On A Night Like This Tour
Bournemouth 15th March 2001
Daily Echo Review
AUSSIE pop goddess Kylie Minogue treated a packed BIC to a wonder show last night.
REVIEW
KYLIE Minogue proved beyond doubt she is the princess of pop with a dazzling sell-out show last night.
From the moment the purple regal drapes embossed with her initials fell graciously open the capacity audience fell open mouthed at her dainty stilettoed feet.
Fully-grown men behaved like love struck teenyboppers as they packed out the BIC Windsor Hall and could be heard chanting 'Kylie, Kylie!'
This extraodinary entertainer's popularity has snowballed since her performance before a record four billion TV viewers at the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympics last year.
This wasn't just a concert, it was an amazing theatrical experience that saw the stage set like a cruise ship with Kylie making her entrance from above on a huge silver anchor to join male dancers dressed as sailors and girl dancers in bikinis and flower garlands.
Her style was outright glitz and razzmatazz and full of fun taking elements from everything from Busby Berkeley to the high-kicking New York follies.
One minute she was the disco diva in miniscule silver tasselled hot pants, the next she could be in top hat and tails dancing on top of a piano flanked with dancers with huge feather fans.
"You're awesome! It's not often I don't have anything to say," she told the audience, who brought the show to a standstill at one point by insisting on applauding, stamping their feet and shouting out in appreciation of the tiny starlet.
One suprise followed another, not least her raunchy version of Let's Get Physical.
The showstoppers were Kids and Spinning Around, but new songs from the forthcoming album have successfully recaptured the disco era and promise much more to come.
Hilary Porter