On a Night Like This was the sixth concert tour by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue, in support of her seventh studio album, Light Years (2000). The tour consisted of a European leg and Australian leg, beginning on 3 March 2001 at the Clyde Auditorium, in Glasgow, Scotland, and concluding back in Australia on 15 May 2001 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. With both legs of the tour consisting of 23 shows, respectively, Kylie was among the most successful Australian touring artists.
After the success of her performances at the 2000 Sydney Olympics' closing ceremonies and during the opening ceremony of the Paralympics, days later, Minogue's team announced details of the planned tour.[1] Tickets went on sale in November of 2000, with a demand that established her as one of the most popular live acts at the time. However, the tour began somewhat problematically, when opening night at the RDS Arena, Dublin, Ireland, on 1 March 2001, was cancelled due to air traffic control restrictions.[2]
Reported from the Australian leg alone, the tour garnered over 200,000 ticket sales with a gross of A$10 million ($7.1 million in 2026).[3][4]
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[5] featured elaborate backdrops, 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.
Certain worn pieces including accessories from the show were collectively gifted to Arts Centre Melbourne by Minogue in 2004 and 2006. The last piece to be archived was the tour programme in 2009.[6]
Reception
The tour received favorable reviews from news critics. Attending the London Apollo, W6 show, Tom Horan from The Daily Telegraph praised Minogue for having "emanated an infectious warmth and goodwill"[7] right from the beginning of the show. Reporting from night 3 of her 4-day show at Manchester Apollo, Simon Godley from God Is in the TV wrote: "It (the show) was top-end camp glamour, highly decorative, wonderfully expressive, mildly erotic, and all handled with suitably understated sexual innuendo."[8]. On the night of Bournemouth, Hilary Porter from Dorset Echo complimented the theatrical aspect of the performances as well as its atmosphere, saying: "From the moment the purple regal drapes embossed with her initials fell open mouthed at her dainty stilettoed feet. Fully grown men behaved like love-struck teenyboppers [...] and could be heard chanting “Kylie Kylie!”"[9]
Setlist
The following set list is obtained from the 11 May 2001 show in Sydney, Australia. It is not intended to represent all dates throughout the tour.
The first night of the tour marked the premiere of "Can't Get Out You Out of My Head", as Minogue shared she was working on her upcoming album, Fever.[10]
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[12] in the UK and 15 October 2001[13] 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 consists of stage personnel doing random things below the stage where Kylie can see them when she turns to look at the backdrop during "So Now Goodbye".
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