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According to sources like Setlist.fm, Wikipedia and the website of PSB.

1
Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live
2022–2026
108

2
Fundamental Tour
2006–2007
104

3
Super Tour
2016–2019
102

4
Pandemonium Tour
2009–2010
89

5
Electric Tour
2013–2015
85

6
Performance Tour
1991
65

7
Release Tour
2002
61

8
Nightlife Tour
1999–2000
54

9
Discovery Tour
1994
24

10
Somewhere Shows/Residency
1997
20

Other:
MCMLXXXIX
1989
14

No acknowledgment of The Unity Tour?

So that’s just under two years’ worth of touring in a forty three year career. That’s called pacing yourself.

People who haven’t seen PSB for several years often comment that they’ve held up remarkably well, especially Neil’s voice, and that probably has a lot to do with not spending all their time slogging from continent to continent until they hated each other. As much as we love to see them live….

petshopgrrl wrote: Fri 27 Feb 2026, 5:25 am So that’s just under two years’ worth of touring in a forty three year career. That’s called pacing yourself.

People who haven’t seen PSB for several years often comment that they’ve held up remarkably well, especially Neil’s voice, and that probably has a lot to do with not spending all their time slogging from continent to continent until they hated each other. As much as we love to see them live….

And prerecorded vocals

telys wrote: Fri 27 Feb 2026, 7:05 am

petshopgrrl wrote: Fri 27 Feb 2026, 5:25 am So that’s just under two years’ worth of touring in a forty three year career. That’s called pacing yourself.

People who haven’t seen PSB for several years often comment that they’ve held up remarkably well, especially Neil’s voice, and that probably has a lot to do with not spending all their time slogging from continent to continent until they hated each other. As much as we love to see them live….

And prerecorded vocals

How many of those, do you reckon?

petshopgrrl wrote: Fri 27 Feb 2026, 7:13 am

telys wrote: Fri 27 Feb 2026, 7:05 am
And prerecorded vocals

How many of those, do you reckon?

Has this topic been discussed here earlier? If you would have asked me 15-20 years ago, I would have guessed that quite a lot of the vocals were prerecorded but I never really took the time to compare different concerts etc so it was just a guess, but the last ten or so years I have felt that the vocals really are live but I don’t have any proof

Has anyone here digged deeper into this?

I think the live-vocal tuning technology has really gave them confidence to enjoy touring.

Unfair to call it auto-tuning, but it's definitely some smoothing involved

petshopgrrl wrote: Fri 27 Feb 2026, 7:13 am How many of those, do you reckon?

It doesn’t really matter
'cause the music is so loud
Of course it’s all on tape
but no one will find out

It's an ongoing subject in other forums, artists "faking" it. That is, artists appearing as if it's live (Eagles, ZZ Top, T Swift) where it's in fact pre recorded vocals. Pet Shop Boys have never claimed to be "live" so in this case it's not as if somebody can scream "fake" with full blown lungs. But still....

MikeyC wrote: Fri 27 Feb 2026, 12:59 am No acknowledgment of The Unity Tour?

I think 13 shows in 2022.

They were a studio's pop duo but now they are more related to live shows.