm A Slave 4 U

12. Make Me

13. Freakshow

14. Do Somethin'

Act 6 - Circus

15. Circus

16. If U Seek Amy

17. Breathe on Me

18. Touch of My Hand

Act 7 - Jungle

19. Toxic

20. Stronger

21. (You Drive Me) Crazy

22. Till The World Ends