Alert – Beyonce battles the rain as she kicks off UK leg of Cowboy Carter tour at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and is joined on stage by her lookalike daughters Blue Ivy, 13, and Rumi, 7

Beyonce battled the rain as she kicked off the UK leg of her Cowboy Carter tour at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Thursday.

Queen Bey, 43, was joined by her lookalike daughters Blue Ivy, 13, and Rumi, 7, on stage for their iconic moment.

As Beyonce sang Protector Rumi was seen waving to fans as she sang along before the pop star cupped her daughter’s face. 

Rumi’s twin brother Sir, whom Jay-Z and Beyoncé have kept out of the public eye, did not feature in the performance. 

Beyonce’s eldest daughter Blue Ivy showed she is set to follow in her mother’s footsteps as she strutted her stuff on stage.

The 13-year-old gave it her all as she led the dancers for the track Deja-vu.

Beyonce battled the rain as she kicked off the UK leg of her Cowboy Carter tour at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Thursday

Queen Bey, 43, was joined by her lookalike daughters Blue Ivy, 13, and Rumi, 7, on stage for their iconic moment

Fans of the global superstar began queuing outside the stadium at 4am on Wednesday. 

The 62,000 capacity venue will host all the singer’s shows on the British leg of her tour before she moves to Paris and then returns to the US.

She last performed in the UK in 2023 on the Renaissance World Tour, which saw her play five dates at the same stadium.

While ticket sales for her 2023 Renaissance world tour in the UK sold out within minutes of being released it hasn’t been quite the same this time around.

There were still 539 free seats left in the stadium which holds around 62,000 people for concerts.

Earlier today the cheapest seats available for tonight were £71 for obstructed view seats while the most expensive were £278 for seated in better areas.

The majority of the empty seats were in the restricted area with fans preferring not to splash the cash on a compromised view.

While they had access to a screen showing the stage, the show and Beyonce herself were blocked by the sound and light system.

As Beyonce sang Protector Rumi was seen waving to fans as she sang along before the popstar cupped her daughter’s face

Beyonce’s eldest daughter Blue Ivy showed she is set to follow in her mother’s footsteps as she strutted her stuff on stage

Fans of the global superstar began queuing outside the stadium at 4am on Wednesday

She last performed in the UK in 2023 on the Renaissance World Tour, which saw her play five dates at the same stadium

Earlier today the cheapest seats available for tonight were £71 for obstructed view seats while the most expensive were £278 for seated in better areas

There were still 539 free seats left in the stadium which holds around 62,000 people for concerts

Her UK stint comes after ticket sales for the US part of her tour were also sluggish.

The ticket sales may reflect less interest in her country-tinged Cowboy Carter material compared to her dance-friendly Renaissance material.

The singer–songwriter also may be struggling to get fans who saw her on her whirlwind Renaissance tour to come back just two years later, this time at even higher prices.

Those prices – $200–$300 a ticket for some of the worst seats at her upcoming Chicago shows – may be also turning off fans.

Over the past few months Beyoncé appeared to have drastically slashed prices at some of her shows in order to get fans to buy the unsold tickets.

Some fans who saw her in LA were able to nab tickets as cheap as $35 before Ticketmaster’s fees.

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Verdict: Queen Bey earns her Spurs

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The stetsons and sequins were out in force last night as Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter tour rolled into London amid a blizzard of pyrotechnics. 

Opening her six-night residency at a damp Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the Texan superstar was in her element.

Two years ago, on her Renaissance tour, she turned stadiums into giant nightclubs. Last night, she converted one into the world’s most high-tech rodeo, complete with a chrome-coated mechanical bucking bronco.

As the singer’s first UK concert since 2024’s country-leaning Cowboy Carter album, this was a case of Queen Bey, 43, giving a predominantly female crowd her soulful take on Nashville while not forgetting to keep fans dancing with her biggest pop hits, most of which were sung straight back at her.

The stetsons and sequins were out in force last night as Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter tour rolled into London amid a blizzard of pyrotechnics

Split into a series of different acts, plus an encore, the night was a masterpiece of tightly-choreographed theatrics and LED effects, with Beyonce’s supple, fiery voice and stagecraft front and centre.

The show centred on last year’s Grammy-winning album, which itself felt like the recorded version of a Western-themed stage musical.

‘We won’t let the rain stop us,’ said Beyonce, who arrived onstage in cowgirl chaps, accompanied by an energetic dance troupe. 

She sang a folky version of The Beatles’ Blackbird before turning The Star-Spangled Banner into a power ballad.

Other Cowboy Carter highlights included country-soul number Levii’s Jeans (her spelling), the fiddle-led hoedown Texas Hold ‘Em, a cover of Dolly Parton’s Jolene and slinky country-rocker Bodyguard. 

She sang power ballad 16 Carriages while suspended in mid-air at the wheel of a moving pink Cadillac.

Reflecting the scope of her ‘musical gumbo’, she also dug into 2022’s Renaissance LP, a more familiar mix of disco, funk and house, and sung the older hits Crazy In Love and Single Ladies as a roof-raising dance-pop medley.

There had been talk beforehand of sluggish ticket sales – and some seats for this 62,000-capacity gig were still available online yesterday afternoon, sparking speculation that high prices were keeping fans away. 

‘We won’t let the rain stop us,’ said Beyonce, who arrived onstage in cowgirl chaps, accompanied by an energetic dance troupe

I spotted a few empty seats, but reports of the demise of Beyonce’s pulling power seem to have been greatly exaggerated.

With the evening broken up by video interludes to allow for costume changes, momentum was sometimes lost. 

Such a tightly-scripted show also left little room for looseness, but there were still plenty of moments when she ad-libbed magnificently and let her vocals soar operatically.

The Cowboy Carter tour has gone down well in the singer’s homeland. But impressing US fans at Chicago’s Soldier Field is one thing. 

Could Beyonce cut it on a chilly Thursday night in London? On this exuberant showing in Tottenham, she’s earned her Spurs.

Beyonce’s London residency continues until June 16