This was one of the many rescheduled gigs post-COVID. 2021-2022 ended up being a bit unplanned and manic with all the rescheduled events falling where they fell! As such, I’d been looking forward to this gig for a long time, having originally booked it in 2019. I love Pet Shop Boys and I’d never seen them live before.
There was no support band for this one. This meant more time for more hits! My main memory is that they played absolutely everything – all the hits from the ’80s and ’90s – and there was very little more I could have asked for. Some of the less known ’90s stuff like ‘Hallo Spaceboy’ and ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ maybe? Or some of the more recent stuff with which I’m familiar? But I didn’t miss it. This was a bit of a bucket list gig for me, so the hits were what I was there for.
Setlist posted by a setlist.fm user here, which shows you how comprehensive the set was!
One of the recent songs they didn’t play was that ‘Purple Zone’ song that they’d done with Soft Cell (see the Soft Cell review)!
Afterwards, we bumped into our neighbour Mandy walking back from the metro – she’d been to the gig too, so it was great to chat about it on the way home.
A really great experience.