Well... Kylie's been and gone. I can't believe it!! After a year and a half from the date I was originally to see her I finally got my chance at Wembley Arena both Monday and Tuesday night. The setlist was the same for both nights but there were differences in both shows (particularly given that that the Tuesday night was her last in London)
MondayBevs in hand Dyl, Az and I trotted up to our seats... we were right at the back of the block, but directly opposite the stage - perfect for seeing back and under stage activity (Including nudity between changes!).
Highlights:
- KM forgot the words during 'I Believe In You'. "Sorry! I'm too busy reading your signs!"
- At one point she (unfortunately) said "I know a lot of you have travelled a long way.. are there any Australians here tonight?". Azza and I decided this would be the perfect time and place to disgrace ourselves (and our country). We screamed our guts out... and got looked at by everyone within a 50m radius. Twats.
- Her storytelling.
"I sang with Bono in Sydney.. we asked him what kind of mic do you want? He said 'A plain one'. Later that night he came out on stage and he had a sparkly one.. one of our people told him 'It's a Kylie show. There are no plain ones!'. Around here if you sit still long enough you'll be bedazzled. Like my drink bottle... *picks it up to drink.. notices the sparkly L has fallen off* ohhh (kids voice) it's broken. KY - IE'".
TuesdayAnother day, another rush home from the office to get glammed up. This time Carol accompanied me as did our feather boas. We were seated close to the crowd but further from the stage, still, we had a pretty good view and we prepared the people around us to get up and get dancing (noone sits down for Kylie!!). The guy next to me had been to the Earls Court performance last year so was very excited to be seeing her again... he was equally excited that I was Australian (although disappointed to hear I hadn't travelled over especially to see her - I should've blagged).
Because it was her last performance in London I was hoping for a Robbie special appearance, instead we got Danni for Kids ("Next time we need diamonte encrusted hairbrushes.. it feels more natural!"), which was still pretty surprising.
Just before saying goodnight to the audience Kylie pulled a kid out of the audience. 'Christian' wanted to sing Can't Get You Out Of My Head.. and did, acoustically, to 12,000 enthusiastic fans whilst Kylie danced around him. It was the most spectacular thing I've seen in a while!
Both nightsFavourite moments include
- the Vogue rap
- "Did anybody here disco in the 80's??? Big hair, shoulder pads, earrings?! You should know this then! .... THE ONLY WAY IS UP!"
- KM dressed in 80's garb (complete with Debbie Harryesque blonde spiky wig) doing the shuffle dance (imitated many times since)
- Kinky locomotion with jazz voice
- Someone handing KM a homemade t-shirt parodying her tour shirts (she reads it aloud in EXTREME Australian accent) "Charlene says Relax. OK?!"
- Light Years as the second to last song!
Overall I had a blast - I knew I would! And it made us feel a bit closer to home, even if Kylie does have that annoying International accent now. The only negative is that Matt didn't get his arse over for it...
