Looking Back: Kylie!

Now that Kylie has passed (two days to be exact), I lose some interest in recapping the evening. Needless to say, I can't let the night go by without a comment or two.

It all started with meeting Markus for half of a ham sandwich before the show. Unlike America, there aren't fast food choices on each corner so we opted for the quickest dinner we could find. After all, we had arena floor tickets so it was a first come, first serve basis.

We arrived at the Olympic Hall around 6:45 - over 80 minutes before the show. Nobody was in their seat. And the arena floor was more like a gay bar around 10:00 p.m. Not that I expected anything different, it was Kylie Minogue.

Once it struck 8, Kylie and the floor went crazy. It was gays gone wild - and was so for the next two hours (with a 15 minute intermission). Markus and I withstood the heat and crowd for the first half of the show, then we opted to escape for a bratwurst and water - never returning to the center. We thought it was more pleasant towards the back. More air. More room. More opportunities to comment on those around us.

As for the show, it was somewhat of a mixed bag of sets and themes. But, Kylie sang live - performing songs not only from her latest CD X but also going back in time to I Should Be So Lucky (one of my favorites). Markus says previous shows were better. But for me, as I've wanted to see Kylie for years, it was a "fun" show. Not the best (like Janet Jackson for example), but fun.

So on a PTT scale from 1 - 10:

My Dinner: 3 (how good can ham be?)
My Date: 10 (Markus - enough said)
Our Tickets: 9 (Never a fan of the floor, but if you want the fun...)
Kylie's Singing: 7 (She's not Mariah, but when it's that loud...)
The Sets: 7 (a bit simple and understated)
The Video Screens: 10 (pretty lights, pretty pictures)
The Crowd: 7 (very international - and did I say G-A-Y)
The Intermission: 10 (boy did I need that bathroom break)