For You, for Me

For You, For Me
North American tour by Kylie Minogue
Associated album X
Start date 30 September 2009 (2009-09-30)
End date 13 October 2009 (2009-10-13)
Legs 1
Number of shows 9
Box office US $3.10 million ($3.42 million in 2016 dollars)[1]
Kylie Minogue concert chronology

For You, for Me[2] (promoted as KylieUSA2009) was the eleventh concert tour by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. This was Minogue's first concert tour in North America. The concert has received very favorable reviews from music critics. Despite previous criticism of touring this territory by Minogue and her management, the tour grossed over three million dollars. It was the follow on tour aiding her tenth studio album, and promoting her previous world tour, which didn't tour in North America.

Background

In 2002, there was speculation Minogue would bring her Fever tour to the U.S. and Canada, after the success of Fever and its singles in those territories. It was originally believed Minogue did not want to scale down the show for smaller venues but later revealed she was swayed by her management to not perform in the U.S. and Canada. However, Minogue did tour the U.S. with Jingle Ball, an annual concert festival produced on by KIIS-FM, visiting Boston, Anaheim, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia, New York City, and Seattle.[3][4]

The tour was officially announced via Billboard on 6 May 2009. Minogue stated, "I’ve wanted to tour in America and Canada for years now and know that fans have been waiting a long time for this. I’m thrilled that the opportunity has finally arrived."[5] Bill Silva (CEO of Bill Silva Presents) stated, "Kylie has such a successful career outside of North America that it has taken quite a while to find a window in her schedule for the U.S. and Canada. Her amazing fans in North America will be well rewarded for their patience when they experience her show and its entire spectacle."[6] Minogue promoted the tour on the fourth hour of the Today Show in New York stating that she's always wanted to tour the US, but it was a constant battle with her manager. During an interview with BlackBook Magazine Minogue spoke about her fanbase in North America: "The fans in America aren’t great in number, but they’re great in spirit. And they’ve been so patient. I think I really shocked them when I said I was touring, because they’ve become accepting of the fact that it was never going to happen. But I meant it, all the years I spent saying I would love to tour the States" and what they should expect from the tour: "I decided not to go somewhere I’ve never been before, direction-wise, because American audiences haven’t seen my live shows for the most part. So we decided—and I guess it works well in these financial times—to bring with us a “best of” my different tours". Jean Paul Gaultier created some of the outfits for the show.[7]

Minogue later commented on the tour, stating, "It was a micro-tour, but I’ve got to tell you it was so rewarding [...] It was a mission from the heart… It was like… setting my wallet on fire because basically it just made no financial sense to do it, but I just reached a point where I thought, ‘That’s it! I just wanna!’ I got a lot of reward from it. Right back to the heart, so it was amazing."[8]

Setlist

Minogue performs "In My Arms" at the Air Canada Centre, Toronto

Act 1: Xlectro Static

  1. "Overture" (contains elements of "Over the Rainbow", "Somewhere" and "The Sound of Music")
  2. "Light Years"
  3. "Speakerphone"
  4. "Come into My World"
  5. "In Your Eyes"

Act 2: Everything Taboo

  1. "Shocked" (Album and DNA Remix) (contains excerpts from: "Do You Dare?", "It's No Secret", "Give Me Just a Little More Time", "Keep on Pumpin' It" and "What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before)")
  2. "What Do I Have to Do" (contains elements of the Keep On Pumpin' mix and excerpts from "I'm Over Dreaming (Over You)".)
  3. "Spinning Around" (contains excerpts from and elements of "Finally", "Fascinated", "The Real Slim Shady", "Buffalo Gals", "Ride On Time" and "Such a Good Feeling")
  4. "Better than Today"

Act 3: Xposed

  1. "Like a Drug"
  2. "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" ("Greg Kurstin Mix" along with excerpts from "Boombox" and elements of Blue Monday)
  3. "Slow"
  4. "2 Hearts"

Act 4: Cheer Squad

  1. "Red Blooded Woman" (contains excerpts from "Where the Wild Roses Grow")
  2. "Heart Beat Rock" (contains elements of "Red Blooded Woman", "Wow", " "Nu-di-ty" and "Slow", along with excerpts from "Mickey") (Dance Interlude) [9]
  3. "Wow"

Act 5: Starry Nights

  1. "White Diamond Theme" (contains excerpts from various films including: "The Wizard of Oz", "Casablanca", "A Streetcar Named Desire", Sunset Boulevard, "All About Eve", "Beyond the Forest" and "Mommie Dearest", as well as quotes from Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn and Jayne Mansfield) (Video Interlude)
  2. "White Diamond" (Ballad version)
  3. "Confide in Me"
  4. "I Believe in You" (Ballad version)

Act 6: Black Versus White

  1. "Burning Up" (contains excerpts from "Vogue")
  2. "The Locomotion"
  3. "Kids"
  4. "In My Arms"

Encore

  1. "Better the Devil You Know"
  2. "The One"
  3. "Love at First Sight" (Ruff and Jam US Mix)

[10][11][12][13]

Notes
  • The tour programme lists "On a Night Like This" as part of the setlist, right between "The Loco-Motion" and "Kids", but it was not performed at any of the shows.
  • "Got to Be Certain" was performed a cappella on the 3 October show in Las Vegas, as the audience requested it. She also sang the first few bars of "I Gotta Feeling" by The Black Eyed Peas.
  • A torch version of "I Should Be So Lucky" was performed in place of "The One" on the 4 October show at the Hollywood Bowl. The winning entry of the "Speakerphone" fan-created music video contest was shown before the concert started.[14]
  • "Your Disco Needs You" was performed a cappella on the 7 October show in Chicago, because the audience requested for it while other technical difficulties were being sorted out. It was also performed with the band and backing track on the 9 October show in Toronto during the encore before "Love at First Sight", and received much fan applause during the spoken French lyrics. It was performed a cappella again in place of "The One" during the 12 October show in New York City.
  • A torch version of "I Should Be So Lucky", similar to the one done on her Intimate and Live Tour and on the 4 October show in Los Angeles, was performed during the encore section in New York City on 13 October, the final show of the tour.

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, amount of available tickets and gross revenue
Date City Country Venue
North America[15]
30 September 2009 Oakland United States Fox Theatre
1 October 2009
3 October 2009 Las Vegas Pearl Concert Theater
4 October 2009 Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl
7 October 2009 Chicago UIC Pavilion
9 October 2009 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre
11 October 2009 New York City United States Hammerstein Ballroom
12 October 2009
13 October 2009
Cancellations and rescheduled shows
7 October 2009 Chicago, Illinois Congress Theater This concert was moved to the UIC Pavilion

Box office score data

Venue City Tickets Sold / Available Gross Revenue
Fox Theatre Oakland 5,280 / 5,592 (94%) $401,709
Pearl Concert Theater Las Vegas 2,394 / 2,394 (100%) $222,265
Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles 8,108 / 8,504 (95%) $749,957
UIC Pavilion Chicago 4,021 / 4,021 (100%) $299,536
Air Canada Centre Toronto 7,679 / 7,837 (98%) $568,604
Hammerstein Ballroom New York City 9,650 / 10,100 (96%) $853,150
TOTAL 37,132 / 38,448 (96.6%) $3,095,221

Critical response

For the most part, the tour received rave reviews. After being "stunned by the glitz and glamour of Kylie’s tour and the power it had to pull in celebs when she performed at the Palms", Vegas promoters even offered Minogue a complete residence for a show in the city.[16]

Broadcasts and recordings

In December 2009, Billboard magazine announced Minogue would release a live recording of her performance at the Hammerstein Ballroom. It contains all songs performed with the exception of "Better than Today", recorded for Minogue's next studio album. The album was released in digital format, only available to online digital media stores, on 14 December 2009.[24]

Footage from the tour is included on the Special Edition DVD of Kylie Minogue's album, Aphrodite. It features the "White Diamond Theme", "White Diamond", "Confide in Me", and "I Believe in You".

On 3 May 2011, to celebrate the arrival of the "Aphrodite Live" leg of Kylie's Aphrodite World Tour to the United States, a digital EP was released. Besides including three songs performed by Kylie at the BBC's Live Lounge, it also featured two songs live from her 2009 concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom: "Confide in Me" and "Better Than Today", the latter being the only song not included in the "Kylie: Live in New York" album.

Personnel

Band

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