VoicesCarry said:

thanks! i would love a dvd Kylie Live: From Toronto!!!

CHIC0 said:

My bf took an HD clip of it - we are uploading it now (139MB of 252MB so far!) so I will post it soon. There is no annoying French guy singing along in our clip
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VoicesCarry said:

yay!!


i can't get over the guy screaming "a nighhh like thiiii" on that clip.

CHIC0 said:

:discipline:

Here is our video. It will be HD but has not finished processing yet.

thank you so much!!! wow!

VoicesCarry said:

so she swapped out YDNY for the One?

ehuffnsd said:

No - YDNY was the fan reqeuest song in Toronto.

VoicesCarry said:

we didn't have a fan request in Oakland.

ehuffnsd said:

Weird - she's done it at most of the shows. In LV it was a verse and chorus of Got To Be Certain (acapella).
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VoicesCarry said:

i did see opening night, the night artists are most likely not to try anything new since it's the first time out

ehuffnsd said:

Very true - she was probably happy just to finish the show!

scriptgirl said:

She's not from America, that's the answer !

Kylie has moved ahead of Madonna as my second favourite female entertainer. Her voice, music and performances have done nothing but improve as she has aged.
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scriptgirl said:

why would she be most people here don't even know who she is

maybe she is great but i only know 3 of her songs. and i have 2 of them on my itunes.i didn't even know she was still perfoming

mimi07 said:

It's so easy to learn about music outside of the US these days, be it through YouTube or downloads or whatever - if you don't know her songs, it's very easy to check them out.

VoicesCarry said:

i know i could find more about her if i wanted but the question is why isn't she a star here and the answer is most people don't know who she is.
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mimi07 said:

Or, most people don't know who she is because she isn't a star here. Obviously fame and stardom go hand in hand. It doesn't address the question of why she isn't a star or famous here, though.
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http://www.newsoftheworld...geles.html

Live: Kylie
Verdict: *****
QUEEN OF POP: Kylie
QUEEN OF POP: Kylie

By James Desborough, 11/10/2009
Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles



BEING in a park on a full moon, surrounded by thousands of screaming men - many wrapped in feather boas - would normally be scary. But with Kylie there too, 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.

Unbelievably, after 22 years at the top here, this is the first time Kylie has toured Stateside but 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.

Dressed in a robotic bodice too futuristic even for Lady GaGa, she kicks off with the Donna Summer-inspired Light Years.

The crowd go ballistic when she changes into a floaty white trousersuit, topped off with a hat and cane like An Officer And A Gentleman for her biggest US hit, Can't Get You Out Of My Head.

Kitsch, camp or downright unsubtle, Kylie then plays up to her gay icon image by unleashing her muscle-bound dancers, clad just in towels, to parade around for her during Red Blooded Woman. 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.




and page 3 in Scotland

http://www.thestar.com/en...iley-crowd

Kylie Minogue's smiley crowd

Global pop queen's first Canadian show gives devoted fans hits, glitz

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.

N.B.: I think the mention of "guide vocals" was not warranted (although the reviewer acknowledged that they were very minor, if they existed at all). Kylie's shows are well known to be completely live. She had live background singers and a few pre-recorded bits that alternated with her own on certain tracks (like for Speakerphone - "Lights" / "Flashing", etc), but she wasn't singing over backing vocals. Obviously if she can sing the opera version of YDNY or the whole ballad section live, she's not gonna need backing vocals on other tracks. LOL. The review above acknowledges her "note perfect live vocals" which is absolutely true.
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VoicesCarry said:

VoicesCarry said:

Kylie has a rare talent of being Pitch Perfect. I believe Celine Dion is the only other current pop star that has the ability. Her parts on Speakerphone not sung by her were done by Roxie who has a similar sounding voice. I think the only time i heard prerecoding was for Boombox and the real slim lady outro on the Showgirl Medley

ehuffnsd said:

You're right - I reviewed the videos and it was Roxie alternating with her.

Can I just say that Jason Beitel is totally yum? Could not take my eyes off of him at the Vegas concert - which was good, because I got that out of my system enough to focus on Kylie for Toronto

so are we all moving to Vegas now?

VoicesCarry said:

jason and marco, though jamie is pretty yummy too.

ehuffnsd said:

Yeah,the other guy didn't do it for me.

encore at NYC show: new outfit

love it.