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markus wrote: Fri 14 Nov 2025, 4:19 am I think anything qualifies under "fan favourites" They can play West End girls (unfortunately)
Could this be the first ever PSB gig without West End girls (excluding Battleship Potemkin)? 😮

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ChoonHound wrote: Fri 14 Nov 2025, 2:31 am Yours is excellent (in a bad way)!

Here’s an alternative… 9 remixes of Winner all performed live.

Winner (Andrew Dawson HappyHour Remix)
Winner (John DahlbƤck Remix)
Winner (Niki & The Dove Remix)
Winner (Andrew Dawson Extended HappySad Remix)
Winner (Andrew Dawson HappySad Remix)
Winner (Andrew Dawson HappySad Remix Instrumental)
Winner (Wideboys Remix)
Winner (Wideboys Dub)
Winner (Wideboys Radio Edit)
That’s hilarious and terrifying at the same time šŸ˜‚

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#18 Post by jasonjohn »

dbaseboy wrote: Sat 15 Nov 2025, 10:18 am
markus wrote: Fri 14 Nov 2025, 4:19 am I think anything qualifies under "fan favourites" They can play West End girls (unfortunately)
Could this be the first ever PSB gig without West End girls (excluding Battleship Potemkin)? 😮
Yes, but I'd like to hear the Joe Stalin verse :dance: :dance:

Do they dare do a Bobby O mix?

Could Neil ever again wear a shirt untucked below a sweater?

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#19 Post by ChoonHound »

If they don’t do West End girls I’ll take back everything I’ve said about their concerts being lame for the last 10 years.
I sincerely *love* Disco 2 and listen to it straight through regularly.

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ChoonHound wrote: Sat 15 Nov 2025, 2:32 pm If they don’t do West End girls I’ll take back everything I’ve said about their concerts being lame for the last 10 years.
Guessing on whether it’s defined as a ā€˜fan favourite’.

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dbaseboy wrote: Sat 15 Nov 2025, 3:02 pm
ChoonHound wrote: Sat 15 Nov 2025, 2:32 pm If they don’t do West End girls I’ll take back everything I’ve said about their concerts being lame for the last 10 years.
Guessing on whether it’s defined as a ā€˜fan favourite’.
They won't do it... non singles only...
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#22 Post by jules »

Intro we all feel better in the dark (disco 2 version)
What keep mankind alive
Bet she's not your girlfriend
I didn't get ...today
Get it online
Blue on blue
Transfer
Pick up the phone
In the club or in the queue ?
One of the crowd
New boy
Inner sanctum
Encore
Music for boys
Viva la vida
Go west (reprise)

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#23 Post by Sandy Shaw »

Cricket Wife
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#24 Post by CroMagnon »

I like Cricket Wife, and find it very moving to listen to. It skilfully articulates the confusion, anger and despair that must accompany dementia, and a profound need to retreat back into dreams of love and happiness.

Wouldn't want a live performance of it though, I agree!
Love comes quickly, but is a catastrophe and a bourgeois construct etc.

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#25 Post by Ramzy »

jules wrote: Wed 19 Nov 2025, 7:11 pm Intro we all feel better in the dark (disco 2 version)
What keep mankind alive
Bet she's not your girlfriend
I didn't get ...today
Get it online
Blue on blue
Transfer
Pick up the phone
In the club or in the queue ?
One of the crowd
New boy
Inner sanctum
Encore
Music for boys
Viva la vida
Go west (reprise)
I would DIE if they played In The Club... or New Boy. Two of my favourites!
I must disengage your recreational music.

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#26 Post by minimal »

CroMagnon wrote: Thu 20 Nov 2025, 11:38 am I like Cricket Wife, and find it very moving to listen to. It skilfully articulates the confusion, anger and despair that must accompany dementia, and a profound need to retreat back into dreams of love and happiness.

Wouldn't want a live performance of it though, I agree!
It's in a league of its own and should stay there — i. e. on that obscure Annually CD. ;)

Surprising to see someone won’t be enjoying if they they played I didn’t get where I am today. 😳

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#27 Post by Billy »

* The Sound of the Atom Splitting (acapella, looking straight at audience)
* Screaming (acapella, no vocals, just the screaming parts)

ENCORE

* Absolutely Fabulous (without Neil or Chris, just Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders on stage)

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#28 Post by the8thark »

I think this would be the worst set list ever.

1. Wedding In Berlin
2. Pazzo
3. Electricity
4. Legacy
5. Metamorphosis
6. Give Stupidity A Chance
7. Birthday Boy
8. Clean Air Hybrid Electric Bus
9. We're The Pet Shop Boys
10. Wiedersehen
11. Entschuldigung
12. Party Song
13. The Dictator Decides
14. How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously
15. The Former Enfant Terrible

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#29 Post by tottenhammattspurs »

Particle
Stick it on (the smash hits sticker book)
Cricket wife
Legacy
Winner
Wedding in Berlin
In Private (with Elton)
Liberation (The Murk mix)
Hymn
is is and isnt isnt

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#30 Post by One of the crowd »

The sound of the atom splitting was performed ā€œliveā€ during an ā€œintervalā€ in the 1989 concerts

It was bloody marvellous

For some reason, they put it on Highlights as the opening track

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