Kylie Is Still Golden As She Wows Leeds Arena

Graham Clark, Features Writer

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Making her first visit to the Leeds Arena the Golden tour is on a big scale. There has been a lot of thought put into the spectacle from the lighting, dancing, costume changes, the references to Leeds and her fans right down to the confetti cannons that exploded in a rainbow colour sequence in homage to her gay fans.
The show was split into seven sections with a break half way through. The gig starts with the huge video wall behind the stage showing a desert sunrise then rising out of the stage there she is sitting on top of a pile of suitcases wearing a pair of white cowboy boots, as Golden the title track of the latest album is performed.

With her dancers dressed looking like they had just come out of the musical Annie Get Your Gun it might have been better to place the track in a more sympathetic setting later on in the show.

Things start to move up a gear again as the next section sees her dressed in denim trousers as a brilliant rendition of Radio On mixes into Wow and Can't Get You Out of My Head.
Then comes a master stroke as she turns her back on the audience to put on a denim jacket that has Leeds stitched across the top!

Beginning with a segment at a Biker Rally, the track Slow kicks things off which sees her looking very good for a 50 year old dressed head to toe in black leather. With the motorbikes on stage it could have even been a Judas Priest gig but they definitely would not have looked as good as this!

The legendary New York night club, Studio 54 is the setting for the Disco section. The mirrorball lights up the arena, the dancers look like they have just time travelled back to 1979 and Kylie looks glittering in an age appropriate gold glitter dress as On a Night Like This has the audience up on their feet.

It's not all over though as the encore sees Kylie dressed wearing thigh high boots and a green top performing Love At First Sight then Dancing, though her dancers are back again in country style outfits resisting the temptation thankfully to start line dancing.

Kylie Is Still Golden As She Wows Leeds Arena, 6th October 2018, 9:07 AM