Get this party started on a... Thursday night

We've seen P!nk before, and we've written about P!nk before. We're not going to repeat our views on how it should be a criminal offence that the music world as a whole still fails to recognise her supremacy as one of the finest performers and artists working today. It's been said before and will continue to be said until something changes and she can achieve the success she has reached in Europe and Australia in her home country - to her credit Funhouse did do extraordinarily well as a campaign so change may be a-comin'.

The Funhouse Summer Carnival Tour is a sequel of sorts to the mammoth year long Funhouse Tour of last year and features an even more fun, spontaneous and whimsical P!nk on stage with minimal dancers and costume changes. A stripped down show of sorts - in some areas. In other areas she just continues to out-do herself. Like we tweeted unashamedly, we've seen some spectacular concerts in the years we've been attending them. Lady GaGa, Beyoncé, the Spice Girls - even Madonna couldn't top P!nk for visual spectacular. As far as we're aware, there isn't another pop star who chooses to enter a concert by being lifted by crane inside a toy box, which is then shot at by a cannon ball leading to Ms. Moore launching herself upon the crowd from the sky. At one point, she jumped into a giant inflatable ball previously seen on Boots experience days a la "Roll down a massive hill inside lol" and scampered above the heads of the entire audience doing her finest hamster-in-hamster-ball impression. Just bizarre. The intimacy and connection the audience had with the artist was second to none; at one point she jumped down to sign a boy's arm which he declared he would get tattooed. Another attendee was rewarded for their journey all the way from Perth (her Australian fans have to be the most ardent) with a personal sixty second audience.

And the finale - we doubt we will see anything like it ever again, unless she repeats it on her next tour. It was some Cirque du Soleil shit. Helped by a series of columns dotted around the audience, P!nk literally flew above the heads of the audience singing her heart out and brushing against the lesbians baying for some P!nk juice. No words will justify the visual entertainment - the final image the audience were provided with was a suspended P!nk holding the audience in the palm of her hand, backed by fountains of fire. The setlist was practically flawless - all the hits were represented, bar a few. Very heavy on I'm Not Dead and Funhouse, we wouldn't have minded seeing some more Misundaztood classics or even a little "Most Girls" but we can't really complain.

There is no way we can possibly stress enough that if you have any doubts of P!nk's talents as a performer, take the plunge and a chance on her, see the show and if you do not have your misguided mind blown, we will send you our life savings (about £42 as of June 25th, 2010) in a mail order.

The Funhouse Summer Carnival Tour at Ricoh Arena, Coventry on June 24th, 2010
P!nk played;

* "Get the Party Started"
* "Funhouse"
* "Who Knew"
* "Ave Mary A"
* "Just Like a Pill"
* "Bad Influence"
* "Please Don't Leave Me"
* "Sober"
* "I'm Not Dead"
* "Unwind"
* "I Don't Believe You"
* "Dear Mr. President"
* "Mean"
* "My Generation/Basket Case/Roxanne"
* "What's Up"
* "Try Too Hard"
* "U & Ur Hand"
* "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
* "So What"