Kylie‘s coming ’round again, and she’s finally clued us all in as to what we should be expecting with the upcoming KylieX2008 tour on her main website:
Kylie Minogue returns to her true home – the live stage – when she opens her greatest ever tour KylieX2008 in Paris on May 6th.
The tour will take Kylie through most of Europe and will see her play for the first time in Greece, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Luxembourg, Russia, Latvia and Spain. It will also be her first appearance in Northern Ireland since her first world tour in 1990. The tour ends in London on August 4, the last of a staggering seven nights at the capital’s 02 Arena.
Ticket sales for the tour currently stand at over half a million and the show itself has cost a breathtaking 10 million pounds to stage, which makes it the biggest and most expensive show that Kylie has produced to date, easily eclipsing groundbreaking tours like 2002’s Fever in ambition and scale.
Kylie’s wardrobe for this tour has been exclusively designed by master couturier Jean Paul Gaultier and the show will feature at least 7 costumes just for Kylie, with more visual elements being added daily!
KylieX2008 also sees Kylie perform with a brand new live band including, for the first time, a brass section and a total of 14 dancers, including 4 acrobats.
For the songs, Kylie has drawn on a breadth of material spread over her career but also promises some unheard songs and at least one surprising cover. Songs including those from ‘X’, Kylie’s current studio album, will be performed on a set dominated by huge video screens which will integrate with graphic staging and theatrical lighting to create a new concert experience for the audience. Always celebrated for her incredible breadth of vision on the live stage, this show sees Kylie move further ahead of her contemporaries.
At the end of the day though, ten million or ten cents in expenses, it will still be all Kylie, writhing around with six fit, shirtless men. And you know what? That’s fine with me.
To celebrate, I’m posting the essential “Burning Up” / “Vogue” mash-up she performed on the Showgirl Homecoming Tour. Leather, Kylie, Madonna, Voguing. Next to full on gay porn, it couldn’t possibly get much more homo than this bad boy right here: