It's soon after 1am and I have just come home from seeing Kylie in her Tension Tour concert! I feel so lucky that I was able to pick up cancellation tickets at the last minute for a reasonable price, so I was super excited to see her. This is the fourth Kylie tour I've been to - Let's Get To It in 1991, Fever in 2002, Kiss Me Once in 2014 and now Tension in 2025. I played her album this afternoon as I got ready, defiantly dressed in a silver sequinned minidress - it's not often I get my legs out, but a Kylie concert demands it, along with all the sparkles that compliment her glitterball music.
I've been having a bit of a bad time with flashbacks of the riding accident and the hospital trauma over the past few months, so I really needed to just get out and let my hair down a bit. I was looking forward to a night of drinking, singing and no doubt making an exhibition of myself dancing along with my idol. I had the best, most liberated time!
There's something about seeing Kylie that always gives me chills. I get so excited to see her, in a way that I don't experience with other artists. I loved seeing The Corrs last November and Girls Aloud last May, I loved seeing Torvil and Dean last month, but none of them give me the nervous jitters before the show in the way that Kylie does. I think it is something to do with her having been my idol for so many years now, since I was about 12 years old. I get so star struck by her!
If you have ever seen Kylie perform live yourself, then you will know that she always, always delivers a superb show. It's like the biggest and best disco in town. Her vocals are live, her dancers are hot, her costumes are high fashion couture and her energy is seemingly boundless. She is a tiny figure on a huge stage, but she completely owns it and her presence is like a force of nature. She has great audience interactions too - tonight she presented a young girl with a rose as she sang Where The Wild Roses Grow and wore the vintage scarf from her Enjoy Yourself days back in the 1980s, that belonged to a fan, kissing it before handing it back to him. She just seems so kind-hearted and generous.
My favourite aspects of the concert was the opening act when she came down from the ceiling on a trapeze, singing Lights, Camera, Action, and the Disco set on a separate central stage, complete with a huge glitterball that spun around and bathed the entire audience in sparkling light. It was simply beautiful to see. I also loved her costumes, and while there wasn't a feather headdress to be seen, she did wear a sequinned red jumpsuit-to-dress combo and a black sequinned cape dress which was stunning. I really liked those outfits. She did a walkaround the crowd so that people could take pictures of her and had a couple of on stage quick changes that went at lightning speed. Of course she performed all the old favourites - On A Night Like This, Love at First Sight, What Do I Have to Do, Can't Get You Out Of My Head, and my own personal favourites Better The Devil You Know, Shocked, Get Out Of My Way and Two Hearts. She even took a request song from the audience which tonight was Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi. Mostly though it was high energy dance tracks from her most recent albums Disco, Tension and Tension 2.
I had such a fantastic time this evening and it was just what I needed to lift the darkness of flashbacks and trauma that I've been experiencing since February. It put me into a joyful place once again and definitely broke the tension! This is the happiest I've been since the accident, so Kylie has certainly worked some healing magic on me with her music tonight. I feel so grateful that I got to see her again. She really is brilliant, so if you get the chance to attend the Tension Tour, I urge you to go as she will be touring the UK until June. In the meantime, I'll probably share some of the concert footage on Twitter over the coming days, so keep an eye open for that. Enjoy!
Bright Blessings
Marie x
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