POP shocker Lady Gaga has courted controversy in Sydney after performing in a wheelchair as part of her live show.
Dressed in a funeral black shroud, the singer wheeled herself on stage midway through the concert at Sydney's Town Hall tonight.
Made up to look frumpy and decrepit, the scene was reminiscent of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's famous entrance to the UK's Reading Festival in 1992.
Gaga's latest stunt follows her entrance to the Grammy Awards in a giant egg and her arrival in a coffin at a UK festival earlier this year.
It was just one of several costume changes the Bad Romance singer pulled off during the highly anticipated hour-long set, which was attended exclusively by competition winners and invited guests.
Initially emerging in a gold glitter catsuit style by Donatella Versace, the singer wasted no time in tearing through her biggest hits Born This Way, Just Dance, Poker Face and Telephone.
For most of the show the singer was on her feet, moving sharply with her backing dancers and connecting with the fans she calls her "little monsters".
At one point she pulled a denim jacket from the front row attached to an Australian flag and adorned with her name.
Hundreds turned out in fancy dress costumes inspired by the fashion quirks of their idol, everything from crowns of thorns and giant paws to coke can curls and face masks.
Fans from every corner of Australia had queued since midday for the only scheduled concert of Gaga's five-day visit.
They were rewarded with the live spectacular they were promised, the star's performance featuring a full band unlike the surprise club shows she threw on Monday night.
"You believed in me," Gaga told her audience early on.
"I broke here in Australia before anywhere else so let's celebrate."
The set design resembled an apocalyptic village - think the film Avatar - with a horseshoe stage joined by a bridge that Gaga "fell" from during her penultimate number The Edge Of Glory.
Before closing on the religiously dubious Judas she hinted to fans at her imminent return next year.
"You are all looking very very brand f*****g new and I promise, I promise I won't ever be away so long again," she said.
The announcement of national dates next year as part of a Lady Gaga world tour is expected to be made in the coming weeks.
She couldn't have warmed fans up in a better way.
Lady Gaga played the following songs:
Born This Way
Just Dance
Poker Face
Telephone
Alejandro
You And I
Hair
Bad Romance
Edge Of Glory
Judas
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