UK - Described by the Daily Mail as "visually one of Kylie's best" the princess of pop Kylie Minogue used a one-off concert at London's Hammersmith Apollo to launch her latest album Body Language. The show took the same amount of design time, preparation and production as a whole tour and incorporated Paris street scenes, huge steel constructions and a motorbike to boot.

Stage Technologies, in conjunction with The Rigging Partnership, provided the scenic wow factor for the show with an automation system to complement the starlet's visual extravaganza. For her grand entrance they used four Big Tow winches to lower her onto the stage on a mechanical girder, as characterized on the Body Language album cover, with a further two monster LED screens tracking up and down stage. With four thousand screaming fans and a number one from the album already under her belt it looks like the Australian survivor's inimitable presence is still working its magic.

(Sarah Rushton-Read)


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