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CRITICS GIVE KYLIE THE THUMBS UP ON DEBUT NORTH AMERICAN TOUR!
19.10.2009

Kylie's all conquering, first ever live concert tour of North America was a huge hit with fans and critics alike. Read some of the fantastic reviews!

What the papers said – New York:

The concert (was) efficient, clobbering, expensive, generous, drenched in film and costumes and dancing - close to an alternate reality... Champion stagecraft too.. (last night’s show) was a stadiumshow intelligently compressed for 3,500 people, and that was why it worked.
NEW YORK TIMES – Wednesday 14th October 2009 - USA

Houston, we have a problem. Kylie Minogue isn't coming anywhere near Texas... It was, in a word, SUPERPOPGLITTERGOODNESS. The songs were fantastic. The crowd was crazy. The dancers were hot. The music she was playing really blew my mind.
HOUSTON CHRONICLE - Tuesday 13th October 2009 - USA

To be unique – and I mean one-of-a-kind, untouchable, line-walkingly individual – is no small feat in the continually proliferating music scene. But, Kylie Minogue is impossible to duplicate. You just can't get her outta of your heads... Minogue is a pop sensation
MARTINIBOYS.COM –Tuesday 13th October 2009 - USA

Last night's show at NYC's Hammerstein Ballroom was a two-hour post-disco fantasia of strobe, bass,and glitter—an all-out spectacle worthy of her American fans' pent-up adoration. Barreling through her sizable songbook, Kylie stepped into a cast of personae... each with its own over-the-top costume and set decor. Seven jumbo screens pulsed background images for each number. The crowd... roared their approval, a warm NYC welcome twenty years in the making. It would be a shame to make them wait that long again.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY – Monday 12th October 2009 - USA

What the papers said – Toronto:

Minogue show out of this world .. the 41-year-old Australian singer didn't disappoint (with) glamorous, sexy costumes (courtesy of Jean-Paul Gaultier); flashy, futuristic show design; and clear, high voice... the blonde bombshell clearly knows how to command a stage... (she) opened the two-hour evening spectacularly, descending from above while perched on top of a glowing red skull while singing Light Years... it was pretty much non-stop action in terms of constant costume changes (I lost count after six); ever-changing, slick-looking video with the emphasis on Minogue’s fetching face and form...
TORONTO SUN – Saturday 10th October 2009 - USA

A shivering and uninitiated Toronto crowd was treated to over two hours of pounding dance-floor magic from the international pop star, sex symbol, high-profile cancer survivor and greatest Australian export... Let it be said that Kylie knows how to make an entrance,... we had collectively entered a galaxy far, far away where Kylie Minogue was both queen of everything and congenial air hostess. The show was everything that every solid pop spectacle should be. There were lasers. There were countless costume changes. There were beefy back-up dancers wearing next to nothing. And there was so much glitter... Even if you take away all of the lasers and glitter and dry ice, a highly compelling performer remains.
EXCLAIM.CA – Saturday 10th October 2009

What the papers said – Los Angeles:

QUEEN OF POP: Kylie Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles... it's one big party! From the second she descends on stage via a huge metal skull to her final bows, she proves that her first US tour was long overdue... she showed her excited audience just what they'd been missing. Note-perfect live vocals, unceasingly energetic dance routines, countless show-stopping costume changes and endearing between-song banter means a show well worth the wait... The crowd (went) ballistic... A slowed-down bar-room version of I Should Be So Lucky in the encore raises huge cheers before Love At First Sight closes a perfect show. How the Yanks haven't taken Kylie to their hearts before is a mystery, as this performance is on a par with the best a young Madonna or even a sane Britney could ever offer. Keep spinning around, Kyles -on a night like this, you proved why you're the queen of pop.
NEWS OF THE WORLD – Sunday 11th October 2009 - UK

For her first ever Los Angeles show at the Hollywood Bowl, the pop diva (gave an)... eye-popping, hitsfilledrun through (her) career that was replete with numerous costume changes, massive digital screens, dazzling laser displays and a hard working fog machine. Let's be clear - this wasn't a lipsyncing showcase. Minogue sang live and was in fine voice throughout her set... Minogue had the audience eating out of her petite hands.
BILLBOARD – Tuesday 6th October – USA

A down-to-earth Kylie Minogue. Yes, there was spacey excess, but it was her warm, eager-to-please stage presence that gave the show lift-off... Minogue managed Sunday to give her carefully calibrated arena-pop moves an uncommon degree of human warmth.
L.A. TIMES – Tuesday 6th October – USA

Kylie Minogue Conquers America! Kylie Kills It: Kylie Minogue brought... a phenomenal almost two-hour set that included all of her hits and even a song off her upcoming eleventh album – and ummm, Britney, Janet, Ashlee and Heidi – she did it without lip-synching.
ACCESS HOLLYWOOD.com – Monday 5th October – USA

Kylie Minogue proves big hit in L.A. (with her)... sell-out show at the Hollywood Bowl... Fans were enthusiastic about the two-hour, fast-paced performance... "The energy is so incredible. Everyone's dancing the whole time", said concertgoer Billy Folchetti. "Her outfits were incredible. It was absolutely an all-around fabulous show."
ITN.com – Monday 5th October – USA

... an impressively maximalist display of showmanship that satisfied her rabid, long-neglected fans... Minogue is a lovely and graceful presence, gently commanding the stage.
VARIETY – Monday 5th October – USA

What the papers said – Las Vegas:

Kylie Minogue's pop spectacle worth the (22-year) wait.
... her stateside fans were ecstatic to have her finally grace this country... New song "Better Than Today", debuting on this tour, fit seamlessly in with the catchy, impeccably crafted songs that Minogue has reliably delivered over the past two decades... on this night Minogue validated her superstar status
LAS VEGAS WEEKLY – Sunday 4th October – USA

What the papers said - San Francisco:

The energy there was so special and the show was... all about the fans... I am a hardcore Kylie fan and... I could not stop smiling in that show .. it was so fabulous. ...it was a live singing spectacular... all I can say is it was so amazing I am so happy that I was able to see her in America in one of the first shows she’s ever done here... and if we are lucky she'll come back... this is her best tour ever, because it really is getting all of the best elements from all of her best shows and putting (them together in oneshow)... Amazing!!
PEREZ HILTON – Friday 2nd October – USA

In tears!!!! Such a beautiful night!!!!! Dreams come true... I love music so much, as you all know. And I LOVE Kylie and her tunes. So happy right now! Heaven!... I haven't been this happy in so long! Viva la Minogue!!!!!! ... I worship Madonna, BUT... I honestly have loved this Kylie show soooo much more than M's last tour. This is all about the fans. Hits!... Show!
PEREZ HILTON'S TWITTER – Thursday 1st October – USA

Minogue's spectacle never relented once... (she) radiates a bliss that can't be bought. Even in the midst of painstaking choreography, her sense of ecstasy is utterly of the moment. When a throng of exceptionally organized fans sent a wave of Mylar pillows unexpectedly bouncing toward the stage during "Wow", she registered astonishment but without missing a beat grabbed a pillow and twirled around the stage as if she’d just been handed a tremendous present. It takes a special kind of star to accommodate and make the most of an unplanned special effect, and Minogue is effortlessly, exactly that. Comments... Thank you for capturing her stage presence and for pointing out that she truly is connected and grateful to her audience. I was overcome with tears at the show - 22 years is a long time to catch a glimpse of perfection!!
ROLLINGSTONE.com – Thursday 1st October – USA

"Kylie, Kylie, Kylie!" shrieked the ecstatic crowd on September 30 as Kylie Minogue, riding a gigantic gold skull, descended to the stage to start what was the beginning of her very first US tour. From the stunning laser show to her edgy geometric costume, Kylie awed her fans with her energy and hot dance moves... It's inspiring to see someone in her 40s be so sexy and confident on stage. You go, Kylie! Take on the US - you'll have no problem winning over every last one of us!’
SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN - Thursday 1st October 2009 - USA

This was easily the best show I've seen at The Fox in Oakland, and may be the best for some time. Kylie Minogue is a great performer, and the entire show is so much bigger than the room, it can blow away anyone who might come into contact with it. I’m glad to have been there, ... go for it. You won’t be disappointed.
SPINNING PLATTERS - Thursday 1st October 2009 - USA

"It was nothing short of gigantic, an over-the-top spectacle that featured enormous props, a killer laser-light show, wild theatrical elements, artfully choreographed dance routines and a Cher-worthy closet full of pricey costumes. It was a stadium-sized event, put on for the 2,800 people who turned out at the Fox Theater in Oakland."
OAKLAND TRIBUNE - Thursday 1st October 2009 – USA

"The Aussie singer... proved why she's a pop icon at the first gig of her north American tour last night... One fan, speaking outside the Fox Theater in California, exclaimed: "We're so excited. "We've been waiting millions of years!"
DAILY STAR – Thursday 1st October – UK

"Kylie Minogue looked truly out of this world as she kicked off her US tour last night in an array of cosmic costumes. The pop star showed off her incredible figure at the opening night of her For You,For Me tour in Oakland, California. Also known as KylieUSA2009, it was the singer's live North American debut and it seems she pulled out all the stops."
DAILY MIRROR – Thursday 1st October – UK

"Kylie Minogue looks out of this world in a silver space-suit style outfit. The Aussie pop princess was kicking off her tour in America and was on top form."
THE SUN – Thursday 1st October – UK

Quelle: kylie.com

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Kylie's public affection.
16.10.2009

Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue must not embarrass easily. The Aussie pop star had no problem making out with boyfriend Andres Velencoso on top of a banquette at Avenue during the after-party for her Hammerstein Ballroom show this week -- even though her parents were there. "I guess she wasn't fazed by them," an eyewitness tells Page Six. Also there were Alan Cumming, who spent most of the evening locked arm-in-arm with a mystery date, and John Mayer, who noshed on chocolate-covered strawberries.

Quelle: NewYorkPost

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Kylie Minogue takes India by storm with ‘Chiggy Wiggy’
14.10.2009

Kylie’s meaningless cacophony ’Chiggy Wiggy’ has
become a chartbuster.

India is already doing ‘Chiggy Wiggy’ with Kylie Minogue, although the film ‘Blue’ for which she delivered it is yet to be released on October 16.

Kylie’s meaningless cacophony ’Chiggy Wiggy’ in collaboration with Oscar winner A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire) has become a chartbuster and household word in India, a signature line for “Blue”, set-up new trend for Bollywood music, and taken up plenty of column inches.

Tipped by its leading star Akshay Kumar as “most dangerous film ever” and by media as the “most expensive film in the history of Bollywood”, underwater thriller “Blue” also stars Sanjay Dutt, Katrina Kaif, Lara Dutta, and pint-sized Grammy winner Kylie Minogue as herself. This is Kylie’s first silver screen appearance after “Moulin Rouge!”.

Shot in Bahamas and Thailand, its cinematography has been handled by Pete Zuccarini (Pirates of the Caribbean), action scenes by James Bomalick (The Fast and the Furious), and sound mix by Oscar winner Resul Pookutty (Slumdog Millionaire).

Rahman was quoted as saying: "By working with Kylie, I was able to create something truly unique for fans-the music fuses the cultures of mainstream pop, Hindi, and Bhangra."

Acclaimed Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed has welcomed the West-East musical collaboration this film and Kylie offered and invited other world composers to explore joint ventures with India’s musicians. But in the mad rush, India should not forget its rich music heritage which went back to pre-BCE Hindu scripture Sama-Veda, and includes Dattila (190 AD), Amir Khusrau, Naik-gopal, Puramdaradasa, Tansen, Pundarika-vitthal, Govind Dikshitar, Ramdas, Venkatamakhin, Tyagaraja, Pandit Bhatkhande, etc., Rajan Zed, who is president of Indo-American Leadership Confederation, said in a statement in Nevada (USA).

Quelle: Indian Express

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Kein Erfolg in Bollywood
14.10.2009

Der Sängerin Kylie Minogue droht mit ihrem Bollywood-Debüt ein Flop. Der Film „Blue“ wird vermutlich nur in Indien ausgestrahlt und nicht ins Ausland verkauft werden können, berichtet „thelondonpaper.com“. An der Seite der 41-Jährigen spielen auch die Bollywood-Stars Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta und Zayed Khan mit.

Grund für die Misere seien die hohen Produktionskosten. Aber auch Kylies Gesangsbeitrag überzeuge nicht, meinten die indischen Produzenten. Der von dem Oscar-Preisträger A.R. Rahman („Slumdog Millionaire“) geschriebene Song „Chiggy Wiggy“ sei langweilig. Kylie Minogue habe für ihre Engagement rund 600.000 Euro Gage erhalten.

Quelle: Bunte

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Coming in for a Landing After All These Years
By BEN RATLIFF
14.10.2009

Kylie Minogue at the Hammerstein Ballroom | Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times

The Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue has been a very big banana in other parts of the world since the late 1980s. On Tuesday, at the Hammerstein Ballroom, she played the final date of what was, unbelievably, her first-ever North American tour. The tenor of the show was household-name; the fact of the show was cult-artist. This made the concert — efficient, clobbering, expensive, generous, drenched in film and costumes and dancing — close to an alternate reality.

It’s a long story, how she has remained apart from the American post-disco line, but it boils down to Europop’s absolute foreignness: there is no Bronx in it. Ms. Minogue has studied Madonna for years, but maybe this country needs only one blonde, stadium-filling, high-camp, digital-burlesque artist at a time and Lady Gaga — who draws from both Madonna and Ms. Minogue — has dibs on that spot.

Ms. Minogue’s voice never definitively dropped, like Madonna’s; she’s still comfortable in helium range. And while Madonna dealt in transgression nearly from the start, Ms. Minogue naturally circumvents the dark parts of desire. Between songs on Tuesday she was edgeless, posing no threat or subtext. She does enjoy-your-life music, no heavy message. And though you have an apparent advantage in connecting with it if you’re a gay man — the crowd at the Hammerstein was possibly 90 percent male — you’re free to make of it what you want.

Tuesday’s set went deep into disco, techno and various kinds of superpop, derivative but with champion hooks. (Ms. Minogue has released good songs throughout her career, including the recent Daft Punkish “In My Arms” and the thumping new song “Better Than Today.”) Champion stagecraft too. At the beginning she descended from the ceiling, wearing something like a string of feather boas and a solar-system headdress, standing atop an enormous shiny skull. Before long, after “Come Into My World,” a robot was high-stepping toward her, bearing a glass of red wine on a silver tray.

She had a live band, for what it’s worth — drums, bass, guitar and keyboards — though it all sounded like being inside a giant synthesizer. But her dancers, male and female, were invaluable. For “Shocked” they turned flips and cartwheels in front of exaggerated smiley faces on the back screen, looking like gym rats done up by Jean-Paul Gaultier; for “Boombox” (“Baby I’m your boombox/make you spin like a top”) they crept around in catcher’s masks; for “Slow” they performed interpretive gestures with neon-light tubes; for “Red Blooded Woman” the bare-chested men teased one another in front of shower stalls as Ms. Minogue posed on a gym beam. Please be seated: there’s more.

During “White Diamond” a footman approached Ms. Minogue, who was fretting glamorously on a couch flanked by panther statues, with some sort of dismaying note or book — again, on a silver tray; she flung him away and they did a routine of tension and release. For a stripper-dance version of “The Loco-Motion” the men dressed in female bondage gear and the women in flesh-colored body suits with pasties.

Ms. Minogue is effective in complex static poses, at one with her garments; at the start of “Like a Drug” she was shown on screen wearing something like an enormous doily, batting enormous eyelashes. But she was physical too, dancing as well as she could on high heels and walking more than once on the outstretched limbs of her dancers. And in the lovingly slow treatments of her biggest early hits, “The Loco-Motion” and “I Should Be So Lucky,” she used sufficient vibrato in her voice to assure you that she had one, a nearly intimate gesture after all the oversized ones. The concert was a stadium show intelligently compressed for 3,500 people, and that was why it worked.

Quelle: New York Times

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KYLIE MINOGUE: Was guckst du so?
13.10.2009

Kylie Minogue - Dienstag, Oktober 13, 2009 - 16:32LOS ANGELES - Kylie Minogue liebt es, in den USA zu leben. Vor allem deshalb, weil sie auf der Straße kaum jemand erkennt. Und sollte sie doch erkannt werden, hat sie immer den passenden Spruch parat. Gegenüber dem britischen "Daily Express" sagte die Sängerin: "Ich kann hier sehr viel ruhiger leben, was sehr angenehm ist. Und wenn doch jemand guckt, dann sage ich: "Was guckst du so? Was ist los? Habe ich was im Gesicht?"" Die 41-Jährige will deshalb noch mehr Zeit in den USA verbringen. Wie es heißt, soll sie sogar ihren Wohnsitz nach Las Vegas verlegen.

Kylie Minogue hat sich übrigens auch schon ein Häuschen an der spanischen Mittelmeerküste zugelegt. Für läppische 500.000 Euro.

Quelle: Star Nachrichten

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Kylie Minogue 'loves US anonymity'
By Oli Simpson
13.10.2009

Kylie Minogue has admitted that she enjoys travelling to the United States as no-one recognises her there.

The singer revealed that she attracts so little attention in the country that when someone does spot her, she forgets why they are staring.

"I can keep a much lower profile, which is enjoyable," she told the Daily Express. "And then if someone's looking at me, I'm like, 'Why are they staring at me? What's wrong? Have I got something on my face?'"

Minogue is currently wrapping up her first US tour and was recently rumoured to be preparing a residency in Las Vegas.

Quelle: Digital Spy

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Kylie Minogue meistert Technik-Panne
Sie sang ohne Musik!
Autor: Simone
12.10.2009

Kylie Minogue (41) braucht scheinbar gar keine Hilfsmittel, um eine tolle Performance hinzulegen – noch nicht einmal Musik! Das bewies die Sängerin jetzt während ihres Konzerts in Chicago, als plötzlich technische Schwierigkeiten mit dem Ton auftraten und fast gar nichts mehr funktionierte. Andere Künstler hätten vielleicht Panik bekommen und die Schow unterbrochen, aber die 41-Jährige Kylie blieb ganz cool. Wer braucht schon Instrumente, wenn er seine Stimme hat?

Kylie fing an ihren Song „Your Disco Needs You“ zu singen und die Fans stimmten direkt mit ein. A capella performte sie den Song und schien eine Menge Spaß daran zu haben, und auch die Konzertbesucher waren sichtlich begeistert und es hagelte ordentlich Beifall für die Sängerin.

Quelle: Promiflash.de

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Proof that Kylie is the best sister ever
12.10.2009

Why does Kylie Minogue going out in an outfit that looks suspiciously like pyjamas make her a good sister? Well, that'll be because it's a well-known fact that at the moment, everything has some obscure link or other to The X Factor - therefore, we think what Kylie's doing here is taking the heat off Dannii's Danyl controversy by making herself look like a right silly fool.

No doubt an outfit like this would look elegant and chic on someone more statuesque, but because Kylie's so weeny, it really does look like she's ready for bed. All she needs now are a pair of fluffy Garfield sisters on her feet, some pick 'n' mix in one hand and a 13 Going On 30 DVD in the other, and she really is set for the best pyjama party ever.

Quelle: 3am

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Kylie Minogue's smiley crowd
Global pop queen's first Canadian show gives devoted fans hits, glitz
11.10.2009

Kylie Minogue used dancers, boas, lasers and LEDs to thrill her fans at
the Air Canada Centre.

Canada's a bit more tuned in than the States, but Kylie Minogue's audience in North America still largely seems to consist of gay men and geeky music writers who over the years have consistently found themselves as wooed by the wee Aussie superstar's classy brand of haute couture pop as they have her feminine wiles.

Critics don't tend to buy records and concert tickets, mind you, so Kylie has her boys to thank for the resounding success of her first tour of these shores, a modest, six-city, nine-day jaunt that finally arrived 22 years into Minogue's singing career at the Air Canada Centre on Friday night. The men, in fact, outnumbered the women about two-to-one in a modest, but passionate crowd of maybe 10,000, prompting my friend Daniel – who writes for Fab magazine and is therefore a reliable authority on these matters – to remark: "It's like Pride Week in here. This is gayer than Madonna."

Only halfway into its run, this "test" tour has gone so much better than expected that the 41-year-old Minogue has reportedly already been offered a residency in Las Vegas, which is likely bad news for Celine Dion but very good news indeed for the legions of Kylie faithful on these shores who've been denied easy access to the high-glam stage spectacles she's been taking to the rest of the planet all these years.

Good news for Kylie, too, as her whole mystique makes a lot more sense once you've seen her perform. She exudes such a charming and friendly persona from the stage that she made the act of descending from the ceiling atop a giant, metallic skull whilst wrapped in multicoloured boas and sporting what looked like a model of a solar system on her head seem almost down-to-earth.

That was just for the opener, "Light Years." Once on the ground, she let a co-ed troupe of eight dancers clad in helmets and skin-tight fetish-wear handle most of the footwork while she slunk coquettishly, but gracefully through their taut robo-choreography, singing (mostly singing, anyway; there might have been a few "guide vocals" here and there) the robust dance-pop ditties "Speakerphone" and "Come Into My World" in a variety of stylized poses.

Costume changes courtesy of designers Jean-Paul Gauthier and Alexander McQueen abounded as the two-hour performance wore on, while a production that no doubt cost a minute fraction of the last Madonna tour's budget made the most of a set that relied primarily on a couple of risers and a few modular, moving LED screens drenched in multicolour graphics and video clips depicting Kylie and her dancers in various states of ingenious undress.

The more elaborate set flourishes, meanwhile, were tailored to the fans who Minogue clearly holds dearest to her heart. A replica bathhouse complete with steam jets, bamboo screens and four chiselled hunks of shirtless man-candy working up a lather in checked shower stalls was unveiled for "Red Blooded Woman," while a string-soaked recording of Dorothy's "There's no place like home" speech from The Wizard of Oz and a video reel of Kylie in Judy Garland drag teed up a goopy mid-set ballad sequence. "If you're gonna go gay, go gay," remarked the gentleman behind me.

Minogue then emerged from the shadows clad in a white evening gown to deliver "White Diamond" and "Confide in Me" from the comfort of an oversized chaise longue flanked by life-sized bronze panthers. Somehow she pulled it off without looking totally ridiculous, just ridiculous enough.

All of this, of course, would be empty without the mighty catalogue of hits with which Kylie has been blessed since she outgrew the Stock, Aitken & Waterman-abetted teenage output such as "The Loco-motion" (still her biggest hit in Canada and the States, sadly) and started putting a populist spin on contemporary club music. Her other transatlantic smash, 2001's frosty electro-pop masterpiece "Can't Get You Out of My Head" had the room in a predictable tizzy, but it came early in a tight set list stocked with international hits – "Slow," "2 Hearts," "In My Arms" – that proved equally familiar singalongs in the hands of true Kylie devotees. There was also a lone new number, an impossibly catchy disco detonator called "Better Than Today," that would seem to herald more hits to come. Kylie didn't totally sweep her dubious past under the rug, either, donning a black negligee and yet another pair of thigh-high boots to recast "The Loco-motion" as a feline burlesque romp.

"It was really difficult getting here, but now that I'm here it feels totally perfect," a pleased-looking Minogue said at one point. I doubt anyone here who gets what she's about would be inclined to disagree.

Quelle: Toronto Star

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Kylie's fella moves in
10.10.2009

KYLIE MINOGUE feels lucky, lucky, lucky . . . after her model boyfriend agreed to move in.

The smitten pop queen will shift ANDRES SEGURA into her £3 million Chelsea mansion when she hangs up her microphone at the end of her first American road trip.

The strapping Spaniard used to split his time between Spain and New York. But now Kylie has told pals she wants to start a family.

A friend added: "Andres and Kylie are caught up in this whirlwind romance, which is amazing. They spend so much time together. She has stuff at his New York home so it made sense for Andres to move his belongings into her London home.

"Kylie has never been more calm and in love. Andres has been beside her for most of her time in the US.

"It wouldn't surprise me if he popped the question - things are that serious.

"Kylie is still adamant that she wants to be a mother at some stage in her life."

Quelle: News of the World

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Air Canada Centre, Toronto ON, October 9
By Sofi Papamarko
10.10.2009

It was love at first sight — or maybe just lust. Either way, Canada enthusiastically lost its Kylie Minogue cherry last night during her first-ever North American tour.

A shivering and uninitiated Toronto crowd was treated to over two hours of pounding dance-floor magic from the international pop star, sex symbol, high-profile cancer survivor and greatest Australian export since Paul Hogan, or maybe even Vegemite.

Let it be said that Kylie knows how to make an entrance, descending as she did from the top of the Air Canada Centre astride a massive metallic skull. Clad in an unholy combination of the costumes of She-Ra and Barbarella, and garnished with boas, it was as though we were being treated to the opening scene of a sci-fi B-movie. We had collectively entered a galaxy far, far away where Kylie Minogue was both queen of everything and congenial air hostess.

"Please fasten your seat belts," Kylie advised her adoring audience.

The show was everything that every solid pop spectacle should be. There were lasers. There were countless costume changes. There were beefy back-up dancers wearing next to nothing. And there was so much glitter.

And through it all, there was Her Royal Kylieness, grinning cheekily throughout a satisfying set that included "Light Years," "Shocked," "What Do I Have to Do," "Spinning Around," "2 Hearts" and, of course, "Can't Get You Out of My Head," which was met with roars of approval and universal hip gyration. Kylie's signature hit "Locomotion" also made an appearance, but as a slow-burning hot jazz number, straight out of the imagination of Bob Fosse.

While every note and dance move was undoubtedly rehearsed within an inch of its life, Kylie somehow made every moment seem fresh and spontaneous and full of joy. Even if you take away all of the lasers and glitter and dry ice, a highly compelling performer remains.

Quelle: Exclaim!

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