Kylie Minogue Album: “Kylie Fever 2002: Live in Manchester”

This was a pretty damn good tour, but the on a night like this tour was better. here's the set list

1. intro - the sound of music

2. come into my world - one of my favorite songs off of the fever album. great way to open up the show. she's robotic!

3. shocked - she performs a pretty cool remix.

4. love at first sight - an o.k. performance, but kylie's pretty shakey in the vocals.

5. fever - i like how she's on the bed singing the song.

6. spinning around - loved the performance. costumes were kind of weird, but it was cool.

7. the crying game ballads (the crying game, put yourself in my place, finer feelings, dangerous game) - beautiful performance. very sexy dress she had on.

8. gbi (german bold italic) - the premier of the song. i had to get it after i heard it.

9. confide in me - the best performance of cim i've ever seen

10. cowboy style/double dutch - really cool. i also like how she raps to the real slim shady but makes it into the real slim lady. :)

11. kids - she sings with her backup singers. sexy and cool

12. on a night like this - really sexy and i love the outfit that she wears.

13. locomotion - absolutely love this remix, but i can't find it anywhere. i like how kylie and her dancers form a locomotion.

14. in your eyes (latin section - in your eyes/please stay/rhythm of the night) - this was an awesome performance, but the male costumes were kinda.......interesting

15. limbo - pretty cool trance version of the impossibe princess song

16. light years/i feel love - love both songs and i like how they're both mixed. awesome performance

17. i should be so lucky/dreams - a trance version of the classic song. loved it

18. burning up - love the song, the performance was cool. i like how kylie was raised 15 ft in the air with a long red satin dress on.

19. better the devil you know - nice performance of her anthem

20. can't get blue monday out of my head - the encore of the most anticipated song of the tour. after the first verse of the song, kylie mixes the song with new order's blue monday. fantabulous.

great concert, but it doesn't top the on a night like this tour.

I tried to like this concert dvd. Honest. All the ingredients are there for a great show but there is no energy present. Kylie looks lost the entire show. I have come to the conclusion that due to the popularity of Fever in the US during rehearsals for this tour that Kylie herself missed too many dress rehearsals and had little to say about the concert's overall look and finished product. It is obvious that she is uncomfortable with the choreography by the simple fact that she does not move for the entire 2 hours. She mastered one arm movement that [is overused]. She looks great as always and sounds great, but she looks so rigid and lost. Overproduction took its toll.

This is one of the best concert DVD's I own, which is quite surprising, considering that the genre (dance/pop) is usually superficial. With few exceptions, it has her best songs (as well as the best versions of those songs). The costumes and choreography are risque, artsy, and high-tech. The concert is not without its flaws--in many cases, it's hit or miss, but there is only one track that's bad in its entirety. This is Kylie for the 21st Century!

The concert opens in spectacular fashion with Kylie emerging from a space pod in stunning sci-fi gear singing "Come Into My World" and "Shocked." Then, it's Kylie at her most Madonna-like singing "Love At First Sight." "Fever" is okay except that the backup dancers wear ridiculous costumes. Kylie switches to street clothes for "Spinning Around," one of her stronger numbers. Then there's a sequence of ballads including "Crying Game" and "Put Yourself in My Place" in which she's wearing an elegant black leather dress. The dancers show off their moves in "GBI." For "Confide in Me," Kylie-the-Cop comes out and faces off against a Taebo graffiti artist (If cops were as hot as Kylie, no one would ever resist arrest!) "Cowboy Style," in which she tries to imitate Eminem, is the only bad track on the DVD. I would also add that the costumes for the backup dancers look like they came from a clearance rack from 1985. For "Kids," she gets some quality help from her two African-American female backup singers. "On A Night Like This" is a club classic, and always sounds good. Kylie also looks really sexy in her lingerie. Now "Locomotion" is her best-known track in the U.S., and one drawback to performing it is that it's overplayed and sounds a bit simplistic. So for this concert, Kylie slowed it down and performed a burlesque, adults-only version in which she formed a human chain with her scantily clad dancers. Afterwards, she does "In Your Eyes" and throws in a little Gloria Estefan with her "Rhythm of the Night" It doesn't work. But now comes the part of the concert that is truly phenomenal, and vaults it into one of the best concert DVD's EVER. The techno music starts, and Kylie sings first "Limbo," then "Light Years" which merges into "I Feel Love" (Kylie does a very mean Donna Summer imitation). Then there's a trance version of "Lucky" which is much more sophisticated and superior to the original version. Kylie bows out from the stage, then reappears as a phoenix goddess to an aborigine tribe. Her dress is gorgeous and looks like it's on fire. She sings "Burning Up" (what else?) and the showstopper "Better the Devil You Know." Kylie leaves the stage again, then returns for a second encore and does her best number: "Can't Get You Out Of My Head." It is perfectly sung and danced to. Additionally, New Order's "Blue Monday" is spliced in to add another layer to the song and to remind everyone that this is Manchester after all.

The Fever2002 DVD was the first Kylie DVD that I ever bought and it is probably the one that I still watch the most. When I first watched it my first thought was that it is very Euro-ish. The costuming and dancing is a break from usual concerts that you normally see. Most of the tracks that Kylie sings in the concert are techno sounding, tbe exceptions are: The Crying Game ballad section, Confide in me, Cowboy style, and Locomotion. If you want to see what the concert and its style is like, you should check out Kylie's music video for "Love at first sight". The dance movements and dancer costumes will give a little preview on what the concert will be like. So yes, the concert is a little out there but it is also an awesome concert and one that Kylie fans shouldn't miss out on.

Standout performances: Come into my world, Crying Game ballad section, Confide in me,Kids,On a night like this, Burning up, and Better the devil you know.

The Fever tour was brilliant because it captured a career spanning 15 years. Whilst Live in Sydney was Camp Kylie at work, this show proves that Kylie is not a two dimentional pop singer.

It would have been easy to give the audience what they EXPECTED, but Kylie continued to push the envelope and prove her abilities and good for her for bringing some long forgotten gems such as GBI, Limbo and Cowboy Style out of the closet!

The sound on this DVD is great (whoever said Kylie's voice could not be heard must have a faulty copy!!!), projections are ace and so is the documentary at the end.

Don't buy this if you expect Live in Sydney part 2. Buy if you have followed her career and know that there is more to Kylie than I should Be So Lucky and Love Boat.