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Old 14-07-2009, 22:51
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Has anyone seen the Pet Shop Boys Pandemonium Tour yet?

I saw them last night at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, and they were absolutely superb. A great mix of songs from across their career combined with a continuous visual assault as video imagery, lights and the great dancers constantly made use of the mountains of cardboard boxes being used as screens and props on stage. I honestly never thought a few hundred cardboard boxes could be so entertaining. A word too for their support act Frankmusik as they were good too, giving a very enjoyable performance themselves. I'll admit to never having seem them perform live before, so I don't have a frame of reference, but I thought it was a fantastic show, and would definitely go and see them again.

Has anyone else been to the Pandemonium Tour dates they've played over the past couple of weeks? What did you think?
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Old 14-07-2009, 22:58
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Frankmusik were supporting? Aww i'm even more gutted now that i didn't get tickets for this tour. However they are touring again at the end of the year. I'm not missing it again!
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Old 15-07-2009, 20:34
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^^

Yup, Frankmusik supported, and good they were too. According to Wikipedia (yeah, I know), they will be supporting again for the second phase of the tour ater in the year.

If anyone wants a taster of the tour, here's a compilation of Monday evening's Liverpool gig that somebody has posted to YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pd_lFy71tI

I'm actually a bit disappointed they aren't returning to Liverpool later in the year, as as I said in my original post, I'd definitely go and see the show again.
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Old 15-07-2009, 20:43
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Check your pms, Unknown One!
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Old 15-07-2009, 21:10
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^^

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Old 18-07-2009, 22:45
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Is Domino Dancing and Paninaro performed on this tour and Liberation, all 3 of these singles are great and would be amazing live on this tour
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Old 19-07-2009, 19:48
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Domino Dancing is performed on this tour, in conjunction with Discoteca and Se A Vida È. The other two are not performed.

Here's the current set list, in spoiler tags just in case anyone doesn't want to know -

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Courtesy of the Pet Shop Boys Community - http://www.petshopboys-forum.com/vie...p?f=17&t=21708
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Old 19-07-2009, 20:13
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Thanks for that! I can't wait for December now! PS. I've found some takers for the spare tickets ...
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Old 19-07-2009, 20:16
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Saw them perform at th O2 Arena and they were fanatastic. Only dampener was that I was right in front of speaker. But the show itself was Ace.
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Old 19-07-2009, 20:28
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I saw them 3 times in the 80s
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Old 19-07-2009, 20:31
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Thanks for that! I can't wait for December now! PS. I've found some takers for the spare tickets ...
No problems. Glad to hear the tickets won't go to waste.
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Old 19-07-2009, 20:38
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They deserved to win the Legend award at the Brit Awards 2009 earlier this year.
West End Girls has to be one of the best pop songs ever, definately of 1984.

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Old 19-07-2009, 21:48
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They deserved to win the Legend award at the Brit Awards 2009 earlier this year.
West End Girls has to be one of the best pop songs ever, definately of 1984.
I really don't think that West End Girls is one of the Pet Shop Boys best pop songs ever, if you look at other material released I think that this ranks quite low really amongst the amont of singles they have released, most of which I myself prefer to West End Girls. For example Being Boring, Suburbia, Domino Dancing, Always on My Mind, Heart, Can You Forgive Her?, Go West, Liberation, Before and I'm With Stupid just to name a number
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Old 19-07-2009, 21:51
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Saw them last month in Manchester and they were simply amazing. First time I'd seen PSB after waiting more than 20 years and it was well worth the wait. Planning on seeing them again in December!
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Old 20-07-2009, 01:18
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Saw them at the O2 and although there were some songs I hadn't heard live which were great, I hated the dancers and the choreography, thought the set was crap and not a patch on the Fundamental or Nightlife tours - just my opinion. I wish they'd get over mixing songs together and just stick to one at a time.
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