On a Night Like This Tour

On a Night Like This Tour
Tour by Kylie Minogue
Associated album	Light Years
Start date	3 March 2001
End date	15 May 2001
Legs	2
Shows	23 in Europe 23 in Australia 46 in Total
Kylie Minogue tour chronology
Intimate and Live (1998) On a Night Like This Tour (2001) KylieFever2002 (2002)

On a Night Like This Tour is a Kylie Minogue concert tour in support of her seventh studio album Light Years that began in March 2001. Having hit the headlines around the globe for her hugely successful performance at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, and having subsequently performed again at the opening ceremony of Sydney's Paralympics soon after, Minogue seized the opportunity to announce details of her new tour. It became the fastest-selling concert tour of her career when tickets went on sale that November, and with dozens of sell-out shows, she had succeeded in establishing herself as one of the most in-demand live entertainers. The tour began with a bumpy start, however, when the first show in Dublin, Ireland, scheduled for 1 March, had to be cancelled due to treacherous storms preventing air travel into the country.

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 back-drops 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.

Set list

1. "Loveboat"
2. "Kookachoo"
3. "Hand on Your Heart"
4. "Put Yourself in My Place"
5. "On a Night Like This"
6. Medley:
   1. "Step Back in Time"
   2. "Never Too Late"
   3. "Wouldn't Change a Thing"
   4. "Turn It into Love"
   5. "Celebration"
7. "Can't Get You Out of My Head"
8. "Your Disco Needs You"
9. "I Should Be So Lucky"
10. "Better the Devil You Know"
11. "So Now Goodbye"
12. "Physical"
13. "Butterfly"
14. "Confide in Me"
15. "Kids"
16. "Shocked"

Encore

17. "Light Years"
18. "What Do I Have to Do"
19. "Spinning Around"

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue
Europe
3 March 2001	Glasgow	Scotland	Clyde Auditorium
4 March 2001
5 March 2001
7 March 2001	Manchester	England	Manchester Apollo
8 March 2001
9 March 2001
10 March 2001
12 March 2001	Brighton		Brighton Centre
13 March 2001
14 March 2001	Cardiff	Wales	Cardiff International Arena
15 March 2001	Bournemouth	England	Windsor Hall
17 March 2001	London		Hammersmith Apollo
18 March 2001
19 March 2001
20 March 2001
23 March 2001	Copenhagen	Denmark	Vega Musikkens Hus
25 March 2001	Berlin	Germany	Columbiahalle
26 March 2001	Hamburg		Große Freiheit 36
27 March 2001	Cologne		E-Werk
28 March 2001	Paris	France	Bataclan
30 March 2001	London	England	Hammersmith Apollo
31 March 2001
1 April 2001
Australia
14 April 2001	Brisbane	Australia	Brisbane Entertainment Centre
16 April 2001	Sydney		Sydney Entertainment Centre
17 April 2001
18 April 2001
19 April 2001
21 April 2001	Hobart		Derwent Entertainment Centre
23 April 2001	Melbourne		Rod Laver Arena
24 April 2001
25 April 2001	Adelaide		Adelaide Entertainment Centre
26 April 2001
28 April 2001	Perth		Perth Entertainment Centre
30 April 2001
3 May 2001	Melbourne		Rod Laver Arena
5 May 2001
6 May 2001
7 May 2001
9 May 2001	Sydney		Sydney Entertainment Centre
10 May 2001
11 May 2001
12 May 2001
13 May 2001
14 May 2001
15 May 2001

Personnel

Producers: Darenote Ltd., Kimberly Ltd. and Tarcoola Touring Company Ltd
Showgirl: Kylie Minogue
Management: Terry Blamey
Creative Director: Willian Baker
Director of Choreography: Luca Tommassini
Assistant Choreographer: Germana Bonaparte
Tour Manager: Sean Fitzpatrick
Production Manager: Steve Martin
Musical Director: Andrew Small
Music Producer: Steve Anderson
Assistant: Leanne Woolrich
Wardrobe: Julien Macdonald and Pamela Blundell
Styling: William Baker
Shoes: Manolo Blahnik

Band

Drums: Andrew Small
Percussion: James Mack
Keyboards: Steve Turner
Guitar: James Hayto
Bass: Chris Brown
Backing Vocals: Lurine Cato and Sherina White
Dancers: Milena Mancini, Federica Catalano, Veronica Peparini, Tony Bongiorno, Paolo Sabatini, Ginaluca Frezzato, Christian Scionte and Germana Bonaparte

Broadcasts and recordings

Main article: Live in Sydney

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 consist of stage personnel doing random things below the stage where Kylie can see them when she turns to look at the back drop during So Now Goodbye.

References

1. ^ Kylie: Live in Sydney Amazon UK Listing Retrieved 31 May 2008 from Amazon UK
2. ^ [1] Retrieved 31 May 2008 from Warner Music Australia

External links

• "2001 On A Night Like This Tour"
• Kylie Minogue notable Tours-Part 3-On A Night Like This Tour - Kylie Live In Sydney
• On A Night Like This Tour 2001
• ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS 2001
• On A Night Like This Tour 2001
• DVD.net: Kylie-Live in Sydney