Spoilers!
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Avoided this thread until I went. Absolutely gutted they’ve played The Theatre last two nights and not tonight but HOWEVER a literal guardian angel offered me two free tickets to tomorrow in the crowd (because I was “clearly enjoying myself”) so feeling very very blessed. Agree that the crowd near me seemed completely unmoved for a gig we spent over a month’s food budget for…but anyway, I loved it. Especially The truck driver and his mate which was a massive curve ball.
What a band. See you tomorrow I guess !
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what an absolute result 
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Fucking Chris Lowe man, me and my bro after the gig having a chat/laugh about him. He’s been one half of one of the biggest musical acts in the world for 4 decades, written some of the most incredible music, sold tens of millions…and there he is night after night, hid behind sunglasses and his hat, stillness. The only slight movement to play the actual notes needed.
I’ve loved the pet shop boys for best part of 40 years and basically know fuck all about him. 
He’s the master craftsman of stillness as performance. Love him. 
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He’s Britain’s answer to Ron Mael.
Was that a guy on the balcony late on?
I enjoyed the gig but not as much as I was hoping. Personal highlights were: It Couldn’t Happen Here (sadly marred by talking in the crowd), I Didn’t Get Where I Am Today, Up Against It and Your Funny Uncle especially.
I’m not a huge fan of live music to be honest, sometimes it can be transcendent and wonderful but more often I find myself hot, uncomfortable, being jostled by other crowd members with a poor view, thinking: I could be listening to the songs I wan to, with no sound issues and in comfort at home, or almost anywhere with a smartphone. I’ve probably averaged less than a gig a year in the past decade or so.
There was no way I wasn’t going to this and I’m glad I went. I just wish they had used a bigger venue, if they wanted to do various sets/nights they could have done five nights of obscurities in The Roundhouse and probably even Hammersmith Apollo and sold comfortably sold them out.
I’m glad other folks here and elsewhere enjoyed themselves.
Nah he was standing behind the sound desk. He booked for 2 nights and flew over from the States for it but now has to see family! I was so taken aback by the kindness.
I agree that the venue would have been better if it was maybe seated, given the quite sombre setlist in parts (not a diss, I love my PSB bleak!)
It does stagger me how people can spend a 3 figure sum on a ticket and just chat.
A guy upstairs offered a another guy directly in front of me two cards with QR codes and two black wristbands, so I wondered if it was that.
There were three women in full on conversation to my left for several songs, they could have been in a Wetherspoons and done that.
Another observation: the crowd was very male, 70-80% I’d guess. Maybe it being an obscurity set a “nerd filter” gets applied and that skews male. I’d imagine PSB have lots of female fans though, I don’t recall other PSB crowds in detail but I think they were more mixed.
Also: gay men. ( 
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This sounds far more mysterious than the man sending me his tickets via WhatsApp
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Yeah, I’d guess half or more of the men were gay, to be expected at PSB.
He was captured having a little dance to himself last night….
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My partner liked last night so much that she wanted to go on Friday, but the only resale tickets that she could find came as a pair. I can’t do Friday, so she has one going spare. Anyone interested? Ideally face value, but might accept lower.
Edit: this has gone already!
Still noI Wan to Wake Up? Johnny Marr’s fave PSB song!
Was so hoping for this - think it’s one of those that got away; along with Only The Wind, Shopping, To Speak is A Sin - and the other 50 or so tracks…
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My friend sent me this that he filmed last night.
Up Against It. It captures Johnny’s playing brilliantly.
They only went and played it lads!! 
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A really lovely couple of evenings. Preferred last night - it sounded a lot better and I wasn’t near any chatters. Plus THE THEATRE.
One song I hadn’t appreciated until now was Young Offender, sounded absolutely glorious.
Wish it had been somewhere nicer than the ballroom (and the positioning of that sound desk is abhorrent) but I feel very lucky to have been there.
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It was better than I remembered. I thought it may have been because it came out a year or two after a New Order song of the same name, but no - it’s because the original on Very has a load of naff video game noises at the beginning which put me right off. I think it definitely benefitted from being played loud, and maybe the line “you’re younger than me, obviously” resonates a lot more these days
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