GalleryDitch This MagazineOctober 27, 2024gallery, live, melbourne, Gallery, Kim Wilde

Kim Wilde @ Palais Theatre 26-10-24

GalleryDitch This MagazineOctober 27, 2024gallery, live, melbourne, Gallery, Kim Wilde

photos and words: Lucas Hackett @lucas_packett_photography

Since the 1980’s UK pop icon Kim Wilde has thrilled fans across the globe with her infectious hits and engaging live performances. Wilde makes her long-awaited return to Australian shores with her first tour in eight years and over an hour and a half delivered a nostalgic and memorable greatest hits package.

The French consider her the “Brigitte Bardot of Rock”; German fans still revere her as the glamour girl to come out of the 80s and in Australia she has always been very close to our hearts having charted three number-one mega-hits – ‘Kids In America’, ‘You Keep Me Hangin’ On’ and ‘If I Can’t Have You’ as well as another 6 Top 40 hits including ‘Cambodia’, ‘You Came’, ‘View From A Bridge’, and ‘Chequered Love’.

Tonight was no exception & being the last show of her tour, delivered a memorable show to a packed Palais Theatre, full of adoring fans.

A large portion of the first half of the show was material from Wilde’s latest album, Closer, & followed by tracks from Kim Wilde, Select, Love Is, Here Come The Aliens & Teases & Dares.

If 80’s nostalgia is your thing, then jump on the next Kim Wilde tour!