Kylie + Nina Nesbitt live @ Eden Session, St Austell – 3rd July 2019
As the infamous Eden Sessions eased
smoothly past their one hundredth show, it felt about time that I
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| Nina Nesbitt |
There were three parts to the
evening and first of these was the excellent support act Nina Nesbitt.
The Scottish singer-songwriter is someone I’ve been a fan of for a while now
but it was great to see her live as she worked the crowd and warmed them up to
her sound. Nesbitt’s voice never wavered from the true note, her songs showed a
real maturity and she wasn’t afraid to get the crowd involved in call backs. As
well as a beautiful cover of Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’ given the slowed down John
Lewis treatment and a brief nod to Destiny’s Child, Nesbitt performed her own
impressive catalogue including the likes of ‘Loyal to Me’, ‘Somebody Special’
and ‘The Best You Had’. The highlight for me was recent single ‘Colder’ which
showed off Nesbitt’s vocal range and performance ability which will surely see
her back here as the main act before too long.
Now, for the second part and
there aren’t many scenarios where Kylie Minogue isn’t the main event but
when she appears from behind a glittering pillar looking every inch of fabulous
then you are left in no doubt as to who’s world you’re living in. With dancers
who look like they’ve just fallen out of the H&M Summer catalogue and a
backing band full of seriously talented musicians, any artist would have been
off to flyer but this is Kylie, she didn’t need any of that. The early material
got the crowd singing along to the likes of ‘Hand On Your Heart’, ‘Especially
For You’, ‘the Loco-Motion’, ‘Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi’ and ‘I Should Be So Lucky’
and you could see the 12 year old girls in the women who had grown up with
these songs beaming with joy. Those smiles were met with an equally happy smile
from the Australian as she saw how much pleasure her music and performance gave
to the sold-out audience.
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| Kylie (Pic: Jan Lewis) |
Moving through the 90s-00s
material and a number of costume changes, Kylie treated us to reworked and
remixed versions of ‘Confide in Me’, ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’, ‘Where the
Wild Roses Grow’ and ‘Love at First Sight’. The emotion behind Kylie’s
performance of her 2010 hit ‘All the Lovers’ had strangers hugging and arms
swaying while we all sang along as one. With an encore of the bitter-sweet
recent single ‘Dancing’ and the anthemic ‘Spinning Around’ the show was over
and thousands of happy, drained fans drifted into the night left completely satisfied.
Kylie is a consummate performer with a seriously impressive catalogue of songs
and if you want to experience pure positivity and love then I can thoroughly
recommend this as an experience.
Finally, we come to part three. I
don’t know if this was something I’m not used to from normally going to smaller
shows but the second there was a hint of Kylie the stage was blocked off by a
sea of mobile phones being held aloft. Now, I’m no Grinch, by all means get a
pic or a video of your hero but can you at least take the card holder off your
phone before you hold it up in front of my face. Also, if you’re going to face-time
your mate then get out of the way so I can see Kylie rather than your mate
shaving his face and dancing to the music. I’ve never been that bothered by
mobile phones at gigs but this was just beyond insane so my idea is this –
split the audience area down the middle, left hand side is phone free, right
hand side can go nuts with their Snapchat filters. It didn’t ruin the night but
that’s down to Kylie just putting an impervious show.
More information:
Nina Nesbitt – https://www.facebook.com/ninanesbittmusic/