On a Night Like This (concert tour)

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On a Night Like This
Tour by Kylie Minogue
Kylie OnANightLikeThisTourPoster.jpg
Promotional poster for the tour
Location
  • Europe
  • Oceania
Associated album Light Years
Start date3 March 2001 (2001-03-03)
End date15 May 2001 (2001-05-15)
Legs2
No. of shows46
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.

Contents

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.

Background

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.

Setlist

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

  1. "Loveboat"
  2. "Koocachoo"
  3. "Hand on Your Heart"
  4. "Put Yourself in My Place"

Act 2: Revue

  1. "On a Night Like This"
  2. "Step Back in Time" / "Never Too Late" / "Wouldn't Change a Thing" / "Turn It into Love" / "Celebration"
  3. "Can't Get You Out of My Head"
  4. "Your Disco Needs You"

Act 3: Broadway Swing

  1. "I Should Be So Lucky"
  2. "Better the Devil You Know"
  3. "So Now Goodbye"

Act 4: Club

  1. "Physical"
  2. "Butterfly"
  3. "Confide in Me" / "Did It Again"
  4. "Kids"
  5. "Shocked"

Act 5: Space Odyssey

  1. "Light Years"
  2. "What Do I Have to Do"

Encore

  1. "Spinning Around"
Notes
  • "Physical" was not performed in Paris.
  • "Did It Again" was performed on 14 and 17 April.

Tour dates

List of 2001 concerts
Date (2001)CityCountryVenueOpening act
3 March Glasgow United Kingdom Clyde Auditorium Dimestars
4 March
5 March
7 March Manchester Manchester Apollo
8 March
9 March
10 March
12 March Brighton Brighton Centre
13 March
14 March Cardiff Cardiff International Arena
15 March Bournemouth Windsor Hall
17 March London Hammersmith Apollo
18 March
19 March
20 March
23 March Copenhagen Denmark Vega Musikkens Hus —
25 March Berlin Germany Columbiahalle
26 March Hamburg Große Freiheit 36
27 March Cologne E-Werk
28 March Paris France Bataclan
30 MarchLondonUnited KingdomHammersmith ApolloDimestars
31 March
1 April
14 April Brisbane Australia Brisbane Entertainment Centre Chakradiva
16 April Sydney Sydney Entertainment Centre
17 April
18 April
19 April
21 April Hobart Derwent Entertainment Centre
23 April Melbourne Rod Laver Arena
24 April
25 April Adelaide Adelaide Entertainment Centre
26 April
28 April Perth Perth Entertainment Centre
30 April
3 MayMelbourneRod Laver Arena
5 May
6 May
7 May
9 MaySydneySydney Entertainment Centre
10 May
11 May
12 May
13 May
14 May
15 May

Cancelled shows

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and reason for cancellation
DateCityCountryVenueReason
1 March 2001 Dublin Ireland RDS Arena Weather concerns

Broadcasts and recordings

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".

Personnel

Musicians

Dancers

References

  1. ↑ Kylie: Live in Sydney Amazon UK Listing. Retrieved 31 May 2008 from Amazon UK
  2. ↑ Archived 6 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 31 May 2008 from Warner Music Australia
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