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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Rachel Johnson

Kylie Minogue at BST Hyde Park: the pop icon brought pure Aussie sunshine to this disappointing London summer

Padam Padam! What does it feel like to have 65,000 people in love with you and chanting your name? Ask Kylie, who beamed and twirled and swept along the superfans for two hours in Hyde Park on Saturday night, many wearing pink cowboy hats and lamé with glitter on their cheeks, and that was only the blokes.

As my companion Tom – who’d come to “find a husband” – said, in wonderment, “I haven’t seen this many gays together in London since Diana’s funeral!”

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