Just take a look at the comments section on Youtube, newspapers etc.
Kylie Minogue - Tension Tour 2025
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When I left the 2nd Sydney show, a group of ladies were talking about how good the show was, but how disappointing it is that she always lip-syncs so much.
I love Put yourself in my Place but Confide being a huge hit in the UK and Australia, she will always favour this one I think.
Absolutely cannot wait for Denver. Haven't been front row for a concert ever until now.
Just really worried they'll pull the plug on it unless ticket sales improve. It looks like they're not even putting the higher seat areas up for sale.
Just really worried they'll pull the plug on it unless ticket sales improve. It looks like they're not even putting the higher seat areas up for sale.
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I have friends to this day that questioned if she was hitting the final Confide in Me notes, and while I understand her voice is very unique and doesn't really resonate with people, you simply cannot deny the fact this woman can sing. She might not have the powerhouse vocals people associate with "ability" but she can hold a show almost pitch perfect for 2 hours straight, and doesn't falter.
I wonder if North America will be getting the diamond laser, the stage lift and the illuminated ceiling. Seems these were all skipped for the Asia leg.
Not sure whether things like this are shipped from place to place (expensive?) or rented from local stock (cheaper?).
Not sure whether things like this are shipped from place to place (expensive?) or rented from local stock (cheaper?).
Would be unlikely to cancel the show now, but yeah, the promoter choosing to put her in secondary U.S. touring cities like Denver and Phoenix.
There must be a strategy! Someone in this thread said the U.S. promoter is based in Denver, so they know that market better than anyone, I guess?
I have friends in Denver, and they said Madonna's Celebration concert didn't sell-out until the day of the concert. They bought their tickets 2 days before for Madonna!!
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I mean...Phoenix is the 5th most populated city in the US. I'm not quite sure where you're from but neither Phoenix or Denver are small towns by any means. She's just going to struggle selling out arenas in the US period (besides like 4 key cities with huge populations i.e. NY, LA, Chicago, SF) because besides a small, older, niche gay audience...she just isn't very known or popular here. She probably would've been smart to find another, male, throwback act to do a join tour with or should've announced these shows when Padam was hot.
I remember seeing George Michael in 08 and it similarly was not very soldout. These 80s/90s acts that were huge overseas just were not in the states and with the current economy (similar to then) people can't shell out big money for someone with a few hits they know.
Seattle, Atlanta and Orlando shows also blocked off the upper levels on the sides
My snobby American friends from New York and California referred to them as secondary cities! My bad!
I cannot see Kylie doing a U.S. tour with Rick Astley, so I guess for the concerts that aren't NY, San Francisco, Chicago, LA and DC, selling 8,000-ish tickets will be enough.
They're definitely secondary cities...but the US is so large and spread out. 1.65M people live in Phoenix - but a total of about 5M people in the "Phoenix metro area" (including nearby cities like Scottsdale)...compared to 500k people in Sheffield UK (a similarly "secondary" UK city) - and in the UK, she's playing in Sheffield and nearby Nottingham which is just an hour and a half drive away (whereas in the US you could drive for 2 hours and be in the "suburb" of a tour stop).
So in England you have 2 tour stops for 1M people, but in the US you have 1 tour stop for like 5M people. The demand just isn't there because she isn't known here that way.
Yes! European nations are smaller than the U.S. and more densely populated usually.
…. that Taiwanese crowd looked epic!
Next stop is Toronto which from Ticketmaster looks very well sold! My old hometown of Toronto, do not disappoint me, show up for Australia's Queen!
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One of the worst things that has happened from reality singing competitions on TV is that it has conditioned more and more of the public that (for a female) being able to sing = having a powerhouse voice like Whitney, Celine and so on or do melismas and vocal tics (which is how we end up with Jessie J's Top of the Pops Christmas special, where someone told her to just do them all).
Male singers are not held to that standard - just look at the comments sections under any news report about a female stadium gig vs male stadium gig to see the difference in replies.
Booking my flights and securing my plans for Denver. Really hope her team doesn't cancel the date due to low sales. Wondering if I should make everything refundable just in case.
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I'll be at the Toronto show!
I did notice on this tour she does allow the audience to take over for certain parts a lot more frequently, but the fact is she does indeed keep that mic on for the whole show. A true professional.
Surely Denver radio will do freebies, and industry tickets!
Denver will be fine!
I wanted to catch the show early and was aiming for a mini-vacay in Toronto but settled on Montreal with better seats. Still loads of tix left but since it’s a hop away hoping it’ll go on as planned???