Kylie Minogue, the Australian soap actor turned pop star with number ones in four decades, brought her Tension Tour to The O2 arena for four nights.
Kylie Minogue played four nights at The O2 arena, on 26 and 27 May and 2 and 3 June 2025, her first shows there in seven years.
Minogue was born in Melbourne in 1968 and first became known as Charlene Mitchell, the schoolgirl turned garage mechanic in the soap opera Neighbours. Her early singles for the PWL label, The Loco-Motion and I Should Be So Lucky among them, made her a pop fixture by the end of the 1980s. Fever, in 2001, led by Can’t Get You Out of My Head, turned a national favourite into a worldwide one, and that single sold over twelve million copies.
She is the only woman with a UK number-one single in four decades and the first to top the albums chart in five consecutive decades. Tension, in 2023, and Tension II, in 2024, both reached number one in Britain, and Padam Padam won her a Grammy for best pop dance recording.
The Tension Tour ran in five acts across two stages, with a second stage in the middle of the floor where she sang Say Something beneath a descending disco ball. On the second night the crowd of 20,000 sang her happy birthday a day early, and she stopped to compose herself. Jodie Harsh played the support set, and the final act carried Padam Padam.