Madonna in full meltdown a moment to be cherished | Rebecca Nicholson

The Palladium paid a ripe price for bringing down the curtain on her show

Madonna's Madame X era is the gift that keeps on giving. On Wednesday night, her residency at the London Palladium descended into the kind of chaos that turned it into one of those gigs you can only have dreamed of being at, like Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival or the Sex Pistols at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall.

Madonna ran over the theatre's curfew by a few minutes, so the venue turned on the lights and closed the curtain. She then uploaded a video of it to Instagram, with a caption that began: "Artists are here to disturb the peace" and ended with: "Power to the people!" You can hear her protesting: "Fuck you motherfuckers! Censorship, censorship, motherfuckers censorship." If that doesn't open her next album, I'll eat my eyepatch.