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Tour by Kylie Minogue | |
![]() Promotional poster for the tour | |
Location | Europe • Oceania |
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Associated album | Light Years |
Start date | 3 March 2001 |
End date | 15 May 2001 |
Legs | 2 |
No. of shows |
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Kylie Minogue concert chronology |
On a Night Like This was the sixth concert tour by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue, in support of her seventh studio album, Light Years (2000). The tour consisted of a European leg and Australian leg, beginning on 3 March 2001 at the Clyde Auditorium, in Glasgow, Scotland, and concluding back in Australia on 15 May 2001 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. With both legs of the tour consisting of 23 shows, respectively, Kylie was among the most successful Australian touring artists.
After the success of her performances at the 2000 Sydney Olympics' closing ceremonies and during the opening ceremony of the Paralympics, days later, Minogue's team announced details of the planned tour. Tickets went on sale in November of 2000, with a demand that established her as one of the most popular live acts at the time. However, the tour began somewhat problematically, when opening night at the RDS Arena, Dublin, Ireland, on 1 March 2001, was cancelled due to air traffic control restrictions.
Minogue was inspired by the style of Broadway shows such as 42nd Street and films such as Anchors Aweigh , South Pacific and the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals of the 1930s. Describing Bette Midler as a "heroine", she also incorporated some of the "camp and burlesque" elements of Midler's live performances. The show directed and choreographed by Luca Tommassini featured elaborate backdrops, such as the deck of an ocean liner, an Art Deco New York City skyline, and the interior of a space ship. Minogue was praised for her new material and her reinterpretations of some of her greatest successes, turning "I Should Be So Lucky" into a torch song and "Better the Devil You Know" into a 1940s big band number.
The following set list is obtained from the 11 May 2001 show in Sydney, Australia. It is not intended to represent all dates throughout the tour.
Act 1: Loveboat
Act 2: Revue
Act 3: Broadway Swing
Act 4: Club
Act 5: Space Odyssey
Encore
Date | City | Country | Venue |
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Europe | |||
3 March 2001 | Glasgow | Scotland | Clyde Auditorium |
4 March 2001 | |||
5 March 2001 | |||
7 March 2001 | Manchester | England | Manchester Apollo |
8 March 2001 | |||
9 March 2001 | |||
10 March 2001 | |||
12 March 2001 | Brighton | Brighton Centre | |
13 March 2001 | |||
14 March 2001 | Cardiff | Wales | Cardiff International Arena |
15 March 2001 | Bournemouth | England | Windsor Hall |
17 March 2001 | London | Hammersmith Apollo | |
18 March 2001 | |||
19 March 2001 | |||
20 March 2001 | |||
23 March 2001 | Copenhagen | Denmark | Vega Musikkens Hus |
25 March 2001 | Berlin | Germany | Columbiahalle |
26 March 2001 | Hamburg | Große Freiheit 36 | |
27 March 2001 | Cologne | E-Werk | |
28 March 2001 | Paris | France | Bataclan |
30 March 2001 | London | England | Hammersmith Apollo |
31 March 2001 | |||
1 April 2001 | |||
Oceania | |||
14 April 2001 | Brisbane | Australia | Brisbane Entertainment Centre |
16 April 2001 | Sydney | Sydney Entertainment Centre | |
17 April 2001 | |||
18 April 2001 | |||
19 April 2001 | |||
21 April 2001 | Hobart | Derwent Entertainment Centre | |
23 April 2001 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena | |
24 April 2001 | |||
25 April 2001 | Adelaide | Adelaide Entertainment Centre | |
26 April 2001 | |||
28 April 2001 | Perth | Perth Entertainment Centre | |
30 April 2001 | |||
3 May 2001 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena | |
5 May 2001 | |||
6 May 2001 | |||
7 May 2001 | |||
9 May 2001 | Sydney | Sydney Entertainment Centre | |
10 May 2001 | |||
11 May 2001 | |||
12 May 2001 | |||
13 May 2001 | |||
14 May 2001 | |||
15 May 2001 |
Date | City | Country | Venue | Reason |
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1 March 2001 | Dublin | Ireland | RDS Arena | Air traffic control restrictions due to weather |
Minogue's performance in Sydney, Australia, on 11 May 2001 was filmed for DVD entitled, Live in Sydney. The DVD was released on 1 October 2001 [1] in the UK and 15 October 2001 [2] in Australia.
The DVD features exclusive backstage footage of the concert, including a look into the dancers' dressing rooms and a prank played on Kylie during the show entitled 'Will Kylie Crack'. The prank consists of stage personnel doing random things below the stage where Kylie can see them when she turns to look at the backdrop during "So Now Goodbye".
Musicians
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