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minimalpsb wrote: Sat 06 Jul 2024, 11:12 pm Hello petheads, does anyone knows all the pre-show music that was played before the Dreamworld Shows ?

psbfannyc wrote: Sun 07 Jul 2024, 6:40 am I had fun last night in Berlin. Danced almost the whole show and it was nice to see mobile phones with their flashlights out swaying during "A new bohemia"...definitely a great song to be a single.

greenmile wrote: Sun 07 Jul 2024, 1:20 pm A Drico review!!!! Whooo!!

And at every show I go to, I still get shivers on my neck when Neil says 'we are the Pet Shop Boys' for some reason.

greenmile wrote: Sun 07 Jul 2024, 1:20 pm A Drico review!!!! Whooo!!

psbfannyc wrote: Sun 07 Jul 2024, 6:40 am I had fun last night in Berlin. Danced almost the whole show and it was nice to see mobile phones with their flashlights out swaying during "A new bohemia"...definitely a great song to be a single. I do hope we get a 4th single.

Anyway, here is a review of the Berlin, 6 July 2024 show in German: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur- ... li.2232389

Nickname wrote: Sun 14 Jul 2024, 3:40 pm Another exciting moment in Barcelona.
https://www.instagram.com/petshopboys/reel/C9Z2pGApSku/

Ready for the final in the Eurocup.

Spain vs England.

psbnyc wrote: Mon 15 Jul 2024, 11:56 pm Congratulations to Spain, what a week you’ve had!

Drico One wrote: Sun 07 Jul 2024, 1:13 pm When I saw Performance in Dublin in 1991 as a teenager, I went with my beloved brother, grievously missed to this day. Last night, in Berlin, for Dreamworld, I went with my better half and our 11-year-old son. Generations will come and go...

There's something comforting in the Pet Shop Boys as a continuum, to be heard "on a timeless wavelength", where "the music plays forever, never dissipating, giving us strength". There's also something just in an unjust world about the fact that, 40 years in, they can fill an arena with 17,000 people.

The show, of course, is a marvel. Neil is a sympathetic showman, likeable, engaging, at ease; Chris an authentic foil. During the opening stomp through a battery of major hits (Suburbia, Can you forgive her?, Opportunities, Where the streets have no name, So hard), Neil does much of the work. Compare his effortless stage presence now to when he affected a body-popping Noel Coward in the late 1990s, all thigh slaps and self-conscious awkwardness.

Chris remains Chris, blankly diffident behind his monitor, impassively watching the England-Switzerland penalty shoot-out while Neil was regaling the crowd. Well, that's the gloriously self-contained impression he conveys, anyway.

All three new songs blended seamlessly into the musical continuum of their stellar back catalogue, each one a new page in the latest chapter of their ongoing story. A new bohemia provoked a universe of sparking lights from an audience that was deeply invested and which played its part in the celebratory choreography of the night.

Paninaro was also new to me, this time around, and I was delighted to see What have I done to deserve this? back in situ. Rent got a huge reaction - the Saltburn effect? - and Domino dancing was greeted rapturously. Vocal threatend to explode the hearing aids of some of the more "mature" cohort in attendance.

At the end, Neil and Chris seemed to take an extended ovation, standing together to drink in the adulation and love. "After 40 years, we are STILL the Pet Shop Boys", Neil declared as he gave a valedictory wave. As the huge video screens on either side of the stage lingered on each Pet Shop Boy, Neil beamed victoriously. Chris wiped his nose.

Our 11-year-old was thrilled by Dreamland and is, today, now happily wearing "the masks" t-shirt he picked out at the merchandise stall.

For it goes on and on and on and on and on…

Drico.