Kylie Ann Minogue (Melbourne, 1968) is a pop icon and an international diva and this Saturday demonstrated in Bilbao. The 57 -year -old Australian artist has published 17 albums throughout her career, the last one in 2024, and this Friday at 22.35 Nagusia of the BBK Live festival was taken to offer a concert of an hour and a half that managed to get everyone out of the festival, as if there was no one else in the poster, and conquered Kobetamendi. “Kylie Minogue is a diva” and “is a goddess” were some of the phrases that were most heard among the public.
The Australian, with 14 million monthly listeners at Spotify, visited the city for the first time to offer a concert within its Tension Tour 2025. It appeared on time, under a huge disco ball, made it purple, the same color of the great feminist flag that did not stop waving among those attending the show and did so singing Lights camera action And one of its multiple hymns: In your eyespublished in 2001, and that is part of the collective memory to which his well -known album belongs Fever.
The public surrounded the main stage of the festival on the day with more attendees of this edition to receive the timeless Kylie Minogue, who did not stop dancing on a stage where he had the company of his band and eight dancers who, like her, wore a lot of latex. Among the attendees, a marked percentage of LGTBIQ+public, which, finally, could see their diva live. Recall that in 2010 it was the artist who closed the pride of Madrid, and that in 2016 he challenged the Australian government not to marry as long as they did not approve the law of equal marriage.
To the people who packed the BBK, Minogue sang them Get Outta My Waysong published in 2010 and belongs to the album Aphrodite. Excited and with an omnipresent smile he went to them in Basque, thanked to be at a festival that is important and to act for the first time in Bilbao. He also had time to sing songs from his latest album, Tension IIhow Good As Gone.
Minogue turned the stage into a disco, a dance floor in which he demonstrated his strength with different outfits, through red and black, and always accompanied by a lot of brightness. The public of the BBK Live had time to chant the famous meme “and beautiful, and beautiful, and beautiful and beautiful. And queen, and queen, and queen and queen and queen and queen.” And of course, she returned the gesture with a few words: “You are incredible, I love feeling your energy.”
The truth is that Minogue has been giving war from the eighties, so he wanted to go back in time with songs like his version of The Loco-Motion, A theme that sang at half an hour of show. Kylie started her career being an actress and her role in the series Neighbours He gave him a lot of reputation in both Australia and the United Kingdom, a country that considers his “adoption home” and in which he has received the order of the British Empire (OBE) granted by Queen Elizabeth II of England in recognition of her contribution to music. This year, he has received another recognition for his tour by having managed to fill the historic O2 of London 24 times. Tension Tour, which began in Australia, and concludes on August 26, will also pass through Seville.
In Bilbao, Kylie also dared with Hold On To Now, Sis something in acoustic or Where Does the DJ Go?. Of course, the high moment of the concert was lived at 23.47 when he sang Can’t Get You Out of My Head, All My Loverso su viral Go out. For the last part he dared with a yellow, orange and black dress in which his name appeared. The evening of the also called “Princess of Pop” ended almost at the same time that the night ends for another princess, this time of Disney, Cinderella, eight minutes after midnight and with with Love At First Sight. And yes, as this song says, the Minogue thing in the BBK Live was a love at first sight but of those that lasts a lifetime.
Bilbao BBK Live has closed its nineteenth edition celebrating three days in which Kobetamendi has brought together more than 115,000 attendees from more than 50 countries, on Saturday being the day of greatest influx, something that was perceived on the land. Before Kylie, highlighted the French sextet L’Empératrice, and after Kylie, a magnificent and colossal Nathy Peluso, who knew how to maintain the rhythm of the Australian with her marked personal style on stage. Just as Sidonie, a classic that never fails, and The Blessed Madonna, who put the electronic brooch to a poster in which women also dominated the upper part and that this year has shown that conquer an increasingly young audience. In this edition marked by the rain that momentarily paralyzed the festival on Friday and affected Amaia’s show, without a doubt, Bicep, Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso, Kneecap, Kylie Minogue, Michael Kiwanuka, Polo & Pan, Pulp and Rusowsky, were some of their best sets.