KylieX2008 (video)

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KylieX2008
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Released1 December 2008 (2008-12-01)
Recorded2 August 2008 (2008-08-02)
Venue The O2 (London, England)
Genre Pop
Length129:00
Label FremantleMedia
Director William Baker
Producer Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue chronology
White Diamond / Showgirl: Homecoming
(2007)
KylieX2008
(2008)
Aphrodite Les Folies – Live in London
(2011)

KylieX2008 is the 2008 DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of Kylie Minogue's tenth concert tour of the same name. The film features the entire concert (shot in Super 16 format [1] [2] ) along with a documentary, stage backdrop projections, conceptual designs, and a photo gallery. [3] [4] [5] Shot on 16mm film the Blu-ray release received comments regarding a grainy picture quality, due to 16mm not being suitable for HD TV. [6]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Speakerphone"
5:41
2."Boombox" / "Can't Get You Out of My Head"5:04
3."Ruffle My Feathers"
3:14
4."In Your Eyes"
3:28
5."Heart Beat Rock"
3:20
6."Wow"
2:58
7."Shocked"2:40
8."Loveboat"5:31
9."Copacabana"4:39
10."Spinning Around"
3:29
11."Like a Drug"5:28
12."Slow"4:58
13."2 Hearts"
4:57
14."Sometime Samurai"
4:05
15."Come into My World"
  • Davis
  • Dennis
5:46
16."Nu-di-ty"
  • Poole
  • Karlsson
  • Winnberg
3:59
17."Sensitized"
4:05
18."Flower"4:46
19."I Believe in You"3:01
20."On a Night Like This"
5:36
21."Your Disco Needs You"
  • Minogue
  • Williams
  • Chambers
5:33
22."Kids"
  • Williams
  • Chambers
5:23
23."Step Back in Time"
  • Stock
  • Aitken
  • Waterman
3:20
24."In My Arms"
  • Minogue
  • C. Harris
  • Stannard
  • P. Harris
  • Peake
5:14
25."No More Rain"
6:28
26."The One"
  • Minogue
  • Stannard
  • James Wiltshire
  • Russell Small
  • John Andersson
  • Johan Emmoth
  • Emma Holmgren
4:24
27."Love at First Sight"
6:49
28."I Should Be So Lucky"
  • Stock
  • Aitken
  • Waterman
4:36
Total length:2:08:42

Special Features

DVD edition
No.TitleLength
29."12 Hours... in the life of Kylie Minogue"17:07
30."Stage back-drop projections" ("Speakerphone"/"Can't Get You Out of My Head," "Ruffle My Feathers," "Sometime Samurai," "Like a Drug," "Sensitized")26:35
31."Photo Gallery"5:06
32."Conceptual Designs"1:42
33."DVD trailer"0:42
Total length:2:59:54
Blu-ray edition
No.TitleLength
30."Stage back-drop projections" ("Speakerphone"/"Can't Get You Out of My Head", "Ruffle My Feathers", "In Your Eyes", "Heart Beat Rock"/"Wow", "Loveboat", "Spinning Around", "Like a Drug", "2 Hearts", "Sometime Samurai", "Nu-di-ty", "Sensitized", "In My Arms", "No More Rain")59:43
31."Photo Gallery"6:47
32."Conceptual Designs"1:42
33."DVD trailer (Hidden on the X logo)"0:42
Total length:3:33:59

Charts

Chart (2009)Peak
position
Australian Music DVD Chart [7] 2
Austrian Music DVD Chart [8] 8
Czech Music DVD Chart [9] 10
New Zealand Music DVD Chart [10] 7
UK Music DVD Chart (OCC)8

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