It was not the triumphant return Britney Spears has hoped for.

Disgruntled fans walked out of last night’s concert in Perth — the first of her latest Australian tour — upset by her lip synching.

”It was just really bad,’’ Kathy Wright, 32, said. “She has not spoken, there is no interaction. I thought she was going to say things like what a great place Perth is … you know, like, lie to us and shit.

“I heard she was a great orator and an inspiration, like that guy who lost all that weight eating Subway”

Friend Josh Blee, who played with Barbie dolls as a child, said: “We are really big Britney fans but it was crap.”

“I thought after the music awards she would make up for it with a wicked concert, but she has let us down,” Blee added, before getting into his 1995 Hyandai Excel and complaining that it didn’t drive like a Porshe Carrera.

Maria Carmody also left with a group of friends. They were disappointed that the giant screens did not show any vision of Spears performing.

The screens only displayed circus-related images, but nothing of the performer herself which infuriated large groups of fans who didn’t think to look at the actual stage where Spears was performing.

[Carmody] was also put off by the bad behaviour of fans in the general admission area.

She claimed she was elbowed and pushed by overzealous fans.

“I paid good money to come to a concert to see Britney on a TV, not to be surrounded by thousands of other fans,” she said.

Spears performed to over 17,000 fans last night at Perth’s Burswood Dome. Only the three people quoted in this story complained, however that was enough to prompt this story and the headline.

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