Kylie Minogue hasn’t performed at BST Hyde Park in nearly a decade, but my goodness she knows how to make up for lost time. Our camp queen of addictive dance pop , 80s singalong hits and euphoric 00s floorfillers returned to the London festival for the first time since 2015, and her comeback could not have been more outrageous. Entering onto the stage in skintight red latex to a heaving crowd of 65,000, it was like a seal had been broken.
Life has been grim lately in the UK – our summer so far has been defined by a haphazard general election and classic cold, grey British weather . In July. But Kylie made it all OK again, at least for those of us crammed into Hyde Park – she put on one hell of a party and gave us a reason to feel joyful again.
It didn’t even rain despite threats from the clouds, and I fully believe this was the power of Kylie. It just cannot rain in her presence. She kicked off the night with Tension, one of her newer bangers, dressed in aforementioned red latex backed by a gaggle of sweaty male dancers in their own shiny outfits.
‘Here’s the thing, I knew we were going to be here tonight,’ she said after her epic intro through the world’s biggest smile. ‘I knew you were going to be here tonight, but you still take my breath away. British Summer Time, I’m really aware it was nine years since I last played this stage.
.. But we are here and I am so so grateful.
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