Kylie Minogue BST Hyde Park 2024 review: Pop legend returned better than ever to capital greenspace

It’s the final Saturday of BST Hyde Park and Aussie pop icon Kylie Minogue’s turn to helm a day at the iconic capital green space.

While she was a few minutes fashionably late to the Great Oak Stage, what an entrance. The staging’s large-scale screens flashed hot pink before a few rounds of flares fired, signalling Kylie’s appearance was imminent.

Then, rising from the smoke on the event’s traverse stage, the pop legend finally appeared, earning excited cheers from the sold-out crowd as she began singing the title track from her latest album, Tension.

Kylie’s capital show at the iconic greenspace saw her return to BST Hyde Park after almost a decade following her last performance in 2015. 

“I’m really aware that it has been nine years since I played this stage. And in nine years or eight years or five years or one year or six months or one day, so much can happen, and so much has happened for me,” she reflected.

For Kylie the last nine years have seen her release a total of four albums including a Christmas record as well as Golden, Disco and Tension. Unsurprisingly as the newest Tension was the only out of those that was featured in her BST set. 

Things We Do For Love and One More Time were some of the Tension tracks Kylie performed as well as the album’s smash hit Padam Padam.

As well as honouring her new releases, Kylie also took fans on a journey through her music from over the past 3 decades from the early days to the millennium and noughties.

Following performances of the classic dance bangers Spinning Around and The Loco-Motion, Kylie let fans give their requests and performed snippets of Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi, Got To Be Certain, Step Back In Time, 2 Hearts and I Should Be So Lucky.

Next was a medley of new and old tunes featuring shortened versions of One More Time, Wow, Shocked before wrapping it up with I Believe In You.

And just when you thought the concert may be drawing to a close there was still plenty more to come including a few special guests.

As well as bringing out Brazilian singer Anitta who was one of the supporting line up of the day during a performance of Can’t Get You Out Of My Head, Kylie also welcomed Bebe Rexa and Tove Lo to the stage to perform their brand new single My Oh My.

Rounding off her 90-minute set was Love At First Sight, and even after almost 30 songs, fans were still left hoping for more as many sang I Should Be So Lucky in the chorus on the way out.