Kylie Minogue can’t stop smiling. Throughout almost the entirety of the two-hour runtime for the Tension tour, the 56-year-old beams as she leads the crowd through a hit-drenched setlist that barely gives you a chance to catch your breath.
To be fair to Ms Minogue, she has a lot to be happy about. Since her performance in the Legends Slot at Glastonbury in 2019, her career has gone from strength to strength as she’s settled comfortably into living legend status. Her slinky 2023 single “Padam Padam” became a viral hit, boosting her profile in the previously ambivalent USA, where, to capitalise on the success, she set up shop in Las Vegas for a residency at The Venetian hotel and casino. Tension, the parent album for “Padam Padam”, proved so popular that it got a sequel, Tension II. Ahead of that record’s release, Minogue announced she would head out on her biggest run of live shows in a decade. If you were a pop star over 36 years into your career, you’d likely be smiling, too.
