20050421
Well so it is true then
Kylie Minogue Splits With Creative Director
Kylie and the feathers (photo by Ken McKay)
Watch Video Kylie Giving You Up
by Paul Cashmere
19 April 2005
Kylie Minogue has split with her creative director William Baker midway through her Showgirl tour.
Baker was Kylie's stylist and co-designed her current tour.
The parting seems on friendly terms.
In a statement at her website, Kylie announces "I wanted to let you know that my dear friend William Baker, whose work as my Creative Director you will know and love, has decided to step down from his position. This is something we have been talking about for a while and it was always our intention to finish our creative partnership with the Greatest Hits album and Showgirl Tour. Willie and I have worked closely together for 11 years and both feel it is the time to move on. The timing is perfect as this tour is such a celebration for us. Don't worry, we are still the best of friends and I can't wait to see what he will do next".
Kylie dates are:
THURSDAY 19 MAY SYDNEY SUPERDOME - SOLD OUT
FRIDAY 20 MAY SYDNEY SUPERDOME - SOLD OUT
SATURDAY 21 MAY SYDNEY SUPERDOME - NEW SHOW
MONDAY 23 MAY MELBOURNE ROD LAVER ARENA - SOLD OUT
TUESDAY 24 MAY MELBOURNE ROD LAVER ARENA - SOLD OUT
WEDNESDAY 25 MAY MELBOURNE ROD LAVER ARENA - SOLD OUT
FRIDAY 27 MAY MELBOURNE ROD LAVER ARENA - SOLD OUT
SUNDAY 29 MAY MELBOURNE ROD LAVER ARENA - NEW SHOW
TUESDAY 31 MAY SYDNEY ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE - SOLD OUT
WEDNESDAY 01 JUNE SYDNEY ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE - SOLD OUT
THURSDAY 02 JUNE SYDNEY ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE - NEW SHOW
SATURDAY 04 JUNE BRISBANE ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE - SOLD OUT
SUNDAY 05 JUNE BRISBANE ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE - SOLD OUT
MONDAY 06 JUNE BRISBANE ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE - NEW SHOW
WEDNESDAY 08 JUNE ADELAIDE ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE - SOLD OUT
THURSDAY 09 JUNE ADELAIDE ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE - Limited tickets now on sale
SUNDAY 12 JUNE PERTH BURSWOOD DOME - Special final release of tickets
MONDAY 13 JUNE PERTH BURSWOOD DOME
TUESDAY 14 JUNE PERTH BURSWOOD DOME
Tribe of Kylie Fans
Like-minded consumers 'forming tribes'
April 20, 2005 - 6:49PM
A UK financial services provider has said that like-minded consumers are clustering into "tribes".
Those institutions that people took for granted are now disintegrating, as church attendance declines, people disengage from the government and the traditional family breaks down said Paul Pester, chief executive of Virgin Money Group in the United Kingdom.
But humans were essentially social creatures and still liked to be part of a group.
"The key difference is that instead of building institutions through the church, through the state or through the school, we're starting as consumers to build communities based on who shares the same perspective as us," Dr Pester said.
"We're starting to building 21st century tribes... and those tribes are being based on people that agree with our view of the world."
And with the advent of the internet and mobile phones, people could now be linked with those on the other side of the world, he said at the International Consumer Credit Card Summit 2005 in Sydney.
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AdvertisementHe said one of the world's strongest tribes in the near future would form around Manchester United, which was not just a British football club but also the hub of a tribe of 50 million supporters worldwide.
"Manchester United understand that they're at the centre of a global franchise," he said, adding that the club had already taken steps into financial services with the establishment of MU Finance.
He dubbed another large tribe "The People's Republic of Kylie Minogue", noting that the Australian pop star was capitalising on her huge success with an online Kylie Minogue shop. . . .
20050412
Mock Election Puts Kylie up for Prime Minister
I am a Yank and so I am not sure the implications, ramifications, or impropriety of it, but these guys have cast Kylie as the Konservative (Tory) candidate!
http://www.may5election.com/
20050409
Kylie or KopyKat Kylie?
Here.
Recently hailed overseas as ‘the world’s greatest tribute show’, 100% Kylie has wowed audiences around the globe with its high-energy, electrifying and exciting show. 100% Kylie is absolutely everything you would expect a Kylie show to be. With Kylie’s fantastic hit songs, amazing dancers and spectacular costumes, 100% Kylie has become a sensation across Australia, and is now touring internationally to great acclaim.
Starring the petite Lucy Holmes as Ms Minogue, the show is recently back from successful tours of Singapore, New Zealand and Western Australia. 100% Kylie also performs numerous public shows, and corporate shows across the country. Past corporate clients have included General Motors, Foxtel, Mastercard, Ford Motor Company, Cadbury-Schweppes, Woolworths, Ronald McDonald House and many, many more.
The show has been featured on Channel 9’s A Current Affair, Channel 7 News, numerous papers across Australia including the Herald Sun, The Courier Mail, The West Australian, and national magazines such as That’s Life.
Based out of Melbourne Australia, 100% Kylie’s largest audience was at a festival in Launceston, Tasmania where 15,000 people turned up to watch the show at a large outdoor concert.
[Pretty good kopykat!]
20050404
20050403
Spell This!
[from the Kylie mailing list at LiMBO
Hay! Sew, watts out, yew guise. If Hugh canned spell write, eye jest
mite Sioux ewe in federal quart!
On Apr 1, 2005 3:22 PM, Rachel Carter wrote:
> Hi Scott,
> Well if u email Steven e wil probably send u sum pics of the
> concert, cuz e sent me sum and they r very clear as well, and the costumes
> she woz wearin looked fab!
Minogue's stylist pal urges her to quit
02/04/2005 - 11:04:30 Kylie Minogue's stylist and close friend William Baker has advised the sexy singer to ditch her pop career and retire.
Kylie Minogue's stylist and close friend William Baker has advised the sexy singer to ditch her pop career and retire.Baker, the man behind Minogue's legendary gold hotpants, is convinced her spectacular Greatest Hits tour is a sign she will soon retire from the limelight.
The I Believe In You star, 36, herself has confessed to her urge to start a family, and friends are concerned the hard-working singer should make more time for herself.
Baker says: "She needs to do things on her own, get away from me, get away from her safety zone.
"Whether that's to have a family, take up painting, do a film… she needs to do something for herself rather than keep the juggernaut rolling. It does feel like the end of an era."
© Thomas Crosbie Media, 2005.
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20050401
Why I Love Kylie
By Julie Burchill
Once in a while, a sex symbol breaks through the 'sex' barrier and becomes a bona fide love thing. You'll always know them, because we always call them by their first name - as if we know them.Kylie. Like the Aboriginal boomerang she's named after, she bounces back to us time and again.
In Kylie's back pages are the suicide of her first great love and family cancer. But - uniquely of her tribe - she never feels the need to turn a drama into a crisis. A natural-born queen bee who chose to be a worker, the only thing Kylie allegedly demands in her dressing room at Top Of The Pops is a kettle so she can make herself a cup of tea.
A mistake that divas make is to imagine that being endlessly dramatic/demanding is to be interesting. In fact, drama on demand gets older faster than anything (we feel we know J.Lo and Mariah Carey inside out, like particularly wearing sisters who we would miss any family function in order to avoid).
Kylie, though, due to her devilish discretion, becomes more of an enigma as the decades go by. And the more Kylie takes off kit-wise, the more patently 'decent' she reveals herself to be. She literally has nothing to hide - but, at the same time, she shows nothing.
Maybe this is why we're not anywhere near being bored with Kylie. Now 36 years old, her 2005 calendar outsold all challengers - including Jordan, Beckham and Manchester United - while her recent collaboration with the Scissor Sisters bore witness to her endless credibility.
Is Kylie Bored With Us?
Those lovely eyes look a mite glazed in the latest video: her impeccable sense of what is appropriate may be telling her that a woman of substance, approaching 40, could soon look somewhat inappropriate getting her kit off and her freak on.
Her uncharacteristically ungracious and somewhat hypocritical condemnations of both sexy videos and ambitious young pop starlets may indicate a growing unease with her sex object status, even though that mass star-lust is accompanied by real affection.
But what else can she do except what she does? Showgirl, Christmas fairy, baby angel, nation's sweetheart and, above all, trouper. For all her glitter, Kylie is both a woman of actual working-class stock and a daughter of the most stubbornly, self-consciously blue-collar nation in the Western world - Australia.
Not to work for her living would perhaps be the only thing that could make Kylie feel bad about her vast wealth. So long as she keeps on slogging away on vast tours and exhausting promotional gigs, she remains a worker and her money stays clean.
Commentators may tut-tut about her workaholism, her determination to stay in control and her 'failed' love life (by this, bizarrely, they mean that she's enjoyed her pick of the world's top male totty, rather than tie herself down to the first sad-sack who asked her), but whatever Kylie's doing seems to work.
The Antidote to a World of Wealthy Whiners
In her two decades in the spotlight, there have been no rehab horror headlines, no public navel-gazing or breast-beating, no desperate grabs at religion as a comfort blanket. Kylie knows how lucky (lucky, lucky, lucky!) she has been and, in return, she pays us the courtesy of never complaining about her lot. She is the anti-Robbie, the anti-Geri, the antidote to a world of wealthy whiners.
The reason why we never tire of Kylie is that, despite her modishness and her ongoing ability to effortlessly hitch her sparkly wagon to the latest trend, she is, at heart, an old-fashioned trouper of the best-foot-forward, chin-up breed.
Modern entertainers, on the contrary, become their private lives - to the extent that Geri's bulimia and Posh's marriage make up 99 per cent of their public persona. Kylie puts on her costume, shimmers into the spotlight, entertains, then goes away until the next perfect pop moment. She doesn't hang around to spill her guts and wear out her welcome.
'A Crashing Bore'
Kylie's brightness, her 'musn't grumble' refusal to inflict her personal troubles on us is taken as proof of emptiness and stupidity by some. But nothing makes an otherwise intelligent person look so dumb so quickly as criticising her does.
"Kylie is a crashing bore," says Morrissey, a man whose songs increasingly become more Pooterish as they resemble the entries from The Diary Of A Nobody, detailing the petty feuds and hissy fits of a staggeringly small-minded man.
Despite her tiny frame and rinky-dink voice, Kylie is that rare thing - a proper grown-up in a vast playpen full of inspired, incontinent infants, screaming for their sex and drugs and bowlfuls of M&Ms with all the brown ones taken out. Whatever she may choose to do in the future, we know that Kylie will never show us up or let us down.
Best of all, she will only ever let us love her just enough - she will never provoke emotions or actions that would harm either us or her. In public or in private, she will never be surprised in shame or compromise and, because of this, neither will we for liking her. In a world full of minefields and eggshells and endlessly complex conflicting interests, there is always that one thing we will never, ever have to worry about - Kylie.
