Kylie’s X2008 concert a hit, Dannii still ‘not Kylie’

Courtney Act joins us for a review of the new Kylie Minogue concert which she recently saw in London, plus a run-down of the final night at G-A-Y. The fickle gay audience booed Girls Aloud off stage, but welcomed Dannii Mingoue, even though she is still ‘not Kylie’.

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Interview Transcript
Andy: We have the gorgeous and sensational Courtney Act on the line, good morning.
Courtney: Good morning
Adrian: Now you have just come back from a world wind, well not world wind, a tour of Europe, how did it go?
Courtney: It was so much fun! I went to London and I went to Ibitha and back to London and I did some shows in London which was very fun. And while I was in London I got to go the Kylie concert, I went to the final night of G-A-Y; It was an action packed trip.
Andy: What!? The final night of G-A-Y? What’s going on there?
Courtney: Well Jeremy Joseph, the promoter of G-A-Y at the Astoria has decided, well, I don’t know what the real reasons are but they have decided that the Astoria is a bit run down, which it is, and that they are going to, well they have now closed the Astoria. And there are rumours that they are going to start G-A-Y at another venue but it’s been a few weeks now but it’s yet to be announced.
Adrian: We were just saying, where is Dannii Minogue going to play now?
Courtney: I know, she’ll be out of a job.
Andy: That place has got history.
Adrian: So many memories. Andy, you and I went to see …
Andy: Bananarama. And they give you fluoro whistles when you walk in the door and it’s only like five pounds to go see these 40 year old women dancing and miming on stage, it’s brilliant!
Courtney: Worth every penny. Well, the night I was there they had nine acts, one to represent each of the nine years. The first few were British pop acts I’d never really heard of – McFly maybe?
Andy: Did they have Chumbawamba?
Courtney: No there was no tub-thumping. There were The Saturdays who are the new answer to Girls Aloud. They were created by the guy who created Girls Aloud and now Girls Aloud are a little bit pissed off because he’s created a new Girls Aloud group.
Andy: Oh, and his focus has changed.
Courtney: And they got booed off stage for miming and promoting their new album.
Adrian: At G-A-Y?
Courtney: Yeah it was great! They were like “We’d like you all to rush out tomorrow to the stores because our new album is on iTunes” and everyone was like “Boo!”.
Adrian: It’s a fickle gay audience – they’ll turn on you in an instant!
Courtney: They will. There was Bucks Fizz.
Adrian: Who?
Courtney: Bucks Fizz from the 80s. You know “Fun, little one, for the sun”. No?
Adrian: No.
Courtney: Ok. Alcazar.
Adrian: Richard Gere’s tie, I love that song.
Courtney: Sophie Elise Bextor, she was performing. And her boyfriend’s band, and I don’t know what they’re called. Oh, Sam Sparro, he was fantastic. With three big black women who were wailing it out. They did a bit of “Everybody Dance Now!” it was fantastic!
A&A: Haha!
Andy: I’m glad to see Marcia is still working
Courtney: Indeed, actually, there was a lot of speculation on the streets on who would be performing on the final night of G-A-Y because the Kylie concert debut in London was earlier that evening at O2 Stadium and so everyone was like, “It’s perfect timing, Kylie can just cross town to do the final night at G-A-Y, she’ll be onstage at 12:35” and then somebody was like “Oh my god there’s balloons on the ceiling and one of the balloons just popped and it had Kylie written on it. Kylie’s definitely performing!”
Andy: I can just imagine the audience going hysterical “Oh my god it’s going to be Kylie!!”
Courtney: It was like Mardi Gras every single year. And then, Jeremy Joseph came up on stage and said “Ladies and Gentlemen I would like to introduce your final performer …
A&A: Ahh!!!
Courtney: … Dannii Minogue!
A&A: Oh! Oh no, that’s happened before hasn’t it at Mardi Gras?
Courtney: They actually got the lovely Pam Ann to come in as a buffer because I think if he’d just said “Dannii Minogue!” and Dannii had walked on stage everybody would have … not there there’s anything wrong with Dannii, she’s just not Kylie.
Andy: Oh the poor thing, no matter what she does she’ll always be known as Kylie’s sister.
Courtney: If she was like, Dannii Smith, then everybody would have been really excited to have her performing , but the fact that she’s Dannii Minogue , everyone was like “Oh, well she’s not Kylie is she?”
Adrian: Poor girl
Courtney: Pam Ann came out to buffer the impact and did another pre introduction and then Dannii came on and did a fantastic version of “All I Wanna Do” and she had a mime, a man not miming … um … signing all the lyrics! And then she did a big costume change which took forever and everyone was very excited about the elaborate costume she was going to come out in and she came out in a pair of black tights and a black corset with a hat on her head.
A&A: Haha!
Courtney: I think she was just getting changed to go home. And a few choruses of Zanadu and that was about it.
Adrian: Now tell us about the Kylie concert
Courtney: Well I went to the debut night of the Kylie concert it was very exciting. I loved the first part, she did this very camp rendition of Copacabana and she acted it all out and it was very theatrical and very fun, that was my favourite part. She had pierorazio sailors and ballroom dancing …
Andy: So she’s still got the hot dancers as her backup?
Courtney: Well hot dancers with buckets on their heads.
Adrian: Did she have bananas and a pineapple on her head?
Courtney: She didn’t have bananas and pineapples, she was the singer and then there was a girl who played Lola who had the yellow feather in her hair
Andy: It’s very Hibiscus Island, Muriel’s Wedding.
Courtney: Hi-Biscus I-land!
A&A: Haha!
Courtney: And the whole stage had a TV screen it was like a preview of the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony, it was amazing. And she did a very camp version of ‘Mickey You’re So Fine’, so look out for that one when it comes to Sydney and Melbourne later this year.
Andy: Yeah I think December, because she always times it so can spend Christmas with the fam.