Obscure Pet Shop Boys
As a fan of the Pets since watching them play West End Girls on Top of the Pops, then getting Please on vinyl in 1986, having the chance to see them play an intimate show at the Electric Ballroom in Camden was a #lifegoals moment last night.
For these five Obscure shows, they’re only playing B-sides and album tracks. I’m more of an old school 1980s PSB fan, so it was a total delight to hear three tracks from Please, a couple from Actually as well as Introspective and Behaviour.
They’ve still got that mystery and effortless cool about them. Living legends and national treasures.
Here’s the full set list courtesy of setlist.fm:
- Music for Boys (Intro music)
- Will‐o‐the‐wisp (Live debut)
- Two Divided by Zero (First time since 2012)
- Jack the Lad (Live debut)
- To Face the Truth (First time since 1994)
- After the Event (Live debut)
- Hit and Miss (Live debut)
- Always (Live debut)
- Do I Have To? (First time since 2012)
- Sexy Northerner (First time since 2004)
- Young Offender (First time since 2000)
- Happiness Is an Option (with Sylvia Mason‐James; First time since 2000)
- The Theatre (with Sylvia Mason‐James; First time since 1997)
- One in a Million / Mr. Vain (with Sylvia Mason‐James; First time since 1994)
- New Boy
- King of Rome (Live debut)
- King's Cross (First time since 2012)
- Love Is the Law (Live debut)
- Why Don't We Live Together? (First time since 2012)
- The Performance of My Life (Live debut)
Encore:
- Your Funny Uncle (Acoustic; Neil solo on piano; first time since 1991)
- The Way It Used to Be (First time since 2010)
- Later Tonight (First time since 2017)
- A Dream of a Better Tomorrow (Live debut. Unreleased track from their musical “Naked”)
I made a Spotify playlist of the set, with the exception of the final encore which I think is a new, unreleased song.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2tzauyogcysgWOhZs5MR7X?si=dLoPq88_Se6BAG7dvKDIpw&pi=Bs9ldljERIK8F