Kylie Minogue - The Abbey Road Sessions Details

Something we've been looking forward to for a long time now and something YOU should NOT miss out on!
Kylie Minogue will release "The Abbey Road Sessions" on:

October 24th - Japan (+In My Arms as a bonus track);
October 26th - Germany, Australia, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Finland, Norway, Ireland;
October 29th, 2012 - Worldwide including UK;
October 30th - Canada, Italy, Spain;
November 6th - USA.

www.kylie.com:
The album features 16 tracks, all radically reworked, spanning Kylie's incredible 25 year career. The album was recorded in London's legendary Abbey Road Studios with Kylie's band and a full orchestra.

ALL THE LOVERS
ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS
BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW
HAND ON YOUR HEART
I BELIEVE IN YOU
COME INTO MY WORLD
FINER FEELINGS
CONFIDE IN ME
SLOW
THE LOCOMOTION
CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD
WHERE THE WILD ROSES GROW
FLOWER
I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
NEVER TOO LATE

My REVIEW of the album you can find HERE.
If you'd like a sneak peek to every track from the album, please go HERE! :)

Nick Cave re-recorded his vocal on the famous duet, "Where The Wild Roses Grow", especially for the album.
Other highlights of the album include a wonderfully poignant "Better The Devil You Know", the ever-amazing "Confide In Me", a sultry "On A Night Like This", a joyous "All The Lovers", the beautiful "Finer Feelings" and a version of "The Locomotion" which swaggers with true 1950's panache.
Over all 16 tracks one thing becomes very clear – stripped of her high end pop production, the emotional resonance of many of Kylie's songs has never been clearer, nor has her voice ever sounded better.
Kylie will perform most tracks from the album with the BBC concert Orchestra this Saturday September 8th at London's Hyde Park, headlining Proms In the Park.

"The Abbey Road Sessions" is available for pre-order NOW & will be available in the following formats:
CD
Digital
Limited Edition Deluxe CD
Limited 12" Vinyl With CD – Only available at www.kylie.com

A beautiful song "Flower" is going to be released in September as a lead single off the album!

GREAT stuff!! :)

xo K

US Open 2012 - Almost There!

So much is going on during this year's last Grand Slam Tournament in Flushing Meadows...
Couple of surprises, goodbyes, early exits, withdrawals and more!

1. Kim Clijsters participated in her last professional tennis tournament and as announced earlier, the former number one from Belgium is retiring. She lost to 18 year old rising star from Britain, Laura Robson, in the second round of the tournament, and with losses in women's doubles with Kirsten Flipkens and mixed doubles with Bob Bryan, the amazing career of the four Grand Slam winner, 41 career titles holder and a very entertaining and unique athlete came to an end (this time it's final!)

2. Andy Roddick surprised everyone at the beginning of this year's event when on Thursday, during the press conference he announced that US Open 2012 would be his last and final tournament before his retirement."I just feel like it's time", was Andy's first answer to the reporter's question "why?", "I don't know that I'm healthy enough or committed enough to go another year".
You'll definitely be missed! 

Today, Andy will be fighting against Del Potro for the chance to stay in the tournament since yesterday's match was postponed.

3. Rafael Nadal withdrew from the tournament with a knee injury (again... poor Rafa!) following his decisions not to play at the Olympics, after the shocking second round exit at Wimbledon this year, and couple other tournaments before the US Open 2012... Get well soon!

4. Laura Robson probably made her career breakthrough at this tournament, sending two seeded players packing at this year's US Open. The Brit, ranked 89th in the world ended Kim Clijsters' hopes to play a little longer before her retirement after beating the former number one in two sets 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-5) in 126 minutes on Arthur Ashe Stadium: "I didn't have any expectations because she's so experienced. Kim has been such a great player for so many years and a role model for all the younger girls coming up."
In third round Robson continued her game with the 6-4 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 win over 9th seeded Li Na to reach US Open Last 16 before losing to defending champion, Samantha Stosur, in two sets 6-4 6-4.

5. Roger Federer gets a walk over to the quarter finals in Flushing Meadows since Mardy Fish withdrew from the tournament because of undisclosed health concerns: "I regret that I have to withdraw from the US Open for precautionary measures, I was reluctant to do so, but am following medical advisement." ... Roger Federer: "I am really sorry for Mardy. I just want to wish him a speedy recovery. We all want to see him back on tour soon."
This means that world number one advances to his 34th consecutive Grand Slam quarter-final and will now play Tomas Berdych on Wednesday.

For more insights, scores and news, please visit www.usopen.org or Eurosport :)

Related article: US Open 2012 Champions

xo K

Kylie Minogue At GQ "Men Of The Year" Awards 2012

So Kylie Minogue attended the GQ "Men of the Year" Awards 2012 (at The Royal Opera House in London)!

We have got a "shoe of the day" series picture from Kylie herself and a picture from Stefano Gabbana - apparently they are sharing the table! ;)

And here's the pictures from the arrival - looking STUNNING!!

                               (with Bono & Louise Hazel)                           (with Chris Hemsworth)

  (Thanks to Strawbs from Sayhey! :)

xo K

Kylie To Perform In Abu Dhabi!

www.kylie.com/news
http://www.yasalam.ae/en/register-now/#.UEMeehwpdss.twitter
KYLIE TO PERFORM IN ABU DHABI

Kylie will perform on the first night of the Yasalam After-Race Concerts (Friday 2nd November), Now in their fourth year, the Yasalam After-Race concerts are staged at the du Arena, Yas Island, exclusively for F1 (tm) ticket holders. Yasalam is one of the most hotly anticipated festivals on the UAE’s entertainment calendar, returning to the city for a fourth year. This year it offers even more privileges for F1(tm) ticket holders through the newY1 Access.

“We’ve had some fantastic performances at Yasalam over the years, and we’re delighted that as the festival enters a fourth year we are welcoming Kylie Minogue…to Abu Dhabi. They are both huge acts, and continue to build on the festival’s commitment to providing world-class live events in and around the race weekend for residents and visitors to enjoy. We are also excited about Sunday of course, and promise fans it will finish off the weekend in style!”

For more information about Yasalam, visit www.yasalam.ae. For Grand Prix tickets visit www.yasmarinacircuit.com

WHOOP!  :)

xo K

Kylie - Living For Your Loving (Unreleased Track)

Here's Kylie's unreleased track that finally saw the light of the day, although only in this (OK!) quality:

Kylie Minogue - Living For Your Loving (And I'm feeling fine) by ckosmik

Thanks to Chriz for clearing the sounds - now it's "listenable"! ;D
We are loving it, Kylie!

The song was recorded during the "Kylie Minogue" album recording sessions in 1993 and was one of the songs Kylie co-wrote songs with The Rapino Brothers (among others are some of songs loved by fans: "Aston Martin", "For All I’m Worth", "Difficult By Design", "Love Is On The Line", and "Automatic Love")

xo K

Kylie's "Flower" To Be Released In September!

Kylie Minogue - Flower (DenZa'ss Extended Mix) by DenZa'ss

By Yvonne Yu

FOUR years since we all fell in love at first sight with the very emotional and beautiful song written by Kylie and performed at the KylieX2008 tour and 4 years since we've been waiting for this to happen, sometimes even losing hope as time was passing by. But the confirmation of the Orchestral Album release later this year gave us another wave of faith and this month, barely catching our breaths after the August #K25 surprise, we got the news about upcoming releases - guess what's scheduled for the September 24th-25th release?

Information from the Official UK Releases Schedule:

24th September:

Alyssa Reid feat Snoop Dogg – The Game
Dappy – Good Intentions
DJ Fresh feat RaVaughn – The Feeling
Joss Stone – Pillow Talk
King Charles – Bam Bam
Kylie Minogue - FLOWER (Abbey Road Session) [25th Sep]
Michael Gray & Roll Deep – Can't Wait For The Weekend
Michael Kiwanuka – Bones
Mumford & Sons – I Will Wait
Nelly Furtado – Spirit Indestructible
Nik Kershaw - You're The Best
Perfume Genius – Take Me Home
Professor Green feat Sierra Kusterbeck - Avalon

Confirmed by Kylie herself ;)

Yes, yes and million more times YES!

*UPDATE*

Single COVER revealed :) and MUSIC VIDEO is scheduled for next week's release as well - I guess  as the September #K25 surprise? 

Earlier this week, the kylie.com/tweettounlock page was updated and countdown began:

Check out the AMAZING KylieX2008 Unreleased  "Flower" Visuals video, originally posted by "lovingdays" on Vimeo and KylieX2008 LIVE performance (Vimeo)!

    

The whole week, since August 20th Kylie's been giving us clues, posting the pics of flowers on her Twitter :)

We cannot wait!!! Thank you!!!

xo K

"25 Years Of Kylie" Express - Hop On!

These splendid videos will take you all the way through the incredible 25 years of Kylie Minogue - from the very first single, Locomotion and PWL era through to soulful and deep songs of the Impossible Princess, on to the Light Years of Kylie Fever on the way to becoming the Aphrodite!

In half an hour you'll be an expert, having heard every Kylie Minogue song, learned about every single, watched every video - so take your time, relax and ENJOY!! ;)

Songs, singles, albums:

     

Videographies:

     

And Amazing Body Language 25 Years Megamix 2012!

Thanks for time and effort put into these five incredible videos!

(#K25 kiss from Kylie herself ;)

xo K