Kylie Minogue at Edinburgh Castle

Kylie Minogue

Edinburgh Castle

15 July 2019

Well, what else is there to say about Kylie Minogue...? After all these years she is still entertaining her old fans while continually attracting more.

Rave reviews continue to follow her shows.After wowing everyone at Glastonbury it was soon time bring the tour to Edinburgh Castle for two sold-out nights of pure pop and I was there for the second evening.

It was almost exactly one year since my first concert at the castle, which was the middle of my three Bananarama gigs (and one of the very last before Siobhan made it one banana less again, to resurrect Shakespeare's Sister about which more later in the year).

One of the many fabulous aspects about a gig at the castle is the way in which the scenario changes as the sun goes down. The growing darkness of the night sky shows up the flaming torches around the outside of the castle.

Everyone was in a good mood for this one and even when the row of east immediately in front of me collapsed, taking the people with it and leaving behind a welter of trapped coats, temporarily lost phones and stray hot dogs, it didn't take very long at all for everyone to be relocated and smiling again.

Local girl Nina Nesbitt opened the show and did a very good job.

Kylie's tour is based around the release of Step Back in Time: The Definitive Collection, which spans her 30-year career of top hits and she certainly went through the card. All the favourites were present and correct as she crammed 22 songs into the set just before the castle curfew of 10.30 a.m.

There were plenty of fast costumes changes, dancers, colour and routines. Nothing deep, obviously; this was as pop as it gets, all catchy tunes and happy people. A fine evening's entertainment, and no mistake.

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