Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are.....The PET SHOP BOYS.
It was a very wet,miserable night on Merseyside but the "Boys" dazzled us all with their bouncy,infectious foot-tapping music, accompanied by some amazing CUBE-HEADED dancers and a magnificent stage set. In fact it was Husb`s first comment on leaving the Arena..."Their stage set manager must have been on something!" The backdrop was an enormous wall of huge white cubes which were lit up in different patterns and which was knocked down and rebuilt several times during the evening. This being the PET SHOP BOYS "PANDEMONIUM TOUR", it was obviously based on the track "Building a Wall". What was so impressive was that they knew where every cube was going and what each one had in it. Fantastic.
The cube-headed dancers were very good and very gymnastic, doing flik-flaks and somersaults frequently, though not always in time(did we care???)
The set list was as follows, plenty of old favourites(the crowd-pleasers) interspersed with lots from their new album "YES" and a brilliant cover of Coldplay`s Viva la Vida. It was just totally BRILLIANT.
1. "Heart"
2. "Did you see me coming?"
3. "Pandemonium"
4. "Love etc"
........Click here for the video they released for "Love etc"
5. "Building a Wall"
6. "Go West"
7. "Two divided by zero"
8. "Why don`t we live together?"
9. "Always on my mind"
10. "Come closer"
11. "Left to my own Devices"
12. "Do I have to?"
13. "King`s Cross"
14. "The way it used to be" click here for Amsterdam version!
15. "Jealousy"
16. "Suburbia"
17. "All over the world"
18. "Se a Vide E/Viva la Vida" (Nice king`s crown and velvet cape)
...click here for the Amsterdam version(!) of the Coldplay cover...(from very near to the stage!!!!)
19. "It`s a Sin"
Encore....with feathers...(!!)
20. "Being Boring"
21. "West End Girls"
CONCLUSION.....THE PET SHOP BOYS ROCK!! Fabulous show.
The support group were also good. FRANKMUSIC had a brilliant voice, good full range of high and low. He sang a cover of THE STRANGLERS "Golden Brown", his new single "Confusion Girl" and a cover of THE POSTAL SERVICE "Such Great Heights" during their half hour slot.
1 comment:
Looks amazing, Ali! Who would have thought of doing all that? Quite incredible.
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