DREAMWORLD Greatest Hits Tour 2022, 2023 & now 2024

[VRIDD]

Hello petheads, does anyone knows all the pre-show music that was played before the Dreamworld Shows ?

Also Raf - Self Control

[VRIDD]

I had fun last night in Berlin. Danced almost the whole show and it was nice to see mobile phones with their flashlights out swaying during "A new bohemia"...definitely a great song to be a single.

Completely agree

[Drico One]

When I saw Performance in Dublin in 1991 as a teenager, I went with my beloved brother, grievously missed to this day. Last night, in Berlin, for Dreamworld, I went with my better half and our 11-year-old son. Generations will come and go...

There's something comforting in the Pet Shop Boys as a continuum, to be heard "on a timeless wavelength", where "the music plays forever, never dissipating, giving us strength". There's also something just in an unjust world about the fact that, 40 years in, they can fill an arena with 17,000 people.

The show, of course, is a marvel. Neil is a sympathetic showman, likeable, engaging, at ease; Chris an authentic foil. During the opening stomp through a battery of major hits (Suburbia, Can you forgive her?, Opportunities, Where the streets have no name, So hard), Neil does much of the work. Compare his effortless stage presence now to when he affected a body-popping Noel Coward in the late 1990s, all thigh slaps and self-conscious awkwardness.

Chris remains Chris, blankly diffident behind his monitor, impassively watching the England-Switzerland penalty shoot-out while Neil was regaling the crowd. Well, that's the gloriously self-contained impression he conveys, anyway.

All three new songs blended seamlessly into the musical continuum of their stellar back catalogue, each one a new page in the latest chapter of their ongoing story. A new bohemia provoked a universe of sparking lights from an audience that was deeply invested and which played its part in the celebratory choreography of the night.

Paninaro was also new to me, this time around, and I was delighted to see What have I done to deserve this? back in situ. Rent got a huge reaction - the Saltburn effect? - and Domino dancing was greeted rapturously. Vocal threatend to explode the hearing aids of some of the more "mature" cohort in attendance.

At the end, Neil and Chris seemed to take an extended ovation, standing together to drink in the adulation and love. "After 40 years, we are STILL the Pet Shop Boys", Neil declared as he gave a valedictory wave. As the huge video screens on either side of the stage lingered on each Pet Shop Boy, Neil beamed victoriously. Chris wiped his nose.

Our 11-year-old was thrilled by Dreamland and is, today, now happily wearing "the masks" t-shirt he picked out at the merchandise stall.

For it goes on and on and on and on and on…

Drico.

[greenmile]

A Drico review!!!! Whooo!!

And at every show I go to, I still get shivers on my neck when Neil says 'we are the Pet Shop Boys' for some reason.

[Pinhead44]

A Drico review!!!! Whooo!!

And at every show I go to, I still get shivers on my neck when Neil says 'we are the Pet Shop Boys' for some reason.

I love it when he says 'We are STILL the Pet Shop Boys' he took out the 'still' but put it back in again for this round of the tour.

I like to think, as he says that in front of ecstatic, full arena audiences, 40 years on from the start, that he is thinking back to the people who said they would never last, and sticking his two fingers up at them. The reviewer who wrote when Love Comes Quickly was released, 'If this is the best they can do, fame will be gone as quickly as it came'.

[DopeFiend]

A Drico review!!!! Whooo!!

I agree, very well written and thought out.

Here's a visual for the "universe of sparking lights" mentioned, taken from PSB's Youtube.

[psbfannyc]

I had fun last night in Berlin. Danced almost the whole show and it was nice to see mobile phones with their flashlights out swaying during "A new bohemia"...definitely a great song to be a single. I do hope we get a 4th single.

Anyway, here is a review of the Berlin, 6 July 2024 show in German: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur- ... li.2232389

It's fantastic they went to this level on social media: https://www.instagram.com/p/C9Ko2uKNzHn/

[insoc57]

Any chance since the boys are in Berlin they will go to a club in Berlin?

[insoc57]

Any chance since the boys are in Berlin they will go to a club in Berlin?

[Moorlandman]

Can we expect any changes for the five nights at the Royal Opera House?

[Nickname]

Another exciting moment in Barcelona.
https://www.instagram.com/petshopboys/reel/C9Z2pGApSku/

Ready for the final in the Eurocup.

Spain vs England.

[Nickname]

Another exciting moment in Barcelona.
https://www.instagram.com/petshopboys/reel/C9Z2pGApSku/

Ready for the final in the Eurocup.

Spain vs England.

Yo soy español, español, español.



Sorry, English (French, German, Italian, etc) friends.

[psbnyc]

Congratulations to Spain, what a week you’ve had!

[Gabby]

Congratulations to Spain, what a week you’ve had!

Although it pains me to say it the best team won. Well played Spain.

[new_love]

When I saw Performance in Dublin in 1991 as a teenager, I went with my beloved brother, grievously missed to this day. Last night, in Berlin, for Dreamworld, I went with my better half and our 11-year-old son. Generations will come and go...

There's something comforting in the Pet Shop Boys as a continuum, to be heard "on a timeless wavelength", where "the music plays forever, never dissipating, giving us strength". There's also something just in an unjust world about the fact that, 40 years in, they can fill an arena with 17,000 people.

The show, of course, is a marvel. Neil is a sympathetic showman, likeable, engaging, at ease; Chris an authentic foil. During the opening stomp through a battery of major hits (Suburbia, Can you forgive her?, Opportunities, Where the streets have no name, So hard), Neil does much of the work. Compare his effortless stage presence now to when he affected a body-popping Noel Coward in the late 1990s, all thigh slaps and self-conscious awkwardness.

Chris remains Chris, blankly diffident behind his monitor, impassively watching the England-Switzerland penalty shoot-out while Neil was regaling the crowd. Well, that's the gloriously self-contained impression he conveys, anyway.

All three new songs blended seamlessly into the musical continuum of their stellar back catalogue, each one a new page in the latest chapter of their ongoing story. A new bohemia provoked a universe of sparking lights from an audience that was deeply invested and which played its part in the celebratory choreography of the night.

Paninaro was also new to me, this time around, and I was delighted to see What have I done to deserve this? back in situ. Rent got a huge reaction - the Saltburn effect? - and Domino dancing was greeted rapturously. Vocal threatend to explode the hearing aids of some of the more "mature" cohort in attendance.

At the end, Neil and Chris seemed to take an extended ovation, standing together to drink in the adulation and love. "After 40 years, we are STILL the Pet Shop Boys", Neil declared as he gave a valedictory wave. As the huge video screens on either side of the stage lingered on each Pet Shop Boy, Neil beamed victoriously. Chris wiped his nose.

Our 11-year-old was thrilled by Dreamland and is, today, now happily wearing "the masks" t-shirt he picked out at the merchandise stall.

For it goes on and on and on and on and on…

Drico.

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