Kylie’s Aphrodite Les Folies tour has been travelling around the globe. kicking off in Denmark in February, winding its way through Europe, four nights at London’s O2 Arena, through Japan and then off to America. this month it’s Australia’s turn. So what can we expect from the latest Kylie Show?
On the shows delivered so far Kylie’s been cranking out a combination of classic hits and tunes from her latest Aphrodite album, plus a cover of The Eurhythmics song There Must Be An Angel Playing With My Heart. On the Japanese dates some older songs like I Should Be So Lucky were added to the set list, but these didn’t make it to the US leg of the tour.
The show is set on a huge stage with heaps of moving parts, seven lifts and over 600 lights, plus a waterfall, tickets to the close up splash zone were snapped up quickly by Kylie’s biggest fans. The costumes in the show were designed by Dolce & Gabbana.
Make sure you dress up for the party, each night Kylie awards a best dressed audience member through her Twitter account and if your after a behind the scenes glimpse of the show check out the video blogs that Kylie posts to her Facebook account.
Kylie’s Aphrodite Les Follies tour hits the Burswood Dome on Wednesday June 22nd for your chance to win tickets to the show log on to the OUTinPerth website (Thanks to Channel 10’s Video Hits).
Remembering Previous Kylie Shows
Rhythm of Love
I had to dial the number for tickets over and over again, trying to get through. Yes, the phone had a dial back in 1990, not buttons. A few months later we were off to the Entertainment Centre to see Kylie’s first Australian tour. Kylie was everywhere in the media, channeling Brigit Bardot with her new big hair, hanging out with Steve Vizard on Tonight Live, Rhythm of Love was the most played cassette in my collection.
The show had five backing dancers, which at the time seemed massive. Kylie played heaps of songs from her first two albums, plus a cover of the O’Jay’s Love Train. The latest hits Shocked, Step Back in Time and What Do I Have to Do were highlights, the encore was Better the Devil You Know, which is probably the best song Stock Aitken and Waterman ever penned.
After the show we considered heading off to Fast Eddy’s but decided not to, something I’ve always regretted because we read in the paper the next day that Kylie went there after the show.
Graeme Watson
On A Night Like This
They say you never forget your first time and it’s true. I had my Kylie-Live cherry popped in 2001.
The On a Night Like This Tour may pale in comparison to the arena spectacle promised by the $ 25 million Aphrodite production but at the time “comeback Kylie†smashed every ticket sales record for a female performer in Australian concert history.
The tour came hot on the six inch heels of the Light Years album that cemented her position as the unrivalled queen of Australian pop. With hits like Spinning Around and the gang busting Robbie Williams duet Kids, sexy, slinky dance-pop was the order of the day and it was a frothy mini-masterpiece that set the tone for her career to this day.
What was most pleasantly surprising about the tour was how well the dance floor skewed material translated to a stadium environment. It also marked the debut performance of a little song called Cant Get You Out Of My Head.
Until that point in her career Kylie had spent most of her career having to “prove†herself. On a Night Like This was the moment that silenced the doubters for good and it’s one that I’ll always remember.
Clint Little
The Homecoming tour
I remember when the tickets first came out for the Showgirl Tour it was simply a must-do, no question to it. Four years after its release and Can’t Get You Out Of My Head still made everyone run to the dance floor. We were in love, still. We owed it to her Greatest Hits Tour. God she was even meant to be doing Glastonbury!
And the news hit: Kylie had breast cancer. When they postponed the tour, we feared the worst. We were told to hold on to the tickets, she’d make it through, she’s come back, she’d still make us dance. ‘Kylie, come back,’ we cried!
December 2006, she did. It was an outrageous display of big gay production titillation. I mean, we all know Kylie can’t dance – but she can put on a show. From the Leigh Bowery references to the tunes to the outfits we fed a banquet of big girly tunes, buff boys, well thought out pop culture references and her unending sincerity.
For me, personally, the concert meant getting the ticket back from an ex. That alone had marred the evening, so by the time the Cybermen had come out, I was done. Fortunately, out came Can’t Get You Outta My Head followed by Light Years and the night dematerialised like a TARDIS. As did I, pre-encore: for me, the girl had made it home. She was still in my head. That’s all I needed to see and know.
Scott Patrick Mitchell
