If you believe everything you read online, Kylie Minogue’s latest tour is a massive disappointment. The show opened in Perth two weeks ago, and by the following morning, the comment sections of Minogue’s socials were filled with angry fans, declaring that they expected better of the pop icon and found the show lacking.

Now, I’m offering a mea culpa. I’m sorry. It was utterly sensational. Minogue began the concert about 10m in the air, sitting on a swing, as a purple laser diamond surrounded her. “Oh my god, is that a swing?” I asked my friend, rhetorically. It was a very good start.

Pop princess Kylie Minogue will perform her first show in Sydney on Saturday night, coinciding with the city’s Mardi Gras event which is expected to draw in hundreds of thousands of people. Minogue is on the final leg of her Australian Tension tour, with three sold-out shows to be performed in Sydney before she jets off to tour Asia.

Minogue bucks that trend by dropping pop bombs on the regular. After an opening reveal that saw her gracefully descend from the ceiling while sat on a swing and surrounded by diamond-shaped lasers, the Melbourne-born singer-songwriter proceeded to dip into her formidable discography – last year’s Tension II is her 17th album – with contagious glee.