Pet Shop Boys Tour 2006

[kimiiii]

Pet Shop Boys!!!

Who's going?

October 2006
10 - Montreal, Quebec - Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier
11 - Toronto, Ontario - Hummingbird Centre
13 - Boston, MA - The Opera House
14 - New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall
15 - Washington, DC - DAR Constitution Hall
17 - Miami Beach, FL - Jackie Gleason Theatre
18 - Orlando, FL - Hard Rock Live
19 - Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle
21 - Austin, TX - The Backyard
22 - Dallas, TX - Nokia Theatre
24 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
26 - Detroit, MI - State Theatre
27 - Chicago, IL - The Chicago Theatre
28 - Minneapolis, MN - The Orpheum
30 - Denver, CO - Paramount Theatre

November 2006
1 - Phoenix, AZ - Arizona State Fair
3 - West Valley, UT - The Ford Theatre @ The E Center
5 - Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre
7 - San Francisco, CA - Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
8, 9 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern LG
12 - Guadalajara, Mexico - Teatro Diana
14 - Mexico City, Mexico - Auditorio Nacional

[phillyidol]

Radio City? Sounds tempting!I saw one of their concerts on cable and it was off the hook. That means cool to you un hip cats.[:D]

Oh and Quebec...I would rather see the pet shop boys perform in hell for satan before going to Quebec! And can you name your theatre a regular name please?

[schwenko]

Toronto Oct 11th !!

[WoodlandParkPunk]

Here in Phoenix at the State Fair??? Ahhhh the Westside Girls and the stench of prized pigs and cattle.

[schwenko]

PSB were fantastic last night in Toronto!
The set was packaged with PSB classics (and ?5 tracks from Fundamental), all, with the exception of Home and Dry, were very faithful to the original recordings (i.e. no "modernizing" = destroying).
It was a 2 hour show (20 minute intermission)

SPOILERS (set list) AHEAD:












Intro music: Stravinsky
Set list:
God willing
Psychological
Left to my own devices
I'm with stupid
Suburbia
Can you forgive her?
Minimal leading right into
Shopping
Rent
Dreaming of the Queen
Heart
Opportunites
Integral (crowd goes bonkers)
(intermission)
Numb
Se a vida e medley'd with
Domino dancing
Flamboyant (quite different sounding)
Home and dry (just Chris on piano, Neil on guitar)
Always on my mind
Where the streets have no name (I can't take my eyes off you)
West End girls
The Sodom and Gomorrah Show
(encore)
So hard (no Neil!!!) leading right into
It's a sin
Go west

"On keyboards, the man of mystery, Chris Lowe. I'm Neil Tennant, we're STILL the Pet Shop Boys."

[kimiiii]

Shwenko, have you seen them before? If you have, how does this tour compare? Thanks for posting the setlist - I love reading those.

[schwenko]

[quote][i]Originally posted by kimiiii[/i]
<br>Shwenko, have you seen them before? If you have, how does this tour compare? Thanks for posting the setlist - I love reading those.
[/quote]

I've seen them 3 times before
1)London-1997 (Somewhere)
2)NYC -?2000 (Nightlife)
3) NYC-?2003-(Release)

This time was the best! as I said the songs were faithful to the original recordings/versions- no attempts to "modernize" (= ruin) them.[:D]
Which means they probably pressed the start button and Neil sang along[:D][:D]

[schwenko]

Here is the NY Times review of the Radio City concert Oct 14 2006:

No Longer Puppies, the Pet Shop Boys Are 20


By KELEFA SANNEH
Published: October 16, 2006

In 1986, two British fellows obsessed with dance music released “Please,” an album full of meticulously engineered beats and infectious songs that weren’t nearly as silly as they first sounded. Twenty years later, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are still the Pet Shop Boys. And they have aged surprisingly well.

They came to Radio City Music Hall on Saturday for a sold-out concert, which may surprise listeners who associate them with only their 1980’s hits: “West End Girls” and the rest. The concert was a reminder that these two have kept busy, recording elegant pop songs that often manage to be sly and silly at the same time. In Britain, where they have remained pop stars, their albums invariably crack the Top 10. In the United States, judging from Saturday’s show, they attract an appreciative crowd in which women are a distinct minority.

The most recent Pet Shop Boys album is “Fundamental” (Rhino), which reunites the duo with the pop producer Trevor Horn. It’s also an explicitly political album: in “I’m With Stupid,” Mr. Tennant, who is gay, imagines the unhealthy (but passionate) relationship between George W. Bush and Tony Blair. When he sang the song on Saturday, the satire seemed pretty hackneyed, but the love story still sounded intriguing. “Fly across the ocean/ Just to let you get your way,” he sang, sounding less like a Labor leader and more like your average sad-sack boyfriend.

The duo’s current tour, with a brilliant stage set by Es Devlin, emphasizes the members’ love of machine music. For most of the night, Mr. Lowe’s small keyboard was the only instrument onstage. (As a rule, he doesn’t sing, talk or move.) And while Mr. Tennant worked the stage, sometimes trailed by two dancers and three singers, images and letters and colors were projected onto a big white cube that split into three square panels, which were nimbly arranged and rearranged by two stage hands in white hazmat suits.

On albums, Mr. Tennant’s thin, ultranasal voice sounds great on top of those thin electronic beats. Onstage, though, he sounds — well, he sounds like a guy who is smart enough to make sure there are plenty of visual distractions. During “Minimal,” an oddly engrossing song from the new album, he exhaled the simple words (“M-I-N-I-M-A-L/ Minimal, minimal”) over a suitably skinny-sounding track. Then the two segued into “Shopping,” an old favorite in which Mr. Tennant also spells out the titular word; this show is nothing if not well planned.

Somehow the Pet Shop Boys manage to do just about everything — from crooning a ballad to covering the Village People (“Go West”) — with raised eyebrows. Even when they’re making a deplorable visual pun (they wheeled out giant Chris-and-Neil heads, perched a dancer on top of each one, and did their version of “Always on My Mind”), they looked suave and lovable. And if the best thing about the show was the design, well, you might say the same about the Pet Shop Boys’ music. And you might mean it as high praise.

[drsevrin]

Saw them Nov. 3rd in Salt Lake City. Great show - very energetic and well attended. It wasn't a sellout but I'd guess the arena was filled to about 5-6,000. Pretty damn good for an 80's "revival" act. I'd never seen them live before and I'm very happy to have had the opportunity - possibly the last I fear. The set list was almost the same as what Schwenko listed from Toronto. The acoustic Home and Dry was fantastic.

[bigwavedave]

I caught the November 5 Seattle show. It was a very good show and well worth it. I must say that I enjoyed the Release show in 2002 more; it was a bit less campy and more of a full band performance. It's nice to have seen both sides of the Pet Shop Boys though. And...after all these years, West End Girls still kills live!