Last night Stuart and I (and the world and his husband) went to the Royal Opera House in London's glitzy Covent Garden to see The Pet Shop Boys tear the old place a new one.
Wow! What a show! People were on their feet from the opening note and stayed dancing for the next two hours.
We had seen pretty much the same 'Dreamworld The Greatest Hits Live' show just over two years ago at the O2 - although since then the set list has been improved - tweaking it slightly - losing a couple of their then current singles and inserting a few more recent ones.
Expectations were pretty high as we took our seats, but boy did the Boys deliver. Again.
It was if a giant herd of rainbow flag-draped disco dancing musical unicorns pranced onto the stage of the Royal Opera House and rubbing their silver sparkling horns together spunked out torrents of shiny disco balls of pure pop loveliness that then exploded into the ears of the delighted crowd.
The background visuals were so stunning and the laser light show so joyously bright that when it splattered its spunky love-light across the smiling faces of each and everyone in the auditorium it was like some multi-coloured glowing rainbow-coloured luminous bukaki.
As you might gather - I liked the show.
The Boys were simply in magnificent form - interacting with the crowd between the songs (well, Neil anyway) - in fine voice (well, Neil anyway) - dancing around the stage (well, Neil anyway) - and wearing stupid hats (OK, they BOTH did that!) It was everything you expected from a Pet Shop Boys show and more.
It was like their Imperial phase was back all over again. They owned the place!
And after all this time they know how to put a show together - they work with the best. The set design, the background visuals, the sound design were all amazeballs and hung together magnificently. The show had a real feel of being integrated. Something you don't always see in a gig. But here it all had a single vision and it all came together perfectly. And this vision was DISCO.
The Boys managed to pull off that difficult trick of getting the set list right too. With such a large back catalogue to choose from and with new work to promote you're never going to please everyone. But they seemed to give the occasional fan plenty of hits, promote their most recent album quite well and keep the hard-core Pethead on-board too.
For the last five songs of the night the boys were joined on stage by twelve dancers wearing silver flashy winged suits. I kid you not. Very funny and the dancing looked great.
The encores of West End Girls and Being Boring went down a storm.
We love the Pet Shop Boys.
Set List:-
Suburbia
Can You Forgive Her?
Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)
Rent
I Don't Know What You Want but I Can't Give It Any More
So Hard
Left to My Own Devices
Single-Bilingual / Se a vida é (That's the Way Life Is)
Domino Dancing
Dancing Star
New York City Boy
A New Bohemia
Jealousy
Loneliness
Love Comes Quickly
Paninaro
Always on My Mind (Gwen McCrae cover)
Dreamland
Heart
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
It's Alright (Sterling Void cover)
Vocal
Go West (Village People cover)
It's a Sin
Encore:
West End Girls
Being Boring
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