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Graham Clark
Music Features Writer
@Maxximum23Clark
11:47 AM 29th September 2014
arts

Kylie Minogue - Kiss Me Once Tour

 
Billed as the Kiss Me Once tour, Kylie Minogue played the second date of the tour at Manchester Arena on Friday night.

Her last big arena tour was the Aphrodite Les Folies tour 3 Years Ago: it was a big spectacular show that borrowed from Cirque de Soleil and it was hard to see how she could follow up such a big scale production like that.



This current touring production comes quite close. The set list is basically a greatest hits set with 4 songs also included off her last album, Kiss Me Once.

She appears on stage draped across a settee/blow-up that looks like Mick Jagger's lips; of course it is in keeping with the Kiss Me Once theme of the gig.



"How does it feel Manchester?" she asks her audience as she informs them that it is her 28th appearance at the venue. What follows are some of the best pop tracks of the last 25 years.

The show is a sight for the eyes as throughout the show there are many costume changes and her 8 dancers never put a foot wrong.

On the track Slow, she performs the track with just her and a male dancer who delights with his aerobic yet sympathetic moves to the track: sometimes less is more.

Not forgetting her earlier career there is a segment dedicated to her Stock/Aitkin/Waterman years as she performs Never Too Late, Got to Be Certain and Hand on your Heart.

For I Should Be So Lucky she performs the track in a bubble bath whilst two of her dancers are stood beside her wearing only a towel wrapped around their waist.

Paying tribute to her ex-boyfriend Michael Hutchence she performed the INXS classic, Need You Tonight, whilst a re-working of the track she did with Robbie Williams, Kids, sounded refreshing.

The show never flags and there is never a dull moment, after nearly 2 hours on stage she wraps up what had been the best disco in town, with All the Lovers and Into the Blue proving yet again, even whilst in her mid-forties, she can still rightly justify the title of Queen of Pop.

The show visits Yorkshire at Sheffield Arena on Thursday 13th November, tickets available from: www.motorpointarenasheffield.co.uk